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Lelia Struve <[log in to unmask]>
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Echurch-USA The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
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and at least when you get your sight in heaven you won't have to have it
knocked in to you ouch that 's awful.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vicki and The Rors" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: Safe Place Fellowship


> Rhonda,
>
> I remember being in college when someone took me to a healing meeting.
> They
> prayed for me all right.  In the process, and being over zealous, they
> knocked my head in to the wall directly behind me, several times in fact.
> Well, at that point I bought that I should be able to see too, having had
> the sense practically knocked out of me, and the sight knocked in to me.
> In
> fact, I believed so much that I decided to travel without my cane.  That
> was
> short lived, and also not very bright.  Then I began to seek for God's
> truth
> and answers for myself.  While I believe those people were well-meaning,
> they were also mislead themselves.  There's a fairly contemporary song,
> right now I can't think who does it.  But one of the lines is "God is God,
> and I am not."  To me, though there is more to a balanced Biblical view,
> that is the nuts and bolts of it.  We, or I, need to let God be God.  He's
> more qualified than I am to be God and to know what's best for me.  He
> sees
> the past, he sees what is now, and he knows the end from the beginning.
> And he is perfectly capable of carrying out his plan for me, in his way
> and
> his time.  Right now, it makes no difference to me whether he restores my
> sight now or restores it in heaven.  I know I'll have it someday.
>
> Vicki
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rhonda" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] Safe Place Fellowship
>
>
>> I guess we all want definite answers, and we want them yesterday!
>> Thanks Brad for your thoughts, you always have something interesting to
> add
>> to conversations,  so what do you think would be a better answer when
> asked
>> if we do not have enough faith?
>> I think I might say that I have enough faith to let God plan my future,
>> to
>> decide whether I see, or not, when I see, and how that happens.  I will
>> trust that He can see the future much better than I, and will leave all
> such
>> decisions to  his care.   Since faith comes by hearing, I will listen to
>> what God says, through His word, others, and  in my spirit, and I will
> learn
>> to see Him more clearly that I ever have before.
>> Rhonda
>>
>>
>>
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