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  MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE
  by A.B. Simpson
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Summary: God uses trials to bring us to a place of dependence on Him,
enlarge our faith, and teach us to trust Him, and to claim His promise,
My grace is sufficient for thee.

Topics: "Grace", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Genesis 32:24, 2 Corinthians 12:9

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DESCRIPTION
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A.B. Simpson emphasizes that crises and trials are often necessary for
spiritual growth, as seen in the lives of Jacob, David, and Paul. These
challenges compel believers to deepen their faith and reliance on God's
grace, ultimately leading to a victorious life. Simpson illustrates that
through hardship, individuals can experience God's sufficiency and learn
to trust Him more fully. The sermon highlights that it is in our
extremities that we discover the true power and faithfulness of God.
Thus, trials serve as a means to draw closer to God and receive the
grace we need.

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CONTENT
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God allowed the crisis that closed around Jacob, on the night when he
bowed at Peniel in supplication, to bring him to the place where he
could take hold of God as he never would have done. From that narrow
pass of peril Jacob came, enlarged in his faith and knowledge of God and
in the power of a new and victorious life.

God had to compel David, by a long and painful discipline of years, to
learn the almighty power and faithfulness of his God, and to grow up
into the established principles of faith and godliness which were
indispensable for his subsequent and glorious career as the king of
Israel.

Nothing but the extremities in which Paul was constantly placed could
ever have taught him, and taught the Church through him, the full
meaning of the great promise he so learned to claim, My grace is
sufficient for thee. And nothing but our trials and perils would ever
have led some of us to know Him as we do, to trust Him as we have and to
draw from Him the measures of grace which our very extremities made
indispensable.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/ab-simpson/my-grace-is-sufficient-for-thee/
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