From the back cover:
Challenge your body,Feed your spirit, Change the world.
Ask any Christian woman about her most recent New Year’s resolutions, and you’ll likely find that “exercise regularly” and “pray more” were at the top of her list. We all long to look and fee out best, to live actively and healthfully. More than that, we desire to connect intimately with our God. Yet physical health and spiritual growth often take a back seat to the urgent demands of grocery shopping and bill paying, time with family and friends, and lon hours at the office.
It’s time to exercise your prayer life.
PrayerWalk – Becoming a Woman of Prayer, Strength & Discipline is not just a prayer book, and not just an exercise book. It’s a combination of both. The author, Janet Holm McHenry, did a great job of balancing the two.
My favorite quote from the book is “However, as Christian women we are not to wear ourselves out while we neglect our relationship with God.” So true! As wives and mothers, we tend to put everyone else’s needs first. To the detriment of our health. And most definitely to the detriment of our relationship with God. While meeting our families needs is extremely important, God does not want us to put our families ahead of Him. We can not take care of our families the way God wants us to, if we don’t take care of our relationship with God first. We also can not take care of our families if we don’t also take care of our own health.
Prayerwalking will help us take care of putting God first and help us take care of our health at the same time. The author has helpful tips for starting to walk, with everything from stretching to what kind of shoes we should wear to staying safe while walking. She also has great tips for helping us to fit walking into our busy schedules. Mrs. McHenry includes lots of great information to help us improve our prayer lives. With suggestions of how to pray and who to pray for, including Bible verses.
There is a study guide in the back of the book that looks great. For each chapter in the book, there are questions under the headings Warm Up!, PrayerWalk…into the Word, and Stretch Out! Warm Up contains questions that help us figure out why we are doing what we’re doing. Prayer Walk…into the Word has Bible verses and questions to help us become strong disciplined women of God. Stretch Out has questions that draw us out of our comfort zones and help us grow into the women God wants us to be.
There is also a 30 Day PrayerWalk challenge that has a Prayer Focus and a Fitness Challenge for all 30 days. A great way to get started! Once you have established your PrayerWalk routine, there is a chapter on How to Organize a Community PrayerWalk Event. This will help you whether your organizing a PrayerWalk for your church, or your whole town.
I highly recommend PrayerWalk to help you become a woman of prayer, strength and discipline.
