Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this week's connecting clip of the week, we'll hear a portion of Paul's conversation with

Shelby Abbott on the latest episode

of the Connecting podcast. In this clip, Paul and Shelby provide two important aspects of weakness.

To hear more from Paul and Shelby, don't miss the entire episode on the Paul Tripp podcast,

episode 413. You can also watch the video on YouTube or Facebook. Here's Paul and Shelby on this week's

connecting clip of the week.

So we need to say two things about weakness. One, this is the bad news, but it's important

to face. Weakness is a universal human condition.

Weakness is everybody.

There are only two kinds of people, those who recognize their weakness and those who don't.

Okay.

Because we're all, we all lack the power that's necessary to be what God created us to be.

Weakness is a universal human condition.

And it does you know spiritual good to deny that.

Because denying it then takes you on a pathway of self-reliance

and self-reliance is the enemy of God's grace.

So that denying weakness never has a good spiritual harvest in your life.

The second thing we can say is weakness is also a unique and special tool that God uses in certain points in a person's

life so that they come to the point where they seek and celebrate his power.

If we decide to yield and go there. And that's really the key.

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