• Start Here
    • Disclosure & Privacy Policy
  • Blog
    • Prayer
    • Spiritual Disciplines
    • Trusting God
  • Prayer for the Week
  • Store
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
Prayer and Possibilities | Prayer - Discipleship - Spiritual Disciplines - Discernment - Trusting God

Prayer & Possibilities

  • Deepen Your Prayers
  • Develop Your Faith
  • Step Into God’s Possibilities
You are here: Home / Prayer / 6 Ways to Do A Virtual Prayer Walk {without leaving your home}

July 12, 2016 ·

6 Ways to Do A Virtual Prayer Walk {without leaving your home}

Prayer

Sharing is caring!

2.6K shares
  • Facebook1.1K
  • Twitter1
  • Email
  • Print

What is our response to the need and tragedy in the news and in our social media feeds? Learn 6 ways to do a virtual prayer walk {without leaving your home}As I scroll through my news feeds, I’m confronted by so many needs and tragedies. A friend’s wife battling cancer, a high school classmate who passed away, a prayer request for a broken marriage, a mother worried about her teen’s battle with depression, a friend struggling with care for aging parents. Then there’s the news… lives lost in senseless acts of violence and hatred here at home, across the country, and abroad. Tragedies and hurt in nearly every news story I hear and read.

What is our response to all this? Where do we start?

We need to start with prayer. Invite God into our lives and into the heartache, grief, and struggle. Lay our hearts at His feet and listen for how He wants us to respond and be the change in this world.

While we may not live physically close to the people and places so desperately in need of prayer, we are virtually connected in so many ways. What if we used that connectedness to help in our prayer life? What if we virtually prayer walked through the needs and tragedies that surround us through the news and social media? What if we focused some of our media time on prayer?

Instead of watching the news, let’s pray through it.

Watching TV coverage of the reactions to the Dallas police shootings and seeing people praying with police officers wherever they see them and walking through the community in prayer, I was reminded of the power of a prayer walk. Prayer walking is a powerful way to draw near to Jesus as you walk and pray over an area, even though you may not know the specific needs. It’s a way to engage God in prayer as you walk, holding each person you see in prayer and covering every building, business, car, or seat in prayer.

6 Ways to Do A Virtual Prayer Walk {without leaving your home}

Below are 6 ways I’ve found to do a virtual prayer walk from your own home. You can even walk around your house as you pray, if you want to connect to the movement of prayer walking.

1) Pray through the news

Open a newspaper. This isn’t the time to read through each story, rather scan each looking for who and where you need to pray. Pause over each story to pray for the needs of the community and the individuals impacted. You can choose to focus on the front page or go section by section. Maybe start with world news, praying for needs across the globe, and then work your way through national news, state news, then local news.

If you don’t have a printed newspaper, open one of the news sites online and pray through the headlines there.

2) Pray through your Facebook feed

Open Facebook and pray for each person and news article in your feed. Scroll down the list, praying for each person and each need you see.

This is a good one to do on the go. I did this yesterday while sitting through my son’s sports practice and I loved the new perspective it gave me on social media. Rather than being a time drain, Facebook became a prayer list and I instantly felt more connected to the people in my list.

3) Pray through your calendar

Open your calendar for the week, and pray over each appointment, meeting, sports practice, etc. Pray for the people involved. Pray for God’s purpose to prevail and for Him to be present and active at each event.

What is our response to the need and tragedy in the news and in our social media feeds? Learn 6 ways to do a virtual prayer walk {without leaving your home}4) Pray through your email inbox

Open your email inbox and scan through the list of senders. Pray over each one. If you have newsletters or prayers lists you receive via email, open those and pray through them.

This is not a time to respond to emails or clean up your inbox. Rather, spend time in prayer over the names and needs you see.

5) Pray through a directory

Do you belong to an organization that publishes a directory of members, such as the PTA at your child’s school or your church? Open that directory and pray over each name, even the ones you don’t know.

