Help in our time of Need Our time

• Help. . • in our time • of • Need

Our time of need. . Heb. 4: 14 -16

• 1. Is it true that you spend more time offering prayers for help from God than in any other type of prayer? • 2. I know that is the case with me, as much as I do not like to admit it. • 3. I am so thankful that we have a Heavenly Father who is full of mercy and grace and we can count on the fact that He will always answer our prayers for help. • . .

• 4. We can cry out to Him in our time of need and He will rescue us. • 5. Though sometimes it seems like He will never answer or does not hear, God is still on the throne and available and willing to listen to our prayers for help. • 5. Ask for help and then be still and know that He is God and will act in His time. .

• Hebrews 4: 14 -16 • 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. • 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. • 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

• From these 3 verses we learn:

• #1 We have a High Priest. . • Jesus is Our High Priest

• Heb 4: 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God • 1. He has passed into the Heavens • 2. His name is “Jesus” the Son of God 15 • 3. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He can be touched with the • Feeling of our infirmities.

15 For • 4. we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities He can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities He never once sinned!!! A perfect example. I Pet. 2: 21 •

• #2 Let us. . hold fast our profession. • and • Let us… therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,

Something that we Must do. . • 1. Let us. . Hold fast our Profession (Confession) • Never waver. • Buckle down…He is with us. Heb. 13: 5 -6; Prov. 3: 5, 6

2. Let us. . • Come boldly (confidently) unto the throne Of Grace • Pray a lot • Pray with confidence • Pray before the Throne of Grace

• #3. that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. • Two Things: • . . that we may obtain mercy • . . that we might find grace to help • in time of need.

• Mercy: Luke 18: 13

• Grace : • Ephesians 2: 8 -10 • 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: • 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. • 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

• Titus 2: 11 -14 • 11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, • 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; • 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; • 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

• Help. . In Time of Need

• Bible • Examples

• Gideon’s prayer for Help. . Judges 6: 36 -39 He wanted a Sign from the Lord.

• Hannah’s prayer for help - to have a son. • I Sam. 1: 11 • 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

• Solomon’s Prayer for Help – Wisdom for a new King • I Kings 3: 5 -9. . • Give your servant therefore an • Understanding heart (mind) to govern • Your people , that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people. •

• Jonah’s prayer for help - from the belly of a fish • Jonah 2: 2 -9 • I called out to the Lord, out of my • Distress, and he answered me; out of • The belly of Sheol I cried, and you • Heard my voice. ”

• Jesus prayer for help. - Take this cup. . Luke 22: 42 “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup • From me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done. •

• What is your need? “your time of need”?

• Spiritual need • Personal need

• Spiritual Problems: A problem with your spiritual relationship with The Lord. • . . James 5: 19, 20 • . . Luke 9: 62 • . . Matt. 11: 28 -30 • • • 2 Timothy 1: 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. • Are you closer to God today than you have ever • Been or are you further from Him? James 4: 8 •

• Financial Problems Proverbs 22: 7 • 7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender • • Psalms 37: 25 have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. • 25 I

• Work related Problems • 2 Thess. 3: 10 10 For even when we were with you, this • we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat

• Family Problems • Children Eph. 6: 1 • Spouse Problem (Eph. 5: 23 -25) • Old Age problem • I Tim. 5: 4, 8 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. • v. 8 8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. • v. 16 6 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve • • them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

• School Problem/ Education • Luke 2: 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man • Proverbs 22: 6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. • • • Gen. 18: 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

• Where can I go but to the Lord? • John 6: 68 -69

• I need thee every hour

• Prayer: 24/7 Line opened…never busy signal. • Let us come boldly • Unto the Throne of Grace • That we may obtain Mercy • and find Grace to help In (our) time of need!!

• A Prayer for Help – To Be An Instrument of God’s Peace • Lord make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, joy.

• O divine master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receiveit is in pardoning that we are pardoned. And it’s in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen [2]

• Hebrews 4: 14 -16 • 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. • 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. • 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.