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My tongue is the pen of a skilled writer. Words are amongst the most powerful instruments or weapons in this world. They have the power to lift a person up when they're feeling down.

They're able to persuade somebody to take action. They can be used as a weapon of defense or of attack and they can be used to bless and to curse. I'd like to look tonight firstly at the power of the spoken word.

We read way back in the beginning of the scriptures that God used words to create the universe. Bible says and God said let there be and there was. Now God didn't stop using words after that.

Everything that God continues to do in this world he does through words. Why is that? Because spiritual power is always released through words. Now amongst all of God's creation the only creatures that can speak words are we human beings.

Animals can make sounds but they cannot speak words but God built into humanity a piece of himself. We were made in the image of God and just as God uses words we have the ability to speak words. Now the words that we speak originate from our spirit.

Even as God as spirit originated words and whatever is in your spirit contaminates and is contained in the words that you speak. Now that cannot be avoided. It happens automatically.

Now the problem with spoken words is they can never be taken back. Spoken words can bring destruction. They can destroy lives.

Spoken words can create wars in this world. Words have that power and the trouble is once the words are spoken and released into the air they will go out and do their work. We cannot take them back again.

We can try to apologize but usually the damage has already been done by the words that we spoke. Now that is the power that there is in spoken words. What about when those spoken words are written down? So I want to look next at the power in the written word.

Now when we write words we bring them out of the spiritual realm and into the physical world. Yes in a sense when we speak words we're doing that as well but our words are like the wind. They blow and they're gone.

They certainly will leave some effects but they are no longer speaking. They're spoken only once but when words are written down they are made into a tangible physical form that now continues to exist in this world. Now when we write things down firstly it helps us to remember the words because we can go and read them and remember.

Very often when we speak words in the spur of the moment we often don't even realize what we've said. Sometimes we hurt people and we can't understand what exactly it is we said that upset them because we can't even remember. It just came out but when they're written down they're there to be reviewed to be re-read and they've been converted into a form that they can be reused and in a sense re-spoken again.

In effect it becomes like a legal document or a proof. Those words now are contained in a specific physical form which gives them a new kind of power that can be used in different ways. And I want to speak a lot more tonight about the power that there is in writing.

Now although your words may be written down they still are infused with and contain what was in your spirit at the time that those words were issued. Now those words may be written down by somebody who heard you speak or you may have written the words down directly as a form of speech but either way the words are coming out of your spirit and contain spiritual power, spiritual force, spiritual influence. Now you can change that by editing what was written.

Now that it's written it's in a tangible form whereas spoken words cannot be retracted once they are spoken into the air. Written words are different. Written words we can change and so words that are spoken in anger for example into the air.

We cannot go back and take them back and change them but if words are written in anger in writing we can go back afterwards and say oh that that was a bit harsh. Let me rephrase that. Have you ever written to an email to somebody in the heat of a moment where you really just maybe tore a strip off them, told them what you thought of them and then afterwards thought oh I wish I hadn't said that.

That happened to me once when we were still in Mexico and at that time we had a kind of control because we were using our own server and I could go in and see whether the person had read the email yet or not and when I discovered they hadn't read it I could delete it so that never arrived. See now that could never have been done if I spoke to the person face to face but I could do it with words. I also found that over time as I produced various teachings that were written down and we've produced many books already in teachings but in one particular subject it covered specifically the anointing of God and at the time I preached it I felt that I didn't have the right kind of anointing when those words were spoken and so those words were transcribed and written down exactly the way that I spoke them and when I read them I realized they were lacking in power and I said oh Lord I wish I wish I could have a chance to speak those words again under a greater anointing and the Lord said to me you can go ahead and rewrite them with the anointing that's upon you now.

