Fraqueza
A fraqueza humana não é fraqueza diante de Deus. Pelo contrário, é na nossa fragilidade que o poder de Cristo se aperfeiçoa. Deus escolhe os fracos para confundir os fortes.
Poder na fraqueza
A minha graça te basta, pois o meu poder se aperfeiçoa na fraqueza. Quando sou fraco, então é que sou forte.
But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
Deus cuida dos fracos
O Senhor está perto dos que têm o coração quebrantado. Ele dá poder aos fracos e renova a força dos cansados.
He gives power to the faint
and increases the strength of the weak.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless;
uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Compaixão e intercessão
O Espírito intercede por nós com gemidos inexprimíveis. Jesus compreende nossas fraquezas porque foi tentado como nós.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
"Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak."
A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Open your mouth for those with no voice,
for the cause of all the dispossessed.