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It is and it's not a promotion. My pay will probably stay the same for a little while, but this position provides a clear path for upward mobility within my organization.

It's not official at this point BUT the only way I can see this not happening is if God somehow stops or blocks this AND if He does stop or block this, I am sure it would be for my good-- but I probably would be disappointed in the short term.

Anyway...

I got a couple serious questions regarding situations like this and I am looking for wisdom.


1) Is it safe to have a mindset that prays, "God if XYZ is not Your Will, then just don't let XYZ happen, don't allow it, God stop this from happening if it is not Your Will"?

2) In the middle of typing this post, the system forced me to login again and now the other question I have is lost because I can't remember it right now.

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I pray every morning before I leave the house for God to guide and direct my path and to give me wisdom and understanding. And then I listen for the still small voice to speak to me as I go about my day. And if doors open or close, I trust that God is in it.

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I believe that God will honor your efforts to seek His will. Im glad for you man and I hope it works out better than you can even imagine.

I pray the blessings of the Lord overtake you and you not have the capacity to contain them.

I pray He orders your steps and directs your path and gives you the land your feet touch.

I pray that His favor rests upon you and goes before you.

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I have a hard time believing God would want anyone to live in California.

:bolt











j/k

Well, sort of...

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Hey, Billy Paul Branham is getting pretty old.

Which means California is ready to sink into the Pacific. ;)

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Wow!
Thank you very much!
I really appreciate these blessings you have prayed and spoken over my life!

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I tend to avoid making major decisions based on notions and gut feelings.

Does anyone else here try to avoid making major decisions based on notions and gut feelings?

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Just pray about it and read the word.
And even if you do not make the perfect decision, God is still with you.
I would have mixed feelings about moving to SD.
It is one of the most beautiful cities in the US, however it has a very high cost of living.
But it also has a church that you should feel very comfortable in!

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Concerned about the cost of living too. My agency offers a 26% of salary incentive for cost of living expenses.

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The feelings I struggle with when making decisions isnt usually ones of carelessness or impulsivity but of fear, anxiety and low self esteem...I tend to be overly cautious.

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My hesitancy to not go off of gut feelings and notions is because I find that it is too often these gut feelings and notions are negative.

"Don't do that."
"You're about to mess up."
"God says no."

Rarely is there a why to follow the negative rationale.
Almost never is there ever an outside source to confirm the negativity of the gut feelings and notions.

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JD - sounds like God's will to me!
No, seriously I have friends who used to live there and they would go back in a heartbeat.

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there is a great church in the area.

https://hilltoptabernacle.org/

Pastor Stephen Buxton. One of the best pastor/preacher I know!

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Although I have spent a lot of time over the past 30 years in Los Angeles it was only last summer that I finally made it to San Diego. It was a whirlwind two day trip but I really liked what I saw and would like to go back and spend a few days. Seems like a great place other than the usual ridiculous California prices on gas, food, and real estate!

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I know we disagree on many things.

I smile with the first prayer. I could easily see myself praying that same prayer if I still prayed. Though I do bow my head when someone says grace over a meal... maybe that counts :p lol.

Careful is good. It's also okay to let God know your thoughts and feelings on the matter while still deferring to his will.

"Let this cup pass from me but not my will but thine"
"Let me have this job I really want it but not my will but yours"

At least that's one sinners opinion!

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German,

Just out of curiosity how many places have you lived the last five year?

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Orlando, FL and Cleveland, OH

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I have other applications out for other jobs in other areas as well, to include here in Cleveland.

There is one other prospect that looks very promising00 again, I am fine if the Lord lets none of these jobs work out, but if He allows me to be promoted, I am not going to turn it down.

If I was a family man, maybe I would look at things a little differently.

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I would move to San Diego over Cleveland in a heartbeat if the jobs were the same. Of course the cost of living is a lot lower in Cleveland so I guess the San Diego job would have to pay more for the standard of living to be the same.

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Will be praying for you J, that the Lord directs your steps exactly where He would have you to be :)

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San Diego is great. You could live across the border in Tijuana for a fraction of the cost and commute to San Diego like loads of other people.

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My nephew lives there it is an awesome city, but the cost of living is huge. Some good churches in the area.

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Amen and amen.

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Ok. Just curious, if you guys had the choice between:

1) Cleveland, OH
2) San Diego, CA
3) Jackson, MS

All things being equal, and if God gives you the choice, where would you move?

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San Diego, it is beautiful.

