This is my personal favorite type of prayer. I find it more fun and rewarding than any other type of prayer. "Relationship prayer" is where we build and develop our personal relationship with God, where we get to know Him better - to know His personality, His likes and dislikes; and to develop an in-depth personal friendship with God.
It is sad, but a lot of believers don't know they can pray this way. So many Christians never develop the depth of intimacy with God that He desires them to have. Many believers don't know how to listen to God, to recognize His voice, and how to hear Him speak directly and personally to them in many aspects of their day-to-day life.
God loves His children and wants to be involved in every aspect of their lives. And relationship prayer is one of the ways that we learn to invite and recognize God's involvement in our day-to-day lives.
Let's look at some of the elements of relationship prayer.
Worship
The NKJV Bible has 201 verses that contain the word worship, and it is used in either of two contexts. Either the person is worshipping God, which pleases God, or the person is worshipping something besides God, which displeases Him greatly. In fact, in Ex. 34:24, God says point blank, "For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God."
The word praise is used 283 times in the Bible, and almost every time it refers to people's reactions to God after He did something for them. Many people equate praise and worship to the same thing, but they are really two different things. The focus of praise is on thanking God or exalting God for what He does for us, or for what He is about to do for us. For instance, Leah praised God when He gave her a son in Gen. 29:35. David praised God for delivering him from Saul and all of his enemies in 2 Sam. 22:1-4. The Israelites praised God for defeating enemy armies in 2 Chron. 20:22. In Ps. 18:3, David praised God because he knew that God was going to (future tense) deliver him from his enemies. Deut. 10:21 says, "He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen." Ex. 15:11 sums it up this way: "Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" The focus of praise is on God's actions, on the things He does for us.
Worship is something different from praise. Worship is our response to the very presence of God. They are not totally unrelated, because there are times that God's actions make us aware of His presence. Then we respond to His presence by worship. Let's look at a couple of verses that talk about worship. Ex. 4:31 talks about the people of Israel responding to God's visitation by worshipping Him. It says, "So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped." Ex. 24:1 talks about Moses bringing Aaron and the 70 elders up the mountain of God (e.g., approaching Him or coming into His presence) so that they could worship Him. Exodus 33:10 says, "All the people saw the pillar of cloud" (e.g., God's tangible presence among them) "standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door." In other words, their response to God's presence was to worship Him.
Many books have been written on worship. There is so much that can be said on this topic alone. But the most important thing we can say about worship is that it is "two-way." We begin by exhorting Him, by declaring His goodness and recalling the things He has done for His people. (So far that is "praise" or exalting/magnifying God.) Then, somewhere in that process, God shows up with His presence. Worship is when we respond to God's presence. That response can take on many forms. It can be joy or awe or excitement or comfort or sometimes Godly fear as we realize just how big and how powerful and how wonderful our God is. We can't help but respond to His presence and all else becomes unimportant as we flood our senses with His presence.
There are times when amazing things happen as we worship. There are times when people are spontaneously healed as we worship. There are times when enemy oppressions or bondages fall off as we worship. There are times when His presence (in worship) brings healing to emotional wounds or brings closure to problem areas that keep coming up over and over in a person's life. God is truly amazing, and when His tangible presence shows up, awesome things can happen.
Worship is an activity that can be done corporately or individually. There are many expressions that worship can take. The most common one is to music - to sing or dance before His presence as an act of worship. In fact, most corporate worship is done to worship music. The music redirects our attention from the problems/distractions of the day and helps everyone begin to put their focus on God. We begin to think about God's goodness and His greatness, and to invite His presence. And God frequently responds by coming to meet His people in tangible ways.
Worship to music can also be done individually, in the privacy of your own home or car or even on public transit (via a walkman and headphones). Different types of music work for different people; there isn't a right or wrong style of worship music. They key is to choose music that works for you, worship music that gets your focus and attention on God. And as you begin to praise Him through song and invite His presence, He begins to show up and meet you in wonderful ways. If you have never had this experience before, I recommend you give it a try because there is nothing as wonderful as coming into God's presence.
