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How can people maintain a normal relationship with God? It depends on them supplicating, praying, and interacting with God in their hearts. This kind of relationship allows people to always live before God. Therefore, in order to establish a normal relationship with God, people must first be quiet. Supplicating is when something happens to you and you want God to help you, to guide you, to provide for you, to enlighten you, to make you understand His intentions, know what the truth is, understand what the truth principles are, and know how to practice the truth—this is the kind of supplication that accords with God’s intentions.

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Prayer is talking to God about what is in your heart or seeking the truth from God. You can pray anytime and anywhere. Fellowship in the spirit doesn’t take any particular form: You may have something you want to say, or you may not. Ordinarily, you should try to contemplate on questions like how God loves man, how He worries about man, why He prunes man, what it really means to submit to God, and so on, communicating with God at all times and all places, praying to God, and seeking from Him. This is fellowship in the spirit. There will be times when you suddenly feel low in spirit. When this happens, you should pray to God immediately, and draw close to Him, speaking to Him about what’s in your heart and confiding in Him at all times and wherever you are. In this way your state can be reversed.

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If people can fellowship with God often, they will have much to say to God. God is your closest confidant. If you treat God as your closest confidant, as the family you depend on the most and you find the most trustworthy, then it will be impossible for you to have nothing to say to God. If you always have something to say to God, you’ll always be living in His presence, and then you’ll be able to sense at every moment how God enlightens and guides you, how He cares for and protects you, and brings you peace and joy, how He blesses you, and how He rebukes you, disciplines you, and judges and chastises you. All of this will be clear to you.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Only by Often Living Before God Can One Have a Normal Relationship With Him