So I removed those words and I rewrote that section and now when I read the book it had a flow there was a beautiful presence of God on that part of my writing. Now you may say but how do you know what is in the writing? Well it's part of the gift of discerning of spirits and I thank God that I can very easily discern in the words of a person the spirit that is behind them. Often we'd have people write us an email and they didn't say terribly much but I sense their spirit in the email and I would respond according to that spirit sometimes to correct them because they were out of order and so often I had people say to me how did you get that from the few words that I spoke? I didn't say anything out of the ordinary they were just words they weren't just words and words are never just words.

You can pull words out of a dictionary and jumble them together but when they're spoken from a human spirit they carry a power. So when you come to writing always be aware of the fact that you're not just writing words you are imparting far more than vocabulary. You are imparting what's in your heart and in your spirit and those words though they may be ordinary words that are used over and over again by many people they are put together in such a way that they carry a power in them.

Now God has always encouraged writing if he didn't we wouldn't have the bible as it stands today. You know that one of the first writings ever done was done by God himself he gave Moses two tablets of stone and the scripture says that God wrote on them with his finger. The original ten commandments God wrote them not Moses.

So you know God is very much an author himself. You say well we got the whole bible was written by God yes but that was written via human channels but the one time God actually wrote himself was when he wrote on those tablets of stone and then God told Moses that he was to write a memorial of some of the events that took place. Right after Moses had that experience of standing up on the mountain holding up the rod while Joshua went to go fight.

Remember when he got tired Joshua started to lose and so he had a couple of people help him to hold up his hands. After that God said to him I want you to record this you read that in exodus chapter 17 and verse 14 it says and the Lord Yahweh said to Moses write this for a memorial in a book and instill it into the ears of Joshua for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Well Moses wrote a whole lot more than that.

He wrote the entire history of the journey of the children of Israel from Egypt into Canaan and the first five books of the bible known as the Pentateuch were written by Moses except for the ending which was written by Joshua. How do I know that because at the end of the Pentateuch we read that Moses died. Well I don't think Moses was quite able to write his own death ahead of time so Joshua had to finish the book and take it from there.

Now where would we be without all of this knowledge that was written down. If we didn't have the ex Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy we would be so lacking in understanding where we came from, how God works. In fact the first three chapters of the book of Genesis which describes the creation, the original creation and God's creation of man and woman they are so profound, so profound.

I've preached so many different teachings from those same three chapters of the bible. I would hate to think what would have happened if they weren't there. A lot of my teaching would be totally lacking.

Now one thing about what was recorded, not only what Moses recorded but what others recorded later is that God told them to record things as they were. They didn't just record the good things about the superheroes of faith of those times but they recorded the good and the bad. They recorded the failures as well as the successes of these people and I believe God allowed that so that we can learn.

We can learn from the mistakes of others and we can learn from their successes. All of these things were written for our benefit and the bible now is our standard in all areas of life. It was written over many hundreds of years.

Well if we look at writing as it is today it has evolved somewhat hasn't it? We go back to the early times when they used to have to engrave writing on a stone tablet with an iron pen compared to our modern writing with a ballpoint pen. The fountain pens really become obsolete with a pencil and today even that has become obsolete because now we have computer technology and we write electronically. Oh things are really gone.

You know modern technology is great. Today we can video our words and even now as I'm speaking these words they are being captured on video and people can re-watch that video and see and hear me and get the words in that form. But there's one problem with this.

It is time locked. As you watch me on video you will see this short slightly overweight man who's getting on in years. You will hear my voice as it sounds right now and it probably sounds a lot different to what it did when I was younger and if the lord should trust me to continue as I get older my voice might get a bit more croaky.

My appearance will begin to change and when you watch that video you will see me at that point. It's time locked but when you read my words you cannot tell how old I am. You cannot tell what I look like.

You're actually only seeing what came out of my spirit. So we thank the lord for modern technology but you know writing has been there from the beginning and writing will continue to be there I believe right until the end because writing is eternal because words are eternal. Words last forever.

