Faith is TRUST, not positive thinking

Thank you for another wonderful argument from my opponent: First of all, let's us look back in your argument: "To answer question #1, let's look at WHAT he asked her if she believed: "And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" This has absolutely nothing to do with the miracle itself. So, why did He ask her that instead of "do you believe I can do this miracle?" Because He did not need her to believe in the miracle in order to do it. He wanted her to pronounce her TRUST in HIM as a person. In essence, He was asking her, "do you trust me?" That's a pretty important question to ask before moving into such a sensitive family situation." Jesus will do the miracle even if she said: "No, sorry, I really don't believe you.", but do you think that it's will become a miracle again? Or it's just a magic trick from an another magician? Lots of the stories in the Bible when Jesus healed somebody, they trusted that Jesus will heal them, that Jesus will open their eyes, raise up their dead brothers, help a limb to stand up, let's us look at the previous verse before Jesus ask the woman: "Do you believe?" "Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died."(John 11:21) So, Martha was basically believe that Jesus will positively heal her brother. But even all those things above, my opponent stated that all of these are just "convincing yourself", so believe that Jesus will heal her brother is "convincing herself"?, or the blinds, the limbs..., all of them were just "convincing themselve"? My opponent stated, "Any of God miraculous signs to do to anybody, He always requires one thing, faith." "I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. But, there is nothing anywhere in scripture that states that faith itself is an active ingredient in the miracle. Just that God requires us to trust Him in order for Him to get involved in our lives. Putting our trust in Him does not mean that we are constantly asking Him for things, but that we are NOT constantly asking Him for things, knowing that He is ALREADY at work." Like I told you, it's not an ingredient of miracles, it's a conductor to miracles, trust in Him does not mean that we will say: "God give me this or that..." but trusting mean that we positively believe that God will answer for us, we need to keep praying. "Clearly Jesus was indeed rebuking their fear, and using IT as the measurement of true faith." Using fear is not a work tactic of God, if we say so then do you think people will trust in God ever a again? Jesus was not just rebuking their fear, but Jesus use His power to make them believe even more and more. "Faith is about trusting Him and His judgment. HOPE is about waiting with baited breath to see if what He will do is what we want Him to do. Hope is important, but it is not a substitute for faith." If you have no faith, then what are you hoping then? CONCLUSION: Faith is indeed positive thinking, but what's positive thinking? It's mean that you will wait and keep believing that God will answer your prayers, yes or no, it's still an answer. Faith itself is a power, it's not like faith can control weather or something like that but faith my friends, faith is powerful because it's a bridge to hope, believe, and a bridge between us and God Himself.