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"My Grace is Sufficient for You"

One spring morning in April 2021, around 2 am, I woke up from what seemed like a nightmare. This was the third night in a row that I struggled to go back to sleep after waking up in the middle of the night. I felt unsettled in my spirit so, I reached for my phone and opened my bible app to read and meditate on God's word. I have found it often useful to review the community page on the YouVersion bible app, where new passages highlighted by some of my friends on the app appear. This particular time, I came across one striking passage highlighted by two friends. The passage was from 2 Corinthians 12:8-10: " 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.  9 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.  10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in pe...