{"id":2111,"date":"2012-07-14T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2012-07-14T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T12:30:06","slug":"%e2%80%9cstrength-made-perfect-in-weakness%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStrength Made Perfect in Weakness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<strong>My grace is sufficient for you<\/strong>, for My power is<br \/>\nmade perfect in your weakness.\u201d 2 Corinthians 12:9<\/p>\n<p>(J. C. Philpot, \u201cStrength Made Perfect in Weakness\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Not your strength,<br \/>\nnot your wisdom,<br \/>\nnot your prayers,<br \/>\nnot your experience;<br \/>\nbut \u201cMy grace\u201d\u2014My free, My matchless grace,<br \/>\nindependent of all works and efforts, independent of<br \/>\neverything in the creature\u2014flowing wholly and solely,<br \/>\nfully and freely, out of the bosom of Jesus to . . .<br \/>\nthe needy,<br \/>\nthe guilty,<br \/>\nthe destitute,<br \/>\nthe undone.<\/p>\n<p>You who are tried in worldly circumstances,<br \/>\nwho have to endure the hard lot of <strong>poverty<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2014\u201dMy grace is sufficient for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You who are <strong>tempted<\/strong>, day by day, to say<br \/>\nor do that which conscience testifies against<br \/>\n\u2014\u201dMy grace is sufficient for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You who are harassed with <strong>family troubles <\/strong><br \/>\nand afflictions, and are often drawn aside into<br \/>\npeevishness and fretfulness\u2014\u201dMy grace is<br \/>\nsufficient for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>weakness<\/strong>, <strong>helplessness<\/strong>, and <strong>inability <\/strong><br \/>\nare the very things which draw forth the power,<br \/>\nthe strength, and the grace of Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>Believer, your case is never beyond the reach<br \/>\nof the words\u2014\u201dMy grace is sufficient for you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The free, the matchless, sovereign grace of God,<br \/>\nis sufficient for all His people\u2014in whatever state,<br \/>\nor stage, or trouble, or difficulty they may be in!<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>My grace is sufficient for you<\/strong>, for My power is<br \/>\nmade perfect in your weakness.\u201d 2 Corinthians 12:9<\/p>\n<p><strong>The covenant of grace!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in your weakness.\u201d 2 Corinthians 12:9 (J. C. Philpot, \u201cStrength Made Perfect in Weakness\u201d) Not your strength, not your wisdom, not your prayers, not your experience; but \u201cMy grace\u201d\u2014My free, My matchless grace, independent of all works and efforts, independent of everything in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,68,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}