He imparts to me His victory, His righteousness, His perspective, His wisdom, His faith. That does not mean that I am in denial about bad circumstances. I live in the real world and have real problems just like everybody else. But I refuse to be defeated by bad circumstances. They do not have a hold on me. They don’t fill me with fear or cause me to live in dread. Certainly, many days are filled with problems that are so large, if I looked only at them and at nothing else, I could easily give way