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God's Calling on Your Life - 9/2/2008 5:26:54 PM
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ChelaW
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When and how did God reveal His calling for you in your life?
I'm so interested in people's stories. Please share!
Thanks!!
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RE: God's Calling on Your Life - 9/12/2008 11:05:39 PM
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PopsiLufsJesus
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He has really been revealing it throughout my whole life. At least one of the callings. And that is teaching. It is just a gift I have and many people have prophesied it over me and I have had many dreams about it. Also, other people have had dreams about it too and told me.
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~ Romans 12:12
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RE: God's Calling on Your Life - 9/14/2008 4:15:24 AM
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rgod
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If you go to the ministry folder - you'll probably find lots of stories there.
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RE: God's Calling on Your Life - 9/14/2008 9:49:05 AM
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whos_your_dolly
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Even as a child I remember always standing up for the underdog and I think that was the beginning of God's calling to me.
While in college I took a job working with profoundly disabled women in an institution - something I had NO experience with whatsoever. I just LOVED that job, and that was another area of training God put me through to teach me to love and appreciate ALL His people.
I graduated as a teacher and immediately began to realize I enjoyed the challenge of working with kids who most teachers at my school just wanted out of their hair. Soon I was finding myself working with classes of a mixed bag of every type of child that for some reason or another wasn't considered to be "on grade level" in reading and or math. No real attempt to discern WHY in each child's case at that point in time-- they just all came to me. Suited me fine and we had a wonderful time all learning how to learn and care about each other together.
In the midst of this I met and married my soul mate, but we were not Christians at the time. We began attending a non-denominational, Wednesday night Bible study where we met others who like us had serious doubts about, and what we considered were "bones to pick" with God, IF He existed at all.
Then God brought a lady into my life as a teacher's aide in my Reading Lab [named "The Sky's the Limit"] who had grown up in Billy Graham's neighborhood, friend to his kids, and now was a born again, tongue speaking Christian. She started a prayer circle in my Reading Lab before school, with permission of the county, and soon I was joining in. During that time I was miraculously healed of a precancerous condition after the prayer ladies had laid hands on me and prayed for me. I grew up in the Congregational Church and had never heard of the Holy Spirit, Tongues, or the laying on of hands by mere people.
After several years my husband and I built a home in the mountains of WV where we wanted to go live in seclusion. During a time of troubles for my teenaged son who was living with his dad in MA, we went to New England to live so we could help him get through his struggles. There I started graduate school, and worked in a private school for Autistic and brain injured children to help support us.
After returning to WV and finishing our little house in the woods, I found out a child I had been especially close to in the private school had been placed in an institution. I negotiated for what seemed like forever with the social services in CT to get the child as a foster child and finally succeeded and brought her to WV where she thrived.
During that time I found my husband and I couldn't seem to have our own biological kids, so we tried to adopt. I was already 40, so the only infants available to me were interracial or disabled. We were thrilled when we were offered a sweet Mexican-American baby boy who had been brain injured at 4 months, and brought him home on Thanksgiving of that year for a 'trial' visit that never ended.
The only problem was that our little foster daughter did NOT want a sibling, and even tried to sit on him whenever she could. She became so upset she stopped eating, and started to regress in other ways. Since there was NO chance that we could adopt her because at that time there was still a ban on adoption of children of full African American heritage by two caucasian parents] the CT social service worker decided we would have to bring her back to CT where she would go into a specialized adoptive home. We didn't have any choice in the matter, and it broke our hearts.
All this was leading us into our calling from God I believe. And after adopting a second child with severe disabilities, and another child with undiagnosed emotional issues, we began to understand what we were being called to do.
The necessity to establish families and homes for the disabled children waiting for adoption is absolutely CRITICAL if they are to be given a chance to survive and experience a life of hope and
security.
Our calling is to provide that home to our adopted kids, but even moreso to DEMAND that their best interests are met by whomever is responsible to meet them with a MINIMUM of wasted time and money in 'administration' of programs.
ULTIMATELY we have to PROTECT their very lives and DEMAND that others do too. After Terri Schiavo was murdered in Florida by order of some pompous 'judge' our mission became even more crystal clear. Terri burst into uncontrollable crying when she was told she would be starved to death, and she couldn't be consoled, according to one of her nurses. Her so-called adulterous 'husband' made the call to end her disabled life, so he could carry on with his new mistress and new kids. And the judge agreed, even to the point of denying her own parentw the right to take her home to care for her.
It's in the WIND folks. Terri and millions of other helpless disabled people are being murdered in hospitals all over this country and of course the rest of this Godless world as well. Just WHO is going to be next?
OUR CALLING AND YOUR CALLING is the same-- DO WHAT JESUS SAID TO DO-- CARE for widows and orphans --CARE meaning DO SOMETHING !!
Well thats OUR calling.
What's yours?
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RE: God's Calling on Your Life - 9/17/2008 6:33:45 PM
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momma-mo
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God calls what I do "The Ministry of Much".  I just do what He asks me to do. A couple of years ago He began to tell me to buy Bibles. Didn't tell me why...just to buy Bibles. Within a couple of months I found myself giving Bibles to anyone that needed them. I still do. I've sent them as far away as Scotland and even sent one to a wiccan who asked for one! 
When I married my husband, a beautiful born-again, pentecostal man...on two separate occasions total strangers came up to us and said that God told them that we were called to counsel hurting couples. In the back of my mind I wondered how affective could we be understanding their problems being that we were so blissful. Within 3 years my husband began doubting God and eventually turned into an atheist. He is trying to get me to divorce him...just because he does not find me attractive as a Christian...but would if I renounced God. It's been messing with our family ever since. God has promised me that my husband will be restored.
Five years ago my friend in NH fled from her abusive husband and took the children with her. She began calling every day. Unbelievable wisdom seemed to take over and I was able to handle her every crisis. (Always trust the Holy Spirit! He won't let you stumble!) I realized I was turning into a counselor and God told me not to wait for my husband, he'd catch up to me later....just start the ministry in faith. Awhile later a prophet told me the same thing! Over the last 5 years this woman has divorced her abusive husband and married a man who was emotionally abused by his ex-wife. Between them they have 4 traumatized kids who are afraid of the old spouses! I have counseled them through the worst litigation imaginable for child custody and through scary moments in their marriage. It's all God. I am amazed at the wisdom that pours forth and I can only credit the Holy Spirit for such things. He amazes me! I'm nothing special, but, they consider me their counselor and even their pastor! (My husband doesn't know what to make of this you know.....)
I've also been used to help a sister church through words of knowledge and prophecy. (This too baffled my husband.) It turned out that all was true and the church split, just as God showed me and is now beginning to thrive. (I've never attended there...) I have had a similar thing at my own church (one of the two) but I need to keep quiet there because the gifts of the Spirit are a bit scary to most.
As of now my callings are many and diverse...from prophecy, to Bible distribution to counsel. I do crafts at VBS every year, have been a member of the praise and worship team, and even written pageants with original songs, and been in church plays! Prophesied and yet to come are a family ministry with a music ministry including our children and my husband and I preaching together. My eldest daughter now seems to have the gift of wisdom and counsel and is planning to be a pastor (and mom hopes she'll marry one too!) and she's an artist. I know my other kids will know their calling soon enough. So, here we are.....the ministry of much. And with out HIM....we can do nothing.....  I am learning, and it's hard to do sometimes, to just say "Whatever Lord....You choose!"
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Jesus died and lived to tell about it!
Rapture: Separation of Church and state...
"With great chocolate comes great responsibility." Larry Boy
http://frontdoorministries.blogspot.com
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