Music is not the only way you can worship. You can worship by thinking about God and His greatness, by recalling things you know about His nature and reminding yourself of things He has done in your own life, and then inviting His presence with you. Recall those times where God has miraculously come through for you. Remind yourself of those times when He protected you from harm. Remember those times where God has met you in a personal way, to help you grow and learn of Him. Remind yourself of what God has spoken to your heart and of the promises He has made to you. Remind yourself of the testimonies of others who have blessed or encouraged you. God is an awesome God and He has done many great deeds; spend some time reviewing those and reminding yourself of them. That is a type of praise that leads to worship.
There is a praise/worship exercise that many have found very helpful. Get a piece of paper and list 10 reasons you worship or like or respect or honor God the Father. This can be because of things you know about Him from the Bible. Or it may be recalling things He has done personally for or with you. When you have finished, jot down 10 reasons you worship or like or respect or honor Jesus. When you've finished that, do it again for the Holy Spirit. Some of you will find that you won't want to stop at 10 items and you may want to list more. Others may find it was surprisingly hard to come up with 10 things you worship about each member of the Trinity. (If you happen to hold a different theology than the popular one of a Triune God, e.g., you don't believe in the Trinity, then put your focus on Jesus Christ and list 25 things about Jesus.)
Sometimes churches will have "soaking meetings" (also known in some circles as "Holy Ghost meetings" or "renewal meetings," depending on which circle you travel in). The focus and intent of the meeting is to allow people to meet individually with God and to bask (or rest) in His presence. God will often speak to you deeply and personally during these meetings and He will often manifest His glory to people in them. There seems to be a special anointing of God's tangible presence on these meetings.
These meetings are often characterized by a long period of corporate worship and then by some personal testimonies. There may or may not be a short teaching or sermon. There is usually an extended ministry time where worship music is playing and those who desire it can receive some type of personal prayer, intended to help them connect with God in a deeper way. Some denominations will have prayer teams that pray for people. Some will have only the minister or church staff pray. But regardless of the church's style, people can receive some type of individual prayer inviting God to meet them and reveal Himself to them in a deeper way. The purpose of these meetings is to allow people to have a personal and deep encounter with God. After they have received brief prayer ministry, they will usually stay in God's presence for an extended period of time.
During this time, people come to be personally assured of God's love for them, to get to know God more personally, to worship Him, to experience His goodness or some other aspect of God (maybe His holiness or His faithfulness or His power). Some people report tangible sensations along with this, such as heat or tingling or what feels like sweetness or honey or oil pouring over them. Some people are flooded with the peace that passes all understanding. Some are flooded with joy and may even break out laughing. Others are flooded with deep repentance regarding an area were they have been in rebellion against God, and they may end up crying softly or even sobbing loudly. Some may see visions or angels. Others will be very quiet and not have any physical sensations or visions, but they will be filled with a deep confidence or conviction in whatever area God is meeting them in. The way God meets people can take on many forms. But the key is that people have deep and sovereign encounters with the Living God. And this is a wonderful form of worship and prayer where God meets and interacts with His children.
Conversational Prayer
Conversational prayer is where you and God hold a two-way dialogue. Most of the time, God uses the "still small voice" for conversational prayer, and His voice sounds very much like our own thoughts. The better you get at recognizing His voice, the easier conversational prayer becomes. If you would like more help in recognizing God's voice, I recommend you look for the Dialogue With God individual workshop. That is available free on GodSpeak's website at: http://www.godspeak.org/workshop
Sometimes you will initiate the conversation with God. You may just start talking to Him about a subject, fully expecting Him to interact with you on it. Or you may end up asking God a question, such as asking Him what His opinion is on some current event or on a given church you visited, etc.
Let me share an example. One time I watched a TV show called "Texas Justice." It is a state of Texas small claims court where both sides present their arguments to the judge on TV and then the judge makes his ruling. One of those cases was where a contractor did a very poor job (and he did $2,000 of damage to the person's home). The person refused to pay the final installment of $500 because of the poor quality of work and the damages done to other parts of his home during the job. The contractor sued the person for the unpaid $500. For some reason, I became rather involved with this case and I hoped the judge would make the contractor return the $1,500 he'd already been paid to help cover the $2,000 in damages he'd caused. The judge ruled in the defendant's favor, that he did not have to pay another penny to the contractor, but he didn't require the contractor to pay for the damages he'd caused. I was very unhappy about the verdict and I began to ask God what He thought about it. (That is not a very spiritual topic, is it?) God answered, but not in the way I expected.
