“Faith is not believing in spite of evidence; it is obeying in spite of consequence.” That statement has often jolted me in my own ministry, but the jolts have been good for me. The heroes of faith named in Hebrew 11 were not low-risk people. Had they considered only the circumstances and left God out of the picture, they would never have made it into Hebrews 11! – Warren Wiersbe, God Isn’t in a Hurry