The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.
The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.
Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.
Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.
Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.
Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.