Instead of talking about the show, He began talking about His judgments. He began telling me that judgment belongs to Him, not to me, and as His spokesperson, my job is to merely report His judgments to others and not to have opinions about the way His judgments should go. We had a bit of a dialog on that, but God did most of the talking after I'd asked the initial question. (This is an example of a conversational prayer that I initiated.)
There will be times when God will initiate the conversation with you. He may ask you a question or He may do something to get your attention. And then He will begin to speak to you about it. You may end up asking Him questions about what He is saying so that you understand it better. That is also a form of conversational prayer, where you and God talk and interact on a given topic.
[We will look at some more types of relationship prayer in our next lesson.]
More on Relationship Prayer
Relational prayer is prayer simply to draw closer to God, to get to know Him better and to experience and enjoy His presence. Relationship prayer is prayer where we develop and expand our personal relationship with God. There are many types of prayer that fall in this category. We discussed two of them in our past lesson: worship and conversational prayer. This lesson and the next one look at some more forms of relationship prayer.
Intimacy Prayer
Intimacy prayer is where you develop your personal intimacy with God. It is not prayer that tries to accomplish some sort of goal, such as getting a task accomplished or covering another person's needs in prayer. The sole goal of intimacy prayer is to spend time with God. From a task-orientation perspective, intimacy prayer is not very productive. In fact, it will usually work against you to have a specific task or agenda during intimacy prayer. (The one exception to that is if you have a goal of building a deeper personal relationship with God, because that is the only goal and purpose of intimacy prayer.)
Simply put, intimacy prayer is you and God spending time together that is not dedicated toward accomplishing a specific task or goal. It may feel like you and God are "wasting time" or "just hanging out."
Jesus appears to have spent a lot of intimacy time with God. The Gospels are full of passages where Jesus went away to pray for extended periods of time. Mark 1:35 records, "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where He prayed." In other words, Jesus made it a point to spend time alone with God in prayer. Luke 5:16 describes it this way, "But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed." There were times when He "hung out" all night with God the Father, such as Luke 6:12, "One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God." In fact, Jesus' prayer life and the depth of intimacy He had with the Father made such an impression on His disciples that they asked Him to teach them how to pray like He did (Luke 11:1).
Think about how you develop deep friendships in the natural. The key ingredient in building most relationships is in spending time together, in getting to know each other. A lot of relationships start by having some common goal or interest. As you talk and communicate in the area of common interest, you begin to get to know each other personally, to share personal things that are not related to the initial goal or interest. For example, I joined an internet club dedicated to healthy eating. The club had a "buddy system" where you were matched up with a few people with similar goals. The system was set up so you could share recipes, nutrition tips, encourage each other toward your common goal, etc. However, as time passed, personal details began to slip into the conversation, such as what we each did for a living, how many children we have, things we were excited or frustrated about, etc. Over time we got to know a lot about each other by spending time talking to each other. And intimacy prayer is the same type of thing. It is getting to know God better by spending time with Him for the sole purpose of getting to know Him better.
God already knows you perfectly and fully, but you probably don't know Him nearly as well as He knows you. Intimacy prayer is getting to know God better. Let me share a few of the forms that intimacy prayer might take. You might fellowship as you sip your favorite coffee or tea. Or you may invite the Lord to join you as you are watching TV or reading a book. You might invite the Lord to go jogging or hiking with you. You may find that you and God get into conversations as do something together. The conversation may start by discussing something you are looking at or watching on TV, and then it might go from there to somewhere else. It is often very similar to when you invite a friend over to watch a show and you start talking to each other during the show or during commercials.
