Being close to God

I listen to tons of sermons, have lots of conversations about God and think about my relationship with Him a lot. But I'm struggling with prayer lately. As I listened to a sermon this morning- I was reminded of Abraham and how he pleaded with God about saving Sodom. Pleaded!! God allows us to be our child, he wants us to call Him daddy, not father sir. Yet, in knowing all of this- I still am scared to consistently go to God in prayer and seek him in His word. It's not that hard, yet I struggle with it so much! 

In this sermon from this morning. It talked about how we have to be obedient to what God says in step 2 before he will reveal step 3 to us. I've also been pondering that... Big stuff there