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The Lord's love, guidance and wisdom is a sure blessing, but, I'm finding myself closing off to everyone through, what scripture tells us, if sinful beliefs.

I simply don't socialise at all, even with other Christians. All I have is our wonderful Lord. I find that I want nothing to do with this nation, Britain (no, not because of brexit), but I would like to help somewhere. But, I'm 29, I have no skills to offer, and very little finance and know no other language except for English.

I know that some of you will state "just ask someone at your church", but anyone can say that. I have done that, but faced with receiving the usual email, which is never replied to.

Or, "pray to God and he'll show you", I have, but maybe me asking here is a means to gain an answer.

So please, guidance is all I ask.

Blessed is the name above all names, Jesus Christ.

Thank you,

Adam.

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50 minutes ago, Adam C said:

The Lord's love, guidance and wisdom is a sure blessing, but, I'm finding myself closing off to everyone through, what scripture tells us, if sinful beliefs.

I simply don't socialise at all, even with other Christians. All I have is our wonderful Lord. I find that I want nothing to do with this nation, Britain (no, not because of brexit), but I would like to help somewhere. But, I'm 29, I have no skills to offer, and very little finance and know no other language except for English.

I know that some of you will state "just ask someone at your church", but anyone can say that. I have done that, but faced with receiving the usual email, which is never replied to.

Or, "pray to God and he'll show you", I have, but maybe me asking here is a means to gain an answer.

So please, guidance is all I ask.

Blessed is the name above all names, Jesus Christ.

Thank you,

Adam.

Hi Adam, as a Christian it is our personal relationship with Christ that is of first importance. If for whatever reason God has a season of “aloneness” for you, trust Him as you go through this time that goes against what your humanity would have. Knowing that God works all things together for good for those that love Him. I realize that this advice is tough to hear and even tougher to go through, but know you are greatly loved. So my advise is to use this time to press into Christ with all your heart that He might become manifested in your life to a greater and greater degree. Will be praying that your heart would see God’s hand at work in your life. 

Much love in Christ, Not me

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I just see us all as ants on God's ant hill. It means I don't expect much from people and just expect them to be people. I don't take any of them too seriously - especially myself. Enjoy them. Christ enjoyed those he hung out with. In fact, He, as well as Paul, seemed to value personal relationships a great deal. Get out. Hit a coffee shop. Go to a park and watch the kids or the people with their dogs. Be ready to converse with people. The better you get to know them personally, the easier it is.

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1 hour ago, Adam C said:

The Lord's love, guidance and wisdom is a sure blessing, but, I'm finding myself closing off to everyone through, what scripture tells us, if sinful beliefs.

I simply don't socialise at all, even with other Christians. All I have is our wonderful Lord. I find that I want nothing to do with this nation, Britain (no, not because of brexit), but I would like to help somewhere. But, I'm 29, I have no skills to offer, and very little finance and know no other language except for English.

I know that some of you will state "just ask someone at your church", but anyone can say that. I have done that, but faced with receiving the usual email, which is never replied to.

Or, "pray to God and he'll show you", I have, but maybe me asking here is a means to gain an answer.

So please, guidance is all I ask.

Blessed is the name above all names, Jesus Christ.

Thank you,

Adam.

Hi, and welcome to Worthy's cluster of loners and recluses from around much of the world - Ha.  I am sure many here are quite gregarious, but it does seem many spend time on a keyboard making friends long distance, much like  finding and developing pen pals would have done  a century ago through the mails.

Wow 29, from my own perspective that is young, very young. So you are at England and without skills, speak only English and have few finances. That reads like a resume for most of the individuals at the USA.  If you don't like that as a resume, what will you like to add to it?  

You have need to make choices. Perhaps your discomfort with your situation and plight, is not the call to be further withdrawn, but is the call of the Holy Spirit to  turn about, repent even  of  the comforts of withdrawing, and instead to get onto doing all that you do to the Glory of God. Might ask God, What is your will for me? How am I to prepare? I am tired of just being, I want to serve in whatever You will have me to do. Amen.

Now be aware that God might lead you to a place where the toilets need cleaning and replacing ( and guess who He will want to do that?), or He might lead you to  a distant place to gain education in most any field of endeavor to be trained up for service needed for just one moment that is  or will be the very skill you will have gained.

God may want you to be still for awhile, but personally I doubt that to be so. I think it more likely that He wants you to face your quite nature and push back against it taking risk in being more adventurous in serving Him by reaching out, not withdrawing.

I am led to think about one parable so as introduction to that I will share with this one thought first- Don'r bury the treasure from God,  the seed money God has given you to see what you will do, instead use that seed, that money, that small beginning skill or desire to gain and hone a particular skill and talent, let God work it within you into the gift for you personally that will propel you in being  His good bond-servant.

