 Paul tells us that he was up living well. He has been a base and through all of that, he's learned how to be content in whatever state he's in. That is the key to growing your faith. If you want to experience a move of God, God is not interested in blessing you just for the sake of blessing you. He is interested in growing your faith. How does he do that? Well, through trials. How does that work? Well, when you have learned to depend on him, when you've put your focus on him instead of what you don't have instead of what you need because he'll know you'll know that it's not the things that you look forward to. It's him that you look forward to spending time with and growing in him. And so the point and purpose of these trials is not to develop your tolerance of the pain, it's to develop the closeness with him in spite of the pain.