Have you ever wondered about trusting God...can I? should I? where do I begin...I've been a Christian along time, run an active ministry to inmates and family, and I remember my own learning process years ago...HOW can I trust God with this! It is probably a question I am asked hundreds of times a year. Not to give a short answer but...it takes a lot of practice. I began my learning process in trying to keep the business my husband and I had operated for 20 years from failing. He was no longer able to run it, it was in serious debt, I was a brand-new Christian...and one thing I knew was that IF I didn't throw myself on the mercy of God and cling to Him with all I had, I and the business were done. Well, to make a long story short, it took seven years to work it out financially, seven years of intense learning on my part, and tons of patience on God's part (lol). The means of saving the business were definitely different but they worked, God put us on level ground, and taught me principles and concepts and FAITH...I would never have learned any other way. At the end of the seven years I was able to transfer the business to a friend who would work it and the Lord led me into a ministry I would not have given a minutes thought to earlier in my life. You can read about it on my webpage if you are interested. God does not do things the same way we do, but they are always just and righteous. Many times I would sense in my spirit I should do this or that concerning a particular matter. We had been in business for nearly 20 years, and worked the same field for someone else for five prior to that. God's ways of handling problems and aolving them were unconcentional to say the least b ut they always worked and always challenged my faith to move out a little farther. After I began Wings of Eagles, many of those lessons served me well, and continued to enlarge my faith and trust with each new experience. I believe that's what it takes...Him stretching what He has already given us in the way of faith, to believe Him for something even bigger or more difficult or just different. One of the first things we have to get rid of is alot of our presuppositions and the sense that we know what to do ourselves. That is a faith killer. As the years have gone by trusting got easier because I was spending alot of time in the Word, really getting to know God's "rules" and especially His character...the instructions in the Word and His character must always line up...if they don't, you're twisting something and are out of line, back up! Learning He is a good God, a loving Father, and always RIGHT...helps you "arrive" and be able to trust. It's an exercise of love and worth doing because it saves alot of trouble for us and of course, will increase faith and ultimately our trust.