Building that relationship with God is very important and we need prayer to it, we need to add prayer to it.
Most people believe that only one has to do is pray, which is very wrong. Everything is needed. Prayer works and studying the Word of God also works. We have come to understand that prayer is not necessarily sufficient.
God also wants us to desire Him, to believe in Him, to trust Him, to seek Him. We must come close to God by reading the Word of God, taking His commandments and loving others.
When we ask Him, we need to forgive people who wrong God and show that we really love God, then He can really take us. In my personal life, I have also experienced so many things.
God has really drawn us closer to His experience. Prayer is opening the door and leaving His Word. Truth cannot be secreted.
You know what He said? If we desire God, then we can be really closer to God.
It is also important that we pray. Closeness to God is achieved when we pray and obedience to God also when we interact with Him in our day-to-day life.