The challenge may not go away when you pray, and when it doesn't go away, it simply means God believes that He has trained you enough to face it and win.

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

I really don’t think in terms of challenges. Whatever I went through then exercised and developed my faith.

I believe that all the trials and challenges that God gives us are meant to make us stronger and to lead us to a better path in life. There are things that we can't control. We just have to accept them and do our best to survive and surpass the difficulties.

The believer is not meant to have these problems solved the believer is meant to solve problems.

The real challenge is for each person to become fully human and each of us to have an informed educated conscience knowing right and wrong, and what is good and bad and using the power and ability of free will to choose the good and act to respect, affirm, love and care for other people, especially those outside our own family. We must do it without looking for rewards and not how to benefit ourselves. This is the heart of being a Christian and all of us will find happiness, by helping others as Jesus of Nazareth taught us. Each of us must choose to read and study and learn the gospel values and freely and willingly choose and commit ourselves to do what we really truly believe is right, true and good, and reject wrong and evil in all its forms.

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.

Any challenge one faces in life, if God blesses you with it, then one should just thank God for it.