Book excerpt: Teaching Tips from Week 36

As we come to the end of our school year, I just wanted to share a few pages from my book that will help you coast your way to the end.  Sometimes you just need a little reminder...  

Ten Tips For Better Teaching

1. Purpose – Remember that you have been destined and designed for this.  Regardless of what you think, God has created you, everything about you to impact the life of your students.          Jeremiah 1: 5
2. Prayer – Continue to pray without ceasing.  Be specific in what you desire and what you need. God has promised to give you wisdom and rest.  Just A.S.K. (ask, seek and knock)  Matthew 7:7 and Matthew 11: 28-30
3. Power – Understand that you have been given power from on high to trample the enemy.  Your words, God’s Word spoken again by you are weapons against the enemy and they are life to your every need.  Speak life.           2 Corinthians 10: 4-5
4. Preparation – Plan up to the very end.  Kids who have nothing to do can and will begin to get on your nerves.  You don’t need the bible to tell you that!
5. Pollinate – Although you may feel a little stretched, be willing to speak encouragement or help out a fellow teacher (especially the new ones) during this time of year.  Help out those who need help in growing. 
6. Perseverance – 2 John 1: 8 Says it best: Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.  Don’t give up now.
7. Personality – Nehemiah 8:10 says that “the joy of the Lord is your strength”.  Now’s not the time to be a sourpuss.  Draw joy and love from Jesus so that you can be a reflection of His joy, His compassion, His loving kindness towards others.  Let your light so shine…
8. Pleasing – Hebrews 13: 20-21 says “May the God of peace,… _v21 equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ…”  Allow God to do the work in you so that you will be pleasing to Him.  In doing so, you will also become pleasing to those around you.  
9. Placement – Jeremiah 29:11 God knows the plans He has for you.  This tip on placement is not just about a choice in grade level, school or district, but it’s much deeper than that.  It’s really about trust.  Trust God to place you in situations, in ear shot of conversations, around your colleagues so that you can be used HOWEVER God needs for that particular need.  Someone may just need your smile or encouraging word and God places you two in the hallway alone.  Every time, every situation belongs to God.  
10. Peace - Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.  Trust in God and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct you paths.  Peace comes directly from God. Seek Him and you will find it.

Hold His hand and finish this race.

Remember keep starting your Monday with the Master.

Young, T. (2014). Start Your Monday With The Master. Sandston, Virginia: JDI Publisher Co.

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Forty Days of Prayer for Education: Day 23

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

Forty Days of Prayer for Education: Day 20

Section 4: You Have Power

Join with us today and pray our prepared prayer on page 38 from the FORTY DAYS OF PRAYER FOR EDUCATION free eBook or pray independently from our focus scripture, 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 AMP and enjoy the accompanying song entitled, "Power in the Blood" by Amy Grant.

As you continue in prayer, let the Holy Spirit lead you to scripture concerning the power of God that has been released to you through His blood, His word and His name. Write these scriptures down and commit them to memory. As you face trials and obstacles this year, recall His Word to mind and rest assured that our God is faithful and is mighty to save and deliver. 

ACTIVATE THE POWER WITHIN

though we walk in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh and using the weapons of man.  The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

2 Corinthians 10: 3-4 AMP

Dear Heavenly Father,

We thank You for arming us with strength through the power of Your Holy Spirit and the promise of Your Word. Thank You for training our hands for battle. Thank You for being our Shield and Rock. 

Today we pray that we will activate Your power within us. Lord, as we plug into You as our power source, may we be willing to release miracles into the lives of our students. 

Increase our boldness and belief to declare and decree freedom for our students. 

Lead us into battle as we face students who are being attacked and overcome by sickness and spirits such as ADHD, defiance, rebellion, poverty, chemical imbalances in their brains and physical ailments in their bodies.

We will shout aloud, "With God we will gain the victory and He will trample down our enemies." May we never underestimate Your power and Your willingness to use us to show that power.

In Jesus' name,

-Amen

Forty Days of Prayer for Education: Section 4 Intro

Section Four:   YOU HAVE POWER

Educators  who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose have no reason to stay in a state of hopelessness or helplessness. You have POWER! Join Educator Dominion in the next six days of prayer knowing "You Have Power"! 
Download the free prayer eBook at www.educatordominion.com 

Forty Days of Prayer for Education: Day 16

Section 3: Kingdom Focus

Join with us today and pray our prepared prayer on pages 31 and 32 from the FORTY DAYS OF PRAYER FOR EDUCATION free eBook or pray independently from our focus scripture, Isaiah 61: 1 HCSB and enjoy the accompanying song entitled, "Isaiah 61" by Judy Jacobs.

As you continue in conversation with the Lord, know that the Holy Spirit will lead and guide you this year. Pray for boldness and obedience to do the will of the Father for His glory and the uplifting of His Kingdom.

THE WORKS OF THE KINGDOM

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to… 

Isaiah 61:1 HCSB

Dear Heavenly Father, 

Lord I thank You for life and a holy way of living. Thank You God for loving us so much that You gave Your only begotten son, Jesus Christ, as a showing, sacrificing, servant for us to emulate. Blessed be the Kingdom of God and may Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 

According to Your word, You have released us to do greater works than You did when You walked this earth. The Spirit of the Lord God was upon You to preach the good news of Your Kingdom to the poor, to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners freed. You gave beauty for ashes, blessings in the place of mourning, and praise instead of despair. 

Today, may Your educators proclaim, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me". May we continually strive to prove Your existence and might through the power of Your anointing over our lives. 

Bless us with opportunities to declare the good news of Your Kingdom to the blessed poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of God. 

Open our eyes and ears and lead us to those in our midst who are brokenhearted and in need of the comfort and peace that only You can provide. 

As we look upon our students and see them being bound with chemical imbalances and learning disabilities, may You bless the works of our hands to free them and restore the secret places within them which have been devastated for a long time. 

In our classrooms and schools, may our students and coworkers find a safe haven for restoration and peace. May the beauty and blessings of the Lord abound wherever we walk. May we live in such a way that we bring Your manifested life- altering presence with us. Your praise, lifted up by one who is truly set free, can ignite transformation in an entire student body or staff. 

We greatly delight in You, for our soul rejoices at the possibilities that can stem from our obedience to You. 

In Jesus' name, 

-Amen