5.7.2025 Prayer Room

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10

9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.”

Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. 10 So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

MATTHEW 9:20-22

20 Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.” 22 Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.

HEAR:

Both Paul and the woman show tremendous faith in God. The woman had faith that Jesus could heal her physically, and Paul had faith that God could use his weaknesses.

Meditate upon the text(s) and listen to the Holy Spirit:

• Where are you weak this morning? Where do you need healing or restoration? Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal these things to you.

• The Scriptures tell us that Jesus can sympathize with our weaknesses (Hebrews 4:15). What does this mean to you? Reflect on this reality.

• Where can you extend the restorative love of Christ this week? Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal friends, family, or coworkers who may need this type of love.

RESPOND:

Just like Peter’s restoration, Jesus confronts us, in our sin, suffering, or weakness, not with condemnation but with love and restoration.

Respond to God in prayer:

• Ask the Holy Spirit to bring healing this morning. Ask Him to empower us to boast about our weaknesses so that “Christ’s power may reside in us.”

• Contend for the Church in Boston. Pray that God would fill us with a bold faith, believing he can truly restore and revive anything.

• Ask God to destroy any thoughts that tell us He only loves us for our strengths. Ask him to remind us that His “power is perfected in weakness.”