God's Grace Is Enough

Have you ever prayed for something over and over again and wondered why God did not remove it? Have you ever asked God to change a situation, heal a hurt, open a door, fix a problem, or lift a burden, yet the answer seemed different from what you expected?

If so, today's message is for you.

Sometimes God does not remove the struggle immediately. Sometimes He gives us something even greater, His sustaining grace.

Our Scripture today comes from 2 Corinthians 12:8-10.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to our Care Let's Pray Ministries, a podcast that wants to bring a smile to your face and joy within your heart today. I pray that you feel the love of God all day today. I pray that He beams His light upon you and light up your path and illuminate all the way around you. Amen. I pray that today is a good day. I pray that you smile and rejoice like never before. I welcome you to our care less pray. I'm so excited you're here with me. And thank you, thank you, thank you for tuning in today. And today we're going to talk about God's grace is enough. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. God's grace is enough. Have you ever prayed for something constantly and wonder why God did not remove it? Have you ever asked God to change a situation, heal a hurt, open a door, fix a problem, or left a or lift a burden, yet the answer seemed different from what you expected. If so, I want you to listen to this very clearly today. Sit still, get a piece of paper, and jot down some notes. Because I'm telling you, God's grace is enough. Sometimes God does not remove the struggle immediately because sometimes he gives us something even greater. His sustaining grace. We will become from 2 Corinthians the 12th chapter, the 8th to the 10th verse, and I am coming from the King James Version, 2 Corinthians 12, 8 through 10, King James Version. And it reads as thus, for this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities and reapproaches and necessities and persecutions and distresses for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Amen, amen, hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. But when I am weak, God will make me strong. So when you are weak, God will make you strong. Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Holy Father, we thank you so much for this day. Glory to your name, Father. We just say hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, oh God. We praise your name today because God, you are faithful. You are magnificent. You are an amazing God. And we say thank you, oh God. God, I thank you for every listener right now joining into this podcast. Hallelujah, I thank you for their life. I thank you for their eyesight. I thank you for their hearing. I thank you for the prosperity of their life. Hello, I thank you for clothing them in the right manner. Heavenly Father, I thank you for the angel protection you got around their heart, mass, souls that spread in their flesh. I thank you, thank you, thank you, oh God, for everybody who's listening right now. And as we gather around your word today, God, take charge, take over. Have me behind Carrie's cross and have your way in this episode, oh God, I pray. And not just listen, but all the episodes. Holy Father, open up our hearts and our minds to receive what you want to teach us right now, oh God. Help us to trust you even when we do not understand our circumstances. Help us be faithful when our flesh is telling us not to be, oh God, because you are faithful no matter what. Teach us how to be loyal to you, oh God. Let your grace strengthen us right now in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Let your power be revealed in our lives, oh God, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God, move in our life like never before. Because we want you to move and have your being in our life, oh God. Something's gonna have to break, and it's gonna break sooner rather than later. So God, move in our life. Show your face, oh God, in our life, in our situation, our circumstances, oh God, because we need to see your hand working on our behalf. We want to see your glory in the mix of our struggles, oh God, so we can glorify you and raise you up and say it wasn't nothing but God who brought me through. Hallelujah. We thank you, oh God, for being a great father. It's in your darling son, Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Glory be to God. I'm feeling it today, y'all. I'm feeling it. God is so good. And I won't talk about Apostle Paul for one moment. He was a mighty servant of God. He preached the gospel, he planted churches, he witnessed miracles, he saw God moving in extraordinary ways. But yet, Paul had something he called a thorn in the flesh. We do not know exactly what it was, but we know this for one thing, for certain, two for sure. It was painful, it was persistent, and Paul wanted it gone. Have you ever had something that you just didn't understand why it was going on in your life? And I remember from a fleshly standpoint, there was a time in my life, and I said this before, that I just knew this thing was gonna work out. I'm like, God, this is it, and this is gonna be this, it's gonna be that. But when God showed me it wasn't, I had such a deep pain. Like I'm like, God, please remove it. Like, please, it hurts too bad. Um I can't sleep, I can't eat, I'm crying from the deaths of my soul, and just take the pain away. And all I heard in my spirit, my grace is sufficient. I'm not