Prayer Mapping: 

A Powerful, Visual Way to Partner with God

and Increase the Peace That Surpasses All Understanding

A Prayer Map Consists of Three Things:

1. The Power of God which is in the center of the white poster: He is the creator, the responder to our prayers.  Find a powerful picture to represent that power.  The picture has to speak to you, not to anyone else.

2. Pictures from magazines or from the Internet to represent that which is prayed for.

   • Remember the pictures are positive; they speak to the subconscious and to the conscious.  They can be abstract representations of that which is prayed for; for example, a person who prays for courage and determination may find a picture of someone making it to the top of a mountain.  Be sure that your pictures reflect the goodness of God, the will of God, and the truth of God.  Be careful your desires represent God’s desires, not the desires of the ego.  God doesn’t need you to have a Gucci purse or a little red sports car.

   • Please do not crowd the poster with pictures as if it is a collage.  Please stick to basically 1 or 2 themes.   For children’s prayer maps, See Beth Powell’s graphic at the end of this instruction sheet or go back over Chapter 3 for ideas from her book:  Fun Games and Physical Activities to Help Heal Children Who Hurt:  Safety-Security-Protection; Trust; Sense of Self; Maturity.  Need to make a prayer map for someone?  No problem.  If the child, or the adult for that matter, can’t pray for themselves, then do so for them.

3.  Captions for each picture that are hand-written above or below or to the right or to the left of the picture.

   • The captions must be written in the positive, as if it is a fact, not a request; for example, “God makes me strong and gives me the courage to work for his good.” “God sends to me the friends I need to support me for his greater purpose.”

Parents, please help your kids and teens make these prayer maps to be sure they are making them properly; please don’t secure the pictures to the poster and write the captions until you are sure you are following the directions.

Words have Power.

Pictures have Power.

God has the Power.

“Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer,

believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”  – Mark  11:24

                                                                                               Now, place the prayer map in a location where your eyes can see it.  Meditate on it for a minute or two when you awake and when you go to bed.  Then let go and let God do the rest.