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Benefits of Prayer Walking with the Army Flag
by Sergeant Steve
Simms
Prayer walking with the Blood & Fire Flag is a simple
activity. It only
requires one Salvation Army Flag and one (or more) human
being. The person
carries the flag on the streets, praying as they go.
This simple act is very powerful.
Here are 17 benefits of flag-prayer-walking:
1) It increases the amount of intercessory prayer for your
neighborhood;
2) It helps you to understand the needs in your neighborhood;
3) Prayer walking with the flag increases your love for the
people in your neighborhood;
4) It unites corps members who participate together into a
team:
5) It builds spiritual fellowship;
6) Flag-prayer-walking increases your corps’ visibility in the
neighborhood;
7) It gives you an easy way to witness to people when they
come up and ask you about the flag.
8) It’s excellent physical exercise;
9) Prayer walking with the flag helps to overcome the fear of
what people think about you;
10) It presents the Holy Spirit with new opportunities to work
through you;
11) It makes people curious and draws some people to your and
your corps (church);
12) It sets a worthwhile example for other people and corps
and churches to follow in your steps;
13) Flag-prayer-walking is a way to claim the promise made to
Joshua that God will give you the territory wherever you walk;
14) It is a powerful weapon that brings victory through
spiritual warfare..
15) It will build your faith as you see God working right in
front of you.
16) It will give you powerful testimonies to take back to your
corps.
17) Finally, it will give you a first-hand experience of what
it was like in the early, "glory days" of The Salvation Army.
There is a Facebook page designed to give you help and
encouragement in flag-prayer-walking.
It is called “Prayer Walking With The Salvation Army
Flag”. Check it
out today.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/TheSalvationArmyFlag
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