WHAT IS FAITH?

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Permalink Reply by Richard L. Broch, Sr. on October 20, 2012 at 8:34pm

Dear dear Rita,

The questions you raise regarding our faith are echoed throughout the ranks of Christians all over the world.

My ready upfront thoughts are: (1.) Where the Lord guides....He provides.

                                                                          Where and when God wants us to move or act, He will make it clear to us, and 

                                                                           give us everything we need.

                                                                    (2.) Try not to pay attention to what others are saying or doing. Just zero in on 

                                                                             your own life and goings-on. (Jesus' parable in Matthew 20).   

 

Those thoughts come to mind initially.

Rita, I am not famliar with your personal situation. I remember when you lost your soul mate from this life, and evidently you are carrying on in good fashion. I say that because it's evident of your love for the Lord, and your desire to walk in His precepts.

Keep on keeping on.

 

Grace and Peace.

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Permalink Reply by Rita Cullimore on October 21, 2012 at 5:57am

Richard,

My desire is for my faith to increase. I want to be on the right track. I want to get to the place where I don't waiver. Will I make it? I only know I strive for it. When my faith waivers, I try to talk to the Lord about it and faith comes back in that conversation because I know that I know He provides for me. In the hard times, we wonder  if God caused a problem for us, to which I will say very emphatically *NO*.  He doesn't bring the problem to us, but He does bring us through it.

I want to teach my kids about faith. The faith we need to survive this difficult time. I don't want my kids to trust in me but to trust in God for all that they need. He is a much better provider than I am.

God is always on time. I am trusting Him to provide $ 1200  to my son for two bills he needs to pay this month. My concern is that maybe my son doesn't trust Him to provide on time. Nor his wife. Will my trust be enough for my son?

Blessings...

Rita

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Permalink Reply by Richard L. Broch, Sr. on October 21, 2012 at 9:37pm

Hi Rita,

Yeah, financial issues can be a real tough subject to deal with.

I'm afraid I can't offer any thoughts on your last question.

I'll be praying for you and your family.

 

Grace and Peace.

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Permalink Reply by Richard L. Broch, Sr. on October 23, 2012 at 9:24pm

Rita,

 

I have an answer for your question about  - if your trust can be enough for your son's issues........ 

 

Luke 5:18-20, " And behold, some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in, and to set him down in front of Him. (19) And not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher, right in the center, in front of Jesus. (20) And seeing their faith, He said,"Friend, your sins are forgiven you."  (N.A.S.B.).

 

Jesus was obviously impressed with the friends'  faith and trust.

Go for it, Rita.

I'm praying for you too.

 

Grace and Peace.

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Permalink Reply by Rita Cullimore on October 24, 2012 at 5:15am

Richard,

Thanks for your help on this one. I truly appreciate it. My son had one immediate problem solved by God just the other day. He had a $500 utility bill that he needed to pay. The next to last day he needed to pay it, he made $500.

God is sooo good!

Blessings....

Rita

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Margison on October 26, 2012 at 12:02pm

I thought about this as I listened to a Christian Mormon debate on unbelievable radio program. The mormon always came back to the subjectivity of his experience. I struggle at times with this because I can not deny his experience. In fact it may sound very similar to mine at points. Taking the hebrews definition helps however. I notice the subjectivity is a fall back position when others have no evidence of things unseen. Faith in the Christian sense must be broken down in it's two categories, content and application. We exercise faith in all sorts of things, one used the light switch analogy. He didn't think it worked but I would say otherwise. It just didn't take much faith do to experience. The substance was th switch when moved would cause the light to turn on in general and more specifically all the parts that had to work in order to produce such. The substance of orthodox Christianity are what I would call the essentials of the Christian faith, eternal life, fallenness, original sin, birth death burial and resurrection of Christ. Denial of any one essential make you essentially not Christian. The evidence of this is contained in the scriptures without error. We see beliefs defined and lived out to the point of death. This is just some quick thoughts. Certainly more could be said but we would be wise to remember that it is a gift of god, there are aspects to our faith which bare similarities but here are also aspects that distinguish it from all others. These are some thoughts that I think would help us in studying the topic.

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