We will explore the following Scripture passage in the Sunday Sermon at City Reformed Church. As we continue to look at what it means for us to pray in the midst of life’s hardships, we will consider the difficult topic of disappointment in prayer. We will look at a passage where the Apostle Paul remembers how God refused to grant his request for the removal of a difficulty (“thorn in the flesh”) and instead granted “sufficient grace” for Paul to continue in faithfulness.
Sunday’s Livestream link is here: 2024/03/03 CRPC Communion Worship Service Livestream – YouTube
Sermon: 2 Cor. 12:7-10
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.