Thought of the Week for March 30th thru April 5th...

This week I would like for us to focus on our ability to go directly to the Lord with our needs and our desires through the powerful privilege of prayer. This is a privilege that many of us take for granted and very few of us realize the true blessing that it contained within this act. The bible tells us in Matthew 27:50-51, "Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent."

You see, as God's plan for the reclamation and the redemption of man was completed, there was no need for the priest to enter in and make intercession for the people anymore, that was accomplished by Jesus Christ. He now sits and makes intercession for us. You see in Romans 8:34 the bible says, "Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us."

Therefore Christ, through His death, burial, and resurrection, has not only given us the miraculous and powerful gift of the Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost), but He also allowed us to experience the powerful privilege that only a select few in the Old Testament, such as Moses, Abraham, and Elijah, to name a few, were able to experience. Not even the great and wonderful David was able to communicate with God directly. Think about that for just a second! You are able to do something and enjoy a privilege that one of the most influential men in the Bible was not!

Prayer is a privilege and it is one that we should take full advantage of in our daily lives. You don't communicate with your spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend once or twice a week and so why should you talk to the lover of your soul and the God of all creation on such a limited basis? Why should we be so eager to spend hours on the phone talking about somewhat insignificant or inconsequential things when we have a God who wants to give us all of the desires of our heart if we will only seek Him first. Please, spend time with the one who did so much for you and I. I don't think that is too much to ask, do you?...