{"id":1640,"date":"2025-09-09T14:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/closer-to-god-prayers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:12:21","slug":"closer-to-god-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/learn\/closer-to-god-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"12\u7bc7\u4eb2\u8fd1\u795e\u7684\u7b80\u77ed\u7977\u544a\u2014\u2014\u5305\u62ec\u5728\u67af\u5e72\u671f"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Twelve short prayers for wanting to be closer to God, grouped by where a person actually is: at the start, in the dry stretch, and in the ordinary middle. One honest note first. Closeness is not a feeling, and the prayers below do not try to produce one. When starting out 1. For wanting to want it God, I am not sure I want this as much as I say I do. Start further back than I asked. 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