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Greetings everyone. 
My name is John Ewart. 

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I'm the senior pastor at 
Englewood Baptist Church in 

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Rocky Mount, NC, and I just want
to welcome you to our podcast. 

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We're so excited to have you 
join us as we talk about walking

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in prayer together. 
I want to give credit to one of 

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our church members, Mike Stocks,
who actually came up to me after

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one of our midweek services and 
had this great idea about 

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putting together a podcast to 
accompany you as you do your 

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walk. 
You might be out walking your 

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dog, you might be walking with a
friend or spouse or your 

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children and just enjoy this. 
This is going to last for 

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approximately 30 minutes because
here at Inglewood, we believe 

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that it's our mission to fulfill
the mission of God by bringing 

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glory to Him and joining him and
redeeming the nation's. 

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And one of the ways we do that 
is to make disciples who not 

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only love him and love people, 
but they help fulfill that 

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mission. 
And one of the aspects of that 

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essential discipleship that we 
believe in is that we need to 

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abide in, live in, dwell in, and
walk in prayer. 

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So this first episode is going 
to guide you in about that 30 

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minute walk. 
It might be a little longer. 

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Of course, you can extend this 
by pausing that yourself if 

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you'd like to. 
But if you'll just follow along,

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we're going to guide you through
various areas of prayer. 

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So as I hope you're ready to 
begin and you begin to walk 

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right now, Pastor Charles, our 
Pastor of Prayer, is going to 

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help us with our first area of 
prayer. 

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Yes, Pastor John, thank you. 
It's great to be a part of this.

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As we're thinking about walking 
in prayer, in prayer walking, we

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think about, we must think about
confession and repentance. 

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Our desire should be to stay 
close and clean in our 

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relationship with God and 
confession and repentance helps 

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us to do that. 
God's Word tells us in Psalms 

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325I acknowledge my sin to you, 
and I did not cover my iniquity.

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I said I will confess my 
transgressions to the Lord, and 

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you forgave the iniquity of my 
sin. 

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So as we see here, confession is
to the Lord, but we must 

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acknowledge our sin to Him. 
We always think about when we 

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think about confession, I think 
we think about first John 19. 

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If we confess our sins, He is 
faithful and just to forgive us 

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of our sins and to cleanse us 
from all unrighteousness. 

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Confession is agreeing with God 
about our sin and seeking 

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forgiveness and healing on His 
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When I think about repentance, 
Pastor John, I think about this 

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first. 
Second Chronicles 714 If my 

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people who are called by my name
humble themselves and pray and 

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seek my face and turn from their
wicked ways, then I will hear 

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from heaven and will forgive 
their sin and heal their land. 

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Repentance is turning away from 
sin, but it's turning to God. 

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So as we walk, as we pray and 
thinking about praying for 

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others, hey, we must allow the 
Holy Spirit of God to show us if

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is there any unconfessed sin 
because He will show us in our 

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hearts. 
I think about Psalms 13923 and 

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24 where David said search me O 
God and know my heart, examine 

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me and my thoughts and see if 
there be any grievous way in me 

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and lead me in the way 
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So as we pray and thinking about
praying for others, let's take 

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time in our prayer walk to allow
the Holy Spirit to show us if 

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there's any unconfessed sin, any
grievous way in our lives that 

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would keep us from being close 
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So take about 4 to 5 minutes now
and confess and repent as the 

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Holy Spirit shows you. 
The. 

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The. 
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The. 
Thank you, pastor, for helping 

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us to be ready not only to pray 
to God, but to hear from Him as 

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we confess and repent. 
And now for the next few 

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moments, just look around you as
you walk, especially if you're 

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outside. 
Look at God's creation. 

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Notice the people that are 
around you as well as part of 

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that creation. 
If you're inside, maybe you're 

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walking with others and think of
them or the others you might see

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around you. 
And I just want you to think for

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a moment about how we might 
praise God and thank God for all

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that He has provided us and will
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So for the next few minutes, 
let's praise God for who He is 

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and let's thank God for what He 
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what He will do. 
So here's how I think this would

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be good. 
For the next few minutes, I want

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you to just finish these 
sentences, God you are, and 

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think of a characteristic or an 
attribute of God for which you 

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could praise Him. 
And then after a few moments of 

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that, finish this sentence. 
Thank you, God for. 

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And think of the things in your 
life that God has blessed you 

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with or things that you're still
seeking from him that you know 

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and you hope he's going to bring
to you. 

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So spend about the next 4 
minutes or so as you're walking 

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and you're praying, thinking 
through how you might praise and

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thank God. 
The. 

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As we think about praying and 
prayer walking, we cannot help 

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but think about intercession and
supplication. 

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I think about this verse First 
Timothy 2, one of two states. 

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First of all. 
Then I urge that supplications, 

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prayers, intercessions, and 
Thanksgiving be made for all 

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people, for kings and all who 
are in authority, that we may 

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lead a peaceful and quiet life, 
godly and dignified in every 

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way. 
Intercession is the act of 

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praying on behalf of others, 
seeking God's intervention and 

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blessings for their needs. 
You can say that we are standing

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in the gap on behalf of others. 
Prayer. 

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Walking is really a method of 
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prayer that involves praying on 
location, praying on sight with 

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insight. 
The Lord shows us as we walk the

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streets, our neighborhoods, 
wherever we're walking. 

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He shows us things, He shows us 
about the people. 

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As we look around and we may see
a ramp, A handicap ramp, we may 

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see toys or bicycles in the 
yard, and God begins to just 

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stir in our hearts how to 
intercede for those that we may 

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not even know their name. 
Then we think about 

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supplication. 
Supplication is a form of humble

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and earnest prayer where 
believers us present our needs 

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and requests to God. 
But prayer, walking and walking 

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in prayer is, especially as we 
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It's about intercessory prayer. 
Pastor John, would you like to 

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add anything? 
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Just to remember that as you are
looking around and you see these

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homes or businesses or a school 
or maybe even a government 

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building or a park, just think 
about some of these 

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institutional prayer requests 
that you might lift up. 

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Think about praying over that 
church that you walked by or 

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praying over that school that 
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And so in intercession, as we're
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want us to think about the lost 
people around us and those who 

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don't know Christ. 
But then also feel free. 

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God tells us to come to us with 
a sense of boldness that means 

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complete honesty to the throne 
of grace with the things that 

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are on our hearts. 
He already knows they're there. 

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So just reveal them to them. 
Be honest with him. 

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Demonstrate your faith to him 
that you believe he's listening 

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and that he's actually going to 
act on your behalf. 

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And so I hope that you'll 
joyfully and, and, and 

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expectantly now walk for about 
the next 9 or 10 minutes even to

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pray and ask God for these 
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We just want to thank you for 

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joining Charles and me on this 
journey. 

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It's very exciting for us to 
know that you're out there 

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walking and praying. 
What an exciting thing for 

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believers to do. 
And I look forward to seeing you

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next Sunday or next Wednesday 
here at Englewood Baptist. 

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You're always welcome to join 
us, and I also want you to watch

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and tune into our next episodes 
in this series, Walking in 

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Prayer. 
We're going to be breaking down 

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specifics of prayer as we walk 
together and we walk with our 

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Lord. 
Thank you so much and enjoy your

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walk.