Let me share one of my favorite intimacy prayer times with you. This was back when the San Francisco 49ers were a championship football team and it was next to impossible to get tickets to home games because they were so popular. My husband and I were big fans. God arranged for us to have some tickets on the 50-yard line (about 10 rows up), e.g., excellent seats, that we got for the "face value" of the tickets. That was unheard of during that time in the team's history. Normally season ticket holders would sell that type of ticket for about three or four times the face value. So there we were with our great seats and it was also a very exciting game. As it happened, the seat next to me remained unoccupied during the entire game. I was enjoying the game immensely. During half time, I stopped to thank God for giving me such wonderful seats and making it possible for us to go to the game. Suddenly, I got a mental image of God sitting next to me in that empty seat. In my mind's eye, I pictured Him sitting with a hotdog in one hand and having His other hand wrapped around my shoulders. Suddenly I was very aware of His presence and I could almost feel His arm around me. So I invited Him to enjoy the second half of the game with me. He took me up on that offer and just before each play, He would tell me what was going to happen next. It would be an incomplete pass or they would run the ball for so many yards. And He was right each time. The play would go precisely as He told me it would. Somehow God's presence at the game made something fun and wonderful even more enjoyable. By the end of the game, I felt closer to God than I'd felt in a long time. It was a wonderful experience.
Intimacy prayer is inviting God to share your experiences and your pleasures with you, inviting Him to break into your day anytime He feels like it, or sometimes to just "hang out" together. I remember one time God and I were "hanging out" and He asked me, "What would you like to do, Teresa?" I replied, "I don't know, Lord, what would You like to do?" Then I realized how much that sounded like a conversation I might have with one of my human friends and I started laughing. I began to realize that God was not just my Lord and Master, He was also becoming one of my best friends.
Spirit-Directed Prayer
Spirit-led (or God-directed) prayer is where God gives you instructions on how to pray or what to pray about and you simply follow His directions. This falls under the Holy Spirit's job description of "Helper," of helping us in our relationship with God (John 14:15-17), and "teaching us all things," including how to pray (John 14:26).
Sometimes the instructions will be to pray on a specific topic. Other times they will be especially on the way He wants you to pray. The thing that makes this type of prayer so neat is that God personally gets involved in it with you, clearly leading and directing you how to pray.
Let me share an example. This happened back when I had an incorrect understanding of God the Father. I saw Him as harsh and impossible to please. In my thinking, Jesus had to stand between me and the Father to keep Him from getting mad at me and punishing me for trivial mistakes. One day God directed me to spend the next several days praying only to God the Father and that I was to address Him as "Daddy." Those instructions terrified me. It is laughable when I look back on this. But at the time, I was afraid that addressing God the Father as "Daddy" might boarder on blasphemy. I was afraid it would be showing disrespect to God to address Him by such an intimate term, and I was afraid that I was going to get in trouble if I heard wrong on this. On the other hand, I did not dare simply ignore the instructions because if they really did come from God, ignoring them would be willful disobedience, and I would get in trouble for that. So it felt like a catch-22 to me, and I was afraid that I would get in trouble no matter what I did. So I spent a whole day simply going back to God and asking Him to confirm or correct those instructions. If it was He, I wanted to obey Him, but I did not want to get in trouble by doing it if that prayer direction was not from Him. (My quandary on this demonstrates how messed up my concept and understanding of my Heavenly Father was. And it gives you an idea of why God wanted to deal with this area of my life/thinking.)
A full 24 hours after I received those instructions, I prayed my first prayer to "Daddy" God. I was almost surprised (but very relieved) that He did not strike me dead for addressing Him so familiarly. At first it was very scary to follow God's directions on how to pray. But by the end of the day, I was getting comfortable thinking of Almighty God as "Daddy." God corrected my misimpressions of Father God during the next few days. I came to know Him as warm and loving, and that was where I first began to develop my personal relationship with God the Father. To this day, when I am praying to God the Father, I still frequently address Him as "Daddy."
It is not uncommon for God to direct us to pray a certain way or along a certain theme to help break us out of a misconception we have about God. Or He may ask us to pray a certain way because He wants to break out of some box or limitation that we have put on Him. Spirit-directed prayer is one of the ways that God reveals Himself to us. We begin to experience His nature in a certain area as we follow His directions.
Relationship Prayer Continued
Relational prayer is prayer for the propose of drawing closer to God, of getting to know Him better. It allows us to experience and enjoy His presence. It helps us to develop and expand our personal relationship with God, to get to know His nature experientially. There are many types of prayer that fall in this category. We have already looked at worship, conversational prayer, intimacy prayer and Spirit-directed prayer. Let's look at two more of them.
