The gift of prophecy I also possess. It is meant to encourage, it also has another trait to it. The Holy Spirit reveals to you sin in the lives of others. Then, the Holy Spirit convicts you of that, and to try and help them. Sometimes, that involves pointing out their sin. Fyi, who are you to say that I don't know the sin I have in my life? I'm full aware of what sins I'm struggling with. Jesus says to look at the plank in your own eye before you try and take the speck out of the eye of your brother/sister. It angers me when married couples do this (and I'm not saying all, I'm just saying the majority do, based on experience I've had with this type of situation). The reason it angers me is it ends up causing pain, sorrow, feelings of rejection, like the person is not good enough to associate with the person who is just content with allowing the relatioship to drift. To me, it's also implying that the person who is allowing the relationship to drift does not care about the person or the relationship they have with the person. Actions speak louder then words; if you truly love and care about the relationships you have with ppl, then you put time and effort into them to maintain them. This is why I think it is an extremely foolish move to allow any relationship (except the one you have with God) to monopolize your life. It throws the other relationships off kilter, hurt feelings occur and pain and sorrow occurs. Like I said, when married people do this, it is selfish. Last time I checked, being selfish is sin. All I want is to talk to my friends every now and then (I don't think once a week is too much to ask or even once every other week, which is two times per month). I don't think it's wrong for them to return contact with me. Excuse me for being lonely, but seeing how singles are not in romances, loneliness is an issue for us that married ppl don't struggle with nearly as much because romantically, you have a mate, which means companionship. I attempt to make friends my age; every single time I develop a new friendship and it starts to become close, the person ends up going to college out of state. Most of the ppl who are my age are in college and in a romantic relationship/in a serious relationship. God has called me to ministry, as a missionary to share the love of Christ through music is also tied in with that. I've been preparing myself musically for the past year and a half; however, I'm at a complete loss of how he wants me to prepare myself to be a missionary. College will be a struggle to pay for, and I've no clue how I'll afford 4 years of it. I would love to become involved in a missionary program, because I want to be a missionary full time and as a career. However, most of the programs I've heard about say you have to have training and completion of college in order to be eligible to apply for them. So, I cannot think of any option in order to prepare myself with this except college, and I've no clue how I'll pay for it or get there....
