“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know – God knows. And I know that this man – whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows – was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell………To keep me from coming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord
to take it away from me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’………For when I am weak, then I am strong.” (2 Corinthians 12: 2-10 selected)