The apostle, speaking in Ephesians, Chapter 2, tells us in verse 18, “For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.  Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”  We see, then, this privilege to come and realize that our access is by the Holy Spirit, “by one Spirit.”  We access Him boldly through the blood; we get before Him, we get quiet, and we allow the Holy Ghost to begin to pray through us (amen?) according to (what?) the will of God.  Hallelujah.  Pray in tongues more.  When we pray in tongues we don’t have the understanding.  We need to put our understanding aside and pray the will of God in the Holy Ghost because, many times, the Holy Ghost will not be praying what you want to pray; He is going to pray what is good for us, not what we want.  Those are not always the same thing; amen?  Paul was very bold to speak to the Corinthians, “I thank my God, I speak in the Spirit more than ye all” (1 Corinthians 14:18).

Looking at a number of these passages that we have just been meditating on over this last number of days, I was suddenly taken up and thought, “Man, you talk to God a lot.”  I spend a lot of time alone.  As I take note, it’s something that happens so habitually that I really don’t understand it as I have been trying to think along these lines.  I just always talk to Father.  If I would verbalize it, people would think, “You’re nuts.  Who are you talking to?”  But I just catch myself saying, “Father, what would you have me do in this situation?”  “Father, we just need a visitation from Your Holy Spirit.”  “Father, we need to know Your divine purpose for us as a fellowship, as a community.”  “Just come into our midst and show Yourself mighty, Father.  Overwhelm us with Your presence.”  It’s just constant:  I find myself praying when I’m sitting there, perhaps watching some kind of TV program or a ball game or whatever.  It’s always the Holy Ghost praying through me according to the will of God.  Let Him have His ministry in you, constantly praying in the Holy Spirit.  In this hour, as we believe God for these great visitations, this access has been provided for us.  That passage that we saw in Hebrews 11 tells us that those who come to Him must believe that He is who He revealed Himself to be.  Well, Jesus tells us in the Sermon on the Mount, as He is talking about our daily needs in the Lord’s Prayer, that we are to pray this way: “Give us this day our daily bread.”  He told us to pray this way: “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”  That is, “Deliver us from the evil in the world today,” or, “Deliver us from the evil one”; amen?

We see in Matthew 6, that Jesus is teaching the Sermon on the Mount, that passage that is referred to so often as we meditate upon the great promises that Father has given us.  In verse 34 (I think this is so vital as we begin to understand) He gives this admonition: “Take therefore no thought for the morrow.”  If you are praying, then you are living in the presence of God and taking no thought for tomorrow; amen?  When I am in prayer, when I am in the presence of God, I am not thinking about tomorrow; I’m thinking about the presence of God.  I am keen to hear that next Word that He breathes, which can change my life.  The one thing that He makes sure that we understand is in verse 26 (listen): “Are ye not much better than they?”  There is nothing else in God’s creation that is more important to Him than you are.