Imagination in prayer?

Tonight was another night of worship practice, (my abosolute favorite thing in the world). I mean most people are excited about quick rehersals, me on the other hand, I am majorly disapointed. To kind of set the stage here, the drummer was an hour late, so we sat around and just shared about what Christ was doing in each of our lives and kind of what our expectations were for the evening. Before prayer I asked the worship leader, "so what's Christ been showing you lately?" To my suprise, his answer has still left me in somewhat of a daze. He began sharing about how he and his new bride had just found out that she has scholiosis. Not the worst disease in the world, but not fun. He told us that he prays everyday over her, but that in his prayers he imagines himself putting the bones back to where they need to be, or lengthened etc...what faith!

I think that he hit a key point. I think there is a direct coorelation between faith and how we visually view what we pray. I sometimes think about my daily times with Christ and when I pray how request after request flies out out of my mouth, and yet what picture is painted in my mind? If when I prayed for healing for people I actually visualized the healing of Christ falling upon that particualr person and seeing the actual healing in my head. I remember one time in a meeting with this one leader we were sitting down and he was sharing about the sermon on the mount. He asked me, "Steff, you ever just imagine yourself sitting on that hill before Christ, can you feel the grass between your fingers and the rays from the hot sun, can you imagine Christ speaking to you, and those around you, and just having his gaze rest upon you as he says, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.." I pray that I would grow in faith to see things that are unseen.