The Crooked Christmas Tree – WHO DO YOU KNOW
WHO DO YOU KNOW
There are so many things that I could share about this journey with my book The Crooked Christmas Tree. To say it was a God thing is to short change the miraculous.
People have asked me how I did it. How does a pastor of a small church get published by the same publishers as TD Jakes and John Maxwell. How is it that your book is in Barnes and Noble and sold by Walmart and Target.
I remember one day someone asked me, “Who do you know? Why are they calling me about you? What family do you have in the literary industry?”
The question thru me for a loop. Who did I know? What big contacts did I have? That’s the way the world works right. We know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody.
Well if that’s your story it’s certainly not mine. I did not want to write a book in the first place. I can barely finish my sermons. But God told me to write it. God told me who to take it to. God opened the heart of influential people along the way and most definitely God opened the eyes of my publisher Faith Words to see something worth publishing in my little book.
See God opens doors no man can close. And God closes doors no many can open. So when He opens a door for you, you can walk through it with confidence. And if He closes a door before you, stop pushing on it, and accept His no in obedience.
Back to the question that person asked me. “Who do you know?” Didn’t take me long at all. I told him “Sir I don’t know anyone. The only person I know is Jesus!” And the longer I live and the more I see Him work I’ve realized His is the only Name I need.
So pick your head up. He has a plan for your life. And when it happens no one, not even you, is going to believe it.
My name is Damian Chandler and I am the author of The Crooked Christmas Tree
There are so many things that I could share about this journey with my book The Crooked Christmas Tree. To say it was a God thing is to short change the miraculous.
People have asked me how I did it. How does a pastor of a small church get published by the same publishers as TD Jakes and John Maxwell. How is it that your book is in Barnes and Noble and sold by Walmart and Target.
I remember one day someone asked me, “Who do you know? Why are they calling me about you? What family do you have in the literary industry?”
The question thru me for a loop. Who did I know? What big contacts did I have? That’s the way the world works right. We know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody.
Well if that’s your story it’s certainly not mine. I did not want to write a book in the first place. I can barely finish my sermons. But God told me to write it. God told me who to take it to. God opened the heart of influential people along the way and most definitely God opened the eyes of my publisher Faith Words to see something worth publishing in my little book.
See God opens doors no man can close. And God closes doors no many can open. So when He opens a door for you, you can walk through it with confidence. And if He closes a door before you, stop pushing on it, and accept His no in obedience.
Back to the question that person asked me. “Who do you know?” Didn’t take me long at all. I told him “Sir I don’t know anyone. The only person I know is Jesus!” And the longer I live and the more I see Him work I’ve realized His is the only Name I need.
So pick your head up. He has a plan for your life. And when it happens no one, not even you, is going to believe it.
My name is Damian Chandler and I am the author of The Crooked Christmas Tree
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