Prayer Walking

Galen Currah from People of Yes has made himself accessible to us.  He recommends prayer walking as a way to start a church plant.  He has said that many times they pray to bind Satan in a neighborhood and that hungry people ready for the gospel will receive it.  Many times people have exited their homes, approach the team who is prayer walking, and ask them questions about God.

This person of peace, this Gospel seeker, begins a whole new church plant with his or her entire network of family and friends.

We haven't been prayer walking lately but hope that as the weather turns for the better we can do it more regularly.  I hope to boast in God and not in ourselves.  I am not awesome, or a great Christian because of the religious things I do.  I want to continue to write about what God does.  I write to invite and encourage.  

Do you believe that you have the power within you to start your own church?  It's true!  Will He not give you the power and authority to do exactly what He commands?  Of course!  Jesus commanded us to go make disciples who make disciples.  This is a church - a community of people whose legacy is obedience to God.  This is what these street Christians are looking for; this is what they believe in the depths of their soul.  It is why they are on the street.

On the People of Yes website it says,

The irony of our age: many people who avoid the big brick church down the street crave precisely what Scripture requires… 

• Warm, relational atmosphere, serving one another in love (1 Cor. Chapters 12 and 13),

• Lively music that everybody sings (the last two Psalms), 

• Interactive discussion of God’s Word (the many New Testament “one another” commands such as “teach one another” and “exhort one another”),

• Experiencing Jesus’ Presence rather than merely learning abstract truths about Him (1 Cor. 14:24-26).

Father, please be with us today.  Show us your presence.  Show the people on the streets of Salem, your Presence.  Let us enjoy who you are.  Let us see who you are.  Let us have ears to hear.  God, cause those who are willing to repent to be joined to us, and us joined to them, in the joy of your Holy Spirit.