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# 1040
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/1040/
- Published: 2026-09-11T10:00:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T10:00:41.000Z
- Description: This email got me on the terrorist watch list once, and launched a network across 38 nations. Really.
- Author: Christ John Otto

Thank you for your prayers.

God never called you  
to be successful.  
God called you to be faithful.

**This week is Friday email** 
**number 1,040-ish.**

God never called you to be successful.  
God called you to be faithful.  
Fruitful is good, too.

Imagine if you were given the assignment  
to write over 1000 emails?  
Yikes.

No one ever told me I would write  
**over a thousand Friday emails.**  
You just do it.  
That is the difference  
between an amateur and a professional.

Somehow  
writing an email on Fridays became my job.  
Many artists and creative people  
never get the memo  
that **being an artist is a real job**.  
If you apply yourself to it,  
you will eventually  
start to make a difference.  
But you have to see it as a job.  
You have to get up and do the work.

Every week I decide to make this email better  
than last week.  
Every week I choose to find a way to tell this story:  
After 1040 Fridays  
**God can still be trusted.**  
You can still take a risk  
and walk by faith  
and not be afraid.

Really.

If nothing else,  
God provided five macs  
so I could keep sending you an email.  
And he kept me fed  
and sheltered  
enough  
to keep writing.

This email was the spark that launched  
the largest postal campaign in U.S. history.  
This email got me on the terrorist watch list.  
This email triggered over a thousand book sales in one day.  
This email launched a network across thirty-eight nations.

Don't give up.  
**Maybe you are making a wave** 
**with all the kicking of your feet.**  
Just do the work  
and be faithful.

I mentioned we are diversifying  
how I write to people.  
The next chapter is in print.

You can get a copy of the real mail  
by signing up[ here.](https://www.belonging.house/real-mail/)  
We are sending a physical version  
of our prayer letter  
each month.

God is already sending the stamps.

He Never Fails,

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