people simply don't believe so God can't bless them as He wants to bless us.
I am not able to see this statement the same way. I was spriitually raised to believe in a linear way. The more you believe, the more you are blessed. Yet I did not see that work out in practice. One of the deepest believers I know died tragically of heart failure and suffered with diabetes his entire life. Another has been praying and believing for his daughter who is now in her 50s and clearly has a mental/emotional illness. I could go on and on and on. Including people who were in my obersvation completely believing for their marriages. And the marriages never came back.
I have not been able to see that the 1 to 1 relationship of "amount of faith" = "likelyhood of desired result " works. This may sound grossly pessimistic. Yet the results are just not there.
Furthermore, in my experience it puts a whole performance-based nature on our relationship with God.... thats how it feels to me anyway.
If God were this linear, why do even some of the biggest faith preachers suffer advsersity such as divorce, financial loss, or premature death. One of the biggest names in the faith movement has a divorced daughter.
I am not trying to corner your theology. I am simply stating that I at one point tried to believe this way and all it got me was a lot of unmet expectations and feelings of unworthiness and failure. I deeply believe that this is not what God wants for us.
I am not saying anyone is right or wrong. I am just saying I dont see it. Yet in what I have found to work, I have found tremendous joy and blessing. I have found the peace of God that passes all understanding.