In 1 Peter 1 25 Peter spoke these words. He said but the spoken rhema word of the lord endures forever and this is the spoken rhema word that by the gospel is preached to you. We are reading those words that the apostle Peter wrote a long long time ago.

How did he write it? We're not sure. What did Peter look like when he wrote it? How was he dressed? What kind of accent did he have? Did he smile while he wrote? We don't know these things and we don't need to but we still got the pureness of the words and the spirit that was in them. Now I would like to speak tonight about the importance of everybody writing something.

Today everyone can write. Yes there are a few people out there still that are illiterate and particularly in poor nations but by and large the average person today has learned to read and write and if you haven't there's enough material available to still teach you that you can learn. We all write emails don't we? Computer technology has made it so easy.

Now you have to learn to write and most of the time you actually learn to type using a standard keyboard. You write emails, you make posts on Facebook. How do you type? With two fingers still or with one finger like this bum bum bum bum and when you hold your phone do you type with your fingers, with your thumbs or with your four fingers? How do you type? Each person kind of learns their own way don't they? But we're all learning to type in this modern age.

Well you know the professional way of typing is with 10 fingers on a full QWERTY keyboard and you can learn that. I remember when I came to the place where I wanted to do a lot of writing and I was tired of typing in a couple of fingers. I called my sister up one day because she was the secretary and was typing all the time and I said to her how do you type with 10 fingers and she told me over the phone how to put my hand on the keyboard and which fingers to put where and how to use all my 10 fingers to type.

She told it to me over the phone. Of course it's not that complicated. The keyboard is designed for us to do that and since that time I learned to type with 10 fingers and I still type with all 10 fingers.

Well if you've got some fingers missing you have a problem but most of us still have 10 fingers. You say well do I really need to type with 10 fingers? Well it depends how much writing you want to do. If you want to write large portions of text and this is the way you're going to do it don't you think it makes sense for you to learn how to type correctly? No I don't feel like going to all that trouble.

Well you feel like going to the trouble of even writing or do you get somebody else to write your emails for you? You get somebody else to post for you online? See writing has become part of our society and if you really want to write man there are software programs and apps out there that will teach you excellent skills on how to type. I know one of the favorite ones we had was a system called the Mavis Beacon system of typing and she was really good and I learned a lot from her very quickly and very easily. Now today they've made it so easy that you can write without typing on a computer.

Did you know that? You can write without typing. Now how do we do that? Computer technology is advanced to the point where the computer understands when you speak. If you've got an apple device you're probably used to holding it and saying hey Siri and this lovely woman's voice comes up and says can I help you? I hope my phone didn't come on as I said.

See there Siri's even answering me on my phone right now because she knows my voice and then as I speak this program actually picks up what I'm saying and converts it into writing into words. It's amazing. I always thought these people at Apple must be really brilliant and then I got an Android phone and I played around with that and I found out that you got an Android you say hey Google and the same thing happens.

This voice comes up and says may I help you and you talk to the voice on your phone and it takes your words and converts it into text. So if you're making excuses and you say I don't feel like going to all the trouble of learning to type well you could take the easy way and you could dictate but then you're going to have to learn to speak and elocute very clearly every single word that you speak. Otherwise the dictation program is going to come up with some weird things and we've had some real laughing ones of what the computer thought I was saying.

But I found out with practice I could use this. Up until recently my wife Daphne transcribed all of my preaching into text because she's an excellent typist. She'll play a little bit then type a little bit play a little bit then type a little bit but there is so much that we've done on video that needs to be transcribed she got bogged down and I felt the Lord saying to me you need to do some of this yourself.

Well I'm not bad at typing I can type with 10 fingers I just tend to be very hasty. I type like crazy and make a whole lot of mistakes and then I've got to backspace and type over my mistakes and fix them and it takes me longer to transcribe in the end than I should. Now I just open the document I press the key that says dictate and I speak to the computer and you know what one or two words it gets wrong and I can easily correct that without too much effort but by and large most of what I speak gets converted to text.

