There are many things in this world that can end an experience with Christ. That is why we are encouraged to endure to prepare…to put on the whole armor of God. If our experience with Christ is not in danger, we would not be told to do such things. Even Christ’s closest disciples...
a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.8Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, formy power is ...
Verse 11 — The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there...
"In one sense, " writes William MacDonald, this is "an effort on Satan's part to hinder Paul in the work of the Lord. But God is greater than Satan, and He used the thorn to further the work of the Lord by keeping Paul humble. Successful service for Christ depends on a weak ...
Mark 4:18-19 (Phi) "Then there are the seeds which were sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the message, but the worries of this world and the false glamour of riches and all sorts of other ambitions creep in and choke the life out of what they have heard,...