| t --> | | | | grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made |
| Have you felt helpless? Do you sometimes think, 'I | | | | perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will |
| am weak'? After really examining the whole thing, do | | | | rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of |
| you say, 'There is nothing that I can do about his or | | | | Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take |
| her problem or my own situation? Shouldn't I be | | | | pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in |
| healthy and prosperous ~ IF I Am His 'Chosen'?' | | | | persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For |
| I Am certain that we have all reached that same | | | | when I am weak, then I am strong. |
| conclusion at particular times in our lives. Maybe, we | | | | (NASB) 2 Cor 12:19 Again, do you think that we |
| have even felt guilty. If I were better, I wouldn't be | | | | excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in |
| so powerless, you might have allowed yourself to | | | | Christ. But [we do] all things, beloved, for your |
| consider. But, 'No', you are 'Only human'. Right? | | | | edification. 20 For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not |
| What do the scriptures say about these hard things | | | | find you such as I wish, and [that] I shall be found by |
| and powerlessness feelings? | | | | you such as you do not wish; lest [there be] |
| (NASB) Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the | | | | contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish |
| righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all. | | | | ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults; |
| (CEV) 1 Cor 1:27 But God chose the foolish things of | | | | 21 lest, when I come again, my God will humble me |
| this world to put the wise to shame. He chose the | | | | among you, and I shall mourn for many who have |
| weak things of this world to put the powerful to | | | | sinned before and have not repented of the |
| shame. | | | | uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they |
| (NKJV) 2 Corinthians 12:9 And He said to me, "My | | | | have practiced. |