Do you truly have Faith and unconditional Love??

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(In this, to make you understand a little bit better, I'll use many things happening today, rather than the old testament as examples because it is easier to understand. You should take step by step to understand the old testament completely.) Many may think that they have faith. I'm not here to make you feel weaker, but you have to understand that you might not have unconditional faith and love. What is faith to you? (Send this in the mail to me if you want.) To me faith is some part of my life. It's my way of being in contact with God and Jesus. Just because I go to church and praise and pray in front of everyone does not make me a Christian. Same goes for Catholic and others. Even if you make yourself into a good religious people. Children of God, followers of Jesus. You need to have unconditional faith first before all. Have you ever wanted something? A car or iPod? Healthiness for family and friends? Cure for the depression in your life? Did you get it? Or did you get it fast? The advice I'm going to tell you is not a quicker way to get what you want. Moses had done great things. He had unconditional faith in God and to free his people he had done miraculous things that no one could ever have done. If we have such faith just imagine what good in the world we could do. My friend told me how angry he gets because everyone just says have faith. Have love for others. Have faith in God. It's true. So many things are like that. My friend said that he wanted specifics. For me that was specifics but for many it could sound very general. They would want to know how to do it. For love it's very hard. For faith harder. You know how when you have a girlfriend or boyfriend you would go through tremendous burden just to, you know, get in contact, show your love, make them happy, and many things. I watch korean drama and in there the main characters go through so much just to love their girl. Why can't we love God like that when he had already did many things for us? It is like we are the girls and rejecting him. Rather than being like that let's burden ourselves with many difficulties in loving God. Also this is not to weaken you. I'm saying we should love God and Jesus the same way. Make God your everything and your center. Everything you do make sure God is your main reason. For school, church, band, singing, career, and millions more. Same for faith. However, it shouldn't be like that. If you do have boyfriend or girlfriend love God more than you love them. Love God more than your family.

I'll go further on faith in this part. I believe that children have the best faith. I learned this in a sermon of a pastor in my church. When children believe in something they believe it so much that they would cry and run around just to hear others say the same. They can believe in things that are myths and fake materials but when they believe in something they never really give up do they? They love what they believe. We should have child-like faith in God. All of this I learned from Pastor Sean Lee in New Jersey Open Door Presbyterian Church. I think that is all. Just have faith and love in whatever you do. Then, ONLY then, God shall bless you unimaginably. Praying everyday with God WITH FAITH AND LOVE is what you should do. That's all I will say. If you have any trouble then email me or ask me about my pastor's email.

-- JoeKP (joekinplaya@orangeday.net), January 06, 2005

Answers

JoeKP,

You wrote, "You need to have unconditional faith first before all."

How does one get faith in Jesus???

-- Kevin Walker ("navyscporetired@comcast.net"), January 06, 2005.


Faith is another word for confedence, and Love is a chice to care for someone,and a commitment to follow through withthe nessesary acts of caring.

Both bign pain, and trough this pain lthe greatest of joys.

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), January 06, 2005.


Make God your everything and your center. Everything you do make sure God is your main reason. - JoeKP

Amen to that! That's what our purpose in life should be. We should "love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength and with all our mind". If only we weren't so weak and full of pride.

-- Andy S ("ask3332004@yahoo.com"), January 07, 2005.


Can I make God my centre instead of my Center? ( Bad joke sorry.)

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), January 07, 2005.

to get faith i'm sorry if i cannot describe any better. first you have to WANT to know jesus more. for those who were born in christian may have more percent in failing as a christian (same goes for catholic or any religion) because they are simply told to believe. you know in private school's like Eastern Christian School is filled with punks and worse people. why? they are not curious for God and Jesus. they were simply TOLD to believe in their beginning. for those who went to missions and evangelized in public may see changes in people after you reach through them. those people are so moved by hearing the word of God when they have already gone so long without Christ. Those who went with christ from their childhood, its just a story to them and grows up to be something that is nothing more then a self-knowledge to them. I'm born in christ and I face difficulties in my life. But to have faith in Jesus, you have to WANT to know about jesus, be a child, and everything for Jesus. I'm no different. If i should talk, I'm very ashamed of myself because in my school time I curse, do some bad things, and more others. Yet there was a possibility that I could've lost. Before I lost I wrote this. Right now I'm killing myself to stay in the same state I am with Christ, which is very low. For people who have started in Christ after a while they had a chance to grow. When they are young they have childlike faith but when you grow up with a childhood memory you think that it is very "casual." Me, I have a normal life like everyone else. But I started believing in Christ since a kid. I believed in Santa too when I was about 4. Now I think I was stupid. Same goes for being born in Christ. If you had it since the beginning you could doubt it more. However, I'm not saying that we are going to lose. Even the little amount of faith can help you. I cannot tell you what faith exactly is. As that reply up there saying its sort of a confidence. That's true but there are more things. Trust, love (which is needed after faith so it is hard to have faith), humility (the humiliation you have to withstand as Jesus has done), and many more. I admit that I cannot find what faith completely means. Even though I'm very young. Still, you don't need proof to believe. Evidence shows that the world has evolved. Humans from monkeys and apes. The world existed billions ofyears? I'd say not abuot a milion has passed. I'm going to make a post about "The times of dinosaurs, ect" types of things. They have evidence but evidence is not everything. In a courtroom people could be framed with evidence that had been put their intentionally to make people believe in that. That's my limit for this.

-- JoeKP (joekinplaya@orangeday.net), January 08, 2005.


by the way. whats the difference between center and centre??

-- JoeKP (joekinplaya@orangeday.net), January 08, 2005.

JoeKP, "center" is the American spelling and "centre" is the British spelling. Zarove is British and made a joke out of this.

-- Emily ("jesusfollower7@yahoo.com"), January 08, 2005.

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-- JoeKP (joekinplaya@orangeday.net), January 09, 2005.

JoeKP,

Let me rephrase my question, "According to the Bible, how does one get faith"???

-- Kevin Walker ("navyscporetired@comcast.net"), January 09, 2005.


Uh, centre probably became the english transliteration of centro,which then became the currupted word center in America.

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), January 10, 2005.



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