As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.