The document discusses how God provides help and protection. It notes that help comes from God, who created heaven and earth, and that God will not allow harm and will watch over and protect at all times, day and night. It also discusses how Paul pleaded three times for a "thorn in the flesh" to be removed, and how God said His grace is sufficient. Paul then took pleasure in weaknesses, as the power of Christ could rest upon him when he was weak.

1. Pastor Matt Zehr
December 4, 2011

5. 1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help?
2 My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will
not slumber.
4 Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade at your right
hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your
soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from
this time forth, and even forevermore.

7. 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of
the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger
of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. 8
Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it
might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient
for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore
most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of
Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities,
in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s
sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Signs of an Apostle
11 I have become a fool in boasting;[a] you have compelled me. For I
ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I
behind the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing. 12 Truly
the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all
perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

10. Pastor Matt Zehr
December 4, 2011

11. Pastor Matt Zehr
December 4, 2011