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- Paul pleaded with the Lord three times to remove it, but God's response was, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore, Paul takes pleasure in his weaknesses, for when he is weak, then he is strong.
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Aug 1, 2010 · God will use the strengths he has given you—he certainly used Paul’s strengths. But thank God for your weaknesses, because it is there that God’s strength is often most clearly displayed. Trusting the One who loves to put his treasure in jars of clay (2 Corinthians 4:7),
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- Weakness May Be Your Greatest Strength - Desiring God
Jun 4, 2024 · Consider these seven ways Paul encourages us to embrace weakness. 1. Believe that the weakness of Christ crucified is God’s power to save. The message of Christ crucified is “the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor. 1:23–24).
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Paul’s most famous statement on the paradoxical spiritual power of weakness appears in 2 Corinthians 12. He tells us of his ecstatic experience of being “caught up into paradise,” where he received overwhelming and ineffable revelations (2 Corinthians 12:1–4). But as a result, In these few sentences, Paul completely reframes the way Christians are ...
Before we go further, we need to be clear that Paul does not include sin in his description of weakness here. The Greek word Paul uses is astheneia, the most common word for “weakness” in the New Testament. J.I. Packer, in his helpful study on 2 Corinthians, Weakness Is the Way, explains astheneialike this: But when Paul speaks of sin, he has more ...
At this point, you may be thinking, “Whatever Paul’s ‘thorn’ was, my weakness is not like that.” Right. That’s what we all think. I have a thorn-like weakness, known only to those closest to me. If I shared it with you, you might be surprised. It dogs me daily as I seek to carry out my family, vocational, and ministry responsibilities. It makes alm...
Paul said that his weakness, his “thorn . . . in the flesh,” was “given” to him (2 Corinthians 12:7). Given by whom? Whatever role Satan played, in Paul’s mind he was secondary. Paul received this weakness, as well as “insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities” (2 Corinthians 12:10), as assets given to him by his Lord. And as a “[steward] of...
Someday, when our Master returns, he will ask us to give an account of the talents he’s entrusted to us. Some of those talents will be our weaknesses. We don’t want to tell him we buried any of them. It may even be that the most valuable talent in our investment portfolio turns out to be a weakness. Since “it is required of stewards that they be fo...
Aug 31, 2023 · When the apostle Paul pleaded with God to remove his affliction—one he called a “thorn in the flesh”—the Lord said to Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:8–9, NKJV). The New Living Translation says, “My grace is all you need.
Nov 5, 2024 · Strength in Weakness. Paul’s experience teaches us a counterintuitive truth: our weaknesses can become our greatest strengths when we rely on God’s grace. When we acknowledge our limitations and depend on God, His power is perfected in us. As Paul declares in 2 Corinthians 12:9b-10 (NKJV):
Jul 14, 1991 · What are the weaknesses that Paul has in mind here when he says, “The power of Christ is made perfect in weakness”? What is the source of such weaknesses? Do they come from Satan or from God?
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Jul 29, 2014 · Christians debate the meaning of Paul’s thorn, but the consensus is that Paul was suffering immensely and God used the thorn to humble him. God’s answer to Paul: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
