{"id":2193,"date":"2025-11-30T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=2193"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:56:54","slug":"thank-you-for-the-thorns","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/sermons\/thank-you-for-the-thorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You for the Thorns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 Corinthians 12: 6-10<\/p>\n<p class=\"highlight\"><a title=\"2 Corinthians 12:6 KJV verse detail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kingjamesbibleonline.org\/2-Corinthians-12-6\/\"><span id=\"8\" class=\"versehover\">6 <\/span>For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but <em>now<\/em> I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me <em>to be<\/em>, or <em>that<\/em> he heareth of me.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2 Corinthians 12:7 KJV verse detail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kingjamesbibleonline.org\/2-Corinthians-12-7\/\"><span id=\"9\" class=\"versehover\">7 <\/span>And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2 Corinthians 12:8 KJV verse detail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kingjamesbibleonline.org\/2-Corinthians-12-8\/\"><span id=\"10\" class=\"versehover\">8 <\/span>For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Corinthians 12: 6-10 6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[87],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[12],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2193","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-faith-in-god","ctc_sermon_speaker-andrew-cashman","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/2193\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/davidcashman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}