Carol,

You're absolutely right. I didn't mean to come off as holier than 
thou by saying that faith is what makes you trust God. I guess I 
meant that it took a lot of faith to step out there and tell Jesus 
you were a sinner, and ask Him to forgive those sins. That, in my 
view, is trusting God. Salvation is a BIG, BIG step for most of us 
who want to trust Him, and we think, well, Christians don't have any 
fun. Haw! We surely do have fun, and I'm a living testament to that! 
I have fun with Mari, and she with me. We're naturally weird people, 
in my view, so having fun means to listen to your cell phohnes while 
talking to each other and saying "Thank you" when the phone on the 
other end makes a kissing noise, or saying "Why did your phone just 
spit at me?" We sing strange songs and do just plain weird stuff. We 
listen to music and play on our computers. To us, that's fun, but 
we're more or less housebound, anyway.


Love You All,

Reeva Parry.


On Thursday 7/5/2007 08:08 AM, Carol Pearson said:

>Dear sister Doris and all,
>
>As I read your response, I was prompted to share one of my favourite 
>passages of Scripture as a means of encouragement to you in 
>this.  It's Philippians 1:4-6 (NIV):
>
>4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy
>5 Because of your partnership in the Gospel from the first day until now,
>6 Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will 
>carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
>
>This week I've really felt in my spirit that God wants me to push 
>out and ask God for bigger things than ever before and to trust Him 
>in a way never before.  This doesn't mean I have any more faith than 
>before (BTW) but it means He would have me to grow stronger and 
>exercise that which He has given me.  I feel this particularly in 
>the area of trust right now and He has given me opportunity this 
>week to continue to say "I trust You, Lord, with this" on a number 
>of occasions.
>
>I am convinced that this growing and trusting is for all of us, so 
>maybe others will feel prompted to reach out in a new way in trusting Him.
>
>With prayers for great blessings for you all:
>
>--
>Carol - Reading, UK
>
>To you, o Lord, I lift up my soul;
>In You I trust, o my God.  . . .."  PS25:1-2 NIV.
>
> From Doris:
>
>>I know this is a problem in my relationship with the Lord. i know 
>>that unhealthy fears I have sometimes cloud my picture of our 
>>perfect God and therefore have me struggle with trusthing him. I am 
>>trusting that with time and getting grounded in the Word and God's 
>>Spirit working in me, that i will be able to overcome these human 
>>fears and shall instead be filled with awe and perfected in God's love.
>>
>>Sometimes I get very discouraged with this sort of thing though and 
>>I know I need a lot of prayer.
>>
>>God Bless.
>>
>>Doris
>>
>>
>>
>>At 01:21 AM 7/5/2007 -0400, Teri Van Pelt said:

>>>Are you afraid of God?
>>>I'd like to add to your question Phil.  As I was contemplating my 
>>>answer, I had
>>>the thought, well, no I am not afraid of God...and then there was 
>>>a small voice
>>>with in me saying so Why are you having trouble trusting me.  So I guess I
>>>have a little unhealthy fear or i would be able to trust Him more.
>>>So my question is Do we not trust God because of unhealthy fear towards
>>>Him?
>>>Love, sweet tee