God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.

Prayer allows us to wait without worry.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.