Listening Prayer
Listening prayer is precisely what it sounds like. It is listening to God on whatever topic He wants to talk about. Sometimes this will come from you seeking God earnestly to speak to you about a certain area. Other times God will initiate it without you having ever sought Him on the subject. Sometimes God speaks to you about an issue you are facing. Other times He may talk about an aspect of your character or nature that He desires to "work on." Sometimes God will tell you about heavenly things.
It doesn't really matter what topic God decides to talk to you about. It is a very good idea to listen to Him when He decides to speak to you about something.
Sometimes God will meet you in private places to talk with you. He frequently talks to me when I am in the shower. God frequently talks to a close friend of mine when she is driving alone in her car. God will "break in" to your routine and begin to speak to you about something.
God can touch on any number of topics. One time He began telling me a bit about angels. For instance, sometimes when God gives an angel an assignment, He leaves it up to the angel's discretion how to carry out the assignment. God may give the angel a message to deliver. He may leave it up to the angel to decide whether to do an angelic visitation or give the message to the person in a dream, or perhaps another way. God lets the angel decide the precise details of how to carry out the assignment, and He allows them to use some creativity in this. (There are also times when He gives them explicit instructions down to the last detail.) I was really surprised when He talked to me about angels, because I didn't need to know those details to be effective in my walk with Him.
Sometimes God will talk to us about heavenly things simply because He likes talking to His children. Other times He will talk about very practical things that we need for our Christian growth. Sometimes He discusses an area of our life that we need to turn over to His lordship. Or He may choose to talk to us about something He is going to do in our lives.
Let me give you an example. God was about to bring me into a training module on His holiness. He told me to sit down to write, telling me in advance what He was going to do, so that I would be prepared when it happened. Here is a portion of what He said to me:
I am going to begin to reveal My Holiness to you. This will be a frightening time for you, for it is a fearsome thing to come before the very presence of Almighty God. Child, know that your sins are forgiven. When you stand before Me and taste of My holiness, you will be overwhelmed with your own sin. Know that each and every sin is under the blood of the Lamb and is forgiven and cleansed. You are going to find that My presence, which you have so desired, is not at all like you expect it to be. It will truly be terrifying for you, but at the same time it will be a time of awe for you. It is not possible to come before the presence of the living God and not be totally overwhelmed. When you stand before Me, you will be aware of every imperfection and every impurity. And child, you will be horrified with how you will see yourself.Know in advance that I am not horrified with you. You have been seeing Me through a very thick cloud, through a veil. I am about to lift the corner of that veil and give you a glimpse of My glory. You will not be able to handle it, no human being can. You will be so frightened that you will want to run away from Me. But fear not, I am going to prevent you from doing that, for if you did, you would "kick yourself" over that behavior for a very long time. You will be so terrified and overwhelmed with My glory and My holiness that you will not be able to think clearly.
Do not be frightened of making inappropriate responses. Child, it will not be possible for you to respond to Me in a manner that you consider appropriate; you will not be in control at all. I will be in control.
You will find that I am good and I am loving and I am full of mercy and grace. At the same time, child, you will find that I am truthful and I am realistic. I am going to examine some areas of your life where you will not measure up. But fear not, I am not coming to condemn you, but to reveal and then to transform. Child, you will feel very small in My manifest presence. But know this, I am with you and I am for you and I will cause you to be changed and transformed.
Godly Imaginations
This next one may sound a little strange, but did you know that God can and will bring His glory and Lordship into our imagination? Left to our own devices, our imagination is usually a wicked and carnal thing, as per Is. 65:2 and Is. 66:18. But the Holy Spirit wants to transform our minds (including our thinking and our imagination). He wants to renew our mind. Romans 12:2 says, "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - His good, pleasing and perfect will." In other words, we can submit our imagination to God and ask Him to transform it and us it to His glory.
There was a time when my imagination was very ungodly. My thinking was not sexual in nature, but I found lots of ways to sin in my thought life, all involving imagining certain things. It became a stronghold the enemy had over me.
