Our Schools: Teachers and Administrators, No. 2

***That teachers and administrators would be open to God’s Word in our schools.

1 John 5:2
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Please pray with me:

Heavenly Father,
You have sent Your Holy Spirit to teach us.

John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

You are our Teacher. Engage with us that we may know how to teach our children. By and large, our schools have failed miserably. Many public and "inner city" schools are in total disrepair. And yet, we send our children there to learn. Our colleges and universities—once based on Your Word, now defy their original intentions and push the intellects of their students to embrace rebellion. Forgive us.

The atmosphere is filled with sickness: social, physical, psychological and mental, and spiritual. We have not risen up to improve these facilities. We have not nurtured a society that values godly teachers. We have not consistently voted for taxes and referendums that would have improved our schools. Father, instead, many of us have simply moved to the suburbs and ignored the situation of those less fortunate. Forgive us.

Raise us up anew! Place on the hearts of young and mature teachers to help to tackle this problem! Select a chosen army of teachers and administrators that will courageously and creatively find solutions to change this deplorable and embarrassing situation. Father, is there a "Moses and Aaron" team (or many teams!) that would speak before the nation's audiences to advocate for our schools?

Would You bring these people to the public eye and equip them to change the attitudes of those who would help? Father, would You appoint spokespersons from every town, city, county, state and at the national level to invigorate our nation to find real answers for our schools. We need protagonists! Polished spokespersons with the gift of persuasion. You gave Moses an Aaron very specific words to say. You laid out the process so that Pharaoh's heart would be changed. Would you find these people here in the United States and do the same? I ask it.

Father, You know the administrators and teachers that would be open to Your Word and would be able to integrate it into the daily curriculum. Raise up these teachers! Press on their heart to commit themselves to the teaching profession. Oh, at all levels: from the pre-schools and nursery schools through every Ph.D. program in the U.S.

Father, wouldn't it be exciting to see our schools return to godly principles? I ask it. Raise up other people who will pray with me for our schools. May we be diligent and know that this is our future for this nation. Our schools prospered when we honored You. We have forgotten it and we have rebelliously turned from You. Forgive us. Change our hearts. Unite us to turn this around. May there be a great and glorious revival of godly principles from Your Word to infuse our schools. And we will give You the glory.

In Jesus’ Name.

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