Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College Day 14 of 21

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College
Day 14 of 21

Lord, shine your light upon our schools and drive out all darkness, spiritual blindness, perversion of truth, and hostility toward You and Your truth, we pray.

From our universities to our preschools, we pray for excellent curricula and programs that would make our students competitive in their career field and prepare them for life. We pray the truth would be the foundation of what is taught in every subject.

We pray that all attempts to use curricula in our schools as a way to disciple our young people in humanism and other godless ideologies would be stopped.

Please would You raise godly men and women to be on textbook selection committees for every school district.

We ask for teachers and school boards to select curriculum that preserves our godly heritage as a nation. We pray for the selection of textbooks that present biblically-based values that will help guide students down a path that leads to blessings.

Father, we ask that You lead and guide those in positions of decision-making in our schools to set fair policies that protect the rights of our teachers and students to openly present their biblical points of view in an fair and non-threatening manner.

Lord Jesus, when teachers and students are confronted with subject matter that goes against their biblical worldview, we call upon You to give them the right words to speak with wisdom, strength and gentleness of heart.

Please root out anti-American bias and historical revisionism that has crept into so many classrooms and replace it with good citizenship and Judeo-Christian values. Raise watchmen and gatekeepers for truth and excellence in our schools who would guard over what is taught to our young people! Amen.

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College Day 13 of 21

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College
Day 13 of 21

Heavenly Father, we invite You to every classroom and ask for a spirit of peace, respect, and excellence to prevail in both students and teachers. We pray that students will have the desire and discipline to learn, and we ask for an environment that is conducive to learning, creativity, inquiry, and critical thinking.

We pray for the effect and impact of these powerful scriptures over our schools and ask for You to shift the atmosphere to one that reflects Your Kingdom – with righteousness, peace and joy!
We cry out to You, Lord, to guard our students from any harm: physical, mental, or spiritual.

We speak boldly against thoughts, plans, and intents to harm our children on our campuses. Protect them as they travel to and from school and during all of their classroom and extracurricular activities.

Father, we pray for our police and school security to be specially anointed to guard our schools. Give them eyes to see anything that is wrong and warn them of any plan of the enemy.

We pray for peace – by inviting the prince of peace and by making peace with the God of peace – so that there will be no shootings, no bombings, and no harassing threats against our students and our schools throughout this school year!

We pray against bullying in all forms, declaring this domineering, vindictive, mocking, and accusing evil practice and the spirit behind it be banished from our schools, in Jesus’ name!

We pray that there would be a change in the culture that feeds this maliciousness. As part of that culture change, we ask that You would make Your people shine! Let Christians be known as courageous student champions who defend victims and bring healing and peace into a situation.

We also pray that You would defend Christian students and teachers from those who would seek to bully, intimidate or silence them. We ask that You would raise many who are not ashamed of the gospel and who will exercise their rights to freedom of speech and freedom of religion with boldness and graciousness.

Raise strong and godly leadership among Christian groups and campus clubs and help them minister effectively to those around them. We pray that as the gospel advances on campuses, culture would shift to one of love, respect, joy and peace, we pray. Amen.

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College Day 12 of 21

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College
Day 12 of 21

Father, we pray for the physical health, well-being, and safety of our kids! Most of these problems have a moral and spiritual root cause. Raise those who can effectively disciple our youth in godly lifestyles and practical wisdom. Parents are the front line of defense, and we ask that You would touch our families. Transform the health of entire households, starting with the parents and filtering down to the students!

Please inspire a real change in eating and exercise habits. Give wisdom to those who run school meal programs and help our students be nourished with wholesome food, we pray.

We pray for an end to the pervasive drug culture in our schools. Please protect our children and young people from getting involved in gangs, drugs, sex, and other destructive activities. We ask that You would reveal the dealers and dry up supply. We pray for Your deliverance for those students struggling with depression, alcohol, drugs, and pornography.

We pray that, by the power of Jesus Christ and our invitation for him to walk our campuses, students would experience life and that our schools would become suicide, drug, and promiscuity free zones! Spirits of death, depression, oppression, and hopelessness have no place on this campus, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

A.W. TOZER on TRUE PROPHETS

A.W. TOZER on TRUE PROPHETS

Great industrial concerns have in their employ men who are needed only
when there is a breakdown somewhere. When something goes wrong with
the machinery, these men spring into action to locate and remove the
trouble and get the machinery rolling again.

For these men a smoothly operating system has no interest. They
are specialists concerned with trouble and how to find and correct it.

In the kingdom of God things are not too different. God has always had
His specialists whose chief concern has been the moral breakdown,
the decline in the spiritual health of the nation or the church. Such
men were Elijah, Jeremiah, Malachi and others of their kind who
appeared at critical moments in history to reprove,  rebuke and exhort
in the name of God and righteousness.

A thousand or ten thousand ordinary priests or pastors or teachers
could labor quietly on almost unnoticed while the spiritual life of
Israel or the church was normal. But let the people of God go astray
from the paths of truth and immediately the specialist appeared almost
out of nowhere. His instinct for trouble brought him to the help of
the Lord and of Israel.

