Never doubt the power of your words. A couple streets over from a relative's house there was (past tense) a huge demonic display for Halloween. Not cutsey and meant for children, although that is bad enough, but this one was meant to celebrate fear and the witchcraft. One day, driving past it, the Spirit of God pointed my finger at it and commanded it to come down. It was as if I heard the devil laugh. “Yeah, right.” But let me tell you, good and faithful Christians, just a couple weeks later, Hurricane Milton swept through and took with it the display and the tree limbs that supported it. There is nothing left but a string with what remains of a ghost.

The Holy Ghost (Spirit) was done with that defeated enemy on display. In a day’s time, the devil took down the devil's work. God is the Victor over all the work of the enemy, beginning and ending with deception and fear. We have nothing to be afraid of and everything to celebrate. Because as I've said many times over the years: God is still on the throne; Jesus is alive and living in me; the Holy Spirit lives in me and has come upon me, the evidence being my speaking in tongues; and the Word of God is truth. The truth outweighs the lie every time.

Have something pumpkiny this week and celebrate autumn. If you’re somewhere warm like Florida, turn the A/C down and pretend. Then sit in your favorite chair and read GLASS. Handsome man meets beautiful woman in a mysterious house where nothing is as it seems. I call it my anti-Halloween alternative.

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“Cerise.” The pull of her breath flared her nostrils the tiniest bit and lifted her chest. She was beautiful, and priceless, like this house. She didn’t deserve to be trapped by all its legends. Because that is all this was, the stories of the past holding her in some vice-like grip, the grip of an old woman who wouldn’t let them go.


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THE LOVE OF a man and his wife produces a child. From their bodies comes new life in the image of God. God designed it that way. He made man from the dust then made woman from man’s side.

From God, from His nature comes woman's nature, her personality, her way of being, and a man's nature, how he thinks, how he feels. He is the designer of human beings. They were made in His image, in His likeness.

God designed love in all its formation, and He gave to them, from their love, the ability to create with His life. Not just in a physical sense, as the body of the child, but in the spirit. From them came the child's spiritual being. And it is regardless of their belief in Him.He sends the rain on the just and the unjust (Matthew 5:45).

From him and her comes more of them, and it is perfection in the way He made it. He reaped the benefit of it.

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The day Christopher Piel walked into their mixed household to fix the cable, Tansy Marsh’s life changed. Here is a man unlike any she’s ever met – kind, generous, faithful. But people like that can’t possibly exist.

Rejected by her parents and living underneath someone else’s roof, the only love she’s ever known comes from the three foster kids in her care. Yet what begins as attraction, proves to be far greater, and it just could be that the God he believes in is big enough to fix her heart.

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This book was not received well, and that surprised me. Still surprises me. Okay, I get it in part. No one should want to see their teenagers caught in a delicate situation. But then, that was the point, that he and her made do, and it altered everything. As always, Christ is center of my writing. Though the plot may take my pen in a new direction, it always circles back around to godliness and truth. But people read with their emotions, many of these people in young adult novels being adults. A parent is always the judge for their minor child’s reading. My heart is transparent on this. God does not take issue with it or I wouldn’t sell it.

I have another YA romance that, in a similar manner, did not go over, and so I tried re-releasing it, to no avail. I finally realized, as above, that I simply need to present it to God and move on. So if you’re curiosity is abounding now, also check out “Good Girl Jayne.”

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Jayne Allhorn’s life is falling apart. She wrecked her car, broke her cell phone, and lost her job. But the biggest problem of all is her parent’s divorce. They’re so caught up in their troubles with each other that they’ve forgotten she exists. She’ll fix that. Stealing her mom’s credit card, she gives into her anger and sets out to become someone else. She’ll shave her head, get a tattoo, have her lip pierced. There is no more good girl Jayne.

Lauden Gould moved back to town, unable to deal with his dad’s infidelity. This time what his father’s done hit him personally. Running into Jayne, the cute girl from high school, refocuses his life, and helping her deal with her broken family proves to be the perfect way to forget his own. Yet, the more time goes on, the more people’s positive opinions of him simply don’t fit. He simply isn’t the good guy they think he is.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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www.feelgoodromance.com

WHEN I BEGAN WRITING FICTION, I did not expect to write romance. When I wrote my first romance, I was unprepared for the implications of sex between the male and female main character. I made a conscious decision on that day to never include inappropriate relationship, outside of God’s design for marriage. I did, however, have to face the fact that a man and a woman who are attracted to one another will, under certain lighting, do what has been spoken against in the Word of God. Sex outside of marriage is not a popular subject, but I feel to touch on it here because I have placed all my books before the Holy Spirit as submitted to God.

