Prayers needed Please

[StoneAK]

This may be a little unconventional but here it goes. I have had this strong urge that the Lord is calling me to do better things for him and I just need some prayers to help make it clear to my simple mind what he is calling me to do. I want to do what ever it is he is calling me to do. Just a simple prayer is all I ask thanks everyone. God Bless

[Right Wing]

God bless and shoot straight!

[BenBow]

Praying that God makes His will clear to you and all of us.

[StoneAK]

Thanks to both of you I really appreciate the prayers.

[Doc Nock]

Prayers for discernment. Get that quiet time and sit expectantly awaiting His still small voice.

Boy...listen to me handing out advice on THAT!  :(

Another of those "do as I suggest, not as I do! moments right there...

Keep the Son in your eyes!

[StoneAK]

Doc I will listen to your advice thank you. I have been spending a lot of time in prayer and nose stuffed in the bible. Thank you

[Doc Nock]

Almost didn't share this, but urged to come back and do so...    :confused:  

Here goes: Remember there are many, many ways to serve the Lord from how we greet one another, interact among our coworkers, to higher callings of full-time service in varied ministries.

That's it.      

What a wonderful life I (we all?) could live if I could only "die to self" ENOUGH to truly live in "full time service" to Him in the simple aspects of daily life.

But that hour drive on the expressway proves to me daily that I do NOT live fully for Him...as the anger wells up at other drivers and my thoughts and words in the cab of the truck are anything but Christian!  :(

At the end of each day's drive, I have to ask forgiveness for my thoughts.   :(  

Simple acts of service to Him regularly elude me. May you find that special place and calling that restores your soul and sense of inner peace.

[Berube]

Prayers for you sent!

[StoneAK]

Doc,
    I spent years in  hatred and full of evil thoughts GOD has helped me no matter how many times I turned my back to him. I know that after being in the military for 10 years and seeing and doing the things I have seen and done I would have never made it out alive with out my savior. My calling is for more of an evangelical field or missionary of sorts. I have the strong urge through prayer and meditation to share my experiences I have had with the Lord, and bring others to the Lord. I can't explain how this came about but I am letting the Lord carry me on this one and I hope to not displease him through my travels.

[Doc Nock]

Les,

Hat is off to you for your service ...and Thank You!

I have been there for a number of Nam Vets to "dump their stuff" years back so they could tell me all they did to survive in the jungle.  

some of what you guys go thru would curdle mother's milk!  :(

Sidebar: I can give praise that my "anger" lasts only about 30 min a day on the expressway...some are worse than others... I don't like people being idiots that almost cost me my life through their stupidity...but I digress.

neat thing is that I have to keep trying to forgive them...as He forgives me for lots worse!

I'm sure you've thought of it, but what about doing chaplan work in the military? Seems fertile ground to sew seeds of salvation perhaps?

God will let you know where, when and what!  

Keep the Son in your eyes!

[StoneAK]

I have thought about Chaplain work it would be great to do, but I will have to see where our kind Father is guiding me. A friend of mine is in Brazil for the third time doing some great work and learning some real primitive stuff I might add maybe I will join him with my family for a while until I get guided elsewhere.
    I have had the love and support of my family and friends a long with the Lord to help with the transition into civilian life again  over the last year. I don't know if the thoughts of war ever subside or become less or the constant on edge feeling ever goes away but I am proud of my service to our country Not a day goes by with out the pain or thoughts but I am proud. Now it's time to serve the Lord and spread the Gospel. Isn't our lives great that we can even talk about this.