What if real strength starts with admitting we’re weak? This week, Dot and Cara unpack Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” and ask what true surrender looks like. Through their own stories of grief, forgiveness, and everyday situations, they discuss what it actually looks like to rely on God’s strength instead of striving in their own. Pull up a chair, grab your Bible and your coffee, and learn with us what it means to let Him be our strength.

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Episode recap:

• Intro (00:00)
• Start by writing down 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (0:18)
• What does it look like to rely on the Lord’s strength? (3:41)
• God gives you more than you can handle, so you rely on Him (11:26)
• You don’t have to love what God’s doing to trust him  (15:22) 
• We have to take time to pause and re-center our minds on truth (20:41)
• “God, help me.” is always a great prayer to pray  (23:31)
• It all comes back to remembering who God is and letting Him do it (27:38)

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Scripture Verse: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (ESV)
“So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”