Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

I will not fail: God is always victorious.

While we wait, God builds our faith in His promises.

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.