The parable: 

Matthew 25:14-30 English Standard Version (ESV)

The Parable of the Talents ( Personal note; while a talent is a coinage amount, you might consider also thinking of it as a real talent a skill and try to apply the lesson that way as well.)

14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

 

May God bless you with determination to develop  your own special "talent(s)" as guided through the Holy Spirit of God. And may you honor that development by doing all that you do to the glory  of God in the name of Jesus the Christ. Amen.

 

 

 

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Hi again Adam C,

I am going to be so bold as to suggest some extra Biblical reading for you. (Oh boy eh?) A short book, a motivational book, a testimony of a saint  in Christ Jesus too. It is the story of Scott Hamilton the famous Olympic and then professional figure skating champion. He started as a weak and sick young child and learned how to grow past all his deficiencies all his physical  and mental limitations to excel beyond what most anyone could do in the field God had allowed him to pursue, and eventually to write several books, this one in particular:

FINISH FIRST: Winning Changes Everything    by Scott Hamilton

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What do you love besides God?   I'm speaking regarding your spiritual gifts....usually you are gifted in what you love and what comes easily to you.   For instance, if helping someone comes easily and you enjoy that....helps is probably one of your gifts.   Are you an encourager?  That is probably one of your spiritual gifts.   Some people are gifted in teaching others.   Look for what you enjoy and what comes easily to you.

Although we do need alone time with the Lord and this helps us inwardly.....we also need to reach out to others at times.  That is usually how our spiritual gifts are employed.   You can start small by doing little things where you feel gifted.   For instance, help a lonely elderly person get some  groceries.  Or be kind to someone that is perhaps in need of some kind words.   As you reach out with little things, you will find your niche which might lead to bigger ways of ministering.

I have a topic in the General Discussion area called "Overseas Missionaries Please Share." You might be interested in that.   One member went to The Philippines for dental work and ended up serving as a missionary to poor tribal people.

 

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On ‎10‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 5:24 AM, Adam C said:

The Lord's love, guidance and wisdom is a sure blessing, but, I'm finding myself closing off to everyone through, what scripture tells us, if sinful beliefs.

I simply don't socialise at all, even with other Christians. All I have is our wonderful Lord. I find that I want nothing to do with this nation, Britain (no, not because of brexit), but I would like to help somewhere. But, I'm 29, I have no skills to offer, and very little finance and know no other language except for English.

I know that some of you will state "just ask someone at your church", but anyone can say that. I have done that, but faced with receiving the usual email, which is never replied to.

Or, "pray to God and he'll show you", I have, but maybe me asking here is a means to gain an answer.

So please, guidance is all I ask.

Blessed is the name above all names, Jesus Christ.

Thank you,

Adam.

When we pray we talk to God.

It is His Word through which He talks to us.

Matthew 4:4 (KJV)
4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

What you and every true-born of God Christian MUST do is be discipled. But the Church doesn't do that. 

At any rate be still and know He is God means to first study God of the Scripture. Learn His favorite color, what kind of ice cream He likes, what He calls sin, what pleases Him, what dis-pleases Him, etc., and this will take TIME. From the day I was born again in 1977 it was 17 years when He first spoke audibly to me and that was when He told me my place in the Body of Christ, what my call was, what spiritual gifts He gave me to accomplish that call, and what lay ahead in my future. But when He did speak it was THEN I knew what it was for me to do. In those 17 years I spent many, many hours under the anointing being taught by His Spirit and the Word a great many, many things about God, what pleases Him, what displeases Him, and what His favorite color was. But the important thing was that I was being taught. My discipleship came from man. I lived with my teacher as is the Biblical way commanded by God. Sure, I wanted to do big and great powerful things for God, but the answer was the same: You don't "go" unless I say "Go!" You don't move unless I say "Move!"

Don't worry about "doing things" UNTIL you are taught by the Scripture and discipled by men. 

You can ask any construction engineer as to whether they can erect a structure upon a building standing in its place and the answer is the same:

You first have to tear down and destroy that building before you can put anything in its place.

God MUST first break and destroy the [new] Christian BEFORE He can build His mansion in its place. When we are saved we bring all our religiosity, our garbage, and false beliefs about God into our new life in Christ. We are born into this world and instilled with the world's philosophy, the world way of doing things, how to behave, how to speak, when to speak and what we are to do in life. We have to learn a whole NEW Way of life when we come to God through His call. That means God must first tear down the world in us BEFORE He can use us. And that is the hard part. 

God's people are to live by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Separate yourself to this task. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and everything God has for you will be added to your life.

But it will take TIME.


 

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