PRAYER WALKING
THE OBJECTIVE OF ACROSS
NEW ENGLAND
• Mobilize the church to pray for 1000 homes on
or before your event.
• For your association or church to unite, train
and pray for: God to send laborers into the
fields, open doors for the message of Christ,
and people to respond favorably to the
invitation to attend the special events churches
are hosting.
• Join the collective cry across New England for
the saved to go and the lost to come.
WHAT IS PRAYER WALKING?
Prayer Walking is…
• Walking on site with insight- prayer in
motion.
• A lifestyle of unceasing prayer (1 Thes.
5:16-18; 1Tim. 2:1-4)
• Intentional prayer toward the Great
Commission
• A crucial tool for ANE or any mass
campaign
WHAT IS PRAYER WALKING?
• Prayer walking has…
–God as it’s author (Romans 11: 36)
–Jesus Christ as it’s leader
(Hebrews 12: 2)
–The Holy Spirit as the enabler
(Romans 8:26)
–Kingdom purposes as it’s end (Acts 1: 3)
WHAT BELIEVERS CAN LEARN
FROM PRAYER WALKING
• How to pray strategically
(Ephesians 6: 18-20)
• How to focus our prayers on others
(Ephesians 3: 14-19)
• How to engage in spiritual warfare
(2 Corinthians 10: 3-5)
• How to pray for a specific area
(Luke 19: 41-44)
WHAT BELIEVERS CAN LEARN
FROM PRAYER WALKING
CONT’D
•The value of agreeing
together in prayer
(Matthew 18: 19)
•The joy of participating
in the harvest
( John 4: 35-38; I
Corinthians 3: 6-9)
“The man who
mobilizes the
church to pray
will make the
biggest
contribution to
world evangelism
in history.”
(Andrew Murray)
I. THE BIBLICAL BASIS FOR
PRAYER WALKING
1.Abraham (Genesis 13: 14-17)
2.Ephraim (Hosea 11:3)
3.Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:3)
4.Jesus and His followers
(Luke 10: 1-2a)
5.Preparation for seeding & harvest
(Acts 17:23; Matthew 9: 38 )
II. THE GEOGRAPHICAL
STRATEGY FOR GPS PRAYER
WALKING
1. Organize your area by geographical
segments that your church can seek to
reach annually.
2. Choose one segment a year to cast a
seed sowing net.
II. THE GEOGRAPHICAL
STRATEGY FOR GPS PRAYER
WALKING
2010
2011
2014
Your
Church
2013
2012
II. THE GEOGRAPHICAL
STRATEGY FOR GPS PRAYER
WALKING
3. Use the BCNE (Mapping Center) to
request a name list for your neighborhood
segment.
II. THE GEOGRAPHICAL
STRATEGY FOR GPS PRAYER
WALKING
4. Also organize your church to
relationally cast a net over your
community annually.
5. Each member can pray for 3
un-churched friends or neighbors
throughout the year.
II. THE GEOGRAPHICAL
STRATEGY FOR GPS PRAYER
WALKING
Your
Church
III. THE KEY PHASES OF
PRAYER WALKING
1.Before the Walk: Preparing for
Across New England
When the average Christian today prays only five
minutes a day, it is important to:
A. Begin to prayer walk now by practicing the
presence of Christ wherever you go.
B. Prepare your heart (Psalm 139: 23-24)
C. Focus your mind (Philippians 2: 5)
D. Seek God’s guidance (Psalm 2: 8)
The five W’s of prayer
walking include:
• Who will go?
• Where will we go?
• Why are we going?
• When are we going?
• What will we pray?
III. THE KEY PHASES OF
PRAYER WALKING
1.Before the Walk: Preparing for
Across New England
D. Distribute neighborhood name
lists to teams
•Review the street / area to pray
•Plot a pathway to walk
E. Pray before leaving
III. THE KEY PHASES OF
PRAYER WALKING
2. During the Walk: Praying
•Open your eyes (Ephesians 1: 18)
•Open your mouth (Jeremiah 33: 3)
•Pray together (Matt 18: 19)
•Pray scripture (Matt 4: 4, 7, 10)
• Pray to love your neighbors as yourself
(Matt 22:39)
III. THE KEY PHASES OF
PRAYER WALKING
3. After the Walk: Debrief
• Rally Together
• Tell
• Assess what
the Spirit said
IV. THREE DIMENSIONAL
PRAYER
1.Praying strategically for unbelievers
A. Pray for receptive hearts (Luke 8: 5-8)
B. Pray for spiritual eyes and ears to be open
(Matthew 13: 15)
C. Pray for them to have God’s attitude toward sin
(John 16: 8)
D. Pray for them to be released and to believe
(2 Timothy 2: 25-26)
E. Pray for transformed lives (Romans 12: 1-2)
F. Thank the Lord for what He will do
IV. THREE DIMENSIONAL
PRAYER CONT’D
2.Praying specifically for believers
A.To have Christ’s joy (John 17: 13)
B. For them to recall Christ & His supremacy
(John 17:7, 8)
B. To be kept from the evil one (John 17: 15)
C. For them to be sanctified (John 17: 17)
D. For them to be on mission (John 17:18)
E. For them to be one (John 17: 21)
IV. THREE DIMENSIONAL
PRAYER CONT’D
3.Praying scripturally for the neighborhood
A. For God’s name to be honored (Matt 6: 9)
B. For God’s will to be done (Matt 6: 10)
C. For daily spiritual, emotional and physical needs
to be met (Matt 6: 11)
D. For forgiveness to prevail (Matt 6: 12)
E. For deliverance in trials (Matt 6: 13)
F. For God’s kingdom to come (Matt 6: 13)
G. For the breaking down of strongholds (2 Cor.
10:4)
V. PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER TO
REMEMBER
1.All of our failures are prayer failures
(James 4: 2)
2.Nothing of eternal importance is ever
accomplished apart from believing prayer
(Romans 10: 9 & 13)
3.God is always at work around you (John 5:17)
4.Talk to God about people, before you talk to
people about God (Matthew 6: 33)
V. PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER TO
REMEMBER CONT’D
5.Prayer can do anything God can do. Since
God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent
6.God has more to give than we request
(Ephesians 3: 20)
7.If the request is wrong, God says “No”. If the
timing is wrong, God says “Slow”. If you are
wrong, God says “Grow”. But, if the request
is right, the timing is right and you are right,
God says “Go”. (Bill Hybels)
OTHER RESOURCES
• BOOK: "Follow Me: Lessons for Becoming a
Prayerwalker" by Randy Sprinkle, New Hope
Publishers, 2001.
• BOOKLET: "Taking
Prayer to the Streets:
Prayer Journeys Pocket
Guide" by C. Thomas
Wright, North American
Mission Board.
• WEB: www.BCNE.net/prayer