PRAYER WALKING

Isaiah 52:7

Prayer walking is a prerequisite to Gospel Saturation. We want to go where Gospel Saturation will be done and saturate the area with prayer on Sunday afternoon before the saturation begins on Monday. We want God to prepare the hearts of the people to receive His Word. PRAYER IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE PREPARATION FOR GOSPEL SATURATION.

“Prayer walking enables us to saturate the streets with prayer by concentrating on homes and families in giving the Gospel of John to every home. It is praying on site with insight. It is simply the Spirit of God helping us to pray with spontaneity in the middle of the place where we desire the Lord to work and answer our prayers. Prayer walking is a way to focus our prayers actively while walking the streets or where there are people who have a spiritual need.”

Prayer walking is not a picnic – it is work! It is interceding to God for people in a specific place that He will free them from the darkness and lostness that the devil has them in.

Personal Preparation

Before beginning the prayer walk (depending on the location, the group may be driving around the area and praying instead of walking), the team will meet for a brief time of worship, silent prayer to confess any sins, forming a circle to pray as a group for protection as they go out, and that the Holy Spirit will go before them to guide each step. It is also a time to receive any instructions that may need to be given. The team will divide into groups of two to three people, praying with eyes open, walking in a designated area, praying aloud if you choose to do so, not to call attention to yourselves, but walking in a natural manner, praying for the people in the area. A specific time will be set to meet back to share experiences.

 

As You Are Walking

Be attentive to the leading of the Holy Spirit to see the people in the area and their needs.

• Praise the Lord as you pray and walk

• Ask the Lord to bind the forces of evil in the area where you are praying

• Claim the promises of God, and pray Bible verses you remember

• Pray that God will prepare the hearts of the people to receive the material

• Pray that someone in each family will read the Gospel of John and tract

• Pray that the lost will open their hearts to the Gospel of Christ and be saved

• Pray that the sowing of this gospel will bring a harvest of souls into the kingdom

• Ask the Lord to cause a spiritual awakening in each home

• Pray for protection for those who will be saturating homes with the gospel this week