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Overcoming

6/16/2015

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At some point in the Apostle Paul’s life the Lord brought him up to Heaven. AT THAT TIME Jesus gave Paul some revelations the church desperately needed. Today, we refer to those as the “Pauline revelations.” Paul got revelations concerning grace, the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the gentiles portion of all these.

2 Corinthians 12:7 On account of these revelations there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of satan to buffet me, lest I should be elevated above the status quo.

God gave Paul these revelations for the body of Christ. These revelations would move the body forward. There was dissention among the Apostles about circumcision, salvation by grace and if the gentiles could be partakers. The church would be spiritually impeded without the revelations God gave to Paul. When Paul began to minister these revelations, the devil did everything he could to hinder Paul.

What was Paul’s thorn in the flesh?

His life was in  constant jeopardy. Five different times the Jews gave him thirty-nine stripes. They beat him with rods, they stoned him, he was in three shipwrecks and was robbed many times. The devil uses men to do his dirty work. Anyone who is entrusted with revelation has a bulls-eye on his backside! Paul knew the devil was behind all these attacks so he didn’t wrestle with flesh and blood. He prayed the Lord would get the devil out of his life three times.

Finally, Paul got a revelation from Jesus, “My grace is sufficient for you”. God’s grace to Paul was a supernatural empowerment to get him through the trials. Paul began to rejoice those attacks came at him because God would empower Paul to gain the victory. The devil took his best shot at Paul but could not stop him.

One day Paul was preaching in the city of Lystra when certain Jews came from nearby cities. They stirred up the people and they stoned Paul. They drug his body outside of the city. These were some of the best rock churches in the area. I personally believe that this is the time Paul was caught up into Heaven. As  Paul was laying on the ground with his head caved in from the stoning the disciples stood over him. Paul rose up from the ground, dusted himself off and walked to Derbe where he preached the gospel. I can only imagine how Paul was wounded from those stones, but by the grace of God he supernaturally recovered. Paul welcomed all these  attacks because he knew God would intervene when he was weak he became strong.

2 Timothy 3:11 All the persecutions and afflictions that came upon me, I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Paul’s thorn in the flesh did not accomplish what the devil sent it to do, Paul fulfilled everything God gave him to do. God doesn’t take us out of our problems, He gives us His grace to get us through. We are overcomers.

 

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    OFFERING DECLARATION
    Jesus Redeemed me from the curse, no poverty, no lack in my house.

    Wealth and riches in my home, the devil is rebuked for my sake.

    Father daily loads me with benefits, He takes pleasure in my increase.

    I love being redeemed,
    and I give my Lord all the glory.

    ​PRAYER FOCUS
    TAKING INVENTORY
     
    We are about to embark on the greatest adventure and outpouring of God’s Spirit! This month the Holy Spirit is asking us to examine ourselves/take           inventory so as God’s Vessels we can take our part and place in the Body of Christ!
     
    Scriptures to meditate on:
     
    Hebrews 12:1 Therefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

    Psalm 26:4 Lord you can scrutinize me. Refine my heart and probe my every thought. Put me to the test and you will find it is true.
     
    2 Cor 10:6 It is written, and having a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

    1 Peter 4:17 For judgement begins at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
     
    Psalm 139: 23, 24 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me of unbelief and lead me in the way everlasting.
     
    2 Timothy 2:4 No soldier when in service gets entangled in the enterprises of (civilian) life: his aim is to satisfy and please the one who enlisted him (God)! DO ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!

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