~A Thorn~

Oh Ladies, The Lord is working....He kept waking me up all last night with the same word. I had heard this word 2 different times yesterday during the day and kinda went ummmm? Everyone was really busy yesterday, so I didn't want to say STOP-I need some confirmation. I didn't want to be making things about me when clearly others have their own lives, but now I know that I was supposed to say STOP. I know that the Holy Spirit was telling me to read on this....discern what God is telling you through me. So now I am going to share with each of you and hopefully it will bless you in what you may have going on right now...IT TRULY DID ME!


I have spoke of the daggers from Satan, so in turn we think of this huge thing that he may be doing in our lives to keep us from doing God's work. The word that I kept hearing was "thorn". Let me explain...In Matthew 27:29 it is written about the crown of thrones that they placed on our precious Jesus. It is so descriptive that your heart just breaks at the idea of an actual person having to go through such pain and suffering.

Then in 2 Corinthians 12:6-10 Paul is writing to the church in Corinth and says: If I wanted to boast, I would be no fool in doing so, because I would be telling the truth. But I won't do it, because I don't want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can see in my life or hear in my message, even though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said, " My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work though me. That's why I take pleasure in my weaknesses and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

I know that this is kinda long, but stay with me..."My grace is all you need." This is truly what God is wanting us to know. Rely on GOD. He is all that we need. Things will not be perfect, but because of the Grace he has for each one of us it will be absolutely all that we need. Remember that a thorn may not be so bad...it may be exactly what we are personally needing to make us stronger.

We all have moments of weakness, but I am blessed to know that God's love for us is much more than the things we have going on in our lives. RELY on Him to get you through difficult times. His love endures!

I absolutely love Paul's teachings...the idea of a man going out and spreading the gospel as he did, still just blesses my heart. When we look at the bible we can find so many people that are so enduring of God's love. Which in turn gives me such joy to know still and always that I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13