Now if you weren't aware of this it doesn't matter whether you are using Apple or Android technology it's available now on all computers. I'm sure that the Windows laptops have it as well. I have a Windows laptop that I only use when I have somebody who insists I must use Internet Explorer or something otherwise we use Apple and Apple is beautiful.

I open a document in pages I press a key that says dictate and I talk to my computer and bam bam bam bam bam faster than I could ever type. There's all the words. I can even tell it where to put in a full stop and a comma and a new paragraph and a question mark and quotes.

It's amazing amazing you need to give it a try. You too can write without typing if you really want. So now that we've got rid of all of the excuses let's look at what there is to write.

What is there to write about? I hope I've convinced you that you should be writing every day but what do you write about? Now I know there are many people who would love to write a book who would love to write short stories articles all sorts of things like that. We've just launched a new program called the Writer's Ministry Corner where I'm going to be giving you detailed instructions on how to write effectively. We're going to show you how to take writing skill and use it as a tool especially for ministry and even for business because you can make money out of books that you've written.

But here's where you must start. You know I don't know where to start. I'm not a story writer.

I don't have such a great amount of knowledge that I could do a complex teaching or something like that. Well have you been practicing on Facebook? What do you say to people in the emails? Do you ever have to minister to somebody encourage them or motivate them in writing? You should have been there already. You should have had some exposure to that but here's where you can start and this is the easiest and the best way to start.

You should record each day's blessings that you receive from the Lord. You know why? Because if you don't you're going to forget them. Further down the line when things start to go wrong your mind will go on and complain and say you know what everything always goes wrong in my life.

But you know just the other day God did something amazing for you. He provided something miraculously for you but you know we forget it. We forget it.

Perhaps as you're reading the scriptures a verse jumps out at you and you see something there you didn't see before. Write it down. In the early days I used to have a wide margin bible where I would write those things down and you know later as I would re-read some of those same scriptures I would see the little comments that I made on that verse and I'd say wow that's awesome.

I don't remember understanding or getting that revelation when I read that verse before but actually it's pretty brilliant. Sometimes I wasn't reading the bible I was reading all of my comments. It was exciting.

Oh you know I've got some good stuff from the Lord there. You know I should be giving this out to others. And then what about the words that God gives you personally? So I don't really get words personally.

Yeah I had a prophet prophesy over me once and and they recorded that and transcribed that. Yes but you don't need that because you can actually hear from the Lord every day and I'm going to show you shortly how you can do that. Now if you don't record these things folks you're going to forget them.

And there's gold there. You are losing awesome stuff by not writing it down. And so we come to the full process of writing which is known as journaling.

Journaling is when you sit down and talk to a paper or to a computer document. You can talk to the Lord or you can talk to yourself. You can write down a prayer.

You can write down praise and giving thanks. And then you express in writing what is on your mind including any questions and problems that you have. And you ask the Lord for wisdom.

James 1 5 says if any man lack wisdom let him ask and God will give it. Then after you've talked you listen and you write down what your senses are telling you. And you need to shut out all external influences.

Sometimes it helps just for a while to close your eyes so that your sense of sight is not getting input from the outside. And the moment you do that from deep within will come pictures into your mind. And all of the senses could come up from deep inside of you.

Now some of that will be a load of junk that you fed in. It'd be the movie you watched last night and some of the things that have been taking place but eventually it will clear. If you want to clear it faster pray in tongues for a while.

Because when you pray in tongues it's like it starts to gush faster and all the mud comes out and then eventually it starts to get clear. Or you may want to just sit down and write what comes to your mind. And you may start out writing garbage.

You read this and you think what am I saying here? Or maybe you start writing down what you wanted the Lord to say. Keep writing. Keep writing because after a while it begins to clear.

