In response to the immigration crisis, we say a heartfelt prayer seeking God’s mercy and steadfast support for educational communities. The prayer acknowledges the significant challenges experienced by teachers and students, the emotional disconnect among stakeholders, and emphasizes the crucial role of faith in finding relief, strength, and divine guidance during these difficult times.
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Adoration & Divine Majesty: Entering God’s Gates With Praise
Prayer of adoration. Father, we enter your gates with thanksgiving and your courts with praise. We give thanks to you and we bless your name. Lord, you are good. Your steadfast love endures forever. It lasts for generations. You are perfect in all your ways, and your word always proves to be true. You are a shield for all of us who take refuge in you, Lord. For who is God but you, O Lord, and who is a rock except our God? You are our rock and our salvation.
Lord, You are good. Your steadfast love endures forever. It lasts for generations. Share on XFather, together with the heavenly host, we give you the glory and honor that is due to your name. We worship you, Lord, in the splendor of your holiness. Your voice is over the waters. Your voice thunders in glory. You thunder over the mighty waters. Your voice is powerful and majestic. It breaks trees into pieces. Your voice makes the ground of the earth leap. Your voice strikes flashes of lightning. Your voice shakes the deserts.
Your voice twists trees and strips forests bare. You sit enthroned over the seas. You are enthroned as the king forever. You give strength to your people. You bless your people with complete peace. Because of your great love, Lord, we are not consumed because your compassion never fails. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. We are able to say the Lord is our portion, our destiny is a lot in life, therefore, we will wait for you.
You, Lord, are good to those who put their hope in you, to those who seek you. It is good to wait quietly for your salvation, Lord. Let all that is within us praise the Lord. O Lord our God, how great you are. You are robed with majesty. Who is like you, Lord? O Lord, glorious and holiness, awesome and splendid, performing great wonders. You are the King of glory. You are God Almighty. Great is your love towards us, and your faithfulness endures forever. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
It is good to wait quietly for Your salvation. Share on XWe will extol you, our God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day we will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great are you, Lord, and greatly to be praised. Your greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall commend your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts on the glorious splendor of your majesty and on your wondrous works, we will meditate. They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and we will declare your greatness. We adore you, Lord. Amen.
Confession & Repentance: Healing Stubborn Hearts Before God
Prayer of Confession from Psalm 81. “And I will warn you, if you will listen to me, Oh Israel, you shall have no foreign God among you, you shall not bow down to an alien God. I am the Lord your God who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it, but my people would not listen to me. Israel would not submit to me, so I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.” Oh, Father God, we, too, have stubborn hearts, Lord.
We repent tonight of our hardened, stubborn hearts, Lord God. We confess, oh God, that daily we do not seek you for our help, for our daily needs, even though you taught us to pray. Give us this day our daily bread, even though you say, “Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.” Lord, we know that your word is true. It reminds us of your character, and it is a light that illumines our way. Lord, forgive us for assuming we know the best way.
Forgive us for not waiting for you and moving ahead without hearing your voice. Oh God, we repent of the times we have acted one way in front of our students and colleagues. We have left the school building and behaved in another way, taking out the frustrations of the day and our husbands and wives and children, even on other drivers on our way home. Forgive us for entering our homes and eating with our families with complaining, judgmental thoughts and words.
Much so that at times our families might think we are not thankful for our jobs as teachers. We repent, O God, for not encouraging others who are considering entering the teaching profession, but instead only speaking about the challenges and struggles, and brokenness of our schools and students. O Lord, forgive us for gathering in agreement with fellow colleagues about challenges and creating division rather than relying on you to improve situations.
Lord, we miss the mark continually, but thanks be to you, oh Jesus, for your endless grace and mercy, your unlimited love for us, and your redeeming power to convict our hard, stubborn hearts and stir up repentance in us. Thank you, Jesus. May the favor of the Lord rest upon us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, O Lord, establish the work of our hands. Amen.