In listening to music, I have discovered there are Christian artists of many genres, from urban cultures to island styles. God writes a varied hodgepodge of music styles. In this same vein, writers have different styles of writing and different methods of writing. What matters to God is if righteousness is established and repentance is shown. I have always held this to heart. But for repentance to be shown, there must be something the characters are repenting of. How high or low is our standard, though? This is personal to the writer and their perception of God’s voice, and to the reader and what they prefer to read. I am not interested in certain fiction subjects. I learned to write reading the blog of a woman who was big into fantasy books. Her advice was instrumental to me, but I never read one thing she enjoyed.

I say all of that to place my style of writing and my books once more into the Spirit’s hands. He has no problem with them. I have no problem removing them from sale. I am nothing without His love and guidance. I want to be pleasing to God always. So, though some do not like the heavier side of romance, this is sometimes what is required for the plot. The only judgment I seek is, as I have said, God’s. It is a beautiful thing when a man falls in love with a woman, and they give themselves to one another. It is a more beautiful thing when a couple who has had sex outside of marriage, commits to marriage and finds the poetry that God intended.

Here is why we write romance from a Christian perspective.

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He Was A Soldier: A Christian Romance

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How deep did they go to heal the pain? How far did they stretch their new friendship? Would they cross a line somewhere and be unable to turn back? Did she care as long as her heart wasn’t aching?

Katy Hansen’s husband died in a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan, and the future they’d planned dissolved in an instant. Left with a young son to care for, in the last ten months she’s had to bury her grief and learn to be both mom and dad. Harper Chavez lost his arm in the same bomb blast and carries the mental pain of it everywhere he goes, but his personal issues won’t let him forget the last thing his buddy asked him to do – take his wife, Katy, a note penned the night before his death. Yet this one simple mission, one hour of their time, changes everything they thought they knew. She isn’t as alone as she thought; he’s much stronger than he realized; and together, there’s power in forgiveness, and maybe, love in moving on.


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Rise of the Sun

IF ANY MAN can come to God and be saved, if they can confess Jesus as Savior and Lord regardless of age, culture, upbringing, nationality, social status, appearance, clothing, finances, or any other thing, and God loves them and becomes their Father, then why when they walk into the church building are we so judgmental? We fear the taint of sin and so justify our condemnation, because that’s what it is, as if what that person has experienced is catching, and we’re all going to be infected. I have heard of people escorted out of a church building because they were the wrong ethnicity, and frankly, that is disgusting. I have seen people avoided because of their sexuality. Those in the church have refused to be patient and understanding with those who are mentally ill.

There is no place for this in us. None. Jesus ate with sinners and was condemned for it. Those same men hung Him on the cross, but do you know He died for them anyway? And it isn’t recorded, but I’m betting some of them found Him as their Savior and learned the truth. I know Jesus, while hanging on the cross, forgave a thief, who was legally convicted, and He didn’t require any obeisance from him in order to go to Paradise. That was why He came, to forgive us because we were so lost there was no other way for us to be saved. He died, as Paul said, for those who were not deserving. Some many die for those who are their friends, but for a sinner? Hardly.

Except Jesus did. We must follow His example. He who forgave us, who still forgives any who comes to Him and hears all who call upon Him, begs of us to do better. He asks us to walk in the love of God toward all men, to pray for all men, and to bless our enemies as the Scripture says. A minister I listen to frequently prays blessings over his harshest critics. How much this moves me. What if my prayer for them made the difference? What if when we all get to heaven, there’s that one person who says, “You’re the reason I’m here.” It will be worth it then, and all these petty things we place between us and others, forgotten.

Jesus loves you, and so do I. Anyone who needs prayer can reply to these emails and I will pray. That’s a promise.

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Rise of the Sun
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From Book 1:
A secret organization seeks to control the future. Cyborg 653’s task is to protect an aged priest, whose life is at risk. But his emotionless, machine-like existence changes the minute he meets human, Lexie Hollis.

Feelings he’s never needed begin to form and with them comes knowledge. She encourages him to think on his own, form opinions, and most of all fall in love. With her. But what begins as something full of promise soon becomes a dangerous game that just might silence him and all of his kind … forever.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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I DISLIKE UNHAPPY endings. So, though emotions must be involved when you write a story, there is no happy ending without a stressor along the way. All my stories end in “Feel Good Romance.” Hence the web address. www.feelgoodromance.com. They also always end in redemption. God is love, and He sent His Son to live among men, to die as a man and as God, and to rise again because God so that we would have the entirety of salvation – forgiveness, healing, abundance. He gave His all so we’d have His all.

