Prayer for Schools

I was asked to pray for schools at the Raytown, MO Mayor's Prayer Breakfast on May 1, 2025, the National Day of Prayer. This is what I believe God gave me to release.

Praise and worship

Our Father and our God, we give you praise, glory, and honor this morning. You are our Creator and You are the Judge of all. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. I want to thank you ahead of time for hearing our petition and for ruling on our behalf according to Your righteous wisdom whether we understand it all or not. 

Court Case

I ask that Your courts be open in heaven and that the court be seated as described in Daniel 7. We agree with our accuser along the way, according to Matthew 5. We recognize that in the history of this country, where education or schooling is concerned, on into today, we have made decisions and developed a system that is not what You purposed for us. I repent, now, as the church and for the church, for all the ways we have transgressed your Word and your way.

We repent of making an idol of education and counting it as our source for livelihood over You. We repent of every way schooling was ever used for manipulation and indoctrination of unholy mindsets and practices. We repent of believing and treating people as though the educated are more important than the uneducated, and of keeping education from marginalized populations in our history. We repent of using education as a definition of success (as opposed to character or righteousness or even achievement) and as a gate-keeper to wealth or well-being. We repent of elevating science over spiritual truth. We repent of any and all selfish ambition and corruption related to education in the past and in the present. Let it be exposed and eradicated. We repent of the defacto suppression of Christ-defined values, laws, and mandates, and of prohibiting prayer and testimony, and the freedom of speech for the believer in Christ. We repent of the elevation of paganism and sexual immorality. In our society, we repent of practices that threaten families and we repent for families that threaten and blame schools when true partnership is needed. We repent of adversarial relationships between families and schools and for any and all violence, anger, fear, pride, and control that develops and manifests in schools in our nation, wherein it is reported that 70% of teachers fear for their lives from students, and where adequately prepared teachers have become less and less available to our school system.

We are in need of Your strong intervention. We repent of our love for the status quo and our preference for our own understanding over Your wisdom. We repent of delusion and deception in all citizenry and leadership. We are in need of Your miraculous strong arm and Your judgement that leads to life. 

Plea (for a verdict in our favor)

Now, Lord, though we acknowledge that as humans, we have been guilty of many offenses related to education in our nation, we, the church locate ourselves under the blood of Jesus, who lived a perfect life, and then suffered and died for every sin so that we can live and be free of all sin. Thank You for Your death and resurrection, Lord Jesus. Thank You for Your promise to restore all things on earth through the leading of the Holy Spirit in Your people. “Your people volunteer in the day of Your power,” according to Psalm 110. Lead us for your purpose and your glory in this area, and in all areas of our lives. Thank You that You look upon us as cleansed and forgiven because of Jesus, and that You render a judgement in favor of your children (grown-ups, youth, and babies). 

You have said that you desire truth in the innermost being. Cause that truth to be revealed to us, and cause our eyes and our ears to be open to Your truth; enable us to perceive Your new thing as You bring it into the earth at this time. You are the One and the only One with the answer to our situation - for our families, and our system, our colleagues, and our leaders. We shut the door to the wiles and influences of the enemy, and we open the door of our lives and to this system of education to your revelation and for your ruling power. We are excited to see what You do, and we are excited to participate under Your leadership, O God. Amen.