If you really want to discern what direction God is leading you then get better acquainted with God. Connect with Him on a consistent basis.
Forty years ago a Philadelphia congregation watched as three 9-year-old boys were baptized and joined the church. Not long after, unable to continue with its dwindling membership, the church sold the building and disbanded.
One of the boys was Tony Campolo, now author and Christian sociologist at Eastern College. He remembers:
“Years later when I was doing research in the archives of our denominations, I decided to look up the church report for the year of my baptism. There was my name, and Dick White’s. He’s now a missionary. Bert Newman, now a professor of theology at an African seminary, was also there. Then I read the church report for ‘my’ year: ‘It has not been a good year for our church. We have lost 27 members. Three joined, and they were only children.’”
Never under estimate the power of calling upon people’s lives. God calls us to life-changing encounters. He calls us to salvation and to be holy. He calls us to ministry and service. And if you are truly blessed He calls you or someone you love to full-time ministry.