God can use our singleness?

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

Is this true? Because I am having a hard time seeing this right now... Anyone have anything they can add to this??

 

[Stanfi]

The biggest way that God can use our singlness is because of the extra time that we have. We do not have to allocate time for a marriage partner or children. This is time that we as singles can use to serve God. How you ask? Different ways, visit the sick and the shut ins, and be a witness to the lost. Many times church will have ministry efforts that we can be a part of. For example my church is starting a comitte to publish a newsletter that will be sent out to folks in our community, and I am charing that comitte.

Besides we don't have some compainion bugging the living daylights out of us all the time. Thank the Lord.

I guess to serve God as a single your focus has to be on the Lord, and not on finding someone.

 

[LifeInYou]

Hopefully He can, otherwise we're all screwed..."It is good for a man not to marry." I Corinthians 1:7

When I think of my identity I don't think of 'single woman'....just 'woman'. And when I think of the word 'single,' certainly the word 'limited' doesn't cross my mind. People who don't have partners should be able to do everything and more that people with partners can do. Sign babe, find what your good at in life...your "gift" the Lord gave you, and capitalize on it. Use it to serve him. That's all He asks of us.

Here's a in the meantime.

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

Thanks Life... humm... I guess its just something I am going to have to deal with in the mean time... I guess I just have so much love inside me that I want to share with the right man and someday have children. And I want that special love too.... I donno... I need to find contentment with Gods love first...

ANy ideas on how do to that?

 

[Smythe]

Hey, the bible says, that you must only marry, if you can absolutely not live without a certain somebody. As a single person, like someone already mentioned, you have stacks of time to devote to God, but if you meet someone, and you just cant keep your mind off them, and they feel the same, then you should marry them, so that the two of you can spend more time on God.

But hey thats just what I think...

 

[wvmtnkid]

Our sermon yesterday morning was on how singles are a vital part of the church. Much of the meat of the sermon was on what mrstace posted. How we don't have commitments to family and spouses and we have more of our time to give to God. I think some good advice maybe SOTF, you should look to the gifts God has given you, and look to see how you can use those gifts to serve Him. That is one outlet for all the love you have. If you love what you are doing, you are being fulfilled. It won't necessarily take away completely the desire for a husband, but you will be doing something wise with your time in serving your Lord. And who knows, if you are doing something you like, the Lord may just put someone in your life who has the same interests as you who would make a good marriage partner. Not saying this is your reward or that it will happen, but sometimes it does. The goal should be to serve God unconditionally. He'll take care of the rest!

 

[Mr.Cheese]

Heck yeah!
You do not have to divide your attention between God and soemone else when you're single.
Paul says that you're torn between the two.
Now, not everyone is called to be single for their whole life. I definitely wasn't.
You're young. Find out who you are first before you try to find someone else.
Enjoy being single. Having someone, specifically marriage, is a sacrifice. It was well worth it, but it was still a sacrifice that I was just barely ready to make at the age of 26.

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

Well Friends, I was reading last night in my Bible, and I really think God showed me these verses for a reason. However it makes me scared, and I mean REALLY scared because I really want to marry someone and have a family and really be a strong ministry together.... here is what I read:

1 Corinthians 7
7I wish everyone could get along without marrying, just as I do. But we are not all the same. God gives some the gift of marriage, and to others he gives the gift of singleness.

1 Corinthians 7
25Now, about the young women who are not yet married. I do not have a command from the Lord for them. But the Lord in his kindness has given me wisdom that can be trusted, and I will share it with you. 26Because of the present crisis,[1] I think it is best to remain just as you are.

1 Corinthians 7
38So the person who marries does well, and the person who doesn't marry does even better.

 

[Stanfi]

Well Friends, I was reading last night in my Bible, and I really think God showed me these verses for a reason. However it makes me scared, and I mean REALLY scared because I really want to marry someone and have a family and really be a strong ministry together.... here is what I read:

1 Corinthians 7
7I wish everyone could get along without marrying, just as I do. But we are not all the same. God gives some the gift of marriage, and to others he gives the gift of singleness.

1 Corinthians 7
25Now, about the young women who are not yet married. I do not have a command from the Lord for them. But the Lord in his kindness has given me wisdom that can be trusted, and I will share it with you. 26Because of the present crisis,[1] I think it is best to remain just as you are.

1 Corinthians 7
38So the person who marries does well, and the person who doesn't marry does even better.

Don't panic SOTF, God will not give you any desire that he does not itend to fufill. Enjoy being single while you are. More than likely you will not always be, and when your not, you might miss it.

 

[Rising_Suns]

yes God can use our singlenss. Paul tells us so:

"I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But a married man is anxious about the things of this world; how he may please his wife, and he is divided...."--1 cor 7:32

"..so then, the one who marries his virgin does well; the one who does not marry her will do better"--1 cor 7:38

 

[esseJ]

Hey SOTF...God's already used your singleness...

Think of this...if you were married would you have been able to go to that camp for the summer? You touched a lot of lives, and were a good influence on a lot of people...

Hey, it's a good thing to be single.

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

Hey esseJ... you are so right!! thank you so much!!
I just pray that He can contiue to use me!!

 

[Kelly]

1 Corinthians 7 32-35

I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs--how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world--how he can please his wife-- and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world--how she can please her husband. I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.

I laughed the first time I read this but it makes sense. I'm married and like to think that I devote all my attention to the Lord but I'm sure I don't.

 

[standard]

"I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But a married man is anxious about the things of this world; how he may please his wife, and he is divided...."--1 cor 7:32


>>> That's a good point, It kind of makes sense to me.

>>> Also realize that married life presents a different set of challenges vs. being single. It wont' be any easier, or anymore fun than now. NOW is the best time of your life. NOW is what God has given you.
>>> Took me a while to realize it.

 

[Purpletigy]

God is not so cruel as to hang the potential of marriage in your face just to have you crave it and not give it to you. He loves you. He knows your heart's desire to have a family. Just make sure that you're not putting those desires before him, i.e. on the prowl for a man/relationship, and let God bring him in due timing. You're 20... it might be tomorrow, or it might be 10-15 yrs from now. Pursue God's will, and when it's time, he'll bring him to you. The bible says "He who finds a wife, finds a good thing." Notice it doesn't say "she who finds a husband." Trust in God to bring him. In the meantime., pursue God with all your might and watch him do mighty things through you.
Blessings

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

Yah I had heared that before, that I thought that God was supposed to bring a man to the woman, however someone told me once that I was naiive to think that!! ANd it was here on CFs too!!
So then I got all confused and figured that I should start looking...
Its hard tho not to constantly be on the look out for someone... because I do desire that special relationship with smeone... but I know Gods timing is best, and I keep telling myself to let God handle it, and it will be better then anything I could ever immagine.... oh well

 

[Purpletigy]

lol I know, I know, we say it but it still makes us crazy to be waiting for God to bring him sometimes