New Life
NO!!! But...
Pastor Jim Barstow
March 31, 2025

MARK 1: 32-34 & 2 CORINTHIANS 12: 7-20

We tend to think that a “

” prayer request is one that God says
” to.

Mark 1:32-34
Many ≠


Jesus’ other “no’s” to healings:
John 5:2-6

2 Corinthians 12:7-10
3 times Paul prayed
His “thorn”?
Our thorns…


His grace…
Enough to overcome our anxiety.

Enough

to make us be content.

Enough

to help us endure.


Therefore…

“I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest
on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12:9-10

“I can do all things in the one [Christ] who strengthens me” Philippians 4:13