When God Does Not Remove the Thorn

Cause Before Symptom - With Your Host James Carner

Tonight’s message is for those who have prayed faithfully and still live with the weight that did not lift. It speaks to believers who trust God’s power but struggle with His refusal to remove certain forms of suffering. This show walks through Paul’s thorn to confront the assumption that prolonged pain must be punishment, exposing instead how God sometimes allows what He loves in order to preserve what matters most.

The broadcast explores why God’s “no” can be more intimate than silence, how divine strength is revealed not after weakness ends but while it remains, and why healing does not always mean removal. It gives language to faith in survival mode, honors private suffering that goes unseen, and warns against the quiet resentment that can form when endurance outlasts expectation.

Rather than promising relief, this message reframes grace as presence and sufficiency, showing how God sustains His people fully even when circumstances do not change. The thorn is not presented as an enemy to conquer, but as a place where faith, humility, and calling are shaped over time. This is a message for those who are still standing, still praying, and still faithful, even without answers.