Ddavid from NC Posted January 29, 2008 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 196 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1,343 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 12 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/15/2008 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/03/1964 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Evangelicals particularly speak of their ministry plan as a calling from God. How do you identify a call from God on your life? Have you identified a calling on your life? Please share with us here on the Worthy Boards your experiences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunterpoet Posted January 29, 2008 Group: Removed from Forums for Breaking Terms of Service Followers: 0 Topic Count: 128 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,704 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 25 Days Won: 1 Joined: 05/29/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/08/1950 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I'd like to know what your calling is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ddavid from NC Posted January 29, 2008 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 196 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1,343 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 12 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/15/2008 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/03/1964 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 No you first, I started the thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern lass Posted January 29, 2008 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 106 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,072 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 25 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/13/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/27/1948 Share Posted January 29, 2008 As a young Christian I used to tie myself up in knots over this question. Did I have a calling, what was it, was I a lesser Christian because there didn't seem to be some great "calling" on my life! Now, having survived various family problems which didn't leave me much time to agonise over any "calling" I have come to the conclusion that my calling is to bloom where I am planted and minister to my family as best I can! I don't know whether that means I am disillusioned and have missed something but I have more peace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afal Posted January 29, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 60 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,249 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/12/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted January 29, 2008 Now, having survived various family problems which didn't leave me much time to agonise over any "calling" I have come to the conclusion that my calling is to bloom where I am planted and minister to my family as best I can! I I think that that is a wonderful calling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afal Posted January 29, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 60 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,249 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/12/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted January 29, 2008 I believe that God called me to be a teacher. He gave me the gifts to do this successfully and I made a positive impact on many children's lives as a result of these gifts. Due to ill health, I can no longer teach and I am wondering what my new calling will be. I believe that God calls each one of us for different ministries - some of these are in the church, but most are not. We are to be God's hands wherever He places us in the World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Biblicist Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Evangelicals particularly speak of their ministry plan as a calling from God. How do you identify a call from God on your life? Have you identified a calling on your life? Please share with us here on the Worthy Boards your experiences. We have caller ID. It works pretty well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolts Posted January 29, 2008 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 50 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 963 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/27/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/10/1963 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Oddly enough, this is something that I have been agonizing over for the last month. I became a christian at 19. When I was younger, I couldn't read or write. Not because I couldn't but because I had been diagnosed with a heart condition when I was a child. I didn't care about education. It didn't seam important to someone whose future was in a box 6 feet under. The Lord came into my life when I was about eight or nine. He was my companion and friend. I spent long hours in his company. I have to admit, it was the greatest time of my life. When he healed me I was sold out to serving him. I wanted the world to know just how wonderful and awesome my God is. He gave me hope. He gave me back my life so that I could get married, have children, own a car and get a career. I never became a great evangelist, healer or prophet. In fact I began to feel that I hadn't served the Lord in the mighty way that I felt he ought to be honoured. Anyway, in this last month, I spent time seeking him and asking him a thousand questions about why I never had an amazing calling and I hadn't done wonders in his name. My memory went back to those times back then and I realised that all he had asked me to do was to pray all things and commit all things to him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladygirl21 Posted January 29, 2008 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 28 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/28/2008 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/24/1986 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I think you can find your calling and purpose through your expences in life. For example; my mother had breast cancer and I was exposed to that kind of environment. So now I have a desire, a passion, a purpose to help cancer victims. I truly believe my calling is for them which is why I'm furthering my education at Jarvis. I want to network with the American Cancer Society because with God I believe I can do something better then just raising money for cancer patients. Actually I've thought of something more to do which is why I believe this is my true calling. Also I believe that I'm called to help others deal and cope with death. God has truly allowed me to go through this with my mother and my brother. They both passed away. He has showed me the stages of life after one loses there love ones. I also have experence with divorce. My mother had a divorce with my father when I was six. I had to cope with this for years, including dealiing with step parents whom I thought was pretty harsh. Anyway, I believe we find out our calling through experences and once we find that calling then God steps in to make it prosperous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneB Posted January 29, 2008 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 4 Topic Count: 232 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 7,261 Content Per Day: 0.96 Reputation: 79 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/30/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/19/1959 Share Posted January 29, 2008 God gives us certain talents then plants desires on our heart and finally, when we're ready, He opens doors. When a clear path is made and we have an overwhelming desire to serve in a specific capacity that uses our God-given talents...that's our calling in my opinion. Many claim a calling but either forced their way into a position or don't really have the skill to perform well or may have gotten ahead of God's plan. It is usually evident in the lack of good fruit produced. Regardless, we are ALL called to serve...to work in the Father's vineyard. The key is we need to keep our spiritual eyes open wide (through prayer and reading the Word) and obey the leading of the Spirit as He opens doors making our path straight. Me? The Lord dragged me into jail ministry. Yup...I was dragged. I had no desire at first to serve but my personality is suited for it, He prepared me for it and then He planted a desire on my heart to follow through with it. Opportunities availed themselves and over a year or so, my service grew from ministering to inmates once a month to twice a month to what I do today, which is a weekly Bible class at the local jail for 60 or so inmates. Good question brother. You seem to have a knack for asking the right questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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