Daughter or Orphan?

Sometimes when I ask God to intervene in a situation, I feel like my request is hitting the ceiling. Am I the only one that feels that way? I doubt it. Recently when I was thinking about this, the Lord asked me, "Are you praying as a daughter or as an orphan?" You see, a daughter has every right to come into her Father's chamber and sit at his feet or on his lap and talk things over with him and make requests of him. It is the Father's delight to respond to his daughter when she does this. But an orphan has no rights. She must wait outside the house, hungry and cold and scared. She has no access to the Father. Romans 8:16 says, "Now if we are children, then we are heirs - heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ..." This makes it pretty clear that we are not orphans, but daughters or heirs. As daughters (or sons), we can approach the throne of grace with confidence!