The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Discernment is God's call to intercession never to faultfinding.
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.