When the stakes are high, bow down low.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light,even though for the moment you do not see.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, although for the moment you do not see.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Our lives are a little like a milkshake. Ingredients get mixed together. Some of the ingredients are unimpressive by themselves. Some—rejections, disappointments, failures—are awful at the time. Yet God shakes them up and pours them out into a concoction that is delicious and good.

Your enemies still figure into God's plan. Their pulse is proof: God hasn't given up on them. They may be out of God's will, but not out of his reach. You honor God when you see them, not as his failures, but as his projects.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait

Light and love are on my side.

We constantly fight an unseen enemy. God has assured us the victory, but He has told us to take an aggressive stand against the evil one, covering ourselves in His armor. We're going to win, but victory is going to take blood, sweat, and tears—His blood, our sweat, and tears from us both.

I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12

The Bible would not have told us to take up the whole armor of God in order to withstand evil if evil could have been withstood without doing that. To "stand against" literally means to stand in front of and in opposition to the forces and plans of evil.

During the first 14 of the 40 years Michael and I have been married, we experienced great strife and misery because we tried to do things in the flesh and not in the spirit.