A hostile world! I call to God, I cry to God to help me. From his palace he hears my call; my cry brings me right into his presence — a private audience! [Psalm 18:6 (MSG)]

Knock and the door will open. [Luke 11:9b (MSG)]

The peasant can’t just come before the king to speak and we’d be hard put to get an invitation to meet with the president or even our governor. The Prime Minister of England has an audience with the Queen only once a week. A private audience with the Pope is all but impossible unless one is a head of state or a high ranking dignitary. When he’s in Rome, the Pope does have papal masses and a public audience weekly but tickets are required for that. Yet, whenever we call on God, we all can have a private audience with Him because Jesus Christ purchased the ticket for us!

Thank you, O Lord, for always allowing us to approach your heavenly throne.

By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us — set us right with him, make us fit for him—we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that’s not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand—out in the wide open spaces of God’s grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise. [Romans 5:1-2 (MSG)]