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Do you ever feel like God is way up there

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and you're way down here? I'm

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Lena Abu-Jamal, and this is today's single

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Christian. Sometimes, even though

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I know that God is always with me,

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he just seems so far away. No

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matter how hard I try to muster his presence,

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it doesn't feel like it's working. The

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things I believe seem stuck in my head, not

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quite touching my heart. If you

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know exactly what I'm talking about, rest

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assured that it doesn't have to stay that

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way. The secret to feeling close to

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God when he feels far away is prayer.

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Prayer is the language of intimacy that

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draws you near to the heart of God.

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Most of us wait until we feel God's

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presence to pray, but the opposite is true.

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It is when you pray that you will sense his nearness

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to you. So go ahead and tell him about your

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day. Speak your doubt into faith as

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you utter the name of Jesus, and pretty

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soon you'll see he really is closer

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than you think. For a closer walk with

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Jesus, visit today's single Christian Comm.