He’s Right There. I led an imaging prayer session this morning. I love receiving the image the Holy Spirit wants my clients to experience, then leaving them in silence as they work directly with the Lord. Priceless. Today’s image was, as always, a surprise to me. (I don’t make these things up.) Today’s image started off in the chaos of a stock trading floor. I described the image, then left them to it to experience what the Holy Spirit had for them this morning. When the women shared their imaging prayers for interpretation, the Lord had removed some of them from the chaos into expansive peace. Others, including me, were…

Imaging prayer (Christian contemplative prayer in the sanctified imagination) does great things in the pray-er’s life. Heh, forget “great things”, think “miracles”. The problem with talking about it though, at least for me as a spiritual director, is that a lot of people who are interested in it want to know its benefits. Of course they do! There’s nothing wrong with that. God’s Word is FULL of benefits, full of treasures and crowns: eternal life, poured-out blessings, answered prayer. These things are all true. It’s also true that imaging prayer can change your life, just like it did mine. God led me to the little book that started my journey…

I talk a lot about imaging prayer but I realize that I don’t necessarily talk about it in detail on my feed. That’s not a deliberate decision since I practice and lead imaging prayer all the time. I guess I just hadn’t thought about sharing them. Mine, anyway. Please note that although many religions and philosophies practice meditation, contemplation, and visualization, imaging prayer is specifically Christian contemplative prayer using the sanctified imagination. Which yeah, is a mouthful. It’s different because we believe that the Holy Spirit directly grants the imaging prayer, whether it’s still images, a narrative, or words. And although any believer can learn and practice imaging prayer, I…