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?

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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 2014 2011 Your Church 2012 2013

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:

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Who will go?

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Where will we go?

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Why are we going?

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When are we going?

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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

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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