Such a man was likely to be drastic, radical, possibly at times
violent, and the curious crowd that gathered to watch him work
soon branded him as extreme, fanatical, negative. And in a sense they
were right. He was single-minded, severe, fearless, and these were the
qualities the circumstances demanded. He shocked some, frightened
others and alienated not a few, but he knew who had called him and
what he was sent to do. His ministry was geared to the emergency, and
that fact marked him out as different, a man apart.

To such men as this the church owes a debt too heavy to pay. The
curious thing is that she seldom tries to pay him while he lives, but
the next generation builds his sepulcher and writes his biography, as
if instinctively and awkwardly to discharge an obligation the previous
generation to a large extent ignored...

[-From the Foreword to Leonard Ravenhill's "Why Revival Tarries". A
brilliant book!]

The historian D'Aubigne writes: "A great work of God is never 
accomplished by the natural strength of man. It is from the dry
bones, the darkness and the dust of death, that God is pleased to
select the  instruments by means of which He designs to scatter over
the earth His light, regeneration and life." [- D'Aubigne's "History of
the Reformation"].

Another writer has observed: "In the various crises that have
occurred in the history of the church, men have come to the front who
have manifested a holy recklessness that astonished their fellows.
When Luther nailed his theses to the door of the cathe- dral at
Wittemburg, cautious men were astonished at his audacity. When John
Wesley ignored all church restrictions and religious propriety and
preached in the fields and by-ways, men declared his reputation was
ruined. So it has been in all ages. When the religious condition of
the times called for men who were willing to sacrifice all for Christ,
the demand created the supply, and there have always been found a few
who have been willing to be regarded reckless for the Lord. An utter
recklessness concerning men's opinions and other consequences is the
only attitude that  can meet the exigencies of the present times."
[Quoted by Frank Bartleman in "Azusa Street", pg 46. (Also published
as "Another Wave Rolls in"). - Another brilliant book!]

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College Day 11 of 21

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College
Day 11 of 21

Lord, we thank You for every private Christian school, college, preschool, and godly homeschool.. Thank You for the parents, teachers, and families who are hard at work educating the next generation in excellence and with a biblical worldview.

As You did for Solomon or for Daniel, give our Christian students maturity beyond their years and a supernatural ability to learn and to excel academically, above and beyond the norm.

In Jesus name. Amen

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College Day 10 of 21

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College
Day 10 of 21

Thank You that all true creativity comes from You and that the first mention of being “filled with the Spirit” in the Bible is for the purpose of a supernatural gifting in the arts!

May a new spirit of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship come upon the young people of Charlotte, Metrolina and beyond. We pray for our young artists, dancers, musicians, actors, graphic designers, filmmakers, and writers. We bless their creativity in Jesus’ name, and we ask that You would cause these gifts to flourish during this crucial time in their lives.

Father, we are praying that You would do something extraordinary among our young artists and performers! We believe that in this coming year, we will hear about our students winning national and international awards and competitions; they will be given a place on the world’s stage through their films, books, performances, and art!

May new sources of funding for the arts in our schools and universities be released this year. Raise Christians who love the arts and who will invest in the next generation with their finances and with their time – as coaches, professors, and teachers.

We fervently pray over the performing and visual art departments in our schools and universities. For those that may have become magnets for darkness by celebrating and exploring the worst parts of culture and the human psyche, we ask that You would cleanse and restore our art departments to be centers of life, creativity, healing and beauty.

We pray for our young engineers and those with a passion for technology. We claim and agree with Your prophetic promise that Charlotte and the Carolinas are going to be blessed with intellectual property and that this will be a gateway to prosperity!

We lift those who are involved in pioneering research in our universities. Give them cutting edge breakthroughs in their work, we pray. Let Charlotte and the Carolinas become known as new hubs of innovation excellence with a deep pool of scientific and technical talent that attracts hightech companies with high paying jobs to our state.

We pray for more Christian students with a vision to glorify You in the arts, technology, and research. We pray that You would give them dreams and visions with creative ideas and breakthrough solution. May Your favor cause them to be promoted to places of influence within their spheres! Amen.

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College Day 9 of 21

Praying For Our Students Kindergarten Through College
Day 9 of 21

Your Word tells us that without a vision, people perish (Prov 29:18). Lord, we pray for VISION for administrators, principals, teachers, parents, and students! Give them Your vision of what their schools can become and stir their faith and hope to action. Let them see that NOTHING is impossible with God, no matter how bad the situation!

Father of Light, we ask You to plant a vision within our students to see academic success as a real possibility in their lives. Give them the vision to overcome the challenges they live with.

We pray for mentors and tutors to come alongside each one who is struggling and give them the educational support and vital encouragement needed to finish their schooling.

Please open the windows of heaven over our struggling schools for finances and competent staff. Let our schools receive a blessing they can’t contain! Lord, we ask that You would be glorified when their needs are supernaturally met.

Help our students who are struggling – whether with learning disabilities or with troubled families or anything else that would hinder them. We pray that You would restore their confidence and motivation. Protect them from discouragement as result of failures and setbacks. And, we ask that You would release the specialized teachers these students need.

Encourage all who feel like giving up to press through to victory, we pray, in Jesus’ name. Amen.