God isn’t a lucky charm you rub before a test. He’s a Person who wants to be known.

Treating God as a mechanism for outcomes turns the relationship into a transaction, and transactions break the first time the result is not delivered. Something approached only before tests, games and interviews stays a tool, useful and thin, and you never find out whether there was anything else there. A person is known through ordinary, unremarkable contact.

Talk in a week where you need nothing in particular. Ask questions rather than making requests. Keep the requests too, since they are honest, and let them stop being the whole of the conversation.