Prayer

A New Place to Meet with God: Hebrews 9 — Heb pt.11

  • The central teaching of Hebrews is about our prayer lives—drawing near to God with confidence.
  • This chapter is a key building block as it lays out the way to intimacy with such power and clarity.

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Immanuel: Experience empathy from Jesus who is truly With Us and understands our weakness. Hebrews pt.5

  • The stories from when Jesus walked this earth with us,
  • show a man who experienced a full range of emotions, and was deeply empathic with those around him.
  • Hebrews encourages us to experience this deep compassion as we engage with him in prayer.

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Jesus our Sympathetic Priest, giving confidence and support to our prayers (Hebrews pt.3: 4:12-5:10)

We can gain a deeper appreciation of what Jesus does for us from this description of O.T. priests. Hebrews urges us to come to God in confidence because Jesus truly knows what it is like to be human: weak and tempted.

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