If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.

We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.