How do you know what your purpose is?

[Sarah101]

Hello!

My name is Sarah and yes i feel a little lost to say the least. One of my biggest fears is that i will leave this world and have an empty life. I try my best to help others and be what i think God wants me to be but sometimes i am not sure what i am doing is enough. But then again what is enough? I pray for God to show me my path but I guess I miss the message or hes not ready to show me yet. I read about how he is always trying to shape us and that all things work for good. But sometimes i find myself not understanding. How do you tell the difference between God shaping you, the stuff you do to yourself (Bad Decisions), and the Bad things the Devil is bringing into your life.

I know i am not the only one that has had bad luck or fallen on hard times. But what does it mean when you have a string of bad luck. Is God done with me and moved on to someone else? Why does it feel like he isn't listening to my prayers. Don't get me wrong I am very thankful for the great things he has brought into my life.

You know in that movie Rudolf there is the island of lost toys. I kind of feel like that is where i am at in my life. Not sure of my purpose and stuck. I am 30 years old and thought by now i would be married with kids and so on... Its rough when all your friends are all married. I am totally happy for them, just i want to find that one person too. I guess i think about it too much. Would God put something like that on my heart and never let it materialize. I know me being shy doesn't help things but i try to put myself out there and I run into a dead end. I tell myself that God is just teaching me patience that when the time is right he will bring someone into my life. I know we should never doubt God's plan for our lives, but sometimes its hard to keep my head up.

I put a lot of time/effort into my job to do the best i can. With my job being male dominated its hard to promote or change locations just being a female. I powered through that took the high road. I am good at my job content with it even with all the prejudices. It was a hard lesson to learn at first knowing i had to work twice as hard and still not even be created equal. I put all my efforts into my job until God showed me that I work to live, not live to work.

Earlier this year my father passed away he was my best friend. For 2 years i helped out my mother with everything i could. Despite all the stresses of everything i stayed positive.

Among other things God has really been there for my family and me. I know without him i couldn't have gone through those things and stayed strong.

More then anything does anyone else feel this way? I am not a person to always talk/whine about my life. I come from a family that we suck it up and move forward. But everything has kinda snowballed in my life and just need some friendly guidance.

If you made it this far you have my deepest thanks and if you have any comments, scriptures, or anything please do share.

Thank you for Reading!
Sarah

 

[Waggles]

One of my biggest fears is that i will leave this world and have an empty life. I try my best to help others and be what i think God wants me to be but sometimes i am not sure what i am doing is enough.

Enjoy reading your Bible - the word of God will guide and strengthen you and also lead you to truth and salvation if you believe it...
John 6: 28-29
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

Luke 10:25-28
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

Acts 2:38-39
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Read and believe. Pray for the Lord to lead you to truth and to help you in faith.
Desire to receive the Holy Spirit and thus able to pray in tongues. One needs the power and work of the Holy Spirit within to accomplish the Christian life.

Jude verses 20-21
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

 

[amadeus2]

@Sarah101. None of us ever do enough, but nevertheless we must keeping doing.

"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." James 1:22-25

In the eyes of God we are all equal. It is man that had made us believe we are otherwise. When you or anyone works that much harder to accomplish what is needful in spite of what people think, God does see it and gives credit for it. What God has given you with your uneven tasks is a greater opportunity if you use it:

"But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." Luke 12:48

As for the family you lack consider reading about Corrie Ten Boom. Her book, "The Hiding Place". It tells a real story of the difficulties of a woman in World War II Holland. She never married except to her God, although her heart was one a man could love. While reading the book, pay close attention to where Corrie's sister, Betsy, was. Both were placed in Nazi concentration camps and Betsy died there. Corrie was a woman of God, but through her sister she became even more of a woman of God.

 

[AbbyAl]

Wow Sarah, you are not alone in any way shape or form. Each and every one of us live days where we feel confused or worried about what God may be doing. My mind gets swarmed with those thoughts more than I would like for it to.
I have recently been reading a book (which I highly recommend) called A Purpose Driven Life, and this book reminds me of the simple purpose God has given me. To love Him, pursue Him, and find my worth in Him. That is it. Everything else that happens here on this temporary home is blessings and tests. Jesus never told us we wouldn't suffer, goodness He suffered to death...the most brutal death. He never said it would be easy, remember Job?

