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485 | The Invitation · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  Join us in this broadcast, The Invitation, as Kim Miller brings us a message
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  out of Hebrews 4, 14-16, which say, Seeing then that we have a great high priest
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  that is passed into the heavens, Jesus,
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  the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
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  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
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  infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
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  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
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  and find grace to help in time of need.
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  Thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  and what an absolute pleasure it is to speak to you on this point we are going
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  to ponder, which is we are invited to the throne of God to find help in time of need.
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  What an invitation we have. We have been invited by Jesus, the King of kings,
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  the Lord of lords, the supreme authority of all things has invited us.
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  His children, those who believe in Jesus Christ to come to the throne of God
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  that we might obtain help in time of need.
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  Let us pray our kind and most gracious to heavenly father lord We just thank
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  you for this another opportunity to come before you lord.
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  We thank you for your love and your mercy We thank you for your grace and lord.
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  We thank you for your just absolute desire That we would be in your presence Lord,
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  we're thankful that you have asked us to come That we might bring to you the
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  things that we have need of that we might place our trust in you that you might feel those needs.
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  And that you would give us the grace and the mercy and all that we need.
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  Lord, I ask that you would be with each of us as we look through your word today,
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  that you would make Hebrews chapter 4 just illuminate in ways in our heart and
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  mind that it's never done before.
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  Lord, I pray that it would change our hearts and change our minds,
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  that we would have a stronger faith and a greater walk for thee.
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  In Jesus' name we pray, and all of God's people said, Amen. in.
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  I love that he says, seeing that we have a great high priest,
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  we have someone that we can come to that is great.
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  We're not asked to come and give our burdens to someone who's mediocre.
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  We're not asked to give our burdens to someone who is not powerful and not knowing,
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  but we're asked to come to the great high priest, the son of God.
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  And he says, let us hold fast our profession. You know, I thought about that for a while.
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  What could it possibly mean when he says, let us hold fast our profession?
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  You see, when we come to the throne of God, we must come believing in who he
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  is, because he will diligently reward them that believe in who he is.
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  And when we come to his throne, we need to come knowing that when we give him
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  our burden, he is going to do something with it that is right.
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  And that in fact he has invited us
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  to give him our burden and he gives us
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  something that is light and that we will receive
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  that help that we need when we come but
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  we must come to that throne in faith believing the bible says in first peter
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  chapter 3 and verse 15 but sanctify the lord god in your hearts and be ready
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  always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that
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  is in you with meekness and fear.
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  We're not to use the Bible as a weapon, slicing people's hearts and emotions.
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  We are to use the Bible in meekness that we can come to them and let them know
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  who Christ is and that he is the bomb of Gilead and that he is the supplier
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  of all our needs and that we know who he is and we have a hope.
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  Not that we're finding whether it'll be or won't be. Not that kind of hope, like a hope it works.
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  No, the hope that gives us courage. the hope
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  that is a sure thing i know and i
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  know in my heart i know from the depths of my
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  heart from the very being of my soul that jesus
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  loves me and that he hears me when i pray
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  and that he wants to prosper me and give me a hope
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  that's what his bible says and
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  that's that strong profession that we need
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  to hold fast on and then i believe that
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  it it refers back to matthew chapter 5
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  when he says to us in verses 14 through 16
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  that we're to be the light of the world we don't
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  light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it gives light
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  to all that are in the house and then he gives us this direction let your light
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  so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father
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  which is in heaven that's holding fast our profession.
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  Never wavering but holding it out
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  there for the world to see i am god of hope it doesn't matter what's going on
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  around me the world may seem to be falling apart but jesus loves me this i know
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  and i am on solid ground and all is well with me and my soul and jesus has me
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  i'm in the cleft of the rock of the hand of God,
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  and nothing can remove me.
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  That's holding fast and steady to our commitment to God. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 1.12,
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  For the which cause I also suffer these things, nevertheless I'm not ashamed.
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  That means we have a hope in Christ. We're willing to stand by him because I
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  promise you he will always stand by you.
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  And then it says, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is
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  able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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  That is a steadfast commitment to God.
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  That is a steadfast profession. and in
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  this verse in Hebrews chapter 4 and
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  14 that is what he says he says
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  let us hold fast our profession and then
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  he explains to us why we should because he
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  says we don't have a high priest that can't be touched with the filling of our.
