We Christians must grow in our confidence that we can go directly to God for answers and solutions to life's dilemmas.  God has a solution or an answer to any and all of the things we face in life.  James encourages us to ask God if we lack wisdom in a given situation, and He will give it to us.  (If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him - James 1:5)  

Jesus presents us to the Father; He takes us with Him when He enters the Father's presence as the God-man on man's behalf.  Just as the High priest under the old covenant entered into the presence of God with the names of the tribes of Israel on his breastplate, symbolically carrying the whole of Israel into the presence of God on their behalf, so our High Priest of the new and better covenant carries our names into the presence of the Father.  Sinlessly, He wears our humanity as he approaches God the Father.

As we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, we are united with him through the presence of the Holy Spirit in our being.  When this occurs, what is true of Jesus' relationship to the Father becomes true for us.   Jesus perfects our worship, perfects our prayers, and even perfects our faith (looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith - Hebrews 12:2).  He continues to mediate between God and us, and because of this, we can and should go to the Father with complete confidence that we are accepted and listened to when we pray.

The Christian community has leaned too heavily on someone else having an answer for them.  We can see evidence of this by looking at the myriad of how-to books and seminars and the vast amount of para-church ministries that specialize in providing solutions for Christians.  These books and organizations try to teach us everything from how to get wealthy, how to parent, how to have a good marriage, to how to pray.  The preacher/teacher should simply teach the truths of the Scriptures and allow those who are listening to seek God for the application of those truths.

The process of seeking God for the application of Scriptural truths causes us to grow in our relationship with the Father.  Western culture wants solutions and answers NOW, and doesn't want to work to get them.  We want someone to tell us how to do things instead of learning them for ourselves.  If we operate this way, we end up with feeble Christianity - our faith will be weak, and our lives become shipwrecked.  The Scriptures invite us to go to the Father ourselves, and Christ has made a way for us.  God will listen to you as He listens to Jesus, because Jesus presents you to Him.

Look to God personally.  Learn about Him and wait on Him.

Hebrews 6:19-20:  This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God's inner sanctuary.  Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 10:19-22:  Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.