Life is hard. But Sarah, my friend, you are loved and have a purpose because you are breathing and alive. God knows you are worthy of completing the tasks He has given you, and those will become clear as you continue to pursue His heart.

Don't give up on God. He has put you where you are, in the situations you are in, and with the life you have for a specific reason, continue searching for that and I believe you will do something big!
May the Lord bless and keep you!

Ps: You should really check out that book, it helps reiterate your purpose in Christ.
(Purpose Driven Life - What On Earth Am I Here For?

 

[Curtis]

Hello!

My name is Sarah and yes i feel a little lost to say the least. One of my biggest fears is that i will leave this world and have an empty life. I try my best to help others and be what i think God wants me to be but sometimes i am not sure what i am doing is enough. But then again what is enough? I pray for God to show me my path but I guess I miss the message or hes not ready to show me yet. I read about how he is always trying to shape us and that all things work for good. But sometimes i find myself not understanding. How do you tell the difference between God shaping you, the stuff you do to yourself (Bad Decisions), and the Bad things the Devil is bringing into your life.

I know i am not the only one that has had bad luck or fallen on hard times. But what does it mean when you have a string of bad luck. Is God done with me and moved on to someone else? Why does it feel like he isn't listening to my prayers. Don't get me wrong I am very thankful for the great things he has brought into my life.

You know in that movie Rudolf there is the island of lost toys. I kind of feel like that is where i am at in my life. Not sure of my purpose and stuck. I am 30 years old and thought by now i would be married with kids and so on... Its rough when all your friends are all married. I am totally happy for them, just i want to find that one person too. I guess i think about it too much. Would God put something like that on my heart and never let it materialize. I know me being shy doesn't help things but i try to put myself out there and I run into a dead end. I tell myself that God is just teaching me patience that when the time is right he will bring someone into my life. I know we should never doubt God's plan for our lives, but sometimes its hard to keep my head up.

I put a lot of time/effort into my job to do the best i can. With my job being male dominated its hard to promote or change locations just being a female. I powered through that took the high road. I am good at my job content with it even with all the prejudices. It was a hard lesson to learn at first knowing i had to work twice as hard and still not even be created equal. I put all my efforts into my job until God showed me that I work to live, not live to work.

Earlier this year my father passed away he was my best friend. For 2 years i helped out my mother with everything i could. Despite all the stresses of everything i stayed positive.

Among other things God has really been there for my family and me. I know without him i couldn't have gone through those things and stayed strong.

More then anything does anyone else feel this way? I am not a person to always talk/whine about my life. I come from a family that we suck it up and move forward. But everything has kinda snowballed in my life and just need some friendly guidance.

If you made it this far you have my deepest thanks and if you have any comments, scriptures, or anything please do share.

Thank you for Reading!
Sarah

Sister Sarah, you are not alone in what you are feeling, and experiencing in your life. No one is exempt from them, not even the Apostle Paul who wrote most of the New Testament,

2Co 1:8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.
2Co 1:9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

Paul was going through so much pressure in his life, he thought for sure his life was over, but then he says, "all these things happened so he would trust in himself, but the living God who raises the dead"

It is very hard to have faith and trust in a person, whom you do not have a "history" with. I don't know how long you have been a Christian, but I read you have seen the Lord work in your life in the past. If the Lord strengthened you in the past for you to get through things, he will continually strengthen you for the rest of your life.

I can say spiritual growth has its growing pains, and is not easy, as not only do we have deal with spiritual wickedness in high places, we also have to deal with the "carnal" un renewed mind which is the enemy of God. Stay connected to God by keeping your heart set on things above where Jesus Christ sits in his Glory. Read the Word of God, and confess it out of your mouth as that is the sword of the Spirit. Things to do, and will get better as you grow in the Lord and in the power of his strength. Never give up, you are more than a conqueror through Christ.