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Want to know what’s been going on in my prayer life?

Well, I won’t tell you everything, but I will tell you this: stop blogging for a while. I suppose it’s been about a year that I’ve been thinking about this. I don’t really know what triggered it, other than God—plain and simply put.

In the past year, while I would pray in quiet time, I’ve had this re-emerging thought to break from blogging. You heard me right: a year. Well, here in the past six months it has been happening more. Moreover, the past three months has been even more intense.

Thing is, when I usually hear from God about something to this degree, I sense a pretty strong conviction. This time, it’s been very subtle and almost silent. When I pray, it doesn’t matter what I’m praying about, this thought will “introduce” itself into my mind. It’s not a strong voice, and it’s not overwhelmingly convicting. But it is persistent. This may be the softest God has spoken to me that I am aware of.

I feel like I want to hang on and continue writing. I’m not finished with my “Cross” series in the “Resources,” and I just got this new theme. But I have been having this come up in prayer the whole time, so it’s nothing new. Part of me wants to push it away… the voice, that is. But this morning’s prayer time sealed the deal for me. While I was praying, it happened again, but this time permeated a lot of my prayer.

It’s really odd to me to make this decision because this website is like my baby. I’ve been blogging now for over two years. Actually, I think I’m pretty close to three years now. I remember when I only got about 1-3 readers per day. Then I was excited when I got 6-10 readers per day! Now, it just blows my mind that I’m pulling in anywhere from 125-225 readers daily! There are many other blogs much more popular than mine, but I am just overly blessed that God would use my hashing out of the clutter in the closet of my mind for some way to glorify Him and draw people unto Him!

I know a few other bloggers who’ve done this, and it seems as though they came back just as strong. I don’t know how this is going to go, I just believe that it’s time for me to put my blogging to rest for a little while. How long? I’m not sure. But I feel like I’m supposed to commit to something. And to that, I have told God that I will not blog for 1 month. Yikes! This is going to be difficult. Very difficult for me. For all I know I will loose all my readers. But this is one of the problems… you see how I just made it about me?

Sorry I’ve taken you through such a disorderly post, but I believe that I owe to you what’s going on with me with regard to this website and blogging. Please pray that God will have His way in my heart during this time. I have no idea what it’s going to look like, whether I should entrust this site to someone for the time I’m gone, or just lay it to rest for a while. I don’t know. I don’t sense a particular call to any certain person to keep the content up, but again, this thought is concerned only with the productivity of “my” site. Again, I just made it all about me.

I’m just following Jesus the best I can… just too bad it took me a year (or better) to respond to this particular call.

I know this is sudden, but thanks to all of you for keeping up with this website. I am truly grateful. If you feel led to send a message or email to me, that’s fine. I probably won’t be on this website much though, but emails are welcome.

All your prayers are welcome and encouraged.

Yours truly,

—Jonathan Woodward.

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