All your strength is within.  When you seek materiality and ego, you are diminishing your power.  Materiality and ego are the distractions that will strengthen your convictions as you recognize their impermanence.  Your reality is your guiding light and it is fed by your faith.  The level of your faith will grow with each moment through understanding and awareness.  Your life is in every moment an infinite collection of possibilities.  Understanding your choices fuels your strength.