God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.

Opportunities energize the faithful and paralyze the fearful.

The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.

We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God's way of doing things.

We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.