gonna remove it because I'm going to remind you. You can't operate in self, you have to wait on me. Amen. So I'm telling you, I could relate to Paul one to be removed. And sometimes we are like that in a human form. It's just, man, God, I don't understand why this ain't working out. Why ain't that working out? And then they break your heart on a job didn't do right, and now you wallowing it. And God's saying, okay, it's painful, but it's a lesson in the pain, right? Paul prayed not once, not twice, but three times he played, pleaded with God to remove it. And I know you've been there. I just gave you my example. And I'm gonna say this we all have prayed for God to do something in one shape, form, or fashion. We don't pray for healing, breakthrough, restore relationships, financial miracles, burdens to be lifted. And Paul understood what it felt like to ask God for relief. So he's given us a picture of what it looks like, right? God's answer was not what Paul expected. God did not immediately remove the thorn. Instead, like I said earlier, he said, My grace is sufficient for thee. So, in other words, God is telling us, My grace is going to carry you through, my grace will sustain you, my grace will strengthen you, my grace will be enough. Amen. What a powerful reminder that is for us right now. That God said, No matter what you're facing, what you're going through, my grace is sufficient for you. Not these people around you, not your job, not the relationship, ain't nothing going to keep you but my grace. Amen. We often want God to remove every challenge, but sometimes God uses our challenges to reveal his strength. When everything is going well, it's easy to rely on our own abilities, right? But when we've reached the end of ourselves, we discover the greatness of God's power. Paul learned that weakness is not the end of the story. Amen. Weakness becomes the place where God's strength, strength in us. I'm getting ahead of myself because I'm really overhead excited. Y'all don't even understand. Weakness becomes the place where God's strength shines the brightest. And that's a testimony for me because I done had some dark moments. And when I was weak, and then he think I get out of the bed. When I was weak and I'm just wallowing, God gave me strength to go to church. God gave me strength to praise. God gave me strength to pray. When my flesh kept saying, they don't need you did all of that. See what happened? Did nothing work in your favor. But you still want to pray, you still want to fast. And God's grace comes back and say, Yes, you're going to keep on doing it because I'm giving you my strength to carry on. I'm getting off topic right now, but I'm telling you, we serve a faithful God. And when God doesn't remove it, he got reasons for it. It might be a season where God is trying to deliver us. You know what I'm saying? God might be trying to open doors, but trying to take his time and opening the doors so he got to slow us down so we don't get ahead of him. And sometimes when he doesn't remove it like we want him to, it's because he's working on a miracle. You understand what I'm saying? God does so many things in magnificent ways, but we don't see it in the beginning. But God is saying, My grace is sufficient for you. His peace is what keeps you steady, his word is what keeps you grounded, his spirit is what keeps you moving forward. So I'm telling you, you got to stand on the word of God. You got to believe and keep praying and saying, God, I know that you said your grace is sufficient for me, but help me put one foot in front of the other. Help me to be strong. Help me to be courageous. Help me to walk through this and win this race because I don't want this thorn, this pain, this heartbreak to take over my life. So I am telling you, you can move ahead with God's grace. I'm telling you that God is with you always. I'm telling you that you are a living testimony, how you're going to get through your struggles, how you're going to get through your pain, how you're going to get through your fears, your anxiety, your stresses, and everything else. Because God said, My grace is sufficient for you. And I want you to know that whatever you're asking God to remove, lay it on the altar, write on a piece of paper. If it's one thing, three things, five, write it down. Say, God, I'm casting my cares on you. God, remove these things. If it ain't your will, help me to burn them so I can press through, so I can keep trusting, so I can keep believing, so I can keep working for you, oh God. Because we want God to get the glory in every season of our life. The good days, the bad days. God should be glorified at all times. And I want you to know if you're weak, it's okay. But it doesn't disqualify you. You might be struggling, but it don't make you less valuable. We all struggle. You might have challenges right now and feel like God done abandoned me because you know I done sinned. We all sin and fall short of his glory. You ain't gonna be the first to sin, and you ain't gonna be the last. So you've got to understand that God sees you like you are, God knows you like you are. So keep walking in faith, keep trusting and hoping that God is gonna get you through whatever you're going through. God is not looking for perfect people, he is looking for willing people. So lean on God, trust in God, and let God have his way in your life. And before we close out, I want to give you a word. Just a simple word. Today you might feel weak. And today you might feel tired. You