Section 4: You Have Power
Join with us today and pray our prepared prayer on page 41 from the FORTY DAYS OF PRAYER FOR EDUCATION free eBook or pray independently from our focus scripture, Colossians 1: 28- 29 AMP and enjoy the accompanying song entitled, "My Help" by The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.
As you continue in prayer, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal those situations during the school year that caused heaviness, resentment, or frustration. Seek revelation to the root of the matter and ask God for the perseverance, energy and strength to overcome them should they occur again.
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ENERGY
TO DO HIS WORK
We
proclaim Him, warning and instructing everyone in all wisdom [that is, with
comprehensive insight into the word and purposes of God], so that we may
present every person complete in Christ [mature, fully trained, and perfect in
Him—the Anointed]. For this I labor [often to the point of exhaustion],
striving with His power and energy, which so greatly works within me.
Colossians
1: 28-29 AMP
Dear
Heavenly Father,
You
are the source of our strength, the center of our joy and to whom be all glory,
honor, power and praise.
Today
Lord, we continue to pray for the strength of educators and administrators
across this country. Father it is so easy for us to forget where our help comes
from in the face of mountains of work, new initiatives, difficult students,
parents and coworkers. Fill us with Your supernatural energy for Your glory. It
is for Your glory that we have been appointed by You as educators. It is for
Your glory that You have equipped us for training, teaching, correcting and
comforting our youth so that they too can reflect the image of Christ.
We
ask that You would expose the root of our frustrations and weariness so that if
it is something that we are causing, we can change. Help us to organize,
prioritize and to be willing to ask for help from others. Guide us to specific
scripture that we can meditate on and be strengthened in any time we are
feeling drained.
Mightily
enable us so that we can strive and press toward the mark of our high calling
to train the next generation to learn and to love like You.
In
Jesus' name,
-Amen