Now how often should you journal? Well I journal quite frequently unless my life has been so busy with so many things. But I record every one of my journals and I keep them. Now way back in the old days I was still the old-fashioned writer who preferred pen and paper.

And so I would write my journals down in longhand using pen and paper. And I bought a whole lot of books specially designed for that purpose. We're talking going back like 20 years or so.

And you know what every one of those journals I still have them. I'm going to ask my wife just to bring me so I can show you. See I have all of these journal books here.

And they've all got journals written in them. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. This one is a printed book that I made where I took all the journals where I'd spoken to God about business.

And I actually put them together and printed them into a printed book. Because they got so much valuable stuff in them. Thanks love.

Now that was before I got turned on to computers. And I started typing computers. Where I could program a program myself that would keep a database of all my journals.

And now I would type them in on the keyboard. Well I have quite a few years worth of journals. Using various different systems over time.

But I've kept every one of them. They're still there. And I can go back at any time to some of those stages in my life.

And I can review the promises of God. Now included in those journals were a record of what God did in our lives. Today this is what happened.

God did some amazing things. This is what the Lord showed me in his word. This is what he showed me as I was in prayer.

It's gold. Oh you know what I haven't had much time to go back there. But let me tell you something.

The words that are written are part of me. They're part of me. Those books contain me.

And one day when I'm no longer around. Where you can't find me anymore. There's a place where you'll find me.

And it's in those books. My words in those books is still filled with what was in my spirit at the time I wrote them. Now I want you to think about someone perhaps that you loved.

Who's gone on to be with the Lord. And they're no longer with us anymore. What do you have of them? What do you have that reminds you of them? Sometimes we keep objects, possessions.

It's not always a good thing to keep in touch with the dead. But you know there's something about reading something that was written by that person when they were alive. And what's contained in those words is a piece of the spirit of that person.

You know Paul is dead and gone for such a long time. But we can still pick up what was in his spirit when we read his words. You see your writing can become a heritage that you can leave behind for others to benefit from.

And though they may not be able to come to you and ask you questions and tap into your great knowledge and experience. If you have recorded those things in writing. It is still available to them for as long as those things exist.

Scriptures were written way, way, way back. Way back. Many thousands of years.

We still have them in our hands and able to read. What old Moses wrote and said. You see the power of writing.

Now once you've perfected journaling. Then you can start sharing in writing some of the things that you've learned. You don't start there.

You learn firstly to write and to tap into your spirit. You learn to listen to your spirit and pour out words that come from within you. And if you don't learn to do that first.

You will never become a good writer. Because writing is a spiritual function. And if you don't know how to listen to your spirit and to tap into the realms of your spirit.

You will never become a writer. Now you can also flow prophetically as well as teach. So as a writer you can teach others what you have learned.

Through experience. Through some of the things that you studied. You can take the knowledge that you've gained over time and pour it out in writing for other people to benefit from.

But what happens if you want to flow prophetically. Did you know that you can flow prophetically in writing as well. You know very early in my supernatural experience I learned to speak words of prophecy.

And it seems most of the time I never really spoke them as normal in a church meeting and a group. I always seem to speak them over a specific person. A prophetic word specifically for that person.

Now what happens when you're writing to somebody and you're trying to minister to them in writing. The same thing can happen. I'll show you how it happens.

And if you've never had this happen. I want to encourage you to show you how you can go to the place where you minister to people prophetically. As you come to pray with somebody.

Perhaps lay your hands on them and you start to pray. And you'll pray something like Lord I ask you to bless this person. I ask you to open new opportunities for them.

I ask you to do this. I ask you to do that. You may find in the midst of your praying that you'll say something.

I ask that they will meet somebody new. And as you say that something in your spirit says yes yes yes. You feel the anointing in it.

Where did that come from? That wasn't just me saying those things. That was God talking there. It's the first step towards prophecy.

If you stop right there and let the Holy Spirit use you. You can find that you stop your prayer and your prayer becomes prophecy. And so as you said that you immediately transition and you say the Lord is saying to you that he's going to lead you.

