How can you grow closer to the Lord?  Prayer is communicating with God and it is through constant communication with Him that you will be closer to Him.  

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

(James 4:8)

PRAYER PROMOTES SPIRITUAL GROWTH 

You grow by self examination. 

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

(Psalms 139:23-24)

You grow by acknowledging and confessing your sins to Him. 

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

(Psalms 51:2-3)

You grow as you ask for wisdom 

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

(James 1:5)

You grow as you study God’s word. 

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

(Psalms 119:18)

You grow as you apply God’s word and your life changes. 

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

(2 Corinthians 3:18)

May you continue to grow in Him. 🙂