10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:10) I am not good with weakness. In fact I would say I have a complete aversion to it. Part...

227 For the hearts of these peoplehave grown callous,their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heartand turn,and I would heal them. (Acts 28:27 CSB) I am going to go ahead and admit something right here...

14 But when all goes well for you, remember that I was with you. Please show kindness to me by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison…..23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him. (Genesis 40:14 & 23 CSB) Joseph had done the chief...

27 Come on, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh,” and his brothers agreed. 28 When Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who...

23 For last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve stood by me 24 and said, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. (Acts 27:23-24a CSB) Wouldn’t it be nice if God would send us an angel in times of trouble and tell us ”Don’t be afraid.” However, it would probably make us...