A Prayer Walk is where believers walk throughout a neighborhood, usually in pairs, stopping to pray to the Lord for the people who live, walk and pass through the comunity. The walk begins at a meeting place, disperses to walk and to pray, and concludes by gathering back at the place where the walk began.
For the last several years, Bloor Lansdowne Christian Fellowship - BLCF Church is one of several Christian Churches that participate in monthly Prayer Walks on the evening of the first Tuesday of the month. This Tuesday, June 3, BLCF Church will host June's Prayer Walk.
If you would like to participate in the next Prayer Walk, join us this Tuesday at BLCF Church sanctuary at 7:30 PM. Every prayer counts.
" For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” - Matthew 18:20
Question: "What is prayer walking? Is it Biblical
to go on a prayer walk?"
Answer: Prayer walking is the practice
of praying on location, a type of intercessory prayer that involves walking to
or near a particular place while praying. Some people believe that being close
to a location allows them to “pray nearer to pray clearer.” Prayer walks are
taken by individuals, groups, and even whole churches. They can be as short as a
block or as long as many miles. The idea is to use the five senses—sight,
hearing, smell, taste, and touch—to increase the intercessor’s understanding of
prayer needs.
For example, if you walk through your neighborhood looking
for things to pray about, you might come across a yard that is extremely untidy
and rundown. This might prompt you to pray for the health, both physical and
spiritual, of the residents inside. Some groups prayer walk around schools,
prompting prayer for the teachers and students inside, for their safety and
peace, and for the schemes of the devil in their school to be thwarted. Some
people feel they can concentrate and direct their prayers more effectively by
walking near the people and places they are praying for.
Prayer walking
is a relatively new phenomenon, the origin of which is not clear. There is no
biblical model for prayer walking, although since walking was the major mode of
transportation in Bible times, clearly people must have walked and prayed at the
same time. However, there is no direct command that prayer walking is something
we should be doing. To believe that prayers offered in any setting, or while in
any position, are more effective than those offered at another time or in
another manner is not scriptural. In addition, while we may feel we need to be
close to a location or situation to pray more clearly, our heavenly Father, who
is everywhere at all times, knows exactly what needs are present and will
respond to them in His own perfect will and timing. The fact that He allows us
to be part of His plans through our prayers is for our benefit, not His.
We are commanded to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians
5:17), and since walking is something we do daily, surely part of praying
without ceasing is praying while walking. God hears all prayers offered by those
who abide in Christ (John
15:7), regardless of time, place, or position. At the same time, there
certainly is no command against prayer walking, and anything that prompts us to
pray is worthy of consideration.
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