MY OWN PHYSICAL DISABILITY WOULD LEAVE UN-SAVED MEN IN DEEP DESPAIR,THOUGH I JOYFULLY DESIRE TO TEACH,[A GOD GIVEN GIFT] TO THE SAINTS!
2 Corinthians 11:1 Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!
2 Corinthians 11:5 For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:6 Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.
2 Corinthians 11:7 Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
2 Corinthians 11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you.
2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was present with you, and in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself.
2 Corinthians 11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!
2 Corinthians 11:12 But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:16 I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.
2 Corinthians 11:17 What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
2 Corinthians 11:18 Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.
2 Corinthians 11:19 For you put up with fools gladly, since you yourselves are wise!
2 Corinthians 11:20 For you put up with it if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face.
2 Corinthians 11:21 To our shame, I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.
2 Corinthians 11:22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? —I speak as a fool—I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
2 Corinthians 11:24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.
2 Corinthians 11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;
2 Corinthians 11:26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
2 Corinthians 11:27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness—
2 Corinthians 11:28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.
2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
2 Corinthians 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
2 Corinthians 11:32 In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me;
2 Corinthians 11:33 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.
2 Corinthians 12:1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord:
2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven.
2 Corinthians 12:3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—
2 Corinthians 12:4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
2 Corinthians 12:5 Of such a one I will boast; yet of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 12:6 For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above what he sees me to be or hears from me.
2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
2 Corinthians 12:8 Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:11 I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.
2 Corinthians 12:13 For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!
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MY BELOVED,IF YOU ARE HUNGRY FOR DAILY SPIRIT FILLED NOURISHMENT,THE LORD WILL PROVIDE,JUST ASK!
THROUGH THIS SERVANT,I PROVIDE HIS FOOD EVERY DAY,TO COUNTLESS,WORLDWIDE SAINTS!
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Prayers for you, Jim
Jim, know you are in so many prayers here you couldn't count all of them. Rest up and return to us ASAP.
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JR,HAS GIVEN,OUR LORD A PLACE FOR HIM THROUGH HIS SERVANT TO SUPPLY THE FLOCK FOOD. PLEASE,TEARFULLY,CAST YOUR SUPPLICATION’S FOR JR’S WELLBEING,AT THE FOOT OF THE THRONE!
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AMEN AND AMEN. PRAYERS FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING FOR JIM ROB AND OUR BELOVED ALPHA!
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JR,HAS GIVEN,OUR LORD A PLACE FOR HIM THROUGH HIS SERVANT TO SUPPLY THE FLOCK FOOD. PLEASE,TEARFULLY,CAST YOUR SUPPLICATION’S FOR JR’S WELLBEING,AT THE FOOT OF THE THRONE!
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AMEN AND AMEN. PRAYERS FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF OUR BELOVED JIM ROB AND OUR BELOVED ALPHA!
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