This is a guest post by Lisa Bertolini
I really enjoy seeing so many online ministry blogs with women supporting women. I wonder if you had thought about sharing your spiritual walkabout online like so many others have. Maybe you think there are already enough as it is and one more would just be too much. I disagree and I’m going to share with you why. Each woman has a unique journey with God and individual experiences with Him that makes your testimony one that can be used to encourage women. We each have been given a mustard seed in our hearts to share with the world. Did you know there are over 133 million blogs in the blogosphere? Did you know the blogosphere grows by 80,000 blog DAILY? (sources Mashable.com and Technorati.com) With that many blogs and many more readers, there is a wide range of people from all walks of life, cultures, and experiences out there.
When we share our own God journeys with the blogosphere, I believe He will guide those He wants to have connected with your blog, right to your URL. He did the same for me. When I entered the blogosphere, I came in as a reader. I was just a simple reader looking for information about blog designing. From there I found the homeschool blogosphere and have been amazed at the blogosphere ever since. Amy Stults, from Heart of the Matter Online, had previously known me through a mutual friend in the forums at ivillage.com. She saw me posting somewhere, although I can’t remember where, but she saw me and remembered me. She welcomed me to the blogosphere and introduced me to these fabulous women you see hosting numerous blogs to inspire and encourage. I have connected with various women from all over the world with passions in their hearts to share their testimonies online.
With so many blogs out there how do you decide which one to subscribe to? How can we keep up with all of them? Well, we can’t with 133 million blogs, but you can keep up with your favorites through many different types of subscriptions. And that’s just how those who are drawn to your journey will subscribe with you. You have no need to wait for a specific ministry to approve of your online ministry in order to be used by God to inspire faith in other women. It may be that you simply blog about your journey through cancer and how God is guiding you along the way. Or maybe you’ll share about how you lost a child and how Father has tenderly interwoven your heart in with readers who have experienced the same loss. Whatever your unique ministry is with God in the blogosphere, step out in faith. It’s the Living Stones that will confirm you as an ‘apostle’ in the blogosphere, by commenting or emailing you to let you know that God touched their hearts through you.
1 Peter 2:5
You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:1-6
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Visit Lisa Bertolini (Sisterlisa): On my walkabout with God at SoulLibertyFaith.com
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Ladies, I don’t think there is anything wrong with marketing your blog to the niche you are in. Such as using hashtags on Twitter with the thing you write most about. I write a lot about when Christians wound one another so I use the hashtag #spiritualabuse. When people search for that term they find the hashtag on Twitter and come to my blog. That’s not meant to say I have all the answers, but I do blog about my experiences and how God has lead me to healing and I have gotten an overwhelming response of women who say “I needed that”
If you had the cure to cancer wouldn’t you tell the world?
If you found a way to make sense out of Autism to help your child, wouldn’t you share that with the world?
It’s ok to introduce what you write about to the blogosphere..Tweet it, Facebook it. God will pass that info to those who need it.
When I went to Relevant, I purposefully didn’t want to promote SoulLibertyFaith. Some of the topics I write about are difficult for Christians to make sense out of..some people just don’t do well reading about pain. But one lady knew my blog well..and as she heard women talking about being wounded by other Christians, she brought them to meet me. Another lady said, “Even if we don’t comment..we ARE reading.. please keep blogging. Keep helping women”
If God has given you the vision, follow Him in it and don’t give up.
This is such a inspirational blog post! As god has been really dealing with me concerning blogging, I am certainly encouraged to begin writing! Many blessings and favor!
Nice! Great advice and encouragement. I’m always overwhelmed by the number of blogs out there too.
Thank you for this! I have often wondered if I should continue blogging, and if anyone really likes what I have to say. I do believe that God has a plan for me and my blog, and I plan to continue letting Him use me. Plus, I know that He will send the people who will most connect with my experiences. I am so glad you wrote this, it just reaffirms that I should continue to write what He lays on my heart, whether I think I’m good at it or not!
Wow! The timing of these words couldn’t have been more perfect for me. Lately, I’ve struggled with life interrupting blogging. The very life in which I blog about has become so demanding that it’s left little time to blog. And I’ve wondered at times is it really missed? Am I making a difference. I love to blog and love to write. My intentions in the beginning were to help get my writing out there as well as improve it for possible future publishing. That’s changed along the way as I have sought His plans and purposes.
Currently, I’m praying for balance and time for blogging/writing. Over the past few days I’ve been reminded that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of our testimony. Our blogs are our testimonies. If we reach only one person it will have all been worth it. I’ve let go of this struggle once before over to write or not to write, consistency, importance of blogging daily, etc. Once again, I’ll let that go and let Him lead me.
Thanks for sharing!!