When you make a habit of listening to God (ALWAYS a great idea), sometimes you will get impressions of his will. Sometimes you may hear his voice directly. And sometimes you will experience the prayer of imagination, or imaging prayer, the Holy Spirit guides your imagination in prayer. (If you want to get Latin about it, this is also called kataphatic prayer, the prayer with images.) Imaging Prayer Imaging prayer is something that I discovered back in the 1980s in a series of books by the Reverend Morton Kelsey, an Episcopalian priest. Kelsey was severely depressed. Making it worse, he woke up at 2:00 am every single morning so he…

I’m writing this blog on March 25, 2020, right smack dab in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. I’m in California, so have been socially isolated for a couple of weeks now. This is not a huge change in my lifestyle since I already work from home. But not being able to teach my Bible study, or go to church on Sunday, or see my friends, has been strange. Many of us are dealing with the social isolation by walking. But walking isn’t just for exercise, or keeping yourself sane in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. Walking also helps believers to focus on God, listen more clearly, and pray…

You know you love Jesus. You know you’re saved because of his great sacrifice. What you may not know is an ancient Christian prayer called “breath prayer”, and how it can help you to deepen your sense of the Holy Spirit’s presence. These are breath prayers: words from Scripture that fit into the space of a single breath. They are not verbal because you’re breathing while you’re praying. You pray the first short phrase while inhaling and finish the second phrase while exhaling. That’s it. Breath prayers do not replace classical prayers that Jesus taught. You go right on praising God, confessing your sins, petitioning for yourself, interceding for others,…