The Prayer Walking Street Guide
WELCOME to Issue #189 of The Seedhead from Alex and Hannah at Dandelion Resourcing - a weekly confidence booster to help you step into naturally supernatural discipleship and mission!
Prayer walking might sound a little intimidating, but it's really just a down-to-earth way to connect with God and your community wherever you are on mission.
When you prayer walk, you're not just talking to God about your own stuff. Instead, you focus on the needs of your lost friends, neighbors, and colleagues, right where they are already doing life.
Really it is a form of spiritual warfare.
You take a stroll around your place of mission, whether that’s your neighborhood, school, college, workplace, sports field, or wherever. As you go you're lifting up the needs of the people and places around you.
It's like putting on God's glasses and seeing the world through His eyes. You start to really notice the struggles and joys of the folks living there, and you can bring that straight to Jesus.
As you go you're asking the Holy Spirit to work through you, to guide your steps and your words, as you observe what's going on around you. It's a chance to get your heart in tune with God's heart for the people in your area.
Part of the observation is what you see in the natural (people you pass, the state of buildings, things you already know about households you’re passing, etc), and part of the observation is what you sense in the spiritual realm. For instance, God might give you prophetic prompts to pray in certain ways, or show you the spiritual powers that are in operation in a particular location, or give you a glimpse of His heart for certain people or situations.
Since you’re not publishing your results or making public proclamations, you’re able to follow those spiritual hunches and pray them in. Go with what the Spirit stirs in you, and boldly pray - intercession, thanksgiving, praise, in tongues, confession, breaking curses, speaking blessing, and so on.
We have found prayer walking to be a powerful way to change the spiritual atmosphere in a place. Sometimes it takes just a few times of prayer to make an impact, while other times it can take many years! But we have found it to be a real game-changer everywhere we’ve lived on mission.
Next Steps
What experience do you have of prayer walking? What tips do you have for best practice, helping others get started with it, and for seeing prayers make a difference? Either email us with your responses, or join in the Seeding Session (below) to share with many others!
To find out more about prayer walking, we invite you to join us for…
Seeding Session #4: How to Transform Your Neighborhood Through Prayer Walking
Join us on Monday April 22 at 12pm EST/ 9am PST for this dynamic training on the theology and practice of prayer walking!!
We’ll share some of our stories, and equip you to prayer walk in your place of mission.
Everyone who registers will receive a video recording of the session, which you can use to train others in your local church.
Full info is here, and you jump straight to the registration page here.
And if you are a Seeding Sessions Annual Subscriber, you can just show up, and also send in questions in advance!
**SPECIAL OFFER: The regular price is $49 - but if you sign up by Sunday 5pm PST you can join this Seeding Session for only $25! That includes the video afterwards as well! Simply go through the purchase process and enter coupon code WALKING25 on the checkout page. 💜
Let’s take seriously our mandate to live as missionaries who carry spiritual authority - as long as we fight with weapons that Christ gives to us. Among those, prayer is perhaps the most crucial! Prayer walking is a mighty way to combine prayer and mission.
Blessings,
Alex + Hannah
ALEX AND HANNAH ABSALOM
P.S. We’d love to see you on Monday April 22 at the Seeding Session - reserve your spot now!
