Can God help fulfill this dream?

[JohnB445]

I was going in the wrong direction in life in my teen years, and my first year of college. I will be honest I didn't hang around good friend groups (Drinking, smoking, terrible music (Which I don't like listening to now after being saved), and some of us did cheat on tests. They weren't bad, but necessarily not the best influence to be honest, after being saved it just doesn't feel right to be around them anymore like the friendship isn't going to last because I am no longer interested and now see how destructive their behavior can be at times. So I just go to my 2nd friend group where the majority are either Christians which we get along well, or just hard working people and a good influence to be around. No more hanging around people who drink and smoke a lot and don't have any goals.

I wasn't giving my full potential in the past, but now I am motivated to give my all. I don't like listening to music like rock or rap anymore, now that I look back at it I say in my mind (What kind of junk I was listening to back then).

I do have a lot of outdoor activities and hobbies since I live in a nice area. We have Mountain biking trails, Rock climbing gyms, Rivers for kayaking, BMX skateparks, and there are Dirt Bike parks or even BMX race parks with the ramps and stuff.

If I can be a professional at any of those activities that would be a dream come true. Although I am still in college, I'm not sure how I can make it happen. God has got me motivated to give him my full potential because I was not giving my best effort all these years, now I have a fire in my heart.

Last semester I was doing terrible in class, because I was too focused on studying the Bible because of how shocked I was when the Holy Spirit came into my life(August 4th), it blew my mind so I couldn't get enough of God's Word the following months (Who wouldn't want to read the Creator of the universe Word to Mankind?). I should of balanced my school life too,

I was stressed, I prayed and asked God for a miracle to happen and ended up getting all A's in my classes when I really should of got a D or a C. I didn't deserve a A.

I won't be doing that anymore however, I got lucky that time.

 

[Tolworth John]

I was stressed, I prayed and asked God for a miracle to happen and ended up getting all A's in my classes when I really should of got a D or a C. I didn't deserve a A.

I won't be doing that anymore however, I got lucky that time

Sounds like you realise it and will be getting some balance into your life.

Work out how much time you need to spend on your course work, how much time you need for socialising and how much time you need to spend in church and bible study and figure out how to fit them all together.

 

[messianist]

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

 

[com7fy8]

I am no longer interested and now see how destructive their behavior can be at times.

Even when there is not obvious destructive behavior, the little things are adding up.

Little arguments, for example, in a marriage, can be going the wrong way . . . since arguing can be anti-love, deeply degrading from being "tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you" (in Ephesians 4:31-32). We need to keep praying for however our Father corrects us and matures us in how to relate in His love. This is part of His dream coming true, by the way.

I wasn't giving my full potential in the past, but now I am motivated to give my all.

Yes, but we need to make sure our efforts are with the right priorities.

So, studying God's word is very good. But how well we get it has to do with our character maturing so we understand and live His word better and better. So, we need to trust our Father who knows us and how we need to develop. Developing and living in His love gives us His love meaning of His word; and this takes correction and adjusting and tuning, even all through a day or during our sleep and in our dreams what we are doing and how we are reacting.

"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)

I was stressed, I prayed and asked God for a miracle to happen and ended up getting all A's in my classes when I really should of got a D or a C. I didn't deserve a A.

Professors can use different ways of grading.

There can be the basic one-size-fits-all approach of assigning letters to scores, like 90 and up is an A, and below 60 is F.

But ones can include consideration of how you have made a real effort, maybe including contributing comments and questions and interest during their classes.

And ones might have, if I remember correctly, a sliding scale > they grade the top 10% of students with an A, and go down from there, even giving maybe a D to ones 35-40 or whatever, assuming the student performance is an indication of what can be expected of them.

But > now I see I could have done well to not put so much effort into certain things, which were maybe vain subjects. And maybe I should have tried more to speak German, rather than only making my A grades which did not depend on speaking it. I was going after the grade for the sake of it, but now I would want to speak German so I can love Germans by speaking their language.

So, is love a motivation?

But, I did eventually use some German when it mattered, though I knew little. If you choose to take something, be open to how God might use it, though you see no real reason at the time. Pray and be guided by God < learn how to do this!

 

[vinsight4u]

/nvm

 

[eleos1954]

I was going in the wrong direction in life in my teen years, and my first year of college. I will be honest I didn't hang around good friend groups (Drinking, smoking, terrible music (Which I don't like listening to now after being saved), and some of us did cheat on tests. They weren't bad, but necessarily not the best influence to be honest, after being saved it just doesn't feel right to be around them anymore like the friendship isn't going to last because I am no longer interested and now see how destructive their behavior can be at times. So I just go to my 2nd friend group where the majority are either Christians which we get along well, or just hard working people and a good influence to be around. No more hanging around people who drink and smoke a lot and don't have any goals.

I wasn't giving my full potential in the past, but now I am motivated to give my all. I don't like listening to music like rock or rap anymore, now that I look back at it I say in my mind (What kind of junk I was listening to back then).

I do have a lot of outdoor activities and hobbies since I live in a nice area. We have Mountain biking trails, Rock climbing gyms, Rivers for kayaking, BMX skateparks, and there are Dirt Bike parks or even BMX race parks with the ramps and stuff.

If I can be a professional at any of those activities that would be a dream come true. Although I am still in college, I'm not sure how I can make it happen. God has got me motivated to give him my full potential because I was not giving my best effort all these years, now I have a fire in my heart.

Last semester I was doing terrible in class, because I was too focused on studying the Bible because of how shocked I was when the Holy Spirit came into my life(August 4th), it blew my mind so I couldn't get enough of God's Word the following months (Who wouldn't want to read the Creator of the universe Word to Mankind?). I should of balanced my school life too,

I was stressed, I prayed and asked God for a miracle to happen and ended up getting all A's in my classes when I really should of got a D or a C. I didn't deserve a A.

I won't be doing that anymore however, I got lucky that time.

"I got lucky that time" Luck?

"I prayed and asked God for a miracle to happen and ended up getting all A's in my classes"

luck or prayers answered? ;o)

 

[JohnB445]

"I got lucky that time" Luck?

"I prayed and asked God for a miracle to happen and ended up getting all A's in my classes"

luck or prayers answered? ;o)

I hope it was answered.

 

[eleos1954]

I hope it was answered.

I would say so ;o)

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

I was stressed, I prayed and asked God for a miracle to happen and ended up getting all A's in my classes when I really should of got a D or a C. I didn't deserve a A.

I won't be doing that anymore however, I got lucky that time.

Words are important.

You got "BLESSED", as God Says..... luck has nothing to do with it.


This is what Yahweh says/ does to those who trust in luck:
Isaiah 65:11 - Bible Gateway

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Isaiah%2065:11
“But you who abandon me, your God, who forget the holy mountains, Who hold dinners for Lady Luck and throw cocktail parties for Sir Fate, Well, you asked for it ...