Stop Sleepwalking Through Your City
Let’s be real: some of us are out here doing the most for Jesus… in our heads.
Meanwhile, in real life?
We’re walking past people like zombies with AirPods.
Same coffee shop. Same gym. Same gas station.
Same people. Zero awareness.
You’re not a bad person.
You’re just eye blind.
It’s like being nose blind you’ve lived with the smell so long you don’t notice it anymore.
Except this isn’t about your dog’s funk. It’s about your city, your block, your people.
Let’s fix that. Here’s how to break sight blindness in five doable, no-excuse steps:
1. Pray With Your Eyes Open
Look, prayer is powerful.
But if your prayers are all about your needs, your goals, and your coffee getting fixed at the drive-thru, we’re missing something.
Start praying in your city, not just for it.
Ask: “God, what am I missing?”
Prayer is more than talking it’s seeing.
Let it turn you from passive to prophetic.
2. Interrupt Your Routine
Listen your pattern is making you passive.
Take a different route to work.
Sit in a new seat at the coffee shop (yes, even if it’s next to the loud guy).
Walk your neighborhood like it’s your first time there.
Why? Because…
“When you shift your pattern, you shake up your perception.”
Jesus didn’t stay in one lane. He walked His city, noticed people, and let interruptions become invitations.
3. Start Asking Better Questions
Let curiosity lead you to compassion. Try this:
Who do I always see but never speak to?
What’s broken in my city that I’ve stopped caring about?
If Jesus lived on my street… who would He notice?
Spoiler: It’s probably the same person you’ve been ignoring.
Familiarity kills curiosity. Curiosity births compassion.
Get curious again.
4. Practice the Power of Pause
Right before you walk into any place grocery store, gym, gas station, Chick-fil-A (God’s chicken, amen) pause.
And ask:
“Holy Spirit, show me who needs light today.”
“Help me see what You see.”
The most anointed thing you may do today is look someone in the eye and speak life.
“We don’t need more hustle. We need more holy interruptions.”
5. Name It to Claim It
We’ve all got places we frequent gym, coffee shop, school, that gas station with the good ice.
Write them down.
Then write the names of the people you regularly see there (if you know them).
Pray for them. On purpose. By name.
That’s not a list it’s your Mission Map.
You don’t need a platform. You need a prayer list and a little courage.
🔥 Let’s land this thing:
“You can’t love what you don’t see, and you can’t see what you’re blind to. So ask God to break the blindness and ignite the burden.”
You don’t have to travel across the world to be used by God.
You just have to look across the street.
Right here. Right now. Go Local!