How to Draw Near to God | Torah | Genesis 21:8-20

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Do you feel forgotten, cast out or ignored? Do you wonder if you can even bear to go on in your situation? Tanya shares how Hagar felt this way in Genesis 21:8-20. Listen to find out how God seeks out unwanted and forgotten people and draws near to them. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Passages: Genesis 21:8-20 Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life
0:09.0	and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmouth.
0:12.0	Right now we're going through the first book of the Bible, Genesis.
0:15.0	The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.
0:22.0	That's the opening verse in Genesis chapter 21.
0:27.0	Isn't it amazing? Yaway visited Sarah. Yaway did to her what he had promised. The CSP says it like this. The Lord came to
0:38.0	Sarah as he had said and the Lord did to Sarah what he had promised.
0:43.7	I love the way this chapter opens with the focus on the Lord,
0:47.2	calling us to such a high view of who he is
0:51.2	and opening our eyes to the wonder of what he does.
0:55.0	I love that Genesis 21 opens with God
0:58.0	because God is the focus of this narrative,
1:01.0	the one we need to keep our eyes on as modern readers, and the one Abraham
1:06.1	and Sarah and Hagar could keep their eyes on.
1:10.4	I think a lot of our problems could be solved when we have a high view of God, when our perspective
1:16.1	is lifted toward his attributes and we focus less on how and more on who.
1:23.8	Other than calling us into this vertical recognition with God,
1:26.6	Chapter 21 really needs no introduction
1:28.9	to grab your attention.
1:30.2	So let me catch you up and we'll dive in. Sarah, you might recall that God renamed her a few chapters ago,
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