Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.