In this week’s Parsha Bilaam has his prophesies.  There is a mishna in pirkei avos that talks about people who have bad character traits, and they are called students of the wicked Bilaam.  We see that although Bilaam was such a lowly evil person, HaShem still saw fit to grant him prophesy, and to rest His Presence upon him.  We can learn very important lessons from this.  We can never lose hope of developing a connection to HaShem for we will never sink to be as bad as Bilaam was, and if HaShem was able to tolerate him, certainly we can be allowed into His.  Also we see that HaShem is willing to do things beyond the ordinary in order to save the Nation of Israel.