“A quiet, patient trust in God provides more strength for a follower of God than any alliance with any other person or system.

When danger threatens, it is difficult not to look for ways to use one’s own strength. It is also difficult to maintain inward composure and not trust external sources of help.

Even if we cannot imagine how we can be helped, if we are trusting God, we CAN have the confidence and therefore have peace that He will not forsake us in our hour of need.

God may use our strength or the help of others, but, when we turn to God first, we can learn which resources, if any, are the ones He wants us to use.”

(Amplified Study Bible Isaiah 30:15- emphasis added is mine)

Therefore, we do not become discouraged, spiritless, disappointed, or afraid even though our outer self is progressively wasting away because our inner self is being progressively RENEWED day by day.

So, even though, physical death is actively at work in us – SPIRITUAL LIFE is also actively at work in you.

All these things of suffering are for your sake so that as God’s remarkable and undeserved grace reaches to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving and bring more glory to God.

Yes, we are pressed on every side but WE ARE NOT CRUSHED.

Yes, we are confused but NOT DRIVEN TO DESPAIR.

Yes, we are persecuted but NOT DESERTED TO STAND ALONE.

Yes, we are struck down but NOT DESTROYED.

THEREFORE do not look at things only seen but on those that are unseen. For those things seen are temporary but the things unseen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:8-18

(emphasis mine and order rearranged for conversation sake)