Storing a Story!

by Terri Bea
(Cincinnati, OH)

Mattie Prophet

For years I've always been known as a detailed storyteller. Able to spin a tale without even really trying to entertain, but rather explain or enlighten someone as to what I felt about an issue or circumstance I was going through.

Like most stories, not everyone wants to invest in your experiences...so I discovered that the best investor is myself. I was the one telling the story, so I should be the one to invest in it.

I like the self-publishing experience because others who hear my story want to "interpret" what they heard and then they want me to say what I've said a different way... "what you mean to say is this..." Or, "you shouldn't say it like that..." Well for me, if I'm telling you a story I know exactly how and what I'm saying.

So I decided to tell my story, the way God gave it to me. Like the Bible, God gave it the way it was, not the way He thought we would like to hear it.

No one in self-publishing can tell you that you shouldn't say this or that...you just say it, 'cause it may impact or impart to someone the help, healing or holiness they want or need.

Mattie Prophet isn't for everybody, but it's for somebody to know that God can and will use anybody to deliver HIS word. The WORLD doesn't care how they say what's on their mind...the complete opposite...they write books that say there is no God and we buy it to see if that's really what they said lol.

If you want to self-publish a story and fill it from Open to Close with JESUS JESUS JESUS!, people will buy the book to see if that's really all you've said in the book and in the process they see and say the name Jesus! You did it and no one could stop you! I self published my story, market it myself, and I would do it again with every story I will ever write. If I only sell 10 books, that's ten people who were helped, healed and made whole by my investing in what God gave me to do.

Be blessed!

Mattie's website is Streets of Gold & Theatrical Gospel Ministries.