You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.

There's One Person above all others who desires an extraordinary life for you. He is a Father who delights, like any good father, in the achievements and happiness of His children. His name is God! And nothing will please Him more than seeing you reach your highest potential.

Discouragement occurs in deserts or battles from focusing on ourselves rather than on God and our mission.

Grace is God's free empowerment that gives us the ability to go beyond our natural ability.

But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club? It is my duty, said he, to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all.

They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?

these words did with great power suddenly break in upon me; My grace is sufficient for thee, My grace is sufficient for thee, My grace is sufficient for thee, three times together: And oh! methought that every word was a mighty word unto me; as My, and grace, and sufficient, and for thee; they were then, and sometimes are still, far bigger than others be.

must venture. To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life-everlasting beyond it.

Sure, but those times of victory over carnality happened infrequently. However, when they did happen, it was truly golden.