CRISTA Prayer Walk

"How To's" of Prayer Walks

What is prayer walking?

“Praying on-sight with insight.”
The purpose of prayer-walking is to seek God's guidance, mercy, and transforming power for CRISTA as God's servants in the community and places in the World we have been called to.
Become more aware of what you see while you walk and pray by connecting prayer-walking with structured observation. More details will be given at the beginning of each prayer walk.

How do you pray?

• Pray for discernment -- Seek the gift of seeing the ministry through Christ's "lens," and to discern what God is already doing there; ask God to show you how you can pray with greater insight for the people, events, and places in the ministry.

• Pray for blessing – Pray over every person, you encounter; for God's intervention in each life, so that each one can be fruitful in God's kingdom; for God's will to be done in this ministry "as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10).

• Pray with empathy -- See and feel what residents, workers live with every day; offer intercession for those things that express brokenness and grieve God's spirit, and give thanks to God for the blessings and gifts that exist in there.

• Pray from Scripture -- Prayers based directly on God's word can be especially powerful. You may want to bring a Bible with key passages highlighted, or copy verses onto note cards.

• Pray in God's power -- allow times of silence for God's spirit to speak to you, or through you (Romans 8:26). Ask with confidence in the power of Jesus' name (John 14:12-14). Like the disciples sent out by Christ, we are empowered to push back the darkness (Luke 10:17-18).

 

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