might even feel like giving up. You're tired of carrying the responsibilities of everyday life. You're tired of being an adult, like my kids said. I don't like being an adult. I like it when I have to pay no bills. Yeah, we all say that till we get grown. Everybody wants to be on their own when they're young. But when you hit that age and you got to be an adult, nobody wants to do it. But when you trust in the Lord and you seek his heart, God will hear you. And he'll say, My grace is sufficient for you. Hold on. I ain't talking about tomorrow's grace. I ain't talking about next year's grace. I'm talking about right now. God says, I see everything you're praying for. I know you're weary. I know you're weak. But my strength is what gets you out of bed every day. It's my strength that keeps you going because you know there's a change coming. You're praying over your family, you're praying over your ministries, you're praying over your health and your finances and your future and the what ifs and what shall I do? But God already knows. He said, but today, listen, my grace is sufficient for you. It's enough for today. It's enough for tomorrow. My grace is sufficient for you. Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Honey Father, we thank you for your amazing, amazing love that you give to us each and every day. Honey Father, we want to thank you for being our strength when we are weak. God, we thank you, oh God, because you never leave our side in the seasons of drought, in the seasons of doubt. You're right there, oh God, saying you're gonna make it through. Holy Father, we thank you for the times you provided when there was no way for us to do it on a human level, Henry Father. God, we thank you for being the way maker in our life, Heavenly Father. We thank you for your love and your joy and your peace and your healing. And God, we thank you for being our shepherd, Henry Father, because when we wander away, you come right back and grab us the back. And we thank you for the Heavenly Father. Keep on touching our heart, mass, souls, and spirit to walk by faith and not by sight. Henry Father, I'm praying for every listener right now who may feel burdened right now. They feel like they got a thorn of worry in their side, a thorn of discouragement in their side, a thorn of waiting for answers and praying for healing and restoration. All these thorns just palling in on their side. But God, let them know that you can remove anything out of their life, but they can walk and get through it with your grace. Your grace is made perfect in our weakness, Henry Father. Honey Father, I pray for everyone to be strengthened today. I pray for endurance today, that I pray for peace today, that I pray for discernment today, that I pray for clarity today, that you will let them see the path that they're trying to see today, Henny Father. That I pray that your power feels their presence right now, no God. Let your power fall upon them right now, no God. Let them feel your heartbeat right now, oh God. Let them feel your embrace, let them feel your love right now, let them fall into hope again. Some people have quit hoping, oh God, because they're tired of doing the same old thing and nothing's changing. God, I'm saying I know what you can do. I've seen what you can do, not just in me, but the people around me, and people I don't even know. So, God, I ask you to fill their hearts right now with courage and fill their minds with hope and fill their spirits with renewed faith, Holy Father. May they walk away from this moment knowing that they are loved, they are supported, and held securely in your hands. Holy Father, we thank you so much for being the Alpha and the Omega and the beginning and end in our life. We honor you, we exalt you, and we bless your holy name. It is in the mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty name of Jesus Christ's name. We pray. Amen. Glory be to God. Hallelujah. You are never alone. You are never alone. God is with you. You are never alone. God said, My grace is sufficient for you. You're going to make it, you're going to get through it because God's going to see you through it. God's grace is sufficient for you. Whatever you're facing, whatever challenge comes your way, whatever the burden may be right now, when you are weak, God cannot lie. He keeps his promise. He is faithful. God is a faithful God. When you are weak, he's going to make you strong. When you are weary, he's going to sustain you. When you feel like you're about to lose your mind, he's going to give you peace to get your mind back in order. I'm telling you, when you are uncertain, God is going to remain faithful and he's going to make you certain in your situations. So I'm telling you, God truly does care about you. I truly do care about you. The people around you truly do care about you. So keep holding on. Don't give up. Don't quit. Focus on God's unchanging hand. Look to the heels which come with your help and say, God, I need you. God, I trust you. God help me. It's simple words. It ain't got to be long and drawn out. Just God, help me. God, I need you. Yo grace, I need it. Grace, I need it, oh God. So I'm telling you to hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on to God's unchanging hand. This is our Curl Let's Pray Ministries. I hope you have been blessed. May the love of God shower down upon you like never before today. And I pray you feel his warmth running through your veins. Be blessed and know that you are a blessing to others.