PAUL’S INFIRMITY

1.            Acts 9:8- “And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw not man: but they led him by the hand.”

2.            Acts 9:9 “And Saul was three days without sight.”

3.            Acts 9:17-18 “Anaanias, putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.  That thou mightest receive thy sight…Saul received sigh forthwith.  And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.”

4.            I Corinthians 2:3 “I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.”

5.            II Corinthians 10:10 “Paul’s bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”

6.            II Corinthians 11:29-30 “Who is weak, and I am not weak?  I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.”

7.            II Corinthians 12:1-10 “I will glory in mine infirmities.  And lest I should be exhalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.  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.”

8.            Galatians 4:13 “Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.”

9.            Galatians 4:14 “And my infirmity which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.”

10.        Galatians 4:15 “Ye would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.”

11.        Galatians 6:11 “Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.”

12.        Galatians 6:17  “I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.”

13.        II Corinthians 13:9 “We are glad when we are weak.”