8114	Forums / Main Forum / Why Faith Is A Must	on: December 02, 2006, 07:25:44 PM
cont. This is why i am so intrigued with the Psalms. Here is where the ultimate teaching of the cause and effect paradigm reaches its pinnacle. Here you have the historical view of Gods sovereignty. Here you have the Calvinistic under-girding of all of the scripture. Here is where you wash you heart out of all of the non being God armianism.You preach to yourself that God causes the situations and the physical universe to work around you, those things that you can taste and touch and feel. Oh there really is no human behavior that can reach the ears and eyes of Gods favor, nor is there any effect without the hands and face of God directly master minding all events. Yes when the scripture says that God is listening it does not mean that He is there with His ear to our prayers. Nor does it mean He is wooing everybody by a powerful sermon and waiting to hear a response. No it means that He is actively working for the good of His children in response to the prayers of faith which is a gift to His children. Yes He causes even the prayers to be interrelated to His listening effect. Why would any person cast his pains,  sins, himself at the mercy of a weak God who is perfectly indifferent by free will theology? What the state of the church today is in is directly related to this constant dripping of perfect indifference. God causes all things to work. Even in the prayers of His saints there is no reason for God to work in that their prayers cause God to cause. No there is no intermediate cause or mediator between God and man. Our prayers are sweet smelling aroma to the nostrils of God because the cause is the Holy SPirits interception from our lips to Gods working. And in that interception the Holy Spirit is causing us to rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. The effect in us and by us is what God causes. He is such a mighty God that God causes us to see our sin and place all of our sins in His death and resurrection because Gods purpose in creation was to cause sin to end in the death and resurrection of Christ for each individual sin in each individual christian without the need to confess each individual sin. The cause of forgiveness is not the confession but the cause of the forgiveness is Gods grace in Christ. And the effect is what God says to us through HIs word when He speaks peace to our hearts. There is a direct effect on our hearts from God causing our prayers to work for His glory, which was purposed in eternity to effect us in each present circumstance. God causes us to go through the most difficult circumstances so that He can effect a renewal of faith in us the faith He gave us as a gift. He withdraws from us for a season so that He can cause us to be so focused on Him that He can cause us to go from one glory to another by focusing on the face of Jesus Christ. He cause us to know that face to seek that face and to long for that face all day long. Yes unless we are convinced that God causes then our prayers will not have much effect.