> > Well, I am muchly convicted of the fact that teaching high school is what I'm here for. No, I cannot clearly explain how I came to be so sure of this.
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> I totally don't get this. I know a lot of Christians who, to varying degrees, believe that God has a particular desire about what profession we choose, what school we go to, whom we marry, and so forth. I don't understand how a Bible-believing Christian comes to this conclusion.
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True, God exhorts us to make use of the gifts he has given us, and also to pray about such matters, but I don't think either of these things has a natural consequence of locking us into specific courses.
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> As much as I trust my spiritual sense of the Holy Spirit's guidance as a means to doublecheck my course in applying biblical guidelines to my life, I'm inclined to distrust it when it comes to divining God's will for matters that aren't backed Scripturally.

Well, I agree with you about 99% here, but still, I believe there are times when God does nudge us and says, "Here. Here is where your gift needs to be applied". Why would that be unbiblical? Seems to me there are plenty of examples of people in the Bible being directed by the Holy Spirit to do some specific thing.

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