Draw Near to God (James 4:8)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net. |
| 0:05.7 | James chapter 4 verse 8 draw near to God and he will draw near to you. That's actually not even the whole verse in James 4-8 but that's that's |
| 0:17.5 | all I want us to pray according to today and maybe encourage you to memorize |
| 0:22.3 | this verse even right now. |
| 0:24.3 | Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. |
| 0:28.5 | Maybe say it out loud with me. |
| 0:30.8 | Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. |
| 0:37.0 | Let's say it again, draw near to God and he will draw near to you. |
| 0:44.0 | One more time. |
| 0:45.0 | Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. |
| 0:51.0 | What a beautiful command and promise. |
| 0:55.0 | Command to draw near to God, yes, your Creator who loves you, who has all power, who is all loving, who is all good, who is holy, who's perfect, he's righteous, |
| 1:09.6 | he's wise, he is full of comfort and mercy and grace to help us in time of need I could |
| 1:17.8 | keep going on and on yes draw near to God there is nothing more important for you and me to do today than this. |
| 1:28.7 | Make this your goal today and every day to draw near to God, to be closer to God in relationship |
| 1:39.8 | with God at the end of today than you are right now or if you're listening to this |
| 1:44.8 | tonight closer to God at the end of tomorrow than you are right now that we would |
| 1:50.2 | draw near to God and then listen to the promise and he will draw near to you. |
| 1:56.0 | God, what a thought wants to draw near to you. |
| 2:02.1 | Just let that soak in your life. God wants to draw near to you. I mean think |
| 2:09.1 | for a moment what it would be like if someone super famous, super powerful, like just wanted to get to know you. |
| 2:17.4 | Like the president of some country or this person who's the richest in the world saying I just want to get to know David. |
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