Thanksgiving & Gratitude: Recognizing Divine Blessings & Protection
Prayer of Thanksgiving. Father God, we come to your throne room boldly with this prayer of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is described as the expression of gratitude, especially to God. Expression is the process of making known one’s thoughts or feelings. Gratitude is the quality of being thankful and readiness to show appreciation for and return kindness. We must make our thoughts or feelings of our thankfulness and appreciation known unto God.
Gratitude is the quality of being thankful and having readiness to show appreciation for and return kindness. Share on XI ask that everyone take 30 seconds to thank God for who he is and what he has done in our lives. Father God, we thank you for the breath of life. You have been a head of protection around us, something that I am aware I easily disregard and do not remember to thank you for. You have kept us clothed, sheltered, employed, and with the mind of Christ. You have delivered us from many things, including things we didn’t even know we needed deliverance from.
You have clothed us with strength, dignity, and power to carry out the purpose that you have placed us on this earth to fulfill. We thank you for keeping us safe. We thank you that you are with us in the midst of every storm. You never leave us nor forsake us. You never turn your back on us. We sometimes, oftentimes turn away from you, but you never turn away from us. Thank you for being our strong tower and our help in times of need, in our refuge.
Thank you, Father, for the time that we get to spend with you. Thank you that you are close to brokenhearted and save those who are crushed in spirit. You are our Father. We can depend on you, seek you, and talk with you. Thank you that you have not made yourself a stranger to us, but we are your sheep and we can know your voice. Thank you, Father God, for this ordained time of prayer. Thank you for the vision to start this and the tools necessary to keep it going.
You are our Father. We can depend on You, seek You, and talk with You. Share on XThank you that believers are gathered together in your name, for two or more gathered in your name, you are here. Thank you for not concealing your presence from us, but desiring to share it with us so much that you sent your only begotten son so that we can be reconciled back to you through the shedding of his blood and his death on the cross. Thank you, that we can never thank you enough, but we’ll never stop giving you the glory, praise, honor, and love that’s so rightly yours in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
Mercy & Supplication: Seeking Comfort And Strength In Crisis
Hallelujah. Heavenly Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus Christ, asking you for mercy. Lord, have mercy and hear our cries, hear our prayers. We supplicate to you, Abba Father, asking you, Lord, to touch the hearts of those that are transitioning in this time, O God, with the immigration crisis that is taking place, those with heavy hearts. Teachers, oh God, that are concerned about their students, their community, their loved ones.
Oh, Lord, we ask you to strengthen the teachers, oh God, that have found themselves overworked without respite, oh God, yet, Lord, desiring to see their students overcome every situation, oh Lord. Teachers that have gotten emotionally and spiritually involved in every aspect of their students’ lives in their communities, but they’re feeling lonely and without. Abba Father, we’re asking you, hallelujah, to comfort, to keep, to cover, to strengthen, to stir up the power of your Holy Spirit.
We cry out to you, Abba Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, asking you, Lord, to send forth help, to speak to the hearts and the minds of the superintendents, the principals, oh Lord, our colleagues, oh Lord, those around parents that seemingly, oh Lord, that are far from being present, emotionally drained, emotionally absent, oh God, spiritually, mentally, oh Lord.
We’re praying, oh God, and asking you in the name of Jesus Christ to comfort every student that has been neglected and abandoned and alone. Now we are experiencing, oh God, the effects of that in our classrooms. We ask you, Holy One, in the name of Jesus Christ, that you will show yourself as mighty in these moments, in these hours, for we need you, Lord. We are crying out to you. You are the very present help in the time of trouble.
We cry out, Lord Jesus Christ, come. Come, Lord Jesus. We ask all of these things in the powerful name that is above every name, that is above every situation. We pray to you in supplication, hallelujah. For we know that you’re able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think, according to your riches and your glory, according to your goodness, your compassion, your mercy, and your perfect will. As in your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ’s name, we pray, amen, and amen.