“And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you’” (2 Cor 12:9). Of course, this is not a petition. In fact, it is God’s response to a rejected petition!
Three times, Paul asked for a change of his situation. Three times he was refused. And then the Lord said this! It isn’t just Paul who benefited from this glorious promise—millions have!
G. H. Morrison tells the following: A friend of mine not long ago visited one of the hospitals in London. She was greatly touched by the look of happy peace on the face of one of the patients. A little while afterwards she asked a nurse who was the sorest sufferer in that ward, and the nurse, to her intense surprise, indicated the man she had first noticed. Going up to him, she spoke to him and told him what the nurse had said, and how she admired his courage when night and day in such pain. “Ah, miss,” he said, “it is not courage; it’s that,” and he pointed to his bed-head, and there was a text with these words on it: “My grace is sufficient for thee.”