{"id":8726,"date":"2026-09-02T09:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:02:33","slug":"perfected-in-weakness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8726","title":{"rendered":"Perfected In Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\u201cTherefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so I would not exalt myself. Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times to take it away from me. But He said to me, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.\u201d Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ\u2019s power may reside in me. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.\u201d 2 CORINTHIANS 12:7-10 (HCSB)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTherefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so I would not exalt myself. Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times to take it away from me. But He said to me, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.\u201d Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ\u2019s power may reside&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8726\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}