If God wanted you to...

[ydouxist]

Go to the ends of the earth what would you say?
Have you ever asked Him or felt like He was calling you to missions?
It took me 6 years to give Him an honest answer, I was wondering if anyone else ever had to do the same.

[JVAC]

I actually enlisted in the Young Life Mission at Terrones Middle School, I didn't feel I had to leave the country or anything, I could do God's work in a city where the majority of people aren't Christian, Fresno.

I think if Christians spent as much time on local missions rather than foreign, we might be better neighbors.

[free4life]

I would go anywhere the Lord leads. Right now in my life it does not seem feasible (married, child, husband not supportive, etc.) but if I ever get the chance, I'm open to it:)

[free4life]

let me rephrase that:) I HOPE I would go anywhere the Lord leads:) I often find myself sounding a lot like Peter, and then turning around and doing exactly what he did :o

I truly do desire though to follow the Lord with all my heart.

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak sometimes, eh?:)

[Phoebe]

I'm still struggling with a similar problem. What I want versus what He wants.

[Droobie]

God would not want you to do something that you don't want to do.

[Phoebe]

I probably didn't state that the way I should have.

[Lotar]

God would not want you to do something that you don't want to do.
What would ever lead you to that conclusion? :confused:

[Lotar]

Go to the ends of the earth what would you say?
Have you ever asked Him or felt like He was calling you to missions?
It took me 6 years to give Him an honest answer, I was wondering if anyone else ever had to do the same.
If He called me, I would. Atleast I hope that I would.

I haven't really asked Him, and I've never felt called.

[ydouxist]

This is my testimony on if I'd go.



Hear The Call


When I first came to know the Lord

My heart was set on fire

To seek his ways and know his truths

It was my heart's desire

I soon thereafter told my friends

How Jesus died for me

I thought not of offending them

I witnessed openly

Early in this new found walk

I felt a Missions Call

Those of which I did dismiss

"That's not for me at all"

The pioneer inside of me

Sang a different song

As far as what God planned for me

I'd just bring Him along

Then one day my plans and dreams

All suddenly seemed to stop

In front of me He'd placed a wall

I couldn't climb it's top

He told me that His plan for me

Was of His own design

And of my future hopes and dreams

Of these I must resign

No longer could I brush Him off

And just forsake His Call

He showed me that if I do this

Then He's not Lord at all


I told Him that, I knew this so

His Will I said I'd live

He told me once I crossed that line

My son, you I forgive

Now set free from my own dreams

I sought the Missions Call

I then realized to my surprise

T'was not his will at all

This was, you see, a test for me

Would I drop all I planned,

If He should choose to send me to

Some distant foreign land

If God's been dealing with your heart,

Please don't forsake His call

The very thing you think He wants,

He may not want at all

[JVAC]

This reminds me a lot of that hymn "Here I am", you know how it goes, "I the Lord of Sea and Sky, I have heard my people's cry; all who dwell in deepest sin my hand will save" well it goes on and talks about "Who will bear my light to them?" Then the chorus of the hymn is, "Here I am Lord. Is it I Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go Lord, if you lead me. I will hold, your people in my heart."

I just thought I would share, I don't have a copy of it, but if someone wants to post it, it really speaks!

-James