Amen. We're going to continue with our topic of praying for results and, as we were sharing this morning, what a great privilege we have of accessing the throne room of God. The blood of Jesus gives us that bold access. Every time you kneel down to pray, the right to pray is because of the blood of Jesus. Amen? When we approach, when we come in, we need to be careful that we don't count it common. The price that was paid to give us the ear of God, to be able to access His presence, was that precious sinless sacrifice. The whole thing came about from before the foundations of the world. Stop and think for just a moment. Not only our redemption, but God, foreknowing all that was going to take place, paid this price to reestablish man's access back to Himself. That which sin, the fall, took away, prayer has restored to us to be able to commune with God, that precious communion that Adam had as he walked with God in the cool of the day. Stop and think about that. That was prayer time. God came and walked with him. They talked and they fellowshipped. That's what we're doing when we're praying. That's what brings us back to, not only relationship, but if you stop and meditate some on this thing, what was lost in the fall, and what redemption afforded us back, prayer accesses: fellowship, the heart, the ear of God. I believe that the fruit, then, of prayer and the fruit of that relationship begins to be the reestablishing of our righteousness. The fruit of redemption, our innocence, if you please, and all that was stolen that the first Adam had, redemption and prayer has given us back. What a tremendous gift that we have!

We've talked about the fact that there's no topic probably in all of Christendom that has more books written about the subject than prayer, and yet it's probably one of the least practiced-maybe tithing is right on up there-among churches today. Some information that I gleaned over the years and I heard again referred to not long ago. The average evangelical-that means people that really believe in the Bible and have the born-again experience-averages praying maybe eight minutes a day. Think about that! Now when you stop and you compare that with gossip, I would say your average Christian probably gossips more than eight minutes a day. None of us, we're talking about all those other people that aren't as holy as we are. I wonder how much time is spent talking about the football game in a day, among evangelicals, Bible-believing, Jesus' return is imminent, did you hear about the game? I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm saying, what's the treasure of our hearts? What value do we put on the practical aspect of prayer, communion with God?...