Prayer: Praying onsite with insight

Hello,

Last week I shared with you some thoughts on prayer, this week we wanted to mention prayer walking. Prayer walking is pretty simple, nothing mysterious but very beneficial!

Simply leave your room and comfy chair behind and walk through your campus and pray. If you are seeking to help your movement's prayer ministry grow have a prayer walk during your weekly meeting or small group.

Some ideas:
1) Pray as you walk, go with 1 or 2 others, many more than that and it will be difficult to walk and to hear one another.
2) As you pass certain buildings pray for the people who work and live there. Pray for residents in a particular dorm, pray for Fraternity & Sorority students as you walk pass Greek houses, pray for the administration as you walk by offices.
3) Pray for groups of people as you pass by them. Pray that the lost would hear about Jesus and receive the good news.
4) As you walk pass the gym and athletic fields pray that athletes would be reached and that bible studies for athletes would begin.
5) Pray in or outside of the rooms where you have your meetings and Bible studies. Pray that students would come and that Satan would be prohibited from entering. Pray for protection.

As you walk you see things that you may not see if you were in a room, this prompts us to pray for them.

Some benefits of prayerwalking:
1) Your heart for the campus will grow as you see people and the needs there.
2) You will pray for people that you probably never would of thought of before.
3) Your compassion for individuals will increase.
4) Prayer time will go by faster and will be more meaningful.
5) God will be glorified!
6) You will get to know the 1 or 2 people that you are praying with better.
7) Fresh air and exercise!

Matthew 9:36-38 "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."

So, consider prayer walking your campus. Try it even as you walk back and forth to classes. Invite a friend to come along, a Bible study can do it, or have everyone gather and go out in groups of 2-3. See what the Lord reveals to you!

Enjoy praying!