"When I am Weak, Then I am Strong"

"When I am Weak, Then I am Strong"
by Robert Fitts

The apostle Paul had a problem! He came to a time in his walk with Jesus that God had to send him a problem and it was something he did not want, but something God knew he needed, but Paul pled with God in prayer that He would take it away.
The amazing thing about this problem is that it was something that could be called a gift and yet it was also called "a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan sent to "buffet" Paul.
He said, "For this cause (for the abundance of revelation that was given to him) there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure."
Then Paul said, "For this cause I sought the Lord three times that He would take away this thorn, but He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness."
When Paul heard that, he said, "Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me." By this we know that Paul's thorn was some kind of physical problem that could be called an "infirmity" which could be a sickness or some kind of physical weakness.
Now we know God's attitude toward sickness and disease is always to treat them as enemies and the works of the enemy. Jesus healed every disease and treated sickness and disease as enemies, but apparently in some cases, it is God himself who gives these thorns, or messengers of Satan to buffet for some good reason, at least for a period of time, but in every case his grace is sufficient for us to take us through to victory, for there is no indication that Paul lived the rest of his life with that thorn in his flesh.
As a believer, if you are suffering some kind of weakness or infirmity and you have reason to believe that it has been given to you by God for His purposes in your life, then you can glory in your infirmity as Paul did in his if you do have a word from God that it is for a specific purpose, such as Paul's thorn was. But if you do not have a word from God as Paul did that it was given by God to fulfill His purposes for you and for the Church of God, the Body of Christ, then rebuke the infirmity (weakness) and trust God to remove it. Amen? Amen!

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Robert Fitts
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