He's going to bring new people across your path. He's going to create new opportunities for you. He's going to bring new relationships in your life.

Whatever. And before you know it you've prophesied over the person and you weren't planning to do that. People often write us and say do you have a prophetic word for me.

I never start out having prophetic words for people. I just pray for them and if God gives me something it can sometimes become prophecy. And I remember the first time that ever happened to me in writing.

I was writing to somebody and as I was writing to them suddenly I got that same surge in power that before would lead me to prophesy of the person and I thought I feel like prophesying but how can I prophesy because the person isn't here. So I prophesied to pen and paper. I began to write out the prophecy and it felt strange at first because usually when you speak a word of prophecy you're speaking it so fast that you don't have time to think what you're saying and the words just bubble out until they stop bubbling and then you know the prophecy is over.

When it came to writing it wasn't quite as easy because I couldn't write that fast. I had to kind of slow it down a bit and I was almost afraid that I would lose the anointing while writing but I didn't. I continued to write until the prophetic word was done and since that time I've been able to do that through emails, through chats, through any connection with people where I'm talking to them in writing.

See writing is such a powerful tool for ministry. You can teach using it and you can even prophesy using it. Let's look then at how to teach with writing.

Now if you want to teach and instruct others in your writing you don't decide one day to sit down and write teaching. Well what shall I teach on? You know what inevitably happens when we do that is we start digging around to find data somewhere, to find teachings. We google, we look up books, we pull out all the stuff that other people have taught and said to try and put together a teaching.

But you know what you should be doing? You can only feed others what you've been eating. When it comes to ministry you can only give out what you've been taking in. You can only tell other people to do what you've already proved and done.

How can you instruct them what to do in their lives if you've never practiced it yourself? So the preparation of a teacher can be quite an extensive one and a lot of the problems we have in life are often part of our preparation. But the most important thing of all if you want to teach others is you must be original. Now Solomon tells us that there's nothing new under the sun.

There are specific doctrines in the word, there are principles of living which teachers have been teaching on through the years and many many books have already been written on them. How then can I in my attempt to teach somebody else in my writing come up with something original that hasn't been taught before? It's quite a challenge isn't it? Well you know one of the qualities of the teaching ministry is the ability to teach people what they already know in a way they never heard it before that it makes it more exciting. If you can't do that folks don't try and teach.

If you're just going to write a whole lot of knowledge that's in your head don't try and teach in your writing please. Don't look up a whole lot of scriptures that you can use because if you are writing from your spirit in the same way that you learn to journal while you are writing scriptures will come back to your memory and those are the scriptures that God wants you to use. Don't go around quoting famous people and don't use a bibliography of all the books that you read to get this teaching.

There are many people out there call themselves teaching ministries and that's all they do. They give you a list at the end of the chapter of all the books that they got this teaching from and really all they did was take little bits and pieces out of other people's books and smash it together into their writing. That is boring.

It's not original and nobody's going to read it except intellectuals who want to gain knowledge. Let the scriptures pop into your mind while you're writing. You can look up you can look them up afterwards.

You may want to use one or two as the introduction and you'll notice I always do that in my preaching. Some scriptures they came to my mind while I prepared my sermon notes. Others may sometimes even pop out while I'm speaking.

If I remember them I can quote them but if you want to be a good writer who can really teach and instruct others you must become an expert and an authority on what you're teaching and you must be presenting it as your way of teaching that you are the authority who is proclaiming this teaching not quoting all of your favorite bible teachers. You say well you know I need to give honor where it's due but you know what I have taught principles that I've learned from many different writers over time but if you were to go and read what they wrote on those same subjects you will find that their teaching was very different and yet the principles were the same. You can see that I learned something from them but when I teach it I teach it using my own words my own mix.

