“At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for by his family. When he was placed outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.”

Acts 7:19-21 (NIV)

Parents entrust their cherished children to schools, expecting love, safety, and nurturing. Similar to Pharaoh’s daughter, teachers should teach with the same diligence and care as if the students were their biological children. This approach can produce remarkable results for vulnerable students and their communities.

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Prayercast: Students’ Mental Health; Self-Care for Teachers; Reconnect With God’s Purpose And Calling

Prayer Of Adoration

Prayer of Adoration. Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any two-edged sword piercing to the point of division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Lord, you have given us the power of your word, breathed out by you. It is alive, active, sharp, and discerning. It never returns to you empty. It’s always accomplishing your work.

You’ve blessed us with your armor. You ask us to walk in peace of the truth of Jesus. We get to have peace because he came and lived a perfect life to be a sacrifice and payment for us. We can be at peace knowing our spirits are redeemed from the internal pits of hell. No one can ever remove us from your hand. You give us a belt of truth around our middle and gut, which is where we are led to respond by your spirit instead of by the human flesh.

You and your righteous discernment are our gut reaction. You protect our feeble and wayward hearts with your heart and breastplate of righteousness, protection from untruths and wrongness, from spirits and principalities, meaning to harm. With that plate of breastplate of righteousness, you have also given us the accountability for our wayward selves. It’s belted around our middle.

You crown us with a helmet of salvation. Everyone can see it. It is beautiful and visible. It protects our minds from the evils of this world. Our constant visible reminder and accountable measure is a protection of the most vulnerable and essential part of ourselves. You further equip us with faith. A hand to hold of hope that secures the shield of faith hope for good things and faith that goodness will come to pass. We are to act accordingly to it.

You’ve given us the sword of the spirit, not our spirit to use in battle. Your perfect and living word is the sword of the spirit that you have given us to fight spiritual battles. I praise you for making us, loving us, redeeming us, giving us talent and purpose, and equipping us to fight for your kingdom and eternal goodness. You have given us your word to read, study, memorize, pray, meditate on, and apply to our lives, like shining a light into the dark corners, cleaning out the cobwebs, reorganizing it, and using it for your purpose.

Lord, you are God. You are the creator of beauty. You are all-powerful. You are our master. You’re perfect in proficiency, a leader and authority that uses the power that you have not to control us but to give us free will. You are the good father. You are the just judge. You are the merciful and gracious forgiver and redeemer. You are the lover of our souls. It created us for your joy.

You could take our free will and use us, control us, or command us. Instead, what greater joy is there to set your creation free to choose, and that they choose to return to the Creator to fellowship and praise Him? In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. The word was God. Lord, I sit in awe and wonder at your magnificent design. I delight in your goodness, O God. I adore you. Amen.

Prayer Of Confession

Prayer of confession. Dear Father God, we come to your throne boldly with this prayer of confession. Father God, we don’t always seek your will. Oftentimes, we seek our own will and pray that you stamp your approval on it. We sometimes seek your will only after ours has left us depleted and unsatisfied. Father God, we long to grow closer to you and have a desire to see you work in our lives. We want our will to line up with yours. We confess that we need you to help us in this area.

Oftentimes, we seek our own will and pray that God will stamp His approval on it. This often leads to us being depleted and unsatisfied. Share on X

Father God, we confess that we don’t always think before speaking. We may say something that hurts others or unintentionally belittles them. We may say something arrogant accidentally. Father, we confess that we need you to help us in the guarding of our mouths. We know that blessings and cursings should not come from the same mouth. We know that the power of life and death lies in our tongues and we must be responsible because those who love to talk must eat the fruit thereof.

We confess that we need you to help us monitor our speech so that we continuously grow in speaking more, more like you have called us to, and that we speak life over situations and not kill things with the words of our mouths. Father God, we don’t always guard our eyegates. We watch and submit ourselves to the flesh. We don’t always look for what glorifies you. We know that this should not be. We should focus on things that are pure, lovely, good, righteous, and godly, things that are of you.

Father God, we don’t always guard our ear gates. We may listen to things that you define as detestable. We may gossip or listen to gossip. We may listen to people, sites, and things that do not align with your will. We confess so we need help to ignore and bind listening to and receiving advice, gossip, and anything else that is not of you. We take the next 30 seconds to boldly confess our sins to you. We thank you, Father God, for your love for us. Jesus, we thank you for the sacrifice on the cross. Holy Spirit, we thank you for your guidance and conviction as we confess and continue to seek god’s will way and word. We ask for forgiveness of all of our sins in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.

Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Hallelujah. Heavenly Father, as we continue in thanksgiving, Oh Lord, but it is your will that you said in all things, give thanks. Lord, we thank you for those open doors and closed doors. We thank you, Lord, for that which we did not understand yesterday in the past but our merciful, mighty God, we are so grateful for the way things happened. We couldn’t understand it in those moments but by grace, we see your hand for you have caused all things to work together for our good.