At one point, about 13 or 14 years ago, God broke that stronghold and set me free from it. God gave me back control over my imagination. But I was terrified to use it, afraid that I might fall back into bondage. One day, I prayed, "Lord, please bring Your presence into my imagination. Let it be used for Your glory." I didn't really expect God to answer that prayer, and I was quite surprised the first time He did.
What God did was to invite me to stretch my imagination toward heavenly things and things of God. One time I was reading the story of how God delivered Israel from Egypt's captivity. I came to the part in Exodus 14 where God parted the Red Sea for the Israelites to pass on dry land, and Pharaoh forced his army to pursue them through the parted sea. I found myself wondering what it must have been like from the soldiers' perspective. I mean, God was a pillar of fire standing between them and the people they were chasing. Chariot wheels were falling off, slowing them down. They were marching between giant walls of water towering over them. I wondered what it was like from their perspective, since they were enemies of God.
Suddenly I felt God telling me to let my imagination run with that. At first I was afraid to do that because of the past problems I'd had with enemy oppression regarding my imagination. But God promised to be with me and invited me to let Him use my imagination to His glory, just as I had prayed.
So I mentally "became" one of the foot soldiers chasing the children of Israel. I remember feeling very nervous about entering the tunnel between the ocean as the water towered over my head. But I knew that I'd face instant death if I did not move forward, because my commander would thrust me through with his sword. So I pressed in. Somehow in the midst of all this, I ended up somewhere near the front of our line. When I saw the pillar of fire form before me, I suddenly realized that this was really a powerful God. I found myself wishing that I could know this God, Who cared so greatly for His people and protected them in such powerful ways. I found myself dropping to my knees before this God. I knew that I would get run through with a sword from my commander if I did not get up, but somehow knowing this God seemed more important than life itself.
(Let me explain that this was what I call a "pretend." I knew it was not real. I knew that in reality I was sitting in my prayer room, but I could still sense and identify with the feelings and emotions of this "pretend" soldier much more than if I were watching a movie in a theater.)
In my pretend, I found myself praying, "Oh God of the Israelites, I want to know you. Is there anyway that this is possible?"
Just then, flames from the pillar of fire shot out and devoured the solder who was advancing toward it on my left. I did not move, but remained kneeling before God. I could literally feel His presence and His holiness (just like I have felt His presence in a vision or other times when He chose to manifest Himself to me in a tangible way. I knew this was a pretend, but God's presence in it was real. I sort of pulled out of the pretend scenario, becoming frightened of how involved I had become in it. God spoke to me and told me it was OK; He was with me. He told me to allow my imagination to continue and to get to experience Him from this perspective.)
So I allowed the pretend to continue. I remember feeling surprised that my captain never ran me through with my sword. The other soldiers near me began to retreat after the one was consumed by the flame. But I remained kneeling before this God. I felt the same terror I once felt in a "real vision" when I was transported before God's throne and saw some measure of His glory. I knew that in the pretend, the blood of Jesus was not covering this foot soldier. I expected the fire to devour my "character." But instead God began to speak to the soldier. He said that He would accept the soldier as His own if the solder desired to honor and serve Him. The soldier would have to lose his physical life with the other soldiers, but God would grant him eternal life if he believed on God. Still pretending to be the soldier, I expressed a very real commitment to His Lordship in my life, whether I was to live or die. I remember feeling astonished by the grace that God had for those who turned to Him, even back before Jesus came to die for mankind.
The pretend continued a bit longer, but you don't need to know all of details. The point is that God used my imagination to allow me to feel and experience things (knowing they weren't really happening) in a seemingly "real" fashion. It made me experience God's character and His nature and His grace from a different perspective, and the end result was that I became even more in awe of Him and felt even closer to Him.
Since that experience, the Lord has invited me to use my imagination to feel His glory in many other ways. Once I experienced what it might have felt like to Isaac walking up the mountain with Abraham so he could be sacrificed, and then experiencing God's faithfulness when Isaac's life was spared.
We can invite God to bring His glory and presence into our imagination. Sometimes He will use our imagination (when yielded to His Lordship) to reveal a bit more of His character and nature to us, to draw us close to Him. This type of thing must not be confused with visions or divine visitations. They are very different things. But God would like us to present our minds and imaginations to Him. At times He likes to show us things about Himself through applying our imagination to Bible stories, etc.
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