I want the real deal whatever that means and whatever it takes to get there so I've been exploring.

As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan

Our heart is like a reservoir from which our lives flow.

Where God guides, God provides.

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.