Guidance

The Old Testament promises were often made to specific people, at a specific time, for a specific purpose.

When believers die they live eternally with God in heaven ("heaven" is simply defined as "the place where God is").

We can be very discouraged when we fail. However, God understands how we feel and He speaks about failure in His word.

The Bible does speak about serving in the military, and the Christian can be assured that being a soldier is highly respected throughout the scriptures.

The concept of righteousness starts with the character of God.

A lot of people say they feel somehow that God is distant from them. They describe a sense of loneliness and long to feel closer to God. There can be a few reasons why they feel this way, let’s look at them.

What you are describing is the common experience of all Christians. The Apostle Paul speaks of this in Romans 7:18-25: “18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

The information to answer this question cannot be definitively discovered by human beings as they are governed by the dynamics of mortality.  Even ‘near death’ experiences have the limitation that the person revived and survived.

All people have a general call on their lives to respond to God with faith, and He calls Christian people to live differently for Him in godliness. However, it is also true that for each person God has a specific calling, a place that He wants us to be, a role in His plan of salvation that He wants us to take on, and a time that He wants us to act in. We will answer this question in two parts:

1. What does God call us to?

2. Does God call us to a specific role?

Visions are given by God to some people, but not all people, at His discretion. There is nothing you can do in order to see a vision.