We learn to lean hard on God’s grace through each new trial. Though 2 Corinthians 9 was written about finances, we can apply verse 8 to our trials. It says, “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”

All trials come stocked with God’s special provision of grace. Hebrews 4:16 bids us to come boldly before His throne of grace. Why? That we may receive His mercy and grace needed in our trial.

Paul learned to lean through the revelation that the Lord gave him. In 2 Corinthians 12:9 He told Paul that His grace would carry him through the thorn in his flesh. In verse 10 Paul got the revelation and rejoiced. He said, “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.”