Imaginative Prayer: Experiencing God

Our journey into imaginative prayer has taken us through objections and answers, entering a gospel scene, Jesus’ presence with us, and inner healing. For this last post, I want to offer some suggestions on experiencing God in imaginative prayer through Bible reading. I have touched on this in previous posts, but now I want to […]

Imaginative Prayer: Inner Healing

In the last post, I tried to explain how using our imaginations could help us experience Jesus in the present and future. In this post, I want to go the opposite direction: experiencing His presence in our past. This form of imaginative prayer is called inner healing. But what possible benefit could there be in […]

Imaginative Prayer: Jesus With You

  In the last post on imaginative prayer, I described a type of praying in which you imagine a gospel scene. Here you enter the story of Jesus and meet Him there. For this post, I want to go in the opposite direction. What would it be like for Jesus to enter your story and […]

Imaginative Prayer: Entering A Gospel Scene

In the last post, I argued for the validity of using our imagination in prayer. But accepting its validity is only a first step. Experiencing its transformative power provides its own self-validation. So for the next few posts, I want to offer various types of imaginative prayer with the hope that you will try these […]