God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.

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?

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

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.