Resting with and testing: ‘His power made perfect in weakness’

Isn’t it one of God’s grandest, deepest mysteries: that His power can be made perfect in our weakness?

Our dear ministry Director Pastor Paul is testing and resting in that one right now, and wants to thank all who have been praying for him and helping with medical expenses. Thankfully he is home from hospital, feeling much better, but still weak and tired. So please keep up your prayers. Ministry ‘out in the field’ of course continues.

We are still not really sure what all was going on with him. His doctors thought it could be aftereffects of the damage he has suffered from being attacked so many times over the years, and then of course the resulting brain surgeries (we have covered all those stories in previous posts).

“But I said, and I fully believe, that those were completely healed by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by His nail-pierced hands,” Pastor Paul asserts.

“He will not do His work partially. And also He will not keep His promise partially. His work and promise are always fully done. So I don’t think it is an after-effect of anything. This is what I learned and experienced from my Lord Jesus. He is always good for me. Whatever He thinks, let it be done.”

“So what, then, do you think was going on in the hospital?” I asked.

“It was of course that He wanted to teach me more to stand stable in His faith, to serve Him more without any doubt and hesitation. Of course my body is weak, but His Spirit within me is strong. Let Him use me according to His will.”

He knows the Lord wanted to teach similar lessons to his family, who stood with him and found their faith strengthened through the whole ordeal.

“In this crisis, the faithful servants of God, who love me with the everlasting love of God, stood for me and still stand for me with prayers and kind support, and helped me and my family so much. In the name of Jesus, I’m thankful to them all.”

This precious, mysterious and mysteriously STRONG verse (from 2 Cor. 12:9) is one I stand and live on as well. How about you?