6) Pray through Google Maps

Maybe there’s a neighborhood or area that’s particularly on your heart. If you can’t physically go there for a prayer walk, open Google maps to that location and virtually walk the streets. Stop at each house or building and pray for the people there. This could be your own neighborhood, one where you used to live, or an area you know that particularly needs prayer.
Whatever method you choose, let’s join our voices in prayer and ask God to fill the dark corners of this world with His light. Let’s band together as prayerful, faithful people battling the forces evil with prayer. Let’s prayerfully ask God to lead us in our responses and guide our words so they may be filled with love and compassion. Let’s make the news and social media places of prayer and hope, instead of fear and despair!

Prayer walk through the news and social medial. Make them places of prayer and hope, instead of fear and despair! Click To Tweet

Christ has no body now, but yours.
No hands, no feet on earth, but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which he looks
With compassion on this world.

Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
All things pass away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Those who have God
Find they lack nothing;
God alone suffices.

(Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila)

Other Posts You May Like

Previous Post: « 7 Ways to Grow Lasting Faith In Your Children
Next Post: Why You (and I) Need To Stop Juggling And Find Focus »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. kristine says

    July 12, 2016 at 7:07 am

    Kathryn, I am so thrilled to wake up and see this post in my inbox this morning! What a brilliant idea. I was just thinking last night about how Facebook has become a great way for us to share our prayer needs with others who live far away. I am going to being #3 today! These steps can be a big time attitude-changer. When we pray, we will feel uplifted and hopeful! Thanks for this, friend.

    • Kathryn says

      July 15, 2016 at 5:09 am

      Thanks, Kristine! I need to make all of these more of a habit. What a difference it could make to infuse everything we do with prayer!

  2. Kelley says

    July 12, 2016 at 8:13 am

    Yes! Yes! Yes! Just brilliant, my friend!

  3. betsydecruz says

    July 14, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    Kathryn, this thrills me too! Ditto what Kristine said! I like how you bring us a more hopeful approach to the news, which can be devastating if we focus on it. Better to pray through it. I like your creative ideas with the news feed and even email inbox!

    • Kathryn says

      July 15, 2016 at 5:06 am

      Your newsletter inspired this! Wanted to be intentional about praying for you – and thought why not pray through everyone in my inbox! Praying through Facebook was a whole new way to experience social media – and what an improvement! Prayed for people I’d never thought to pray for before and connected my heart in new ways.

      • betsydecruz says

        July 15, 2016 at 7:00 am

        Oh friend, thank you so much. Your prayer is precious, and you encourage so many towards prayer. We need it now more than ever. I woke up today to news about Nice.

  4. betsydecruz says

    July 14, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    ps. And I LOVE that Teresa of Avila quote: “Let nothing disturb you.
    Let nothing frighten you.
    All things pass away:
    God never changes.. So appropriate for today.

  5. Lyli @3dlessons4life.com says

    July 15, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    Love this! Will be sharing with my online prayer group.

    • Kathryn Shirey says

      July 15, 2016 at 9:46 pm

      Thank you , Lyli! Love how it’s changed my heart as I’ve looked over my Facebook feed and my inbox.

  6. bloggerlovestheking says

    July 21, 2016 at 4:41 pm

    Kathryn I love this. Yes I do most of it, but not while the news is on and I’m sitting here frustrated or google maps. What a great idea to add to my prayer time. Thank you. Are you coming to Declare?

    • Kathryn says

      July 21, 2016 at 4:43 pm

      Yes, I will be at Declare! Looking forward to it!

      • bloggerlovestheking says

        July 21, 2016 at 4:50 pm

        YEA! See you there. Getting excited.

Primary Sidebar

Welcome

Hi, I'm Kathryn! I'm glad you're here to journey with me! I'm just an ordinary girl following an extraordinary God, learning to seek God's possible in this world of impossible. Fueled by loads of coffee, I'm passionate about helping and encouraging you along this journey, too! Let's step forward together and learn practical ways to live into God's possible! Read More…

Lookup a word or passage in the Bible


BibleGateway.com

Footer

Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened to you. (Matthew 7:7)

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Start Here
  • Privacy Policy
  • Blog
  • Store
  • Contact

Copyright © 2023 · beloved theme by Restored 316

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Reject Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT