In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the 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, there may be lots of reasons, but I think

that one of the primary reasons is we don't know him we don't understand him and when we talk about coming

to him in prayer how do you visualize that what do you think about when you talk about coming to

god in prayer and talking with him and when the bible talks about the throne of god what do you

think about you think about some something way out yonder somewhere in this ethereal blue and this somebody is sitting on this throne.

What do you think about when the Bible talks about coming to the throne of grace?

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

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