Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, April 17th.

God is the sovereign king, yet he invites you to draw near and know him personally.

Let's discover the privilege you have as a believer to approach your creator's throne of grace.

If I should ask you, why don't you think you spend more time praying and talking to God?

I wonder how you would answer that. Or if I should ask, why is not your intimacy, your relationship

with him more intimate and why is it not more meaningful and more rewarding than it is? Well, I believe

if you and I understood who God is and what he's really

like, and if we understood what it meant to really come to him, we would come to him far more often.

We would speak with him more often. Our relationship with him would be far more intimate than it is.

We would sense a greater intimacy with him, a greater joy about him, a sense of fulfillment and contentment and strength

and power, our faith would be stronger, our confidence would be greater if we understood

who is this God to whom we go? And what does he mean when he says, we can come to him in time

of trouble and find grace to help in time of need? Well, I want you to turn, if you will, to Hebrews

Chapter 4, and the title of this message is the throne of grace. And it is a throne that all of us

at some time or the other, who are believers, oftentimes I certainly hope, come to this throne.

And some people who think they're coming to it and getting answers to prayer

cannot, because the door is closed because of their relationship to God. So I want us to look at

this passage and see what he says. And if you'll begin with me in the 14th verse of the fourth

chapter of Hebrews, he says, since then, speaking of Christ, we have a great high priest who has

passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. Listen to this.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been

tempted in all things as we are yet without

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