What if the thing you keep asking God to remove is the very place His power is most at work? In this episode, Rohan Bell explores Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” (2 Corinthians 12) and how reframing weakness can become a pathway to peace, humility, and deeper dependence on God.

✨ Key Themes in This Episode

🌵 The “thorn in the flesh” — what Paul meant and why it matters

🔄 Reframing suffering — seeing weakness through God’s purposes

🧠 Peace through dependence — not self-sufficiency

💪 “When I am weak, then I am strong” — how God’s power actually works

🙏 Grace that is sufficient — even when the problem remains

⏱ Major Moments

0:45 – Background to 2 Corinthians and the “super apostles”

3:55 – “My grace is sufficient for you” unpacked

4:31 – Why we don’t know what the thorn was

5:20 – Reframing unanswered prayer

8:06 – Identifying and embracing your own “thorn”

🤔 Reflection & Application

What is the “thorn” you keep asking God to remove?

How might God be using it to shape humility, trust, or dependence?

What would it look like to stop fighting it and start reframing it?

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