Prayer Walking - An Introduction

Spirituality for Ordinary People

Season 3 of Spirituality for Ordinary People is all about Prayer Walking. In this opening episode, Matt Brough, goes over a few different kinds of prayer walks and invites listeners to consider making prayer walking a regular Spiritual Practice.

He goes over two main types:

1) Neighbourhood Prayer-Walking (Outward focus)
This type of prayer walking intentionally focusses on a particular neighbourhood. Take time to walk around in a community and silently pray for the people who live, work, or go to school there.

Pray for discernment - Seek the gift of seeing the community through God’s eyes and to discern what God may be up to in the neighbourhood. Pray for greater insight into how God is at work among the people, events, and places you observe.

Pray for blessing - Observe situations and places that express both joy and brokenness in the community and silently give thanks and/or ask for healing, strength, or renewal.

2. Personal Prayer-Walking (Inward focus)
This type of prayer walking focusses on your own relationship with God and/or how God may be guiding you. The action of walking is a powerful metaphor for following Jesus. You are encouraged to pray for personal direction from God.

Most of this type of prayer is a listening prayer. Begin by praying questions such as:
God, where are you leading me?
God, what step would you like me to take?
As you repeat these kinds of questions, try to quiet your mind and heart to listen to what God might be saying.

This type of prayer can be done anywhere, but it is often best to be outside in nature or pray using a Labyrinth.

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