Speeches

2 Corinthians 11:5-6    
5 For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles. 6 Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.

Paul did not consider other’s evaluations of him against the other apostles before him.  He looked to Christ who called and enabled him to know the things of God and speak these from all Scripture to show Christ and His gospel.  He pointed out that this had been demonstrated again and again in his ministry to the church.  If we are called to speak and given the ability to know and teach or preach these words of life, then we must trust God who called for the ability to work in and through us to know and to do for His good pleasure.  

“If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.” - 1 Peter 4:11