Because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, IN ORDER TO KEEP ME FROM BECOMING CONCEITED, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, TO TORMENT ME. 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.”
–2 Corinthians 12:7-9 (NIV)–

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Lester Liles, ed. Streams of Healing: A Book of Comfort (Revell, 1958), pp. 17-25.