How to Pray When You Hurt
Dr. Adrian Rogers
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Now, would you take your Bibles please tonight and I would like for you to turn to Second Corinthians chapter 12, a familiar passage to those who are students of the Bible that deals with the problem of pain and how to deal with suffering and sorrow, heartache and sickness.
I want us to read together Second Corinthians chapter 12 verses 1 through 10. [read]
All of us, as I have said, hurt from time to time. The great apostle Paul hurt and here we have a glimpse into his prayer life and into the workings of his heart and how he endured something that he'd had for a long, long time. Paul knew what it was to suffer and I know that I've already read one long passage of scripture, but I feel that it would be well for us just to back up to set the background just a little better for the passage that I've just read. If you would go back to chapter 11 and still with your Bibles open I want us to look again and read a longer passage of scripture beginning in verse 24 and reading through verse 33, again speaking of the sufferings of this man named Paul.
Paul says, "Of the Jews five times have received I forty stripes save one." And a beating like this, dear friend, would often kill a person, five times Paul had known the liters' lash, five times he had been stretched out and beaten within an inch of his life. "Thrice was I beaten with rods," that was another kind of beating, "once I was stoned." Now, when they stoned him they left him for dead, they thought he was dead but he wasn't dead. "Thrice I suffered shipwreck," that is, he'd been in the terrible, horrible storms, "a night and a day had I been in the deep," that is, his body had floated around in the Mediterranean and been pickled by that salt water. "In journeyings often in perils of waters," that is, many times he almost drowned, "in perils of robbers," he was bushwacked by men, wayside ...
Dr. Adrian Rogers
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Now, would you take your Bibles please tonight and I would like for you to turn to Second Corinthians chapter 12, a familiar passage to those who are students of the Bible that deals with the problem of pain and how to deal with suffering and sorrow, heartache and sickness.
I want us to read together Second Corinthians chapter 12 verses 1 through 10. [read]
All of us, as I have said, hurt from time to time. The great apostle Paul hurt and here we have a glimpse into his prayer life and into the workings of his heart and how he endured something that he'd had for a long, long time. Paul knew what it was to suffer and I know that I've already read one long passage of scripture, but I feel that it would be well for us just to back up to set the background just a little better for the passage that I've just read. If you would go back to chapter 11 and still with your Bibles open I want us to look again and read a longer passage of scripture beginning in verse 24 and reading through verse 33, again speaking of the sufferings of this man named Paul.
Paul says, "Of the Jews five times have received I forty stripes save one." And a beating like this, dear friend, would often kill a person, five times Paul had known the liters' lash, five times he had been stretched out and beaten within an inch of his life. "Thrice was I beaten with rods," that was another kind of beating, "once I was stoned." Now, when they stoned him they left him for dead, they thought he was dead but he wasn't dead. "Thrice I suffered shipwreck," that is, he'd been in the terrible, horrible storms, "a night and a day had I been in the deep," that is, his body had floated around in the Mediterranean and been pickled by that salt water. "In journeyings often in perils of waters," that is, many times he almost drowned, "in perils of robbers," he was bushwacked by men, wayside ...
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