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  Infirmities do you understand we've been invited to the throne of God to give
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  him our burdens to tell him what's on our heart because we know that he can
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  fix them. We know he can answer that prayer.
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  But let me tell you something you may not have thought of.
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  He also understands. So when you speak to him, he gets why it's a burden for you.
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  Even your closest friends and companions may not understand why something is bothering you.
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  It doesn't change the fact that it's bothering you, but they don't get it.
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  But when you come to the king of kings and the lord of lords.
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  He is not only able to do that which you ask, but he understands.
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  He's been there. He's done that.
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  He gets it, and he invites us to come.
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  You may receive many invitations into your life from many different events,
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  and the world may think that you're something special for some of those events
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  that you're invited to attend,
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  but you will never be invited to attend an event as powerful, as amazing,
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  and as rewarding as the event you're invited to time and time again in Hebrews
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  chapter 4 verses 14 through 16.
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  For he says, let us come therefore boldly to the throne of grace.
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  Do you get it? Because you've placed your faith in Jesus Christ,
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  you've allowed him to come into your life.
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  You've allowed his sinless perfect blood to wash away your sins though they were scarlet.
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  They're now white as No, because you have done that, you have a standing invitation
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  to come to the Father. And he says, come boldly.
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  Don't come meek and mild as if you don't belong there.
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  Don't come as if you don't think anything's going to happen once you get there.
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  You come boldly because you have authority through Jesus Christ who lives in
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  you to come to him and to bring him your burden and to fully expect him to let
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  you leave it there and walk away fully assured that all is well and Jesus has
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  you. What an invitation.
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  He says for us to come boldly. In Matthew 7, 7, he also gives us that same sort
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  of invitation when he says, ask and it shall be given you. Seek and ye shall find.
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  Knock and it shall be opened unto you. He's telling you, come.
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  Come to the throne knowing with a steadfast profession that all is going to
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  be well when you leave there.
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  Now, does that mean you're going to get what you asked for?
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  No, it doesn't. Because oftentimes, we don't know what is best.
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  You see, we're like that person who has the one piece of the puzzle and all
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  they can see is the one little piece and it doesn't look like much.
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  But then when you place that one little piece in that whole puzzle and you step
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  back and look at the whole puzzle, you can see how it all fit.
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  Maybe it was a rough, ugly edge. Maybe it was something that just when you looked
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  at it, didn't even have any appealing color.
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  But when you laid it in the major plan of where it fit it created a beautiful beautiful scene,
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  and sometimes that's our life we're in a place and we just think we have the
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  answers well i got news for you if we had the answers we'd be god and we're
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  not god and he says to come to him we are to give him his burden we are to follow
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  his direction and he says that he has a plan for us to give us a hope and an expected end.
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  And maybe you've come to the Lord time after time after time,
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  and you've asked him to relieve something out of your life, and you leave,
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  and it never goes away, and you're thinking, this God is not hearing me. Yes, he is.
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  And it has been sifted through his nail-scarred hands that were scarred because of his love for you.
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  And he hasn't forgotten that love for you.
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  That love is as strong today as it's ever been, and it was strong enough to
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  hold him on the cross. I promise you it's strong enough for him to look through
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  what is in your life, that he's allowed to be in there, and he has a plan,
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  and whatever that is, is for your good.
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  The Bible says in Romans chapter 8 that all things work to the good to them
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  that love the Lord, to them that are called according to his purpose.
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  His ways are not our ways, but his ways are right ways. And when we get our
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  heart right with God, we'll be okay with the answer he gives.
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  You see, the Bible says in James chapter 1 and verse 6,
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  but let him ask in faith nothing wavering
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  for he that wavers is like the wave of the sea driven with
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  the wind tossed hold fast and understand
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  that he is god he supplies your
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  every need and in james chapter 4 and verse 2 he says
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  you have not because you ask not
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  see we have that standing invitation to
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  god and he has blessings to give us in
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  fact the psalmist david says that daily he loadeth us with
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  his blessings but we're not even there talking
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  to him to receive what he has for us but i
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  want you to know something in this great invitation
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  that he gives us in hebrews chapter 4 verses 14 through 16 he says that we can
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  obtain help in time of need he further reiterizes that in philippians 4 19 when
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  he says but my god shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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  The point I want you to ponder as we leave this time together today is this.
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  We are invited to the throne of God to find help in time of need.
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  Turn to Jesus. His eyes are upon you.
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