Faith...

Faith also has to be combined with patience if it’s going to endure testing. You see, it isn’t just being able to survive troubles; it’s being able to wait until God brings you through them and glorifying Him in the process. It’s knowing, in other words, that your troubles are not just happenstances but that God has allowed them for His own purposes. And then there is the work of faith and power. God wants to make your life an extension of His almightiness.

- Dr. Robert A. Cook