Faith is TRUST, not positive thinking

Although expressions of faith can be powerful, faith ITSELF is not an ability nor an incredient in a spell. " Indeed, very precisely, but we should know faith is much more different than rational thinking, faith does not required to be tested by empirical and super of science or anything else. Faith is something human but also what God had given people like human conscience. Faith itself can be powerful, without faith nobody can touch or feel God or even do anything else in the first place without thinking it will be irrational or nonsense. "First, let me clarify. You misunderstood the word "profession" to mean that "professional". I was referring to that which one professes, or subscribes to. The point against positive thinking is that we approach faith in a way that makes it so if you "think positive", all your wishes will come true. This is known as Positive Thinking (a human potential and quite secular concept), not faith. " First of all, let say this, if you come to God and you think that all your prayers, all your wishes will never ever come true, then that's not faith, praying is an act of communicating to God talk to God, it's like you make a phone call to God or directly talk to Him, when you ask God something, yes there are possibilities that God will not answer that prayer or decline it, yes you should think that sometime God will do that but it's not rational to always believe that our prayers will not come true. "I agree that we should not spent our lives thinking negatively. Indeed, that would be a consequence of NOT having faith. But, trust does not require one to "close your eyes and think of only good things" in order to yield effective. Trust means that I can confidently live my life trusting God's plan for my life, and living in that. Sometimes that means I get what I want. Sometimes it doesn't. Either way, I trust Him without judging the outcome. That is true faith. " Faith is also believe that whatever happen, God will do the right thing for your life and your works, and believe every outcomes is according to His holy will, that's why people "close their eyes and think only good things. " "If one trusts in the truths of the Bible, one would have to reconcile interpretation with good reasoning. Let's put this scripture to the test. Go now and pray to God for something you want. Ask in Jesus' name. Ask for it to be given to you for the sake to exposing truth for this debate, so you will need to receive it rather quickly. Be specific and make it so that an answer to that prayer is unmistakeable from God. " when Jesus said and I will do it, it mean He will answer it, the answer is yes or no, I don't know but just think it and believe in the right power and believe that He will do the right thing for us. "You will find that, like praying for a traffic light to change for you, the SOVEREIGNTY of God overrules your every request. You see, people miss the context of Jesus' teachings. He was not telling anyone here that if you want a Lexus, pray and He will give it to you. He was always referring to doing the will of God in your life. Those things that you need to fulfill His mission will always be provided for you. " There're lots of ministers need lots of things, even just a simple thing like a bike but none of them have seen what you call "fulfill what you need for His mission. ", I believe what Jesus metaphorically said that :"Keep up your faith, be patient, I will do what you ask. " "This is why in Matthew 6:8, Jesus states that God already knows what you need before you ask it. He teaches against long winded prayers that really don't pay off. He states that God doesn't even like listening to them. " God know you before you even exist in your mother womb, yes of course He knows what you need, but the things you need will come in a time so keep up faith because faith is the ticket to the powerful God. "Prayer is for communion with God - to grow your relationship with Him. If you really believe that you have to pray and constantly ask God for the things YOU think you need, then I would not call that faith at all. If you really trusted the all-knowing God, you would not ask Him to change a thing about His plan - even if it affects you negatively. You would say - He knows best, like Jesus did. " You want something, you need to work to get it, asking God is not commanding Him but asking God is to expressing our faith, if I ask God to please forgive my brother, then am I commanding God to do so or just simply beg God's pardon? Everything you do shall not change His plan, unless He wants to change a plan my friend. Faith is a powerful ticket to our God, without faith then praying is not an option or necessary anymore, faith is a wonderful and powerful gift that God Almighty had given us, amen.