So if you want to prepare to be a good teacher and writer firstly go and read what everybody else has written. You should be reading books all the time. You should have a hunger for knowledge and then you should read what the word says because after all that's the more important source isn't it and then you need to record your own experiences in life and the things that you have proved for yourself practically.

Now if you bring all of those together you're going to get a original mix that is totally different. It may contain similar elements but it's going to be totally different to what other people are teaching. You see writing is a bit like baking something.

You throw a whole lot of ingredients in and you mix them together and when you finish what comes out is a new mass. It's a substance that contains all of the original ingredients that you put in and you take each piece of that you can see okay there's flour in there, there's sugar in there, there's water in there but it doesn't look like flour, sugar or water does it? It's this dough now. It's different.

See now that's how you should be teaching. If you want to teach on a subject go and read everything you can find on it if you're not sure of it. Then look into the words and see what the word teaches and then prove it in your practical experience.

It may take you a long time before you're ready to teach on that subject and you shouldn't even try until you've proved it yourself but once you've got that you've pushed all of these ingredients in and you come to right you say okay holy spirit you're the cook. You take all those ingredients you mix them together the way you want them and you bring out of me something that is totally original. You put your bible down, you don't read the bible concordances, you don't have the bible dictionaries, you don't have that book that you read from so you just review some of what they taught.

You sit with pen and paper or these days with your electronic device and a keyboard or a microphone if you're going to try and dictate it. That's all you have because it's not coming out of your head. It's coming from deeper.

You must draw from what you have pushed down in there. Then what comes out is going to amaze even you sometimes. Afterwards you'll look at what you wrote and you'll say wow I wasn't planning to say that but it just came out of me but actually it's pretty profound.

Wow that's quite an awesome revelation I got there by myself. If you can write like that your writing becomes exciting for you and it becomes so interesting that other people want to read it. So writing is one of the most powerful ways to use words and what you write should come mostly from your inner being and not from your mind.

Your writing should have its own unique appearance. People should be able to identify your writing and say oh that that sounds like Les Cross' stuff. Don't be afraid to use your own expressions and your own style.

Don't try and copy somebody else. Be you. You say but I stumble and mumble and I be you.

When people read say oh yeah I can see I can see you wrote that. He always uses this expression. Over the years I've developed different expressions became my favorites.

I remember one time my favorite expression was let me tell you something and I didn't realize how often I was using it until we transcribed one of my messages. Every five minutes I was saying now let me tell you something. I thought boy this is terrible.

Did you see that was me. When people read my stuff and saw let me tell you something say ah there goes Les again. Yeah that's his favorite expression.

Is there something wrong with it? No. Paul actually boasted in this. He said that he had a trademark in all of his writings.

You read it in 2nd Thessalonians 3 verse 17. The greeting of Paul in my own handwriting which is my trademark in every letter. This is how I write.

Now Paul had his way of writing. I tell you what Paul. Paul would write sentences this long.

His sentences go in and out and turn around and by the time he's finished it was such a mouthful you got to read it through a few times to figure out what he said. Well that's not one of the best ways of writing but he did get the truth across. In this course we'll show you good ways of writing and make it easier for people to understand.

Now when you write just pour out what's coming out of you. It might start out sounding like nonsense. Just keep going it'll get better.

Keep writing it will get better. Now here's something that I must emphasize. Never ever ever delete what you wrote down.

In the old days when you wrote on paper it was common practice to take the paper scramble it up and throw it in the dirt bin say that's useless. I tell you what if we could pull out of the dust bin some of the writings of people who later became famous there was gold there. These days it's just too easy to say delete.

Close the document select press the delete key and it's gone. Don't do it. It may sound like junk right now but later you may realize that some of that was actually pretty good.

It was a new revelation that popped out of your spirit. Now once you start writing don't feel bad if you didn't finish it. It could be you started writing something and got to a point where you realize you actually haven't lived the rest of this yet and you can't finish it.

