{"id":1781,"date":"2011-12-15T11:04:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2011-12-15T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:14:14","slug":"my-grace-is-sufficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"My Grace is Sufficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBut he said to me, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.&#8221;<\/span> Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.\u00a0For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.\u201d \u2013 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Men: For most of us, this apparent paradox can be particularly difficult to comprehend and implement in our daily lives.\u00a0 From infancy, we\u2019re taught that to be a \u201creal man\u201d involves remaining strong, independent, and in control when the world seems to be crashing in around us.\u00a0 And while we\u2019re certainly called to lead our families with courage and compassion, it\u2019s only when we recognize that our true strength comes from being reliant on, and obedient to our Heavenly Father that we can be the powerful men God desires us to be.\u00a0 Only in our weakness before Him, can we truly find His strength.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut he said to me, &#8220;My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.&#8221; Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.\u00a0For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2340,37,43,3194,2174,916,2343,2344,2339,2346,1922,2345,2341,2342],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-apparent-paradox","tag-compassion","tag-courage","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-gods-strength","tag-heavenly-father","tag-independent","tag-men","tag-my-grace-is-sufficient","tag-our-weakness","tag-pauls-second-epistle-to-the-corinthians","tag-powerful-men","tag-real-man","tag-strong"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-sJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}