The Lord has stopped. The cloud is not moving. No pillar of fire or cloud by day. God is just silent. I have been waiting for awhile for a clear direction and God has given nothing. He has decided to be silent. Pray that the next chapter will start soon. I need specific answers such as job, finances, spritual vision. I have gifts that have been stagnant for over 2 years. I was once a worship leader and pastor and now Im a layed off electrician. Pray for spiritual rain! Im ready to move on from this stage and see God do great miracles. If anyone has a WORD OF WISDOM...NOT OPINION...please speak on...I will keep you posted and let you know..what the LORD is doing.
GOD BLESS
sinhater

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RJ

Try fasting and praying.

Hello sinhater,

I have a question (more than one, actually, but I'll start with this one):

when the Lord called you to what we call [i]the ministry[/i] (which you believed meant being a pastor), [u]what were His words[/u] and were you able to full-fill them?

Not trying to be flippant, but sometimes when we think He is being silent it has more to do with us actually not listening. Oh, we may think we are listening, but in hindsight sometimes we realize that we werent.

And if the cloud has really stopped and isnt moving, then you need to learn to be content in that.

Krispy

Hi sinhater...

I am praying for you. Take courage in the fact that God knows your days -- past, present AND future. Remember, we serve the same God during times of difficulty as we do during times of ease.

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"

"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV)

Again, I am praying for you. Take courage in Him and His unfailing love.

:-)

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Christopher

"Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God" (Isa. 50.10).

Just to highlight two or three phrases here...

"...That feareth the LORD..."

"...That OBEYETH..."

"...The Voice of His Servant..." (the Holy Spirit).

And so then, if we are doing the above, and still there is darkness, His call is to TRUST Him, and STAY upon Him.

The verse that follows this one contains a warning.

"Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks; walk ye in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow" (vs. 11).

Highlighting again, "the light of YOUR fire," (your own fire).

"...The sparks that YE have kindled..."

So if the Cloud is not moving, STAY under the Cloud. That is the very best place to be.

Time for prayer, seeking, waiting. God sometimes takes away our light so He can bring us into a higher vision.

(...Meanwhile, while waiting-- and this is just my own advice here, so weigh it-- we all have to eat and maybe support a family. Lots of work out there these days for a good electrician, I think. You can be working a job and be right in the centre of God's will and peace, without feeling you have to be doing something of an ecclesiastical nature. Your gifts, commit them into the Hands of the One who gave them. He will take care of them.)

AD

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Allan Halton