Faith/enough!

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Want to know the power of prayer?

Think of a seven pound bear cub.  You are in a cage in the
zoo.
When you pick the bear cub up it "crys out."  Are you
afraid?
No.  The power is not in the cry, or is it? 

Same bear cub, same action, same cry, but in the woods. 
Now when the cub crys out your are still not worried...
then you hear a rustle in the bushes behind you!

The Power of the cry is in the RESPONSE it elicits.  Now if
you come across a bear cub in the woods and it sits quietly
you might be inclind to look on for a bit.  If it starts to
cry you will scoot if you are smart.  It would be foolish
of the bear cub to believe that it is the power of the cry
ALONE that scared you away.

This is the Heresey of the WoF.  They say we look like
bears and we sound like bears therefore when we roar like
Papa Bear the same thing will happen.

Faith has been preverted by these people into some kind of
eerie 
"force."  When I walk out on my front poarch without
looking down I am exercising faith.  I know that the porch
is there so I trust that I don't have to look and am
rewarded by not falling.
When it speaks of true faith in the Bible there is only one
source-God.  If God has told me to say to Mt. Everest "Be
ye cast into the sea!"  THEN I am going say it AND expect
it to happen!  If the mountain DOESN'T start to literally
fly into the sea... 

I as the pot cannot tell the potter how to proceed no
matter how many other pots I have seen.

I didn't tell all of the story on my teeth.  I HAD a
serious gum infection and trusted God to heal me and he
did.  I have two broken teeth and asked God to heal these
also.  Now here is a problem for the WoF group.  If I had
enough faith and have made a positive confession to be
healed of the gum disease and then ask that I be healed of
the broken teeth after another positive confession, why
weren't my teeth healed?

Now factor in that, although I don't like pain, I can take
alot of it but I don't like it, I still thank God that He
took the time to think of me and NOW see (just like Bro.
Job) that God had a higher purpose (this confession) and am
honored that He would allow me the oportunity to suffer in
His cause.

I asked once and NEVER recieved an answer, "Does it take
more faith to be healed or to ask to be healed and told no
and STILL 
depend on God to know what is best for you.  

When these hurt I find myself saying, "Can I do something
about them now Lord?  Have I done what you wanted me to do
yet?" 
and can tell you quite calmly that I am not blaming Him in
the least, but like the little bear that crys out I think
"Where are you daddy?  I need you!" but unlike the cub God
says "I AM here with you and if this wasn't important I
would NEVER allow this!"
He wipes away the tears and says "See son, that really
wasn't so
bad was it? And you see that it really was necessary, not
only for you but for your brothers and sisters.  Besides,
you didn't know that there were other bad men in the bushes
and when I didn't come right away they thought it was safe
to come out!"

Glorify Thyself in me, Oh LORD!

Timothy Litteral
472 Grant St.
Marion Ohio 43302
trlitteral@usa.net
http://members.tripod.com/~trlitteral