It's easy to get discouraged when we look at the challenges around us and then take inventory of the resources we can bring to face them. a found himself in a moment of both celebration and despair. It was hard not to be disappointed. Then came the Word of God: "Who dares despise the day of small things!" God went on to remind him that faith sees beyond the resources we have in our hands. "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord."