1. Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town
1 Corinthians 12:1-10
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Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town

2. Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town
Whitfield Parish
Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town

3. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
(2 Corinthians 12:7)

4. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
(2 Corinthians 12:8)

5. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
(2 Corinthians 12:9)

6. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
(2 Corinthians 12:10)

8. Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
(Matthew 16:24)

9. Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town

10. Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town
You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.
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Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town

11. I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
(2 Corinthians 12:10)

12. I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
(2 Corinthians 12:10)

13. Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town
“Lord, what are you showing me in my suffering?”
Do you feel God is close or distant?
Ask him to come alongside you
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Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town

14. Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town
1 Corinthians 12:1-10
Whitfield Parish
Loving Jesus – Loving each other – Loving our town