James 1:3-4
"Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing."

The testing of our faith works patience. Or when we are placed in a situation where we must choose between faith or doubt, the decisions for faith that we make will continuously, even after the test, work energetically towards patience. But if we choose to doubt then that test will work energetically away from patience. We are always growing. We are either growing stronger in the Lord, or we are growing stagnant.

So many times when we are in the trial, we cry Lord deliver me from this trial. When we should cry Lord guide me through this trial. For if we are removed from the trial before we have learned what we needed to, then we will not have the revelation to be able to accomplish what God has in store for us. If we go to tech school to be an IT tech, but we quit halfway through, then we are bound to come across problems that we don't know how to handle. And we will not be able to perform the task at hand with confidence and accuracy. However, if we allow the teacher to guide us through the course then, when the course track has had it's complete and thorough work and we graduate, we will face each challenge with the confidence of one who has experiential knowledge. So if we will stay in the trial and cry, "Lord, guide me through this trial!" rather than, "Lord, deliver me from this trial!", then once we come out on the other side and have learned what that God is faithful, we will have the strength and the clarity needed to face the next test.