 Remember this. We do not pray to connect with God. We pray from connection with God. It's because we are already connected with Him that we can pray. Now, believers have issue with this because they imagine that their past sins disqualify them, or they think that because they skipped a few days of reading their Bible, or maybe skipped church on Sunday, or because they made a mistake that now they have to work to gain back that relationship with God, but it's not a points-based system. It's not as though for every day that you miss prayer, God takes another step away from you. How could He ever leave you if He lives within you?