We are in awe. Oh, hallelujah. We give thanks to you. Oh, Lord, we thank you for our sons, daughters, husbands, and wives. We thank you for our neighbors and colleagues. We thank you, oh, hallelujah, for your goodness, mercy, and grace. Oh, Abba Father, as we declare our love to you, Lord, we are grateful that you first loved us.

Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. We give you the highest praise. Hallelujah. We give thanks to you, Abba Father, oh Lord, for you are good and your mercies endured forever. We give thanks to you, Lord and Savior. Oh, hallelujah, because you are the very present help in the time of trouble. We give thanks to you, Lord, for that which has brought us to our knees. At our knees, we have drawn closer to you.

Oh, hallelujah. We were not grateful for our health until we found ourselves bedridden. Oh, Lord have mercy. We give thanks to you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. As we take this moment, oh Lord, with our whole hearts, all of our strength, and all of our minds individually and here collectively gathered together to edify, encourage, intercede, and mediate one another.

Oh, Lord, we give thanks to you for when you saw that all of us had fallen short of thy glory, you manifested in this earth, incarnated in a version, and made yourself known to all mankind that you will reconcile us back to you. Oh, hallelujah. It is our sins that have separated us from you but it is your goodness that have reconciled us back to you. We give thanks to you, the savior, for saving our souls from hell and destruction. We give thanks to you, oh Lord, that we’re no longer slaves to sin. Death has no sting and the grave has no power. We give thanks to you.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let us not forget that we will continue to thank you in all things and in the dark moments for you are our light by day and night. We give thanks to you. We may be in-door, hallelujah, in the night but joy has come in our morning. Hallelujah. As we mourn unto you and give thanks, oh Lord, the day breaks forth and we made it another day by your grace. Oh, Abba Father, we give thanks. On this eve, oh hallelujah, as we reflect on this day, we’re grateful to gather together here in your name to give thanks to you in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen and amen.

We are made to endure in the night, but joy has come in our morning. Share on X

Prayer Of Supplication

Prayer of supplication. Father, we thank you that we can come to you and pray for the mental health of our students. You alone know the inner workings of the minds of these children and young adults. You know their dreams, hopes, and aspirations. Lord, we pray that you ignite hope where there is despair in the hearts of these young people. We pray that you resurrect dreams that have died in the hearts of these young people. We pray that you reconcile and restore relationships that may have caused them to have bitterness or unforgiveness in their hearts.

Father, we pray specifically for the young people who have been exposed to evil material and influences through their phones, devices, social media, and the internet. We pray that chains of addiction to pornography, gaming platforms, and all other snares and entrapments that our students are being exposed to will be broken and destroyed by your Holy Spirit.

We pray for healthy habits to take the place of destructive behaviors. We pray that the anger and strife that students are exposed to at home, in their communities, and in their classrooms will not influence them. We pray that you put a shield of protection around each student. We pray that the mental health teams that you have in each school building will be guided by your heart and hand in each of the cases that they are assigned to.

We pray for medical doctors and hospital staff who are treating emotionally and mentally distraught children. Lord, give them wisdom. Help them be part of the healing process and not a hindrance. We cry out for those children who have suicidal thoughts and ideations that break in like a flood, and that you will raise a standard against those evil thoughts that come from the enemy. Lord, we know that nothing is impossible for you. We thank you for hearing our prayers and moving in the lives of the children throughout this land and around the world.

Father, we lift the areas of self-care and sufficient rest for educators. We ask for your wisdom as we start new school terms and prepare for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and all the events and programs that happen at this time of year. Help us know when to say yes or no. Help us delegate, self-regulate, hydrate, not procrastinate, and know that you alone are the one who can supernaturally invigorate.

Lord, help us sincerely desire to wait on you, knowing that you will renew our strength, then we will mount up with wings like eagles and run and not be weary. We will walk and not faint. Lord, we ask you to help us reconnect with our why, why we decided to become teachers, serve students and their families, and be an integral part of the learning experience for hundreds of young people.

Lord, help us sincerely desire to wait on You, knowing You will renew our strength. We will mount up with wings like eagles, run and not be weary, and walk and not faint. Share on X

We humbly come with gratitude to thank you for your gift of teaching. Your son throughout your words gives us so many beautiful illustrations and examples of how to be a loving teacher, a wise teacher, a stern teacher, a humorous teacher, a skillful teacher, and an effective teacher. Help us remind ourselves that you have called us to be an educator for such a time as this.

During these exciting times in our world’s history, you are positioning us to be lights. You have said in your words, “Light shall shine out of darkness.” You, Lord, are the one who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of the Father in the face of his Son, Jesus Christ. For this, we are grateful. Thank you, Lord.

In closing, I’ll read and pray Numbers 6:22 through 26 and 2 Corinthians 13:14. “Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to Aaron and to his sons saying, thus, you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them, the Lord bless you and keep you. Make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance on you and give you peace. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.