Prayerwalker Journals

Three months after starting to plan for this prayer-walk, I finally see the bigger plan the Lord has been orchestrating all the time. As soon as I realised I could go on this prayer-walk, I was ready to go immediately. But I felt in my heart the Lord said ... wait ... So, early in January I prayed and got the answer to start on 25 March. And yesterday - 19 March, I heard about Ryan Craig. He is doing the same as I - also been called about 3-4 months ago. Except - he is starting from Invercargill in the South, and I will be starting from Auckland in the North. He is starting on Easter Sunday, and I am starting the day after Easter. And we will be covering the country in prayer from both sides. Now Lord Jesus ... we just humble ourselves before You in awe. We just bow in reverence and we say ... Your ways are awesome. and we praise You Jesus. We worship You and just want to be found in Your presence. We worship You Jesus [sing sing sing sing sing] amen ...

Over the weekend I walked way up north as a bit of a training exercise to see how I would cope with long distance. As I walked, I prayed this over many of the passing motorists: Lord, just give that person joy right now - even as they are driving. And give them travelling mercies Lord so the joy wouldn't cause accidents. Lord, let it be such a full measure of joy that it will impact their lives... And 2 days later someone came up to me and asked if I was walking up north past Warkworth. i replied that it was me, and this person said that he noticed me as he was driving on that road, and as he went past me, he just felt such a measure of joy come over him ... and he mentioned that he will always remember that day!! And now I know God has in a sovereign way also shown me that those prayers were not in vain. And I just thank Jesus for encouraging and preparing me in body, mind and spirit for this trip. Amen.

Today I want to share with you how the Lord orchestrated some wonderful “co-incidental” meetings for me to help prepare for the Auckland to Invercargill prayer-walk. This is an amazing story and I give God all the glory for just caring about the detail so much, that He brought some real practical things to help me prepare. I prepared to go for a 30km prayer-walk as part of my training. I packed my backpack and planned the route. About 3 hours before I left, I was asked to help someone else to get to church, which took me in a different direction and I started the walk in a totally different place from where i planned. About 10km into this walk, a woman walking with walking poles, and a backpack, stopped and asked me how far it was to the Takapuna camp grounds. And so we started talking about where she was going, and it turned out she was on Day 16 of walking from the north (Cape Reinga) to the south (Invercargill) of New Zealand. Because she was also a keen mountaineer, I wanted to kno

On 25 March I will set out for my longest prayer-walk yet. Auckland to Invercargill; Over 1600km in 60 days. I felt it would be good to test my equipment and the weight I will carry ... Just so I can be confident to start the prayer-walk with my full attention on praying from the very start. This weekend I did a practise-prayer-walk, camping / sleeping on the ground / eating the kind of foods I would be having (vegies, nuts, raisins, bananas, water etc) / praying and being led by God to minister and pray. Now I know one thing for sure: This prayer-walk will be for the glory of the Lor. The glory of God to be manifest in New Zealand. Leading to a deepening of relationships with God ... revival It is to be stated here that the prayer-walker has no special level of faithfulness or holiness ... no qualifications or bible-knowledge; except being available AND has been allowed to do this because of God's faithfullness and God's love. While planning the prayer-walk, I had to lay down

I believe in my heart that God spoke prophetically through Matthew, a young man, who cannot walk or talk. He was the one who was pushed in his wheelchair on the "Pushover passover prayer-walk". Matthew had 2 energetic and fit helpers to push him on that day. As we were going up One-Tree-Hill, the front left wheel on the wheelchair just snapped right off. That left us with a decision whether to continue or pull out of the walk. We decided to continue, and it was with extra effort, caution and grace , that we managed to finish the route. On the day before the race, I asked God to lead me in a direction of prayer for New Zealand. kind of ... a theme for a prayer-walk. the Lord gave me this scripture (the day before the walk) - Isaiah 31 - Destruction is certain for those who look to Egypt for help, trusting their cavalry and chariots instead of looking to the Lord. The message from this is clear and simple: New Zealand don't put your trust in your own strength - Don't p

I am about to embark on a very symbolic prayer-walk. I believe God loves symbolism and in the same way that He uses it often in the bible I am about to reflect some symbolism in an act of worship ... and you can join me in this challenging prayer. A local church ( http://www.tabernacle.org.nz ) have organised a run / walk / crawl event through the city for Saturday 15 September. I have volunteered to accompany (and push) a disabled man, Matthew, who is a member of that congregation. Within the short space of 16km we will be able to cross New Zealand's narrowest neck of land, from the Tasman Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. Those of you who have come to know me well enough would, by now, have gathered that this will be a perfect opportunity for a prayer-walk. Yes, indeed: The "Pushover passover prayer-walk" As I push Matthew over New Zealand, from one ocean to the other, my declaration will be about the blood of Jesus: ... He will see the blood on the t

I travel to work with, among other, the Auckland Western train line. I get off at the 4th last stop ... BUT I have often wondered what is at the last train station - out there in the Waitakere mountain ranges: out where the Auckland trains turn back ... out there at the end of the line ... the last stop. Today I took a journey to this place where I believe God prompted me to go prayer-walk and this is how I prayed: Before I started, while I was praying about this prayer-walk, I felt God speak into my spirit about being connected to the roots. ... grafted into the vine ... getting back to the center of it all - J E S U S ... J E S U S ... J E S U S ... J E S U S ... J E S U S ... J E S U S Even after many years of being disconnected, There is hope to get grafted back to the roots. and for New Zealand; praying that there will be a turning from all the busy scheduled church-based activities to the root of it all. the most important, the One who it is all about - J E S U