The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.

God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.

I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

God has blessed me in many ways. Money is not the greatest blessing you can have, but I literally had absolutely nothing. The first message that I preached at Life in the Word, I had to borrow a suit from my pastor's wife, because I didn't have any decent clothes, and I was driving a 20-year-old car. We went through a lot of years of having nothing, sleeping in McDonald's parking lots, because we didn't have money to stay all night in a hotel. But, like anybody else who works hard and is diligent and doesn't quit and doesn't give up, there is a day the blessings come.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

One of the best aids to freedom is asking God for a lot of help-and asking often.