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Post by giantsdodie on Oct 2, 2007 8:52:55 GMT -5
This is just a little poll because I am trying to do a little field study here...
You can discuss as well.
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Post by MsKayLander on Oct 2, 2007 9:07:49 GMT -5
Just wondering why you have this posted under controversial subjects???
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Post by giantsdodie on Oct 2, 2007 9:57:57 GMT -5
should be in whats on your mind.. posted it in the wrong forum..
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Post by Beulah5 on Oct 2, 2007 10:25:40 GMT -5
i have known God's vision for my life since i was 7.
I wasnt even saved. I believe that folks have an idea cause God is always speaking to His children.
As to whether they wanna hear is another kettle of fish.
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Post by abundanceofpraise on Oct 2, 2007 16:29:48 GMT -5
Well I know God only reveals to us what we are able to handle and he deals with us according to are measure fo Faith..........If God revealed everything to us alllll at once it would blow are minds and we would run from God..........
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Post by giantsdodie on Oct 2, 2007 18:17:50 GMT -5
I am trying to get some data which I will compare to another sample. There are some things I am trying to figure out regarding this issue and this is the only other sample I am looking at using.
While I agree that GOD reveals to us what we can handle, and I also agree that he deals with us according to our measure of faith, even the smallest faith could move a mountain. I also believe that GOD will challenge our faith to grow to new levels by speaking something in our lives that requires GREATER faith. If God waited solely on us to grow before HE revealed we would never get anywhere.
I do not agree however that everyone runs from God.
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Post by livinganewlife on Oct 2, 2007 18:29:48 GMT -5
I am with you Sis. B I have known since I was 5 years old what God's plan was for my life.....
I want say that I ran from God but I tried to work God's plan out in my own plan......
I always knew that I was going to marry a preacher/ pastor and I knew that one day I would be in the ministry with my husband as an evangelists.......
So what I did was went out in the streets got me a ruff neck and was going to get him saved and we were going to develop this great ministry.....
Boy was i ever so wrong.....my husband is not ruff at all and he has and had a great ministry before I met him and has lived Saved all of his life...... my husband was saved and preaching at 11 years old.....
God has manifested and is yet manifesting the purpose and plan He has designed for my life.....
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Post by stillfocused on Oct 2, 2007 19:08:06 GMT -5
He revealed it to me about 8 yrs ago..I agree that not everyone runs from God. Sometimes what he has for you to do is something that you feel is impossible. Yet, I am still walking towards the things he has spoken to me. How do you feel about teaching that says unless you help another man with his vision then you will not been able to fulfill yours ?
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Post by giantsdodie on Oct 3, 2007 8:21:50 GMT -5
Well that teaching I have problems with because it is often taught erroneously or utilized to enslave people to someone elses vison.
I do believe that " whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." So when you sow into another mans vision you will reap whatever you sow. Now of course GOD directs the when. who, how, and how much and how long.
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Post by kitty on Oct 8, 2007 14:09:19 GMT -5
Hey Guys,
I think God has revealed things to me slowly over time. When I was younger (early teens) and before I was saved I did know in my spirit that I was meant to be a wife. I knew marriage would be a part of my future. I would say that I ran from the idea a little bit because when I was young I didn't have an examples of marriage that were pleasing to me. To me...being married or having a husband meant that you had some bossy man telling you what to do and you were to be his personal slave.
So basically until I was in my late 20's early 30's I avoided the whole idea of marriage. I even shacked up until a conversation with my Pastor jolted me into reality of how unpleasing what I was doing was to God... Not that I didn't know... But having your own Pastor tell you point blank that you are cursing yourself really will put things in a new light. I stopped the madness that very day.
I did do believe that I am called to work in the medical field... God has open doors for this however for a while I had to step back because it had literally become an idol in my life. I wanted it more than anything! All of my prayers were based on this one goal... I would even try to bargin with God about it.
A close Christian friend lead me to put it down and place the desire before God... With the understanding that if it was God's will I would never return. During that time period I could see that I was within God's will for the area and career for my life. But out of God's will with my all consuming desire of it...
Another thing that had become a problem was that I was pushing for my own timing... God has had other places with also had included a move from my home state to Philadelphia, Pa. Although it isn't what I would have planned I can see that God has blessed me with things occuring inHis timing and not my own...
I still have goals and desires for the future... I know I will have to place those before God as well as the timing since I do hope to have children.
Kitty
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Post by newmercies on Oct 23, 2007 3:44:03 GMT -5
Yeah just like kitty said God has revealed some things to me over time. starting at the age of 12 after I first got saved....It was almost like a light bulb went off. God started showing me different things, I thought I was going crazy, I starting seeing angels, having dreams. When I got a LiL older I started seeing more demons. Thank God for the Blood of Jesus. I was constently and still do having to plead the blood and get my olive oil out. My passion is music I love singing, I know it has been revealed to me that God is going to bless my music ministry. I also felt even when I was little that I was going to marry a minister. Didn't know if he was going to be a minister of music or a minister of the word but a minister. God has also revealed to me what my calling is through more than one minister as well. When God revealed what it was I couldn't believe it I was like God are you sure this is what my calling is??? This is Jessica we are talking about and God said yes it is. So far thats what God has revealed, there is more just can't recall everything at the moment.
Be Blessed
Jess
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Post by giantsdodie on Oct 23, 2007 8:21:00 GMT -5
Ok it seems as if we have several people who are confident in what God called them to do and be...
( btw I am not voting... I need responses however )
Now new question...
Are we doing what it takes to become what HE called us to become...
What are the hinderances...
How can we remove them or conquer them....
Discuss....
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Post by newmercies on Oct 23, 2007 12:45:24 GMT -5
numero uno: honestly Im still learning and God is still teaching me. Im not fully operating in my calling as of yet
numero dos: alote of my hinderances in ME, myself and I, FEAR.
numero tres: Through the blood and the word of Jesus Christ.
