God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.

God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.