By Jalen Jenkins –
‘Black Panther’ actress Letitia Wright was cast for a movie with Nicole Kidmann and Elle Fanning – a dream job to launch her career to the next level. But God told her no.
“That’s wack,” she responded to God. “The director had won an Oscar. It was a big deal. I was prepping for it.”
Eventually, Wright let go and let God. “I can give you more than that,” God told her. “Give up the job. Do you trust me? Do you love me?” Wright turned down the ideal role and spent seven months in prayer and reading her Bible.
“I gave up that job,” Wright says on an Isaiah Robin video. “I’m understanding why he wanted me to give up that job. I was saying to him I’m seeking you first and I love you and I want to know you and I never want to put anything above you, but acting was so way high.”
Wright informed her agents in the UK and in LA that she needed “time off.”
“They were like, ‘What’s going on? We just started. Are you crazy?’” she recalls.
“I just need time with God,” she told the agent in Los Angeles. “This is where I need to put my heart first.”
She was to take two months off, but two became three became seven.
By then, she was ready to quit acting completely – if God so desired. She felt “this was sinful.”
After seven months, God impressed on her heart: Not everyone is called to be a pastor; acting will be your ministry.
“Where he takes me, that’s where I need to be. That’s where I need to spread the love of God,” Wright said. “People’s souls are dying like my soul was dying and he saved me. I can’t keep this to myself.”
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About this writer: Jalen Jenkins studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy near the San Fernando Valley, CA.
