Paul on the flesh and the spirit is high on my favorites list

   2 Cor 4:16-18 Therefore we don't faint. but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, while we don't look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Jesus not only suffered on the cross

He suffered until He died there. If another religion did the same in the United States as is happening right now elsewhere, what would I do? 

I discovered shockingly, how to gain great faith. I must be willing to crucify my flesh. Current trends indicate Christianity, now weakish from seminary to Sunday school and number one since Jesus died and rose again, will very soon be number two. I turned to Psalms. I read 103 for comfort.

The Devil Goes to Church Too

The devil does not mount any significant attacks on the barrooms. Everyone is already asleep there. No, the devil goes to church halls to quiet them down so as to soften the power of Jesus, limiting and subduing involvement with His power. 

Key words are Love & Wait! 

Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you. He rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for Him! Isaiah 30:18

My eternal God is always present tense. And Isaiah in my experience is the more often quoted books in the Old Testament. I love Isaiah! Reading in Isaiah is a great comfort.

Marion's note pad 1992 upon waking

 Psalm 37:5 Commit your way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and He shall bring it to pass.

I am ike an olive tree

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever. Psalm 52:8

Ansered Prayer

"Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do because I go to the Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. John 4:12