Some have criticized my style of writing romance. But at the heart of the love of a man for a woman is the God who created them. Marriage was blessed in Genesis to be fruitful and multiply. God wanted us to have peace and joy because of that one we are forever covenanted to, for us to enjoy each other. He knew there would be brokenness because sin exists in this world. His heart is to heal it. He knows us, knows what is best for each one of us individually. We need not fear Him but can roll our cares over onto His broad shoulders and rest. He has proven for all time He can carry the weight.

If you enjoy my books, thank you for purchasing and commenting. God bless you. God bless America. God bless Israel.

God Bless Texas, (Cowboys of the Double R) Book 1

"This is what he wanted. This right here. He’d not known it until now, but he wanted her with a ring on her hand, their hearts united. He wanted Mrs. Jared Flint to stare at him like Holly did, to make him want to forgo breakfast and make love to her instead."

Jared Flint struggles to overcome his spotted past and put his years in prison behind him, slaving away beneath the Texas sun. Yet, hard work has done little to abate his ever-present anger. With every brawl, he strikes back at his abusive past, unable to turn loose of the hate that almost took a man’s life.

Holly Carleton hopped a train on a dare and headed south. After her mama’s passing, she’s been rudderless, always searching for that one thing to fulfill her. Taking a job at a ranch at one of the towns along the tracks comes on a whim. But walking in on cowboy, Jared Flint, half-dressed – that was accidental. And something she’ll never forget. He’s strength and brawn in a perfectly carved package.

The days passing, their attraction growing, it becomes clear, he’s held aloof from relationships for a reason. No woman deserves a man like him. Except together, they have a future rich in possibilities, and if he can just turn loose of the pain, a chance for forgiveness and love.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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IN MARK 5, we see three healings. More specifically, three resurrections. There is the Gadarene demoniac, Jairus' daughter, and the woman with the issue of blood. All three were terminal. Over 2,000 demons tried continually to cause the demoniac to commit suicide. Jairus' daughter was lying on her deathbed when He sought out Jesus. The woman with the issue of blood had seen many physicians and yet grew worse every day.

Despite the distance, across the lake. Despite the rejection of the townspeople. Despite, the townspeople's rejection of Him, Jesus was sent to heal the demoniac. One man's cry for deliverance reached the Father's ears and was answered.

Despite the religious culture and the rumors about this radical preacher. Despite those mourning His daughter's death. Despite the mocking of the man who'd come to raise her from death, Jairus chose to believe, and afterward, His daughter lived.

Despite being labeled unclean. Despite being surrounded by such a huge crowd. Despite what the doctors had told her and what she knew of her condition, the woman pressed through and grasped hold of Jesus' garment. Her faith made her whole.

Jesus Christ is the same "yesterday, to day, and for ever." Don't you doubt it. What He came to earth to accomplish was set in order from before the beginning of time. We are told His death and Resurrection were foreordained. And we know there was no failure possible in it. Nor was anything not included. The word translated "salvation" includes health, deliverance, and prosperity. The God who is Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end, still heals today.

I sit here as one proof. My life today is evidence of the goodness of God poured out upon men. I encourage you to seek the Healer. Seek God who SO LOVED the world that He gave and gave and gave again. And watch as He meets you where you are at and fixes all that's broken. That's who He is.

"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5)

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Peter 2:24)


FROM TATTOOED:
Who was Holden Lang without the music? And did he really believe in his wife’s God at all? Or was all of this a sham, and him fooling himself into belief in something that didn’t exist and what had happened to him, the healing of his voice, simply another medical phenomenon that could be easily explained?
Was it? And did he even care?


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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The Resurrectionists

Jesus defeated death by not staying dead. In order to not be in bondage to death, He had to die physically. But He knew, though His body was dead, that His Spirit would be alive, and in three days, the Holy Spirit, the breath of the Father, the ultimate Graverobber, would recreate His body, filling it full of the life of God so that it would never die. Death has no rule over Him because He can no longer die, and this is our guarantee of His return and our body’s resurrection. He cannot die. We are made one with Him through the love of the Father and the power of the Holy Spirit, and not through any power of our own. So we are as eternal as He is. And God’s grace did all of that.

“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” (Romans 8:22-23)

Celebrate His Resurrection this Easter. For though sin and death once reigned within us, through our confession of salvation, we now live eternally in healing, favor, and abundance. Glory to God the Father whose "so love" did all that!

Graverobber (The Resurrectionists) Book 1
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He’d raised the dead, Lazarus-style. Josiah Crews set aside his calling when his wife died. Consumed by grief, he buried his commitment to God and any thought of the lives he might save, determined to live a mundane existence. But when the death of a man in an alley brings the power of God onto the scene, a ripple of unusual events launches him back into service.

Veronica Murray moved to a tiny apartment in the city following a troubling divorce, but her teenage daughter’s behavior combined with their low income has made her life unhappy and stressful. When her neighbor reprimands her daughter, following a particularly bad outing, a friendship forms. Except nothing is what it seems, not why people are dying, nor his reaction to it. Nor how it affects their possible future.

