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- Acknowledging our own shortcomings allows us to tap into a greater source of strength. God sees potential in our imperfections. Even at our most vulnerable times, we have access to divine resilience. In essence then – instead of seeing weakness as a negative, the Bible encourages us to view it as a stepping stone towards greater strength.
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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).
Mar 11, 2024 · In 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NIV), Paul writes, “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
Aug 1, 2010 · In 2 Corinthians 11-12, Paul describes one of the most difficult things for us to grasp and believe about the life of faith: God purposefully blesses us with weaknesses for the sake of our joy.
Apr 24, 2019 · God answered Paul’s prayer by telling him, “’My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness’” (2 Corinthians 12:9). In other words, God denied Paul’s request to remove the suffering because he knew that Paul’s weakness would be “good”—for Paul, for others, and for his own glory.
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Feb 28, 2013 · We can’t simply tip-toe around it. Weakness is everywhere in the New Testament. Jesus told his disciples that, in contrast to the spirit, the flesh is weak (Mark 14:38). Luke, in Paul’s voice, refers to the weak as those who are economically disadvantaged (Acts 20:35).
Apr 18, 2023 · By faith we yield our hearts and minds and will to God (Rom. 6:12–14; 12:1–2), and then the Holy Spirit fills us (Eph. 5:18) and empowers us (Rom. 15:13) as we cooperate with the Lord in the process of resisting anxiety.
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Sep 16, 2024 · In the New Testament, St. Paul speaks of vulnerability in terms of weakness, particularly in his second letter to the Corinthians. He writes of a "thorn in the flesh" that keeps him from becoming conceited, reminding us that vulnerability can serve a spiritual purpose (2 Corinthians 12:7-9).
