Prayer Walk
WHAT IS PRAYER WALKING?
A missional prayer experience which focuses on 3 primary things:
Intercession for those around us by asking God what he is already doing and how we can join him
Spiritual Battle & Blessing - engaging in aggressive, combative prayer focusing on taking back space and authoritatively blessing the people there
Discovering the Person of Peace God is preparing in that community who is both open to the Gospel, and who can be the connector and gateway to other people.
BEGIN BY TAKING AUTHORITY
Praver walking is an exercise in authority. As children of the most high God. we prav with power. knowing that we are ambassadors of God. This sort of praver is not timid, but aggressive in nature, combative to the gates of hell. Authoritative praver deals within the supernatural, as we expect to see God show up in power, through signs, wonders, and deliverance.
Pray covering prayer (see right)
Take authority over the land by declaring responsibility and establishing authority in Christ
Listen/ask what the Lord is doing in this place and what he wants you to pray or do- Obey with any instructions he gives you with his strategy for this space.
Ask the Lord if there are any places you need to bind the enemy or ask him to remove evil.
Declare the Lord’s truths and blessings over this space.
Pray for personal cleansing prayer from any schemes the enemy may want to bring over me and my family as a result this prayer (see right)
PRAY WITH A MISSIONAL OUTCOME OF CONTINUED DISCIPLE MAKING
Prayer reveals the people in whom God is already at work, and who is ready to respond to an invitation to discover God. Prayer is not the end goal, new disciplemaking is.
Be ready to engage with people you encounter, as these may be divine appointments
If natural, explain to people what you are doing, saying something like, “We like to pray for our neighborhood, is there anything we can be in prayer for you about?”
Pray that the Holy Spirit would reveal Person(s) of Peace in the community.
Persons of Peace are people who show spiritual interest and are relational connectors to others
Be ready to extend an invitation to Discover what God says in the Bible to those who are spiritually interested- Invitations to begin Discovery Bible Studies arise out of natural relationships, and as a result of serving others and engaging in spiritual conversations
SAMPLE COVERING PRAYER
Father, please cover us against the dark forces in this place. We put on the full armor of God, so we may stand our ground against the schemes of the enemy. We stand firm and cloth ourselves with the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the helmet of salvation, the gospel shoes, and the shield of faith to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
We repent of any sin that we intentionally or unintentionally committed and take our stand in the authority and power of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection.
We know that the Battle is the Lord’s and will humbly submit to His strategies to take this space.
We take up the sword of the Spirit and invite your Kingdom to come and will to be done in us today!
SAMPLE CLEANSING PRAYER
Father, we just ask you to put the cross of Jesus and what Jesus did on the cross between us and everyone we’ve been in contact with today.
That you would cleanse from our spirits any grief, sorrow, pain, anger, chaos, confusion, oppression, depression, rage, wrath, any voodoo, hexes, incantations, word curses, white witchcraft, or anything like these that have been prayed against.