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Wings (The Set)
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"He wrote the poetry that is the love of a man for his wife."

GOD THINKS SO HIGHLY of the family relationship that He sent His Son to become a brother, an uncle, a nephew. He gave Him to parents, Mary and Joseph, to raise and feed and teach. He who designed the husband, who formed the wife, who declared in the beginning, Go forth and multiply, replenish the earth, took on the body He created in order to save the creation He adored.

Romance is God’s idea. He wrote the poetry that is the love of a man for his wife. He formed the womb in woman to conceive and the man to hold hands with her to create in it. Intimacy was His idea, and despite the church’s reluctance to accept it, the healing of men and women from sexual abuse and relationship failure is not less in importance to our loving God. It is private and personal and should remain so, but taken to God, He is as willing and able to cleanse the heart and the mind and mend intimate things as He is of other physical and mental brokenness.

It is not a laughing matter but one which He holds dear to His heart. For as Jesus walked this earth, He loved – family, friends, people. He old jokes, made friendships. He grieved, and for this He gives comfort. He mourned and His Father gave hope. In the face of pending death, He strengthened Himself to do the will of His Father and in the garden, struggled against mental turmoil at a level so many know. Too many.

In Him is life and healing, for the body, for our emotions, for marriages. Give Him your heart, and He will give you His, and His Spirit will come within you and remake you into something new. Something that He’d intended man to be, whole and healthy, beautiful, beloved. Free.

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SAMPLE: From them, from a husband and wife, came our redemption. God planned it this way. He formed the body for this purpose, that a woman would bear the child, that the man would hold hands with her to create it. The entire human body was made to function as it does for childbearing, and for the joys of living. We eat because God desired it. We run and climb because He wished us to do so. He wished us to have relationships, businesses, prosperity from the work of our hands. We are meant to create, to paint and sing and dance with amazing fluidity.

The Way To A Man's Heart
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Liberty Unick grew up in Orangevale, the chubby girl kids made fun of. Though she's still not thin, she's turned her love of sweets into a prosperous bakery. The people who used to call her names now put their money into her pockets.

Eric Spader bought the Orangevale Nursing Home, sight unseen, wanting to help others and find his purpose in life. He's never quite gotten over his divorce two years ago. Maybe with this new venture, he can make a home and finally move on.

A happy circumstance brings him to Liberty's door, and an instant friendship blossoms. She's sweet and fun and a fabulous cook. Yet the closer they become, the more insecure it seems she is. When what matters the most is on the inside, where the chef at the bakery is fast becoming the best part of starting over.

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4 Christmas romances under one cover. Only 99 cents!

From "Welcome To Wonderland":
“You have been chosen,” the old woman said. “Out of all the lasses in the land, you’ve been judged the most suitable.”

“For who?”

Babs made a curtsy then, but did not rise afterward. The maidservants followed suit.

“Stop. I’m just … just Laurie Gray.” No one should bow to her. She drove a four-door compact like half the city. She lived in a townhouse identical to all six of her neighbors’ places. She worked in a cubicle in a sea of other cubicles at Atkin & Sons.

“Oh, no, miss,” the old woman said, her face still toward the floor. “You are the prince’s bride, soon to be the queen.”

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There's a lot of spawn in the frog pond, tadpoles swimming up and down for air. One's as viable as another. No big loss if a few don't make it. With frogs that is.

Children are a precious resource, a bountiful source of joy, an endless blessing, and infants, the newborn, the unborn are priceless. You cannot buy and sell human life. What God values are the lives He bid us fill the earth with in Genesis. What He guards the most is innocence.

Our children are not frogs to be mishandled. Exterminated. But gifts from God to fill our days with beauty. When I wrote this series, I touched the heart of God, although in an unusual way. God's heart is for children to be filled with Him, so that they will have long, happy, successful lives, and it is our responsibility to give this dream to them and to foster in their hearts the truth of who He is and what Jesus did for them. We have fallen short in many ways, and yet there is hope. Because God is more than enough to the heal hearts and minds of the best of us. Our kids.

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From SPAWN:
Cyborg 852 united with the only female cyborg in existence, 241, without any idea of the consequences of their actions until a human told him. In his machine-like world, she was a curiosity, her structure different from the rest, and his draw to her unexplainable and devoid of emotion.

When his son, the first naturally produced cyborg child, shows up on his doorstep two years later, a series of strange events puts in motion the possible downfall of the Organization that controls all his kind. There will be no more central computer, but instead, the freedom to think, to choose, and decide.

Yet 241s willful self-destruction to bring it to pass is too high a cost. And the possible end to the most valuable part of their existence – the chance to feel love.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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