Have you ever prayed and it felt as though God was a million miles away and your prayers bounced off the ceiling and everything was dead and lifeless?  Have you ever found yourself like the psalmist David? “Where are you God, Be not far from me nor turn a deaf ear to my cry.”   Is this just perception??? Or could it be that the door of my heart is closed?  In times for testing and character God will sometimes allow us to walk in the wilderness or maybe even hide His presence and revelation from us. God wants to see how hungry we are for him and if we can walk by faith and not just feelings. He desires us to seek and knock!  Prayer is often knocking on the doors of not only our hearts but of heaven! We must open the gates, the doors, that the King of Glory can come in and out!