In seasons of trial or abundance–and we’ll likely experience both, even simultaneously–we can cling to Him and trust that He is the source of all courage, perseverance, and abiding joy.

From 1 Samuel 17:37, 45:  “David said, ‘The Lord, who saved me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will save me from the hand of this Philistine.’  So Saul said to David, ‘Go, and may the Lord be with you!’ [verse 45] But David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.'”