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Greetings Saints in Jesus name!

First of all.... this discussion could be dangerously close
to *vain janglings* as James put it in his book.  Nobody's going
to gain salvation by this topic.  It's more or less, academic to
hash out.  Like prophecy and trying to gain understanding and 
interpretation of it, it's fun to try and put words to something
that is generally considered *deep* and essential to a walk with
God.  Exact understanding .... tho' .... isn't necessary.

Faith.....  is the substance of things hoped for and the 
evidence of things not seen.  Heb 11:1 (I think).

God gives everybody that has been baptized with the Holy Ghost... *faith*.
He *fills* us with *faith*.  What we do with it, is up to us.  We can 
exercise the faith and grow strong in the *trust* of it's use.  Or we
can also elect to not use it resulting in a situation of what's perceived
as *less faith*.

How come is it... that when we're first filled with the Holy Ghost,
we feel we can lay hands on the different situations with no fear
of God not performing his miracle working part?  But as we age in the Lord,
this doesn't seem to be quite so keenly used or sharp.

Like the mouse that fell into the beer vat at the beer manufacturing
plant.  He was running from the cat as the cat was chasing him all
around, over, under, the different machineries when the mouse slipped
and fell into the vat of freshly brewing beer. >splash<  The cat, not
knowing where the mouse went, goes on looking for the mouse to the different
areas of the beer factory.  Slowly as the mouse pulls himself from the vat,
he staggers to his feet (from obviously drinking some of the fluid that
he fell in) clenches his little mousey hands looks around and then says
with the boldness of a conquerer:

                     "Now .... where's that cat!"

Such is much the same way we are when we're initially filled with the
Holy Ghost.  At that *moment* in time, God is bigger than anything, more
real, can do it all.  He just poured the Holy Ghost into us and because
he can do that.... (a seemingly impossible task) he can do *anything*.  
Faith in God unwaivering.

But as time goes on..... things happen here- and there-.  People talk bad
about the men of God.  Rumors are listened to and not shunned.  Gossip is
engaged in instead of rebuked, etc., etc., etc., etc.  All the while, the
faith *seems* to be chipped away (that's the illusion the enemy gives, IMO)
when in reality the supreme trust in God hasn't increased or stayed the same.

In John 1:XX it says .... "He shall increase and I shall decrease."  I think
as long as we stay in our own eyes *big* or *important* then God can't take
proper place we need him in order for the furtherance of our trust in him 
is relied upon.

Since everyone was filled with *faith*, look at the deacon Bro. Stephen 
(full of the Holy Ghost, wisdom, and faith), it doesn't make even logical
sense to me to say that to increase in faith is to *increase* in the 
substance of things hoped for and to *increase* in the evidence of things
not seen.  How can there be more *substance*?  More *evidence*?  When we're
already our tanks are already *full* of it?

Are our bodies such enemies to our souls, that it (the flesh) is constantly
warring against our spirit and trying to forever get us to not engage in 
activities that'll not build up our trust in God?  

Song states:

Faith, faith, faith...
  just a little bit of faith
Faith, faith, faith...
  just a little bit of faith
It don't take a whole lot
Just use what you got
Faith, faith, faith...
  just a little bit of faith

Another song:

Lord I believe
Lord I believe
Savior raise my faith in thee that it may move this mountain
Lord I believe
Lord I believe
All my doubts are buried in this fountain.

Even from these songs.... a great measure of faith isn't
needed (I know it's terrible proof - but maybe that's what
the Lord was talking about with *faith* as a mustard seed)
as well as *doubts* counteract faith (goes to show that *trust*
is a catalyst/enzymatic to faith in action).

Bro Tyler
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Bro Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net> <tgnally@prairienet.org>

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