I remember writing down some of my own comments of scripture and I went through the book of Ephesians and the first part is all the doctrinal stuff that I really knew well and then I got to the practical part of Ephesians of practical Christian living and I realized you know what I haven't lived this well enough to teach it to others yet and I stopped. And only much later after I'd had the experience could I go back and continue commenting on some of those verses. When I first started out it was before the days of computer.

I would get inspiration I would pick out pieces of paper I used to have loose sheets or a pad that you could tear off and I'd write write write write write until I wrote down everything I could think of and then I couldn't go any further so I would tear that off and I'd put it away. You know by the time I was finished I had boxes full of papers all with scribblings on them of different little pieces of things that I thought about and that I'd seen in the scriptures or that I'd read. Eventually I had to put them in the garage there were so many of them.

Boxes full of papers but you know what there was gold there and in time I could pull out some of those old studies when later I wanted to produce a teaching and I found out God gave me a revelation back there which I can use now. When it comes to computers you can have as many data files as you like. The space taken by text files is almost negligible.

You can store more on your phone than you could ever write in this lifetime. So don't go deleting it. Save it and put it away somewhere and for one day you'll go back and read it and you'll think actually that's not bad.

You know I think the Lord showed me something there. I can use that again. You know what are my other writings? If you practice all of these things you will become not just a writer but a writer.

You'll be a writer that people want to read your stuff. Main key practice makes perfect. Don't wait until you've got it right.

Get started and get started now. Start writing down like a diary things that happen every day. Start recording the good things that the Lord is doing in your life.

Start recording events but start writing. Write something. Write anything.

Learn how to journal and pour out of your spirit in writing what the Lord is showing you. If you learn to do that you will never ever face this evil thing that they call writer's block. Writer's block only comes when you try to get it out of your mind and your mind runs out of ideas.

Your spirit is limitless. Are you called to be a writer? Can everybody write? The same thing applies to some of the other arts. Can everybody sing? Are you able to speak? Are you able to make sounds with your vocal cords? If you are then you can sing.

Yes it's true some people sing better than others. Some people just seem to be naturally gifted with good singing voices. The rest of us we need to practice, practice, practice until our voice gets better.

It's the same with writing. Don't stumble over the fact that somebody else you know they just sit and write and it's marvelous and everybody raves about this stuff. No, no you have the potential to be a writer and it seldom starts out full blown.

You can learn to become a good writer. You can practice and Lord willing we're going to show you principles that you can learn and methods that you can use and eventually you're going to be leaving a heritage. One day when your time on this earth is done a piece of you is going to stay behind.

He's going to stay behind in the things that you wrote and you know the scripture speaks about okay about Abel who offered a sacrifice and it says even though he's dead he's still speaking. He's still speaking. You know this is what writing can do for you.

It can cause you to carry on speaking. Some of the best books I read, I read by people that died a long long time ago but they still speak through their writings. Many were great preachers, great orators.

Some of them in those days they couldn't even record them or video them but those who wrote, those who put into writing all that God had given them, they're still with us today. They may be with the Lord but their writings are still with us. Their teachings and their wisdom is still with us.

I don't know about you but I want to be one of those who leaves behind a heritage that will cause to live on what God has put in me. I hope you feel the same and if you do I want to invite you to join us as we go forward together now and learn how to become writers who God can use for his glory. Amen.

Thank you father for your words. I thank you for each one that's heard. I pray that you will inspire them and motivate them and I'm calling forth a band of writers.

I'm calling forth a crowd of writers. I can see them. They're not small.

They're not one or two euro there. They're gathering together in large crowds. I see the Lord calling an army of writers who will pour out into this world materials that will live and last and continue to bless in the years to come.

Thank you Lord that I already am one of those. I pray that you will cause the numbers to grow. That each one who has that burning desire in their heart to write that father you will help them to fulfill that desire and to be an instrument of your blessing.

Ask it in Jesus name.

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