Prayer Walking is a powerful way to employ prayer to infiltrate a neighborhood, city, or region. You simply walk around the area and pray as you go. You will get to see what's there in the natural by walking around with eyes open, but you may also receive divine revelation about what to pray specifically over that area. Prayer Walking is a way to target an area to be prayed, street by street, over time, for God's Kingdom to come and His will to be done there!
Five Key Themes to Pray While Prayer Walking over your Neighborhood
Pray for God’s presence and power to be seen and felt in your neighborhood.
Pray for:
Neighbors to be physically healed
Families to receive needed financial help
Broken relationships to be restored
People to have dreams, visions, and encounters with God
Pray for your neighbors to be spiritually ready to receive God.
Pray for:
People to realize their need for Jesus
Hearts to be softened toward God
Clear understanding of the gospel message
Freedom from lies and spiritual blindness
Pray for families to come to know and follow Jesus together.
Pray for:
God to show you who is open to the gospel and who might be a “person of peace”
Whole families to come to faith
Christian households to influence their neighbors
Homes to become places of peace and transformation
Pray for the removal of anything that blocks the gospel.
Pray for:
Cultural misunderstandings or strongholds to be overcome
Spiritual opposition to be broken
Natural, open doors for gospel conversations
Clarity and truth to replace confusion about faith
Pray for more believers to join in God’s mission.
Pray for:
More people to pray for the neighborhood
Connections and partnerships with other Christians nearby
Unity among believers to work together
A shared purpose to see the neighborhood transformed
Walk slowly. Look around. Bless the homes and people you see. Trust that God is working.