Prayer Walking
Generally prayer walks can be used when you are praying for the organisation, for the work that goes on there, and for its employees. It is an immensely powerful experience to walk the ground of the area you are praying for, while you are praying! There are many stories of how God has answered the prayers of those who have ‘walked ground’.
Find significant areas of your organisation’s site, or buildings, for example corridors with offices or open plan offices, and walk through them slowly, as individuals or small groups (a maximum of say 3 or 4), praying silently as you go. Pray a blessing on all who are working there. As God brings to your attention things to pray for, then bring them before him. Listen for God to speak as you walk.
Remember to respect access limitations, and activities going on in the areas through which you are walking.
| We’re calling every Believer in the workplace to band together under this biblical principle:
choose three colleagues, commit to consistent, sacrificial prayer, and watch God’s transforming power
at work in their lives. |
| Transform Work have partnered with our Associate Anne de Leyser from Local Houses of Prayer (LHOP) to bring you a framework she developed for speaking blessings over your workplace or sphere of influence. |
| Workplace leaders have pre-recorded prayers for their specific sectors. Why not watch and pray along with them? Please do share these with your church and prayer networks. |
| Listen to these workplace testimonies and be encouraged. If you have a testimony please email us your video or story so we can share with others. |
| Below are 28 prayer points that you might like to use. Feel free to pick the ones relevant to your organisation... |
| When praying in the group, it is especially important that the different Christian traditions represented by group members are respected and reflected in how you pray. |
| Set up a facility for anyone within the organisation/workplace to request prayer for any issues they would like. |
| Frequently an organisation has Christian groups that meet in buildings in different locations, often some distance from one another. Conference calls are a great way to keep connected across the organisation. |
| The amazing story of how an office prayer network grew rapidly and saw astounding answers to prayer |
| A simple and attractive way of offering to pray for staff, used within Network Rail - a bright red postbox. Prayer requests are prayed over at the CWG's weekly meeting |
| A week of prayer is a specific week set aside for prayer where a range of different prayer activities are held. Although this probably works best among the larger groups, the idea can be applied within a group whatever the size. |
| Remember that it is important to keep your managers and HR involved in what you are doing. In most cases your prayer activities and the means by which you advertise them will require permission from senior managers and HR. |