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| "I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' Then I said, 'Here am I! Send me'"
God did not direct His call to Isaiah--Isaiah over heard God saying "... who will go for us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends up my spiritual attitude. "Many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22.14). That is, few prove that they are the chosen ones. The chosen ones are those who have come into a relationship with God though Jesus Christ and have had their spiritual condition changed and their ears opened. Then they hear "the voice of the Lord" continually asking, "... who will go for us?" However, God doesn't single out someone and say, "Now you go." He did not force His will on Isaiah. Isaiah was in the presence of God, and he overheard the call. His response performed in complete freedom, could only be to say, "Here am I! Send me."
Remove the thought from your mind of expecting God to come to force you or to pleade with you. When our God called His disciples, He did it without irresistible pressure from the outside. The quiet, yet passionate, insistence of His "Follow me" was spoken to men whose every sense was receptive (Matthew 4.19). If we will allow the Holy Spirit to bring us face to face with God, we too will hear what Isaiah heard--"the voice of the Lord." In perfect freedom we too will say, "Here am I! Send me."
God gave this to me this morning in my quiet time and I wanted to share it with others because I have heard many others say that they hear Gods voice but they never feel like God uses them... Accept the call.... "Here am I! Send Me Lord...." I am ready Lord Send me. I want to be used by you. God Bless everyone. If you have a prayer request just leave me a comment. God Bless
In His Hug,
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| God is awesome! God is working in my heart. I have been so lazy this J-term that I have not wanted nor done my quiet times with God. This is a hindurance to my relationship with him and my life. I am cranky and my days are bad when I dont. I love my God. God is showing me that it is time to come back and to trust him once again. I have forgotten what its like to fully trust in him. I trusted in him and was financially stable and able to pay for school, I trusted in him and had sleep, I trusted in him and was able to do everything I had to, I trusted in him and was able to go to Romania. Now its time that I remember that trust. I was on my knees last night asking God to pick me up. I was down and he picked me up in his arms and cradled me. Today school is paid for, I was able to memorize list upon list for Ethics test tomorrow... and now I am placing my trust in him to speak through me this sunday night. I am the associate childrens director for a rather large church (no i am not bragging... i did not plan a big church but God once again blessed me with it.) and this sunday night i am giving the lesson for between 300 and 500 kids. I love it... God has given me great material and illustrations and I pray that God will speak to those kids and bring them to the Lord. I believe he will. Please pray for me.
God is so amazing he has blessed me with a Christian woman that is souly set for him and I pray to God that he will bless me to marry this woman and live the rest of my life with her... (i probably just scared her off) She is so amazing... She sticks with me when i am cranky and for sometimes feels that i dont give her my undivided attention... I am so sorry for that... God has shown me that he has given me a blessing and she is it. I cant explain the excitment i have when I see her angelic face. Your amazing Barb.
Once again God proves to me that if i trust in him he will take care of me. I love you Lord. Please be with the people of the world and keep us in your arms. Now please work a miracle tomorrow at 10:00 for all of us that have a Philosphy of Religion test... give us wisdom and the words to right.
We Trust you with our hearts and minds.
In His Grip, | | |
| God is awesome! God is working in my heart. I have been so lazy this J-term that I have not wanted nor done my quiet times with God. This is a hindurance to my relationship with him and my life. I am cranky and my days are bad when I dont. I love my God. God is showing me that it is time to come back and to trust him once again. I have forgotten what its like to fully trust in him. I trusted in him and was financially stable and able to pay for school, I trusted in him and had sleep, I trusted in him and was able to do everything I had to, I trusted in him and was able to go to Romania. Now its time that I remember that trust. I was on my knees last night asking God to pick me up. I was down and he picked me up in his arms and cradled me. Today school is paid for, I was able to memorize list upon list for Ethics test tomorrow... and now I am placing my trust in him to speak through me this sunday night. I am the associate childrens director for a rather large church (no i am not bragging... i did not plan a big church but God once again blessed me with it.) and this sunday night i am giving the lesson for between 300 and 500 kids. I love it... God has given me great material and illustrations and I pray that God will speak to those kids and bring them to the Lord. I believe he will. Please pray for me.
God is so amazing he has blessed me with a Christian woman that is souly set for him and I pray to God that he will bless me to marry this woman and live the rest of my life with her... (i probably just scared her off) She is so amazing... She sticks with me when i am cranky and for sometimes feels that i dont give her my undivided attention... I am so sorry for that... God has shown me that he has given me a blessing and she is it. I cant explain the excitment i have when I see her angelic face. Your amazing Barb.
Once again God proves to me that if i trust in him he will take care of me. I love you Lord. Please be with the people of the world and keep us in your arms. Now please work a miracle tomorrow at 10:00 for all of us that have a Philosphy of Religion test... give us wisdom and the words to right.
We Trust you with our hearts and minds.
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| Well, I guess I am going to actually use this tonight. I have not really had much time to use this. I signed up for it and then did not ever use it tell now. I have some things on my heart that I want to share.
Why is it that when people find out you are a religion major they think that you have nothing to do. They think that the classes are so easy just because they believe you just sit and read the Bible in class. Well, I have other books for classes other than the Bible. I have 12 page papers to write also, currently working on a 25 page paper just for J-term. Why do people have to be so ignorant that they think the classes are easy. Come on people you should realize that there is more to a Religion major than laziness and reading only the Bible. One thing that has been on my mind about this subject is something an arrogant sophomore said to me. He asked me why I was so dressed up one night and I told him I had a Religions scholarship baquet to go to. He said that I should get a real life and a real major. He told me that religion major were worthless because you should not have to study to be Religious. One i think he is missing the point and two the fact that he told me to get a real job make me angry. To me a ministers job is one of (notice i say one of) the most important jobs. the eternity of everyones souls are in our hands. Is he so arrogant that without a minister he more than likely would not have a personal relationship with Christ. If he so does. Maybe its my arrogance for thinking this. Oh well.
God has been working in my heart lately. He is showing me that diligence is good. He is giving me a passion to sit down and study and learn more about him in a "liberal" kinda way. I have never been much of a person who liked school but God has called me into the ministry and has given me a new passion for learning the answers, so that when the season comes I can be able to answer those questions. I hope.
I have a slide show for my screen saver and the pictures are of my trip to Romania. God showed me tonight that I need to pray for them more and I dearly wish that I could go and feel his calling on my heart to go back there this summer but i am supposed to take classes the second term of summer and plus i am not really financially stable to take that trip. I am placing this in God's hands and pray that his will comes.
I know this is choppy but its five in the morning. I will probably delete it tomorrow but just thought i would write a bit. Thanks for reading the novel and sorry... later
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