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To: Quix; betty boop; Alamo-Girl
God has faith? In what?

How do you know what is "sufficient faith?" By whose standards? How do one "measure" the sufficiency of one's faith?

Why not test it by attempting to walk on water, as the Bible syas? If Peter could walk on water, and his faith wasn't so solid, why not any other believer? Unless they have less faith than Peter did?

1,380 posted on 02/17/2010 4:16:18 PM PST by kosta50 (The World is the way it is -- even if you don't understand it)
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To: kosta50; betty boop; Alamo-Girl

Sufficient faith to get the job done, to meet the challenge at hand.

I haven’t felt compelled in my spirit to even ask for or try faith to walk on water yet.

It could come in due course.

I’ve seen God answer my mother’s prayer and it rained on 4 sides of drying hay but not on that hay field.

And another time, a twister was bringing tin roofing material up to our mud hut and God stopped it . . . one could dra line . . . the tin stopped all jumbled except for the virtually straight line gap of about 1.5-2” on two sides of the house. I remember as a kid checking it because I didn’t believe my mother. She was right.

Another time, Step-Dad wasn’t a Christian yet, but he agreed to pray that if God wanted us to go into the dairy business, fine, no buyer for the cows. If it was not good to go into the dairy business that he’d have a buyer for the cows by Monday evening, I think it was. This was Saturday.

The next morning before church there was a buyer at the door who even wanted our family cow.

In the next few months, the price of milk went down and the price of hay went up. We’d have literally lost the farm.

God is there . . . where the rubber meets the road . . .

WHEN folks take Him at His Word, put Him first, and trust Him.


1,381 posted on 02/17/2010 4:24:37 PM PST by Quix ( POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: kosta50; betty boop; Alamo-Girl

That was putting it poorly.

God has no need of faith. For Him it’s all a certainty.

However, He IS a great provider of faith for those who ask.

There can be some interesting training sessions involved, however.


1,383 posted on 02/17/2010 4:29:32 PM PST by Quix ( POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: kosta50; Quix; betty boop; hosepipe
How do you know what is "sufficient faith?" By whose standards? How do one "measure" the sufficiency of one's faith?

Why not test it by attempting to walk on water, as the Bible syas?

Such a test would be an insult to God.

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. - Matt 4:7

As to miracles, as hosepipe is wont to say, I don't just believe in miracles, I count on them.

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them].

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. - Mark 11:24-26

In the above passage, two things are particularly difficult for many: 1) forgiveness and 2) faith.

To God be the glory, not man, never man!

1,398 posted on 02/17/2010 9:11:14 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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