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God's Sufficient Grace | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | November 29, 2025

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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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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