October 1, 2023

God, Take My Pain & Suffering Away!

2 Corinthians 11
²⁴ Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; ²⁶ on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. ²⁸ And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.

2 Corinthians 12:7
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

God works most

through

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when I’m least

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on

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¹⁰ For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

It’s not the

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that make me closer to God. It’s the

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What do we do when there is pain and suffering?

1. We have

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to ask God to

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our thorns.

2. Don’t pray to get your

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. Pray to surrender to God’s

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3. Trust God’s

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, when you are at your

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.

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