 Your feelings don't prevent you from being in the presence of God. Your feelings, though, can prevent you from having confidence that you are in the presence of God. Your feelings cannot prevent you from having an audience with God. But your feelings can prevent you from believing in the fact that God actually hears you. And that, of course, disrupts your prayer life. It disrupts your devotion to the Word. Why? Because you're not aware of that presence. You feel like you're working for that connection. Or you might feel like you have to perform in order to get God's attention.