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Let's Talk About Our Calling...

Edward

Edward

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Ok, I'll start by saying I am no stranger to the Lord and I strive to grow spiritually. I have so many good testimonies and the Lord has been soo good to me for a long time now. But long story short, I have never realized my calling. I believe that there is something wrong with that. I should know. I don't seem to be called to ministry. I doubt I could be a Pastor. I do not like talking to large crowds of people. I don't think I talk that good. So...what? Healing ministry? I have maybe felt unctions here and there to heal people and I have prayed over a few people and laid hands on them. None ever got healed. I asked for healing and got it one night. I had a dislocated hip and no insurance or money to go get xrays and doctor. Asked the Lord to heal me while I slept. I was woke up with a burning sensation in my hip. It got so hot that it hurt and the pain caused me to cry out. But it subsided and I went back to sleep. In the morning, I was thinking about it and I remembered hearing testimonies and people said they felt heat while being healed. So I got up and pulled down my jammies to see if my hip bone was still sticking out...it was not. I was healed. It was still sore but anytime a dislocation is reset there will be soreness for a couple days. So I knew that if the soreness went away in a day or two then its confirmed, I was healed by the Lord...but I digress.

My old boss slipped and said something about the Lord gave him words of knowledge about me, and that made me take notice! So I said, give! What He say? And he acted like he didn't really want to tell me. That was a wee bit weird to me but he did say the Lord spoke of me in a healing ministry. But...I do not feel any anointing for healing? Should I take that seriously?

Any comments welcome...
 
I first accepted Jesus back in 1972 when I was seventeen, but it took me until 1997 to really understand who He was/is. In my case it was during the lowest point in my life where I almost gave up on God and wanted to walk away, but as I believe now, it was the Holy Spirit unctioning me to surrender all of myself to the Lord which I never did in all those years. A part of me did, but not all of me so it was that little part that kept coming back to the Lord as I never developed that personal relationship with Him.

It was when I got to the lowest point in my life that I literally fell on my knees and cried out to God as I laid there pouring my soul out to Him giving all my hurts, anxieties and doubts until I was totally emptied and there is where the Spirit of God met me and verbally told me not to give up for there is much God wanted me to do. I had no idea what, but I got such a hunger for Spiritual knowledge and started devouring the teachings in scripture as the Holy Spirit opened my Spiritual eyes and ears to really start understanding the scriptures. It was one of those wow moments when you see that which you never say before.

I didn't know if I had a calling as I never thought about it, but what God was doing in me was equipping me for His ministry to take His Gospel message out into the world. When He said "I have much for you to do" I didn't understand at that time God was calling me to His ministry. Not as a Pastor or an Evangelist, even though I was a licensed Evangelist for a time and a season in order to go into the prisons, but to be a disciple of Christ as the world being those in whom I am to teach.

It all starts by a mustard seed of faith that comes by hearing the word of God and growing your faith/belief into a full scale personal relationship with Christ as you press into Him, talk with Him, getting to know who He is in your life. We are all called to the Gospel of grace and we need to taste and see that the Lord is good.
 
Edward said:
Ok, I'll start by saying I am no stranger to the Lord and I strive to grow spiritually. I have so many good testimonies and the Lord has been soo good to me for a long time now. But long story short, I have never realized my calling. I believe that there is something wrong with that. I should know. I don't seem to be called to ministry. I doubt I could be a Pastor. I do not like talking to large crowds of people. I don't think I talk that good. So...what? Healing ministry? I have maybe felt unctions here and there to heal people and I have prayed over a few people and laid hands on them. None ever got healed. I asked for healing and got it one night. I had a dislocated hip and no insurance or money to go get xrays and doctor. Asked the Lord to heal me while I slept. I was woke up with a burning sensation in my hip. It got so hot that it hurt and the pain caused me to cry out. But it subsided and I went back to sleep. In the morning, I was thinking about it and I remembered hearing testimonies and people said they felt heat while being healed. So I got up and pulled down my jammies to see if my hip bone was still sticking out...it was not. I was healed. It was still sore but anytime a dislocation is reset there will be soreness for a couple days. So I knew that if the soreness went away in a day or two then its confirmed, I was healed by the Lord...but I digress.

My old boss slipped and said something about the Lord gave him words of knowledge about me, and that made me take notice! So I said, give! What He say? And he acted like he didn't really want to tell me. That was a wee bit weird to me but he did say the Lord spoke of me in a healing ministry. But...I do not feel any anointing for healing? Should I take that seriously?

Any comments welcome...
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Thanks for your post, but as for my christian life was different from my schooling, when I took the gospel yoke upon myself, I thought I was learning how to become like Him to follow His steps.

