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- In the end, Apostle Paul's resilience teaches us a vital lesson: our strength in times of hardship comes from a deep, unwavering faith in God and a steadfast commitment to His Word. This is the resilience that will carry us through trials, big and small, and lead us to spiritual growth and fulfillment.
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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.”
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).
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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 25, 2023 · Instead of removing the source of his distress, God reassures Paul that His grace is sufficient and that His power shines most brilliantly in moments of weakness. 1. Embracing Vulnerability. The passage reminds us that as Christians, we are not called to project an image of invulnerability.
Aug 19, 2013 · Christ’s power telescopes into our weakness, extending most fully where we are weakest. For Paul, this meant that Christ worked powerfully in and through his “thorn” to humble and prompt prayer in him (vv. 7-8).
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Aug 15, 2024 · But God answered Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). In this instance, the Holy Spirit did not remove Paul’s weakness but empowered him to endure it and find strength through it.
