One great difference between Christianity and all other religions is that the believer has a prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God! He hears each one of us, just as He heard Hannah as she wept before him asking Him to open her womb and give her a son.
Eli told Hannah to go in peace and may the God of Israel grant her request. When she went away she no longer fasted and her face was no longer sad. She had heard directly from God's servant that her prayer would be answered. Even before her answer came, she received it by faith and worshiped before the Lord!
We can do exactly the same thing today. Only we no longer need a high priest to intervene between us and God like in the Old Testament. We have our High Priest, Jesus, sitting at God's right hand forever making intercession for us! We have His completed works of the cross to base our faith on. We have His blood covering us, so that when the Lord looks upon us He sees Jesus. And we can come boldly to His throne, asking whatever we need, in Jesus' name and it SHALL be given to us! (Jn. 14:13,14)
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