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Prayerwalking

Contributor / Topic: Hawthorne, Steve and Kendrick, Graham
Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

Like the March for Jesus, prayerwalking is a public demonstration of Christ's love. Its unique contribution is the emphasis placed on prayers offered for the needs of community in which the walk takes place and for the needs of the whole world. It is a valuable complement to the March for Jesus and can be a strategy for daily prayer. In hundreds of cities world over, ordinary believers are prayerwalking through the streets of their communities. They pray while walking, with eyes open for the spiritual awakening God is bringing. We define prayerwalking as "praying on-site with insight. " There is no set pattern or proven formula. Prayerwalkers have set out with every imaginable style. There's nothing magic at all in the footsteps. God's Spirit is simply helping us to pray with persistent spontaneity in the midst of the very settings in which we except him to answer our prayers. We instinctively draw near to those for whom we pray. Getting close-up to the community focuses our pray…

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