Shalom,
Today I want to share this from Kenneth and Gloria Copeland's "From Faith To Faith" devotional!
Grace Is Enough
And lest I should be exalted above measure
through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the
flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. 2 Corinthians 12:7
The devil has used the traditional teaching
of Paul’s thorn in the flesh to talk believers out of the blessings of God for
years, to try to convince us to settle for everything from sickness to sin—and
to do it of our own free will.
It is perhaps the most destructive and the
most widely accepted misinterpretation of Scripture that exists in the Body of
Christ today. I’ve gone into countries to preach to people who hardly had any
knowledge of the Word at all and still I have found that somehow they’d been
taught about Paul’s thorn.
And most of them have been taught wrongly.
Tradition says that God gave Paul the thorn
in the flesh. What’s more, tradition makes the “thorn” into some great mystery.
But the Scripture doesn’t say that at all!
It says that the thorn in the flesh was a
messenger of Satan. Not God—Satan! The thorn was quite literally just what Paul
says it was—a “messenger sent from Satan.”
You see, everywhere Paul went, he preached
the gospel and every time he preached, he destroyed a little more of Satan’s
kingdom. So, Satan sent a messenger, an evil spirit, to stop him.
When Paul sought the Lord concerning this
thorn (look at 2 Corinthians 12:8-10), God didn’t answer Paul in the negative. God said, “My grace (or, My favor) is enough. It is sufficient for
you. For My strength is made perfect in your weakness (inability to produce
results)” (W.E. Vine’s Expository
Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words).
In other words, when Paul didn’t have
enough human strength to overcome, God’s miracle-working power was sufficient
for him. It enabled him to be an overcomer in spite of his weakness.
Don’t allow the devil to talk you out of
your victory. Throw tradition aside and dare to believe the Word of God. Fight
the fight of faith, and just like the Apostle Paul, you will see the salvation
of the Lord!
AMEN! Find out what God's Word says about EVERYTHING in your life and learn to walk in ALL that HE has provided for you! Here is Hillsong with "Who You Say I Am":
Shalom in Him!
