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What if the weakness you keep asking God to remove isn’t proof that something has gone wrong?

We spend so much of life trying to prove we’re enough.

Strong enough.
Capable enough.
Successful enough.
Spiritual enough.

Then weakness enters our lives and exposes what we’d rather forget: we have limits.

The apostle Paul knew that feeling.

After receiving extraordinary revelations from God, Paul was given something completely unexpected: a painful, persistent “thorn in the flesh.”

Why?

Paul tells us twice: to keep him from becoming conceited.

The thorn was painful.

But pride was the greater danger.

Listen to discover how Christ can use the very weaknesses we wish would disappear to deepen our humility, dependence, and trust in Him.

In This Episode, We'll Discuss:

✅ Why Paul’s thorn was about more than suffering
✅ How even God’s blessings can become occasions for pride
✅ Why weakness does not mean Christ has stopped working
✅ The danger of taking credit for what grace has provided
✅ A better question to ask when God doesn’t remove the burden
✅ Why you were never meant to be enough because Christ is enough

We don’t know why every thorn comes.

But we do know this:

Your weakness does not put you beyond Christ’s work.

Sometimes Christ changes our circumstances.

Sometimes He uses our circumstances to change us.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 87: The Purpose of Weakness: What Paul’s Thorn Teaches Us.

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