The Faithful
Paul
Apostle to the Nations
Transformation
Scripture (NIV)
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Message
Paul's story turns on a road, not a résumé. The thing you consider your greatest weakness may be exactly where grace becomes visible.
Practice
Name one weakness you hide. Ask what grace might look like inside it rather than instead of it.
Prayer
Lord, let Your strength live in my weak places. Change me from the inside out. Amen.
Lived out
Short practices that fit Paul's virtue of transformation.
A practice to try
Five things before the phone
“My old habit was to check my phone before my eyes were properly open, and I would start the day already behind. Now I name five real things I am thankful for first, the specific ones, not the polite ones. The tea. The fact that the test came back clear. Then I pick up the phone.”
TRY TODAY
Name five specific things to God before you unlock your phone tomorrow.
“Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
A practice to try
One verse carried all day
“Instead of reading three chapters and remembering none of it, I take one verse and carry it. I say it at the sink, in traffic, in the lift. By evening it has stopped being a sentence I read and started being something I actually believe about my own life.”
TRY TODAY
Choose one verse this morning and repeat it at three fixed points in the day.
“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”
Psalm 119:11 (NIV)