Weekly Prayer Points

Week commencing Sunday 9th June 2024

If Christian educators were asked "Why did you come into teaching?" what do you think would be their response?  What would be your response?

• "To see young people grow and thrive"?
• "To influence the next generation"?
• "To share my love for learning and for my subject"?
• "To see young people come to Christ"?

Perhaps you have another answer, or yours is an amalgam of 'all the above'.  Let us base our focus for prayer this week on the motivations we have and on the outcomes of these motivations:

Dear Lord, thank You for the opportunity that Christian staff working in education have to be an example and Christian witness to young people; we pray that You would bless those efforts, raise up more such people, and lift many into strategic leadership positions in their places of work.

Thank You for the schools, nurseries, colleges and universities where we work, for our employment and for the security that our work brings to us and to our families.

Thank You for the freedom which we have in the UK to be openly Christian and to speak, as appropriate, of our faith; we pray most sincerely, Lord, that this freedom will not be reduced or removed by legislation before or after the General Election.

Thank You, Lord, for every school Assembly across the four UK nations in which Your Word is read and/or where Jesus is spoken of with reverence; we pray that these seeds of Truth will grow in the hearts of those who hear, and that those seeds will grow into a harvest one day.

At the heart of the current exam season, we pray that Christian young people be able to recall the work they have done, under the pressure of the exam hall, and may all of our students do theselves, and those who have taught them, justice in those exams.

Thank You, Lord, for every young person who has become a Christian this Academic Year, in or out of school; we pray that their young lives be strengthened in faith,  protected under attack, and enriched through Your Spirit.

May those young people, to whom their Christian friends or teachers have witnessed but who have hardened their hearts against Your Great News of forgiveness, be softened over time to Your Truth.

And may Your hand be upon the person who will be Secretary of State for Education after the upcoming Election, that their Office will bring wisdom and godly fear to the huge responsibility of seeing our young people truly thrive, academically and spiritually, under their 'watch'.

Please note:   The half-termly ACT Prayer Meeting is scheduled for this Tuesday 11th June from 7.00-7.45pm.  Please register through the Events section of the website and join us if you can.