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While I take a break from the live morning broadcasts I’ve done for the past 14 months, I will still leave some written encouragement for each day.  This week’s focus will be on prayer walking.

“Jesus called the crowd to him and said, ‘Listen and understand.’”
Matthew 15:10 (NIV)

Take some time this week to pray by either physically walking or visually walking through your neighborhood.

Today’s focus is to pray for a lifestyle of listening that uses all of your senses as you walk — wherever you walk.

The more we practice using all of the listening techniques we’ve been praying about to direct our prayer time, and during our prayer time, the more we develop a lifestyle of prayer.  Pray for God’s help in becoming a better listener as you spend time praying for others.

In prayer,
Tom

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While I take a break from the live morning broadcasts I’ve done for the past 14 months, I will still leave some written encouragement for each day.  This week’s focus will be on prayer walking.

“This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God”
1 John 4:2 (NIV)

Take some time this week to pray by either physically walking or visually walking through your neighborhood.

Today’s focus is to pray for a spirit of discernment that comes from God’s Spirit as you walk — wherever you walk.

What does the spirit within you sense is going on?  What is God’s Spirit saying to you?  Pray that you would live in step with God’s Spirit.

In prayer,
Tom

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While I take a break from the live morning broadcasts I’ve done for the past 14 months, I will still leave some written encouragement for each day.  This week’s focus will be on prayer walking.

“My heart says of you, ‘Seek his face!’  Your face, LORD, I will seek.”
Psalm 27:8 (NIV)

Take some time this week to pray by either physically walking or visually walking through your neighborhood.

Today’s focus is to pray that your heart would seek God’s face and be filled with compassion as you walk — wherever you walk.

How do you feel?  What emotions are brought up by what you see and hear?  How would a heart of compassion respond?  Pray that your heart would always seek God’s face so that it would not become hardened.

In prayer,
Tom

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While I take a break from the live morning broadcasts I’ve done for the past 14 months, I will still leave some written encouragement for each day.  This week’s focus will be on prayer walking.

“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
Romans 12:2 (NIV)

Take some time this week to pray by either physically walking or visually walking through your neighborhood.

Today’s focus is to pray that your mind would be opened to God’s truth as you walk — wherever you walk.

What do you think?  How do you interpret what you see and hear?  Pray for a mind that is transformed by God’s will.

In prayer,
Tom

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While I take a break from the live morning broadcasts I’ve done for the past 14 months, I will still leave some written encouragement for each day.  This week’s focus will be on prayer walking.

“Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.”
John 4:35 (NIV)

Take some time this week to pray by either physically walking or visually walking through your neighborhood.

Today’s focus is to pray that your eyes would be opened as you walk — wherever you walk.

What do you see?  Beauty, trash, broken things, acts of kindness?  What do you see that isn’t being said?  Fear, loneliness, anger, sadness?  Pray for eyes that see the harvest opportunities.

In prayer,
Tom

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While I take a break from the live morning broadcasts I’ve done for the past 14 months, I will still leave some written encouragement for each day.  This week’s focus will be on prayer walking.

“Then Jesus said, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear.’”
Mark 4:9 (NIV)

Take some time this week to pray by either physically walking or visually walking through your neighborhood.

Today’s focus is to pray that your ears would be opened as you walk — wherever you walk.

What do you hear?  Sirens, laughter, crying, birds, silence, conversation?  What are people saying to you?  Prayer requests, hurts, joy, nothing?  Pray for ears that hear beyond the surface so you would know how to pray.

In prayer,
Tom

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While I take a break from the live morning broadcasts I’ve done for the past 14 months, I will still leave some written encouragement for each day.  This week’s focus will be on prayer walking.

“For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.”
Acts 17:23 (NIV)

Take some time this week to pray by either physically walking or visually walking through your neighborhood.

The purpose of a prayer walk is to allow God to use the things you see and hear in your home, school, church, community, or wherever you are, to speak to you about how you should pray.  A walk may reveal things for you to rejoice about as you recognize God’s creativity and goodness.  It may also give you things to pray about as you notice mankind’s mark that has been left on the world.  Either way, there is much we can learn about prayer as we walk, watch, listen, and respond.

Here are some steps to help you in your prayer walk.

1.  Take a note pad or index cards to jot down things that God brings to your mind.
2.  As you begin, spend time in prayer asking God to clear your mind and spirit of any distractions so that you may listen to Him
3.  Pray as you walk. There may be times that you pray out loud and other times you may pray silently.  Use your senses and God’s spirit to know what to pray about.
4.  As you pray, ask God to bring scriptures to your mind to pray for the area you’re in. Jot these down as you go.
5.  Even though you are trying not to stand out, don’t avoid people. They may be someone you need to pray for.  Listen to God and listen to them if contact is made.  Jot down any follow-up that God may prompt you is necessary.
6.  Relax. To quote Brennan Manning in Ragamuffin Gospel, “Just as a child can not do bad coloring, a Christian can not do bad praying.”

In prayer,
Tom