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.

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

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

By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.

All I can say is Bishop Jakes would not currently accept the designation of Prosperity Preacher or Word of Faith Preacher as an accurate description of what he believes currently. Now his ministry will have to bear that out. I'm not here to defend him or stick up for his various errors. And I don't want to minimize error that is significant. All I'm saying is that he, as of two weeks ago, would not accept those terms, in private conversation, as accurate descriptors of what he believes.