Do you consider that there is a difference between entering into the holy presence of God, and coming to the throne of grace in prayer?

This text is from a transcript of a talk by David Gooding, entitled ‘Why Talk to God?’.

Not in my mind, there isn't. Well, I'm not sure what the question means, but there is a sense in which we're always in the presence of God, for 'In him we live and move and have our being' (Acts 17:28). In that sense we are in the presence of God. But if we come into the holiest of all, as Hebrews puts it, I take that is in the sense of coming into the divine presence (Hebrews 10:19–22).