prayer walk

[Ellen Hawley]

how does prayer walking work...I have never done it and is does sound like a tremendous way to cover the neighbourhood and town etc.

 

Not only that, but it is also good healthy excercise to walk at the same time....

[Reimagine Curator]

A good question - you can use the Search box to find "prayerwalk" ideas and resources on this site -

http://www.praynetwork.org/main/search/search?q=prayerwalk

[Reimagine Curator]

Here is a prayerwalking ministry in action ...

Beloved friends... Yesterday I sent out a Prayer Request about a 1700-mile prayerwalk that starts tomorrow. But this morning in prayer, it hit me... That email wasn't really a bona fide prayer request;it was more of an announcement; the prayer part was merely implied.    Please forgive me. In my zeal to "get the word out," I didn't fill in the blanks. Mind you, in the last 24 hours, I've heard from many of you who have already begun to pray, so it's not a matter of you not "getting it;" it's a matter of communicating clearly.   Because you guys matter. Your agreement-in-prayer is the lifeblood of this mission.   Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.-- Jesus (Matt. 18:19-20)   So, one day late, here are some important prayer points: Pray for favor with pastors and leaders You've heard me say many times, "Favor is better than talent." We need to connect with the right leaders in the right places.    Pray for daily divine appointments Just a handful of the 77 daily stops along this 1700-mile route are ready for us, but many are waiting for us; they just don't know it yet. This wasn't intentional. Due to other "homestretch" initiatives already on our plate, it became a choice of adding this surprise-assignment right now (by faith) or not doing it at all. Faith won.    Pray for miracle provision Simply pray that those whom God is calling to support this mission would respond in fearless obedience.    Pray our intercessors stay connected We just started a Facebook page for daily pictorial updates and prayer requests. Folks need to go there "like" it to be in the loop. (Separate from my personal page.)   Pray for Deanna We will be apart more this year than we've ever been. Not an easy gig, since we actually like each other. She's faithfully paid the price for years. Pray she's rewarded.   Pray for Vikki and their kids Kevin and Vik still have kids at home. Deanna and I remember those days. Tough gig.   Pray for our feet That the joy of the Lord would be our strength.    Keep in touch It means the world to us when we hear from you. It fuels our feet.   As a reminder of what the "battleground" looks like...  I've copied a watershed letter below. Worth an intercessory re-read. Thanks so much-- h   An Unvarnished Confession (First published, July 2014) Beloved of Christ...         For the sake of God's glory manifest in the unity of our missional-partnership, I beg your indulgence as I speak from my heart...   For 13 years, I've been prayerwalking our nation as a pastor-at-large with a prophetic call to repentance-in-unity. Alongside fellow pastors, my friends and I have walked over 15,000 miles across the length-and-breadth of the land, watching God touch tens of thousands of lives across hundreds of communities nationwide.   With Governor Mike Huckabee on our first prayerwalk, 2001   From this unusual vantage point, I've seen much of America's spiritual landscape up close. This doesn't make me an "expert," but it has certainly broadened my perspective. So, from this fairly wide bandwidth of hand-in-hand experience with leaders throughout the greater body of Christ, here's what many of us find troubling:   (Scroll down, please) We're isolated. Many of us, especially leaders, have few, if any, genuinely close, intimate friends. We're better atgetting together than beingtogether.   We're offended. Oftentimes, we're better at commiserating about what's wrong, politically or culturally, thancommunicating the love of Christ. If we're not careful, we can build relationships on counterfeit unity, which is simply a shared offense...being against the same things. 1   We're unconsummated. God's promises of fruitfulness are for those who dwell daily in His presence. 2  We are the bride of Christ. Marriages require intimacy; intimacy requires privacy. Healthy married couples enjoy a lifetime of honeymoons, but many of us have  little-to-no "alone time" set aside for our heavenly Bridegroom.   Further, from our prayer-closets to the pews...  Many churches have relegated corporate prayer to a special "A-Team" of intercessors, but our agreement-in-prayer was never meant to be a "members-only" endeavor. Indeed, the fellowship of body-wide prayer is essential to the advance of the Gospel. 3    There is a pressing need for fervent prayer-leadership.  Scripture doesn't designate "intercessor" as a separate gift-office. 4 This distinction helps to avoid confusion, empowering praying churches to flourish within the secure framework of Biblical accountability.   Notwithstanding, many of my closest friends are die-hard intercessors...courageous, tenderhearted and fiercely loyal. They haven't separated themselves; they've been segregated by our prayerlessness. They're not the problem; the rest of us are.  Praying with my heroes at the Vermont Statehouse (CapitalWalk) Friend and prayer partner, Governor Sam Brownback   But far more important...    ...than these concerns is the breakthrough we see God bringing to whole communities, usually starting with us "reverendized" folks:   Clockwise from top-left: Our Mid-Ohio Valley family, Bishop Derek and company in Connecticut,  Kansas Statehouse, crazy pastors in Rhode Island, and my wise-guy brothers from Jersey. We're making friends.  The word "relational" is common leader-speak, but we've started using the word "friendship" more. When we leaders break past the polite acquaintances of ministerial alliances and become real friends, look out! Cities begin to change. The regional body of Christ rises up to be the New Testament family we can only be together. These are the birth pangs of true revival.   We're repenting as His people.  When friendship-driven unity breaks through on the scene, we champion one another in genuine humility, embracing the Holy Spirit's conviction that leads to life. 5  We're all reminded that God's "if My people" promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14 places the responsibility for the spiritual condition of our cities squarely on our shoulders. No more finger-pointing at everybody else. As the Church goes, so goes the nation. 6 We're praying with passion. Every place we go, pastors and leaders share similar testimonies: That the simple, spiritually-organic experience of prayerwalking their streets together as a band of brothers (and sisters) is leaving them smitten...for their city, their calling, and even for each other, all over again.  Real friends pray together. Bishop Ray Motts and Kevin praying in New Rochelle, NY  (Boston-NYC Prayerwalk) A NATIONAL MINISTERIAL NEWSLETTER recently outlined six surefire ways to reach one's city for Christ. Somehow, working with other pastors and churches didn't make the cut. There are tons of "how to" resources about reaching the lost...but, ultimately, they won't work, unless we are one.     Or do we not believe what Jesus prayed?   May they be one just as We are one...so the world may know You have sent Me. --Jesus   (From John 17:22-23 HCSB, emphasis added)   THE TENDERNESS of friendship is suffocated by the tyranny of the urgent. If we trade face-to-face fellowship for Facebook, expecting to please God without truly investing in each other, we are deceived. Loving God and loving people is a package deal. Jesus says so when He underscores the Two-Part Greatest Commandment in Mark 12:29-31. Loving God, loving people...  Both or neither: Take your pick.  If you're all-in, please join us... Footnotes: 1. Luke 23:12  2. Psalm 91:1, John 15:7-8  3. Acts 2:42-47               4. Ephesians 4:11-13  5. 2 Corinthians 7:10  6. National Prayer of Repentance