God Encourages Us
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🗓️ 4 May 2021
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Summary
As we continue our week on God being our Father, we look today at how God encourages us. There is nothing like an encouraging word from the Father when we’re feeling low and discouraged. Sometimes life can be daunting, and our good Father knows just what to say when we need to hear it most. If you’re feeling discouraged today, I pray the Lord speaks courage to your weary heart and strengthens your weary bones to keep running the race set before you.
Our Scripture for today comes from Romans 8:31, and today's worship is Take Courage by Kristene DiMarco.
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“Now what?” “How do I find and keep a daily connection with my Creator on my own?”
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week on God being our Father, we look today at how God encourages us. |
| 0:10.5 | There's nothing like an encouraging word from the Father when we're feeling low and discouraged. |
| 0:16.2 | Sometimes life can be daunting, and our good Father knows just what to say when we need to hear it most. |
| 0:22.5 | If you're feeling discouraged today, I pray that the Lord speaks courage to your weary heart |
| 0:27.5 | and strengthens your weary bones to keep running the race set before you. |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 0:52.3 | Our verse today is Psalm 2714 and reads, |
| 0:58.8 | Wait for the Lord, be strong, and let your heart take courage, wait for the Lord. |
| 1:03.8 | Our God is the great encourager. |
| 1:06.5 | He takes the weak and makes them strong. |
| 1:11.6 | He takes the hopeless and transforms them into beacons of eternal salvation. He takes the broken and heals them with his love. |
| 1:15.6 | And he takes the fearful and fills them with powerful courage from on high. |
| 1:21.6 | Our Heavenly Father longs to fill you with courage today. |
| 1:25.6 | He longs to encourage you to accomplish the incredible |
| 1:28.9 | calling for which you were created. As we look today at a powerful story of God's encouragement, |
| 1:36.4 | may your heart be filled with a longing and passion to seek out the entirety of God's perfect |
| 1:41.9 | plans for you. Judges 6 12 through 18 says, |
| 1:46.9 | And the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and said to him, the Lord is with you, |
| 1:51.9 | O mighty man of valor. And Gideon said to him, please sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has |
| 1:59.5 | all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful |
| 2:03.1 | deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? |
| 2:09.6 | But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian. And the Lord turned to him |
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