Day 45

My planning has been a little all over the place for the past 3 weeks because of the Prayer Walk “Overlord” which has been taking place in Normandy, run by John and Yvonne Pressdee. http://www.prayerexpeditions.org/?Walks:2007_Normandy_Beaches

I have managed to join in with 6 days of the 18 days that the team has walked, mainly on thursdays which are my days off. This isn’t as many as I would have like or had planned, but it was a privilege just to do the little I did. Prayer walking is something I had never really heard of and can’t really define. I would never have believed someone if they had explained it to me.

The days that I did…

Day 1 - Pegasus Bridge and Museum, Commissioning on old Pegasus Bridge with WW2 Veterans, Walk to Ranville Cemetery

Day 3 - Juno and Gold Beaches: Langrune sur Mer to Arromanche

Day 10 - St Jean de Daye to St Lô

Day 16 - Walk around Lisieux; home of La Source Church, Evening Celebration at La Source

Day 18 - Argentan to Mont Ormel, the Polish Memorial

Day 19 - Final morning celebration at Twelfth Century Church of Reconciliation in Coudehard, Finish at Museum, overlooking the Falaise Gap

Prayer walking isn’t anything amazing in terms of technique, length, qualifications, and spirituality: it is just a group of people getting together and walking as they pray.
The main principles around prayer walking are
*Prayer works and releases the power of the Holy Spirit
*God can change the effects that the past has on the present, through the power of the Cross of
Jesus
*Walking and praying can change situations and bring healing to the land
2 Chronicles 7 v 14
if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land
*Humility and apology disarm not only individuals and nations but principalities and powers too

As you walk through a country, or in an area we pray for its people and government, its history, its present and its future. We believe that as we walk and pray, we can ask God to bless and bring healing to that land. Prayer walking isn’t just about walking, or just about praying, or even the cumulative effect of the 2 put together: Prayer walking is personal, collective, powerful, joyful, renewing, painful, releasing, empowering, challenging, prophetic and spiritual warfare.

Please pray for John and Yvonne Pressdee, for their family and their church in Green Street Green (Bromley, Kent - www.gsgbaptist.org.uk), pray for all of the team; every person who has taken part in the walk weather for one day or the whole 3 weeks – that they will continue to walk with and battle for God, please pray for the future of Prayer Expeditions as John has threatened that this will be his last walk now he is 65!, please pray that the work that has been done during the last 3 weeks bears visible fruit as well as winning spiritual battles in the heavenlies, pray that the church in France rises up and within the next 5 years we see French churches doing the same walks fighting for their own church….