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🗓️ 29 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I was given a thorn in my flesh. |
| 0:03.3 | 2 Corinthians 12, verse 7. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:13.1 | God's sufficient grace was written by John Blaze and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:21.5 | 2 Corinthians chapter 12 verses verses 2 through 10. |
| 0:26.3 | I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago was caught up to the third heaven. |
| 0:32.1 | Whether it was in the body or out of the body, I do not know. God knows. |
| 0:37.1 | And I know that this man, whether in the body or apart from the body, I do not know. God knows. And I know that this man, whether in the body or apart |
| 0:39.9 | from the body, I do not know, but God knows, was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, |
| 0:47.2 | things that no one is permitted to tell. I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about |
| 0:53.3 | myself, except about my weaknesses. |
| 0:56.5 | Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. |
| 1:02.1 | But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, |
| 1:07.4 | or because of these surpassingly great revelations. |
| 1:11.4 | Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, |
| 1:17.3 | a messenger of Satan, to torment me. |
| 1:20.6 | Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me, but he said to me, my grace is |
| 1:26.7 | sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. |
| 1:31.5 | Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me. |
| 1:39.5 | That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, and persecutions, |
| 1:47.5 | and difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. |
| 1:55.9 | God's sufficient grace, written by John Blaze. Born Mary Flannery O'Connor, she's best known as Flannery O'Connor, one of the American |
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