God will not prescribe you work to do unless He first prepares you to do that work. And often it is our past experiences that God is using to prepare us for future opportunities. You see, David did not know that a lion and bear were the training grounds that would prepare him for Goliath. But God knew. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10).

The Christian life is not a series of ups and downs. It is rather a process of “ins and outs.” God works in, and we work out. Therefore, our responsibility is to respond to God’s power and ability, understanding that the power that compels us comes from the Holy Spirit who indwells us. "For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13).

How is it that non-believers are bolder in speaking the name of Jesus as a curse word than believers are in speaking the name of Jesus as a blessing? That’s backwards. "Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:9-11).