Ah. A virtual impossibility. Just the sort of challenge Ruwach loves

Every decision you need to make, every task you need to accomplish, every relationship you need to navigate, every element of daily life you need to traverse, God has already perfectly matched up with an equivalent-to-overflowing supply of His grace. If you don't agree with that, then you either lack a proper appreciation for what you have, or you are doing things that you're not supposed to be participating in right now.

Strategy 3—Against Your Identity He magnifies your insecurities, leading you to doubt what God says about you and to disregard what He's given you (Eph. 1:17—19).

Any shield you make of your own hands cannot withstand the destructive power of the Olethron," Ruwach said. "But your seed can.

Sometimes we have to find the courage to take off our shoes and feel it all. Even the bad stuff.

God, what is going on? Why are You leaving me with the one man who has the power to break me?

Out of the foolishness of the cross comes the unsearchable wisdom of God. So we have to turn to something very weak and very foolish to receive God's wisdom and God's strength.

What Jesus did for me on the cross contained all I would ever need for time and eternity—physically, spiritually, materially, emotionally.

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.

A victim is in a position of weakness and subject to the whims of others. Heroes are people who determine their own fate and their own future. A victim had nothing to give and no choice to make. A hero has the strength and ability to be generous and forgiving and the power and freedom that come from being able to make the choice of forgiveness.

You alone are enough.

Paul spoke of his failures and successes with an openness few of us are prepared to copy.