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Post by kitty on Oct 23, 2007 20:40:34 GMT -5
Hey Giants,
i think this is a very interesting topic... I am currently working on some things that God has told me to do... Honestly it is very exciting. One of the first things that God told me to do was move... That took quite some time for me to accomplish.
When it was first revealed to me i brushed it off completely because i didn't see any reason what so ever that I would move. I am an only child and very close to my mother. I have never moved more than 3 hours away from home. It was about 2 years after God revealed that i was to move that doors just started closing... Then I just started to lose my peace... I mean no matter what I was doing or where I was I just didn't have peace.
I could be out with friends and in the back of my mind I knew I wasn't where I was supposed to be... I could be just doing daily shopping and again i would know I just wasn't where I was supposed to be... It was an odd thing because I loved the area in which I was living... God had blessed me to move there right after college. I was happy there for many years...So it was odd to feel out of place there...
So then I started the process of trying to move out East where God had directed me. This was the areas where doors were open for me... It took me about 2 years to be able to move. At times it seemed like it was never going to happen! I recall being at the end of my rope thinking... This is crazy what am I doing? If God meant for this to happen then He's got to open doors if not then it must not be His will and I must be mistaken...
Now I just realize that God's timing was perfect. I see that God was working on the hearts of other people not me... I think God had to prepare my mother for my move... She's still not thrilled about it... But trust me she's come a long way.
Right now I am working on a second degree. I am in a nursing program in Philadelphia, Pa. The school I attend is a good fit for me... I know without a doubt that this is the place God for me. I know that it is God's will for me to be in the medical field... The ultimate truth is that at one time I was in medical school... God had been advising me to do certain things... i didn't do them and I ended up out of medical school...
After that i told God I would always be obedient!
Right now I do believe that God is preparing me to be a wife... In this process God had been speaking to me that i needed to get my health together. I was really tired, had certain health issues, my blood pressure was way up... a lot of things... I am now actively working on those issues. Through a man of God I went to for prayer... God spoke words to him about my health that i had never revealed to anyone... I knew he was giving me a word from God. Part of it was that marriage requires energy which I was lacking... I mean guys at one point I couldn't make it through the day without a serious nap!
I have been hitting the gym about 4 times a week. Now I have energy that lasts all day, my blood pressure is going down and my health is getting better. I'm not quite where God wants me to be health wise yet but I'm getting there...
Another thing I need to work on is time management... I'm getting better but I'm still off the mark. I have plenty of other things that I need to work on... But so far these are the things that are before me to do right now.
Kitty
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Post by newmercies on Oct 23, 2007 20:51:12 GMT -5
Hey Giants, i think this is a very interesting topic... I am currently working on some things that God has told me to do... Honestly it is very exciting. One of the first things that God told me to do was move... That took quite some time for me to accomplish. When it was first revealed to me i brushed it off completely because i didn't see any reason what so ever that I would move. I am an only child and very close to my mother. I have never moved more than 3 hours away from home. It was about 2 years after God revealed that i was to move that doors just started closing... Then I just started to lose my peace... I mean no matter what I was doing or where I was I just didn't have peace. I could be out with friends and in the back of my mind I knew I wasn't where I was supposed to be... I could be just doing daily shopping and again i would know I just wasn't where I was supposed to be... It was an odd thing because I loved the area in which I was living... God had blessed me to move there right after college. I was happy there for many years...So it was odd to feel out of place there... So then I started the process of trying to move out East where God had directed me. This was the areas where doors were open for me... It took me about 2 years to be able to move. At times it seemed like it was never going to happen! I recall being at the end of my rope thinking... This is crazy what am I doing? If God meant for this to happen then He's got to open doors if not then it must not be His will and I must be mistaken... Now I just realize that God's timing was perfect. I see that God was working on the hearts of other people not me... I think God had to prepare my mother for my move... She's still not thrilled about it... But trust me she's come a long way. Right now I am working on a second degree. I am in a nursing program in Philadelphia, Pa. The school I attend is a good fit for me... I know without a doubt that this is the place God for me. I know that it is God's will for me to be in the medical field... The ultimate truth is that at one time I was in medical school... God had been advising me to do certain things... i didn't do them and I ended up out of medical school... After that i told God I would always be obedient! Right now I do believe that God is preparing me to be a wife... In this process God had been speaking to me that i needed to get my health together. I was really tired, had certain health issues, my blood pressure was way up... a lot of things... I am now actively working on those issues. Through a man of God I went to for prayer... God spoke words to him about my health that i had never revealed to anyone... I knew he was giving me a word from God. Part of it was that marriage requires energy which I was lacking... I mean guys at one point I couldn't make it through the day without a serious nap! I have been hitting the gym about 4 times a week. Now I have energy that lasts all day, my blood pressure is going down and my health is getting better. I'm not quite where God wants me to be health wise yet but I'm getting there... Another thing I need to work on is time management... I'm getting better but I'm still off the mark. I have plenty of other things that I need to work on... But so far these are the things that are before me to do right now. Kitty Wow Kitty thank you for sharing your testimony, We have alote in commen Im also in the medical field I am currently a PCT/ CNA at the Local hospital in my home town been here for about 4 years now. I know that this job is temperary but I know right now God has me on a assignment, I made some really good friends here as well. Yes God is also preparing me to be a wife as well, also needing to get my health together, I was born with a chromosone disorder, so some of my health problems are out of my control. I am currently with the Help of the Lord making some life changes concerning my health. Also my finances wew lawd, I am totally surrendering my finances to the Lord cause only He can work it out. That is one of the main things cause I want to be a blessing to my husband not a burden. Love Jessica |
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