Getting Out of God’s Way

• By candidasullivan
• October 27, 2025
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Are You Standing in Your Own Way?

When God gave me the gift to write, it completely terrified me. It felt overwhelming because I didn’t know anything about writing. In my fear, the enemy met me and reminded me how unworthy, unqualified, and unfit I was to write.

The enemy got to me and paralyzed me with fear. I would sit and stare at a blank screen, trying to write with no success. I became so discouraged that I wanted to quit and bury my gifts.

At the time, I didn’t understand that God didn’t want me to take off and start writing on my own. He wanted to teach me. He wanted us to spend time together.

I caused myself many years of pain and discouragement trying to figure it out alone.

The truth is that I still don’t know what I’m doing—but I’ve stopped fighting the process. Now I know that I don’t need to have the right words to write something beautiful with the Lord. I just need to be humble and make time to write with Him.

When I step out in faith and prepare to write, God shows up. We have to prepare for the blessings God wants to give us. For me, preparing for the blessing means making the time to write with the Lord. If I sit down, ready and desiring to hear His voice, I will more than likely hear it. But if I wait to hear His voice before deciding to write, I might not hear it for a long time—because I haven’t prepared.

It takes faith to work with the Lord. We have to trust Him to use us according to His will.

Usually, when I’m writing a book, it feels disorganized and messy. I don’t know where we’re going or how it’s all going to come together. I feel overwhelmed and discouraged. But if I keep showing up and meeting with the Lord, He blesses it—and suddenly all the pieces flow together beautifully.

To finish a book, I have to trust the process and trust that my Lord knows what He is doing. When we follow the Lord, we are not in control. Therefore, it requires me to surrender my thoughts and ideas to the unknown.

It is in the surrender and faith that the wisdom emerges. If I always have to be in control and understand every step of the process before I am willing to do it, then I will never do it. I will stay stuck in the need to control.

What I’ve Learned by Following the Lord:

• His ways are better than my own.
• God makes things simple.
• We often complicate things by trying to control the process and outcome.
• God’s blessings are unexplainable.
• To do this work with Him, I have to get out of the way.

Sweet friend, if God has called you to do His work, He knows how to do it. You don’t need to know all the details. You just need to get out of the way—and let Him work through you. If you do, God will amaze you.