When I found that I should do the things that He did as His custom was, then I knew who I should follow as my calling, and I asked Him, what am I suppose to do about my life, so I have been waiting for an answer, then the scriptures pointed me to in searching them that I may have eternal life.

So this is why I use them soo much, rightly divided unto Him of course, so as I think in my heart.

Love, Walter
 
Edward said:
Ok, I'll start by saying I am no stranger to the Lord and I strive to grow spiritually. I have so many good testimonies and the Lord has been soo good to me for a long time now. But long story short, I have never realized my calling. I believe that there is something wrong with that. I should know. I don't seem to be called to ministry. I doubt I could be a Pastor. I do not like talking to large crowds of people. I don't think I talk that good. So...what? Healing ministry? I have maybe felt unctions here and there to heal people and I have prayed over a few people and laid hands on them. None ever got healed. I asked for healing and got it one night. I had a dislocated hip and no insurance or money to go get xrays and doctor. Asked the Lord to heal me while I slept. I was woke up with a burning sensation in my hip. It got so hot that it hurt and the pain caused me to cry out. But it subsided and I went back to sleep. In the morning, I was thinking about it and I remembered hearing testimonies and people said they felt heat while being healed. So I got up and pulled down my jammies to see if my hip bone was still sticking out...it was not. I was healed. It was still sore but anytime a dislocation is reset there will be soreness for a couple days. So I knew that if the soreness went away in a day or two then its confirmed, I was healed by the Lord...but I digress.

My old boss slipped and said something about the Lord gave him words of knowledge about me, and that made me take notice! So I said, give! What He say? And he acted like he didn't really want to tell me. That was a wee bit weird to me but he did say the Lord spoke of me in a healing ministry. But...I do not feel any anointing for healing? Should I take that seriously?

Any comments welcome...
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Hi Edward
Could it be that you are meant to be involved with healing in some other way?
I knew someone who was healed of a life threatening cancer the night before he should have had the operation.
He prayed for healing and asked God to heal him if God could use him in any way. When he woke up there was no cancer. He went to different churches gov9ng his testimony. This must have given many hope and faith. That was his ministry.
You have many amazing testimonies Edwatd. Could that be what God had on mind for you? Either by visiting churches or by writing.
As for me, I haven't a clue. The man I have been speaking if told me that God would use me in later life. I'm 75 and I still don't know.
 
Great question and topic Edward
For me, after I was immersed in water baptism for salvation many decades ago, God started using me right away.
Seems like all the ministries I was in and serving others, always came about by someone coming to me and asking me to be involved. I never said no, as what they asked of me always seemed to fit my life and skills, my personality, and where my heart was.
I've seen people in church decide on their own how to serve God, but I never had to do that.
Sometimes I would lead groups for years that I was asked to do, and I did. Sometimes I was asked to preach, and I did.
Once I was asked by a neighbor to go with him downtown to help feed the homeless. I did and continued in various ways helping the homeless for 12 years.

Looking back over my years of serving others, I never said no, never thought about that until now.

When ministries would end, I just knew that God would bring me something new, and he always has. I just waited on Him until he was ready.
I became familiar with Jeremiah 29: 11-14 many decades ago, "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans for good and not evil, to have a future and a hope." I always believed that, and God has always been faithful.

At the beginning of last summer, 2 ministries I was involved in came to an end, so I prayed about it and put it in God's hands and just waited on God, again while I was busy just living life, doing the everyday things I enjoy.
Time passed and I was getting no answer, so during the nice summer weather, I started going for walks as my gym was shut down due to Covid-19.
Well, wouldn't you know it. While I was waiting on God, he was waiting on me.

As I walked around my neighborhood and started venturing out past my normal small area, I started meeting some new really nice people, and as the weeks passed we got to know each other, and people started to open up to me about life past what you could see, and there was a lot of pain in peoples private lives.
I started telling people I would pray for them, and surprise surprise, they were grateful.
So here I am getting ready to go out on a walk, that I do 2-4 times a day, never knowing what someone will have to share, or who will share it, and being that I live in the Pacific Northwet, the scenery all around me is beautiful, and the weather is warming up, and here I am ministering and praying for people almost every day, in my neighborhood.

If you have the heart to make a difference, God will use you :thumbsup. He has me and He will use you too.
 
Tessa said:
Do you think it possible that someone can be living their calling without realizing it?
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Tessa
I couldn't tell you, as I think I have always known, but what makes it so good to know, is that you're prepared or even furthering being prepared by studying or maybe purchasing things that you know will help you be better at what you'll be doing.
One time I sold my car and bought a pickup truck out of faith that God would do some amazing things I had plans for that he brought me to, and it all worked perfectly.
"Walk by faith, not by sight, listening to that quiet voice of the Holy Spirit."
 
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