An unprayed-for problem is an embedded thorn. It festers and infects—first the finger, then the hand, then the entire arm. Best to go straight to the person who has the tweezers. Let Jesus take care of you. He knows about thorns.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

You may trode me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace?

I can change by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Thinking Big means opening our horizons, reaching for new possibilities in our lives, being open to whatever God has in store for us on the road ahead. Thinking Big is another way of restating one of my mother's favorite sayings: "You can do anything they can do — only you must try to do it better!" That's Thinking Big.

God may not always will for us to be physically healed in these earthly bodies or tangibly prosperous, but He always wills for us to be free from strongholds.

Our marriages were meant to be alive, not dead. Is your marriage more like romance or roadkill?

Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their backs. Deuteronomy 33:29

Perhaps the most profound miracle of all is living through something we thought would kill us.

We will never take our places as "more than overcomers" with nothing to overcome. We will never be victors without opponents.

Refuse to let your enemy pluck away the seeds God has planted. Let these truths take root, and cultivate them with belief.