 | Thomas Bartel - 2007 - 90 páginas
...of His glory, we all have the opportunity to take part in His grace. As Paul writes in I Colossians, "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,... | |
 | Larry Edwards - 2007 - 425 páginas
...exalting myself. Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the... | |
 | Jonalyn Grace Fincher - 2007 - 229 páginas
...asthenes which literally means "strengthens." See 1 Peter3:7ESV. 12. 1 Timothy 2:9-15. 13. "And He has said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the... | |
 | Mark Braaten - 2008 - 124 páginas
...thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that...weakness." So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weakness, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults,... | |
 | Gerald A. Arbuckle - 2008 - 212 páginas
...emphasizes the creative potential of acknowledging his inner chaos as a condition of this conversion: "So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. ... for whenever I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor 12:9-10). Christ is the new energizing power in... | |
 | William Sloane Coffin - 2008 - 630 páginas
...harass me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'" Then with a kind of nose-thumbing independence Paul says, "I... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth O'Brien - 2008 - 336 páginas
...especially, that we must remember Saint Paul's teaching of the Lord, quoted at the opening of this chapter: "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9). This is precisely why Paul also reminded us of the importance of recognizing... | |
 | Ken Hemphill - 2008 - 244 páginas
...his "thorn" in the flesh, which the Lord had chosen not to remove. God's response to Paul's pleas? "He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.'" Paul's declaration is profound: "Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the... | |
 | Melannie Svoboda - 2010 - 123 páginas
...content to be ordinary? 11:30). Why? Because Paul heard and believed these words Jesus spoke to him: "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9). May we, like Paul, be able to proclaim, "For when I am weak, then I am strong"... | |
 | Preston T. Bailey - 2008 - 390 páginas
...flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 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,... | |
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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. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,... 