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Chatanooga

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1. SD
2. SD
3. SD
4. SD

The only upside for Jackson is that it is very cheap to live there and the winters are not bad.
Cleveland.
No upside for me.
The Lord would have to speak!

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Jackson is not a bad choice. The Gluckstadt community. And you could attend Parkview Church Pastor Jerry Wayne Dillon! A long time family friend.

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Is that a conservative church? JD's soteriology is like the AG.

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The pastor is conservative. My sister and BIL are members along with a dozen other friends. I have attended when visiting my sister. The crowd was around 800 and very diverse. Bro. Dillon is hardcore 3 stepper with traditional UPC views on standards but he does not shove it down the throats of congregation. I see many different walks of life and a wide array of ummmmm dress.

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My wife attended South Bay when we meet........and the rest is history :heeheehee

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I grew up in Jackson and wouldn't want to live there ever. But maybe I have some baggage you don't :happydance

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San Diego!

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Great church!

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I stated that I didn't want to make any more decisions based on gut feelings and "notions".

But I DEFINITELY do not want to be self-willed either.

His sheep knows His Voice for sure...

I hope I am praying the right way. Really, I should not be wondering about this. But I am a guy who has made (what I consider to be) wrong decisions before-- based on unexplainable "bad feelings" or bad dreams that maybe happened because the situation was on my mind and my active imagination gave me a colorfully bad dream...

Bottom line I will fast AND pray.

and if His answer is, "Wait" and the time for decision comes and an answer is needed right then and there...

I'd like to think I'd wait and let the opportunity in my immediate reach go by. Hopefully, this is not how God decides to play this out.

Even with all of the above, still I know what it is like to make a decision clearly hearing from the Lord that this was not His Will. I was in a situation where I felt that since I had already committed myself in word, on paper, and with money, I felt like I just needed to go through with my decision. My friends, that was BY FAR the costliest, out-of-the-Will-of-God decision that I myself have ever made! I never want to go down that road ever, ever, again.

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I hope this works out for you. There is no feeling worse than languishing.

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You can say that again!

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FYI,
It appears that one door has been shut. I applied for a position that would be a promotion and allow me to stay in Cleveland.

I have asked for a reconsideration because I figured that my background and experience would make me highly competitive for this position.

Disappointed? Yes.

End of the world? No.


So in the past, when something like this happened, I found myself under heavy temptation to start blaming this, that, and the other. Then, I complained to God about how He failed me and that He always keeps good things from me, "while there are millions literally millions of people who don't even think about you-- let alone pray!" I would literally say these things and sadly, sometimes I have thought and said much, much worse.

I am so grateful for His Grace and Mercy in my life!

Not so long ago, in the foolishness of my humanity, He didn't let me drown in my frustrations, my accusations, and rage. He heard my every utterance of vile anger and irrational despair and He did not turn away from me. Oh no! He held His Hand out to me.

I tried to turn and run away from Him, but He would not let me go.

Today, He is holding me up with a personal sense of confidence in His Loving Providence for me, my career, my life.

I have not always handled disappointment with a personal sense of confidence in God's Love for me. Yet today, this time, things are different.

Today is a day of disappointment, yes, but it is also a day of victory-- and I am rising to tell this motley crew of saints and sinners that the God of our good days is the God of our bad days too! His joy is our strength! His Word is our Bread! His Spirit is our Life! And His Will!

His Will-- the same Divine Will that guides our feet in our darkest nights, the same Divine Will that blesses His children every good and perfect gift from the Hand of the One who does not change like shifting shadows!

His Will-- is good! His Will is acceptable! His Will is Perfect!

And we are COMPLETE in Him-- who is the head of ALL rule and authority!

In this day of disappointment, I lack nothing! I am not broken! I am whole, healed, DELIVERED and HIS DIVINE POWER has given us EV-ER-Y-THING we need for LIFE AND for godliness through the KNOWLEDGE of Him who has called us to HIS OWN Glory and Goodness!

Through the KNOWLEDGE. Through the KNOWLEDGE! Through the KNOWLEDGE of what or through the knowledge of WHO? It is through the KNOWLEDGE of GOD and in our dark and dreary days it is GOD who is calling us to HIS OWN GLORY and HE is calling us to the KNOWLEDGE of His Goodness!

What do you KNOW about your GOD?

What do you KNOW about your GOD?

In the emptiness of disappointment, in the pain of loneliness, in the numbness of our sometimes seemingly mundane existence, in the clutches of that dread disease, on the mountaintop and in the valley, in the floods and in the fire-- WHAT do you KNOW about your GOD?!

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Good post, JD!

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Preach! :happydance