You never know how strong God's love for yours until it's all you need. Ministry is supposed to come out of who we are, not what we can do through our spiritual gifts. When it comes down to it, the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. The secret to getting ahead is getting started. Pride is a destroyer; it blinds you from real vision and puts delusion in it's place. The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears. Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ. Men, families and nations are not great by the virtue of their wealth but by the wealth of their virtue.