Life Verse

Saturday, July 9, 2011

2 Corinthians 12:7-10
To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But 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 about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” - Psalm 16:2

Thank you Lord for weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, difficulties, trials, pain, suffering, and failures that point me back to Your all sufficient grace and my perpetual need for an all sufficient Savior that never fails. Father, continue to free me from the fear of failure: Free me from the lies that I'll never be good enough, the need to prove myself worthy, and the pressure to make something of myself. Give me greater confidence in You, Lord. Not in myself. Lord, be my all in all. Enable me to see and believe the freedom I already have in Your Son:

"Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak;
Because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose;
Because Jesus was Someone, I am free to be no one;
Because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary;

Because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail." - Tullian Tchividjian