Can ordinary people talk to God?
Was there no other way to come to God except through a Jewish priest or by offering sacrifices? What about people who lived before there was a nation of Israel? – people who were not Jews? – people who simply wanted to ask God for help? – the Jews later on, when they lived in foreign lands? Could they not speak to God directly? We know from reading our Bibles and noting the many, many examples of prayer to God in heaven that God always listens to the prayers of people. For instance, we read in Genesis 24 about the servant of Abraham, who prayed for success on his journey to find a godly wife for Isaac, Abraham’s son. We can observe how he thanked God when his prayers were answered. We can read in Job 42 how Job prayed for his friends after God had healed him from his awful sickness. Hannah, the mother of Samuel, prayed to God because she was childless (I Samuel 1,2), while Daniel, a captive in Babylon, “his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees th
