Weekly Prayer Points

Week commencing Sunday 24th November 2024

So the 'call for evidence' deadline for submissions to the Curriculum and Assessment Review (Key Stages 1-5) has now passed and the ACT submission has been sent.  Now will follow considerations, consultations, lobbying and politicking before the Interim Report is brought forward in "early 2025" and final recommendations emerge in Autumn 2025.  Throughout this period, when discussions retreat deeper into the corridors of power, Christians are empowered by the call now to pray. 

Here are some of the key areas upon which to focus our prayers: 

Whilst some commentators wish to present the UK as a pluralist society, in which all faiths should have an equal space - or in many activists' opinion no place at all - we thank You, Lord, for the Christian heritage upon which our nation has been built and which we seek to preserve and honour;

We ask, O Lord, that the freedom to speak of Christ, to act according to His teaching and in line with Your Word, and to preserve the Daily Act of Worship might be protected against the voices of those wish to push You out of the public consciousness;

We ask O Lord that schools would work with parents in developing and delivering effective education, rather than seeking to impose political diktats upon children and families as to how their children should be raised in school;

We pray that those Christians who choose to educate their children at home will not have that right curtailed nor their teaching censored or controlled in ways which contradict the teachings of the Bible;

We pray that children will not be seen simply as economic units whose curriculum is set to service the world of work to the exclusion of personal and spiritual enrichment; to this end, we pray for the continuation and protection of the teaching of Biblical Truth through RE for all school children;

We pray that effective curriculum and assessment systems might emerge which better develop the holisitic future of all children, not simply through the measure of GCSE outcomes; and

O Lord, protect us from the enemy's deceit within education which promotes subjective relativism, uncertainty, doubt and a Godless worldview, thus eroding Your absolute standards of good, evil, sin, grace, forgiveness, wholeness, meaning and eternal purpose which, through Christ, will lead us to everlasting life in all its fullness.

And so we pray that Your Spirit will now continue His work within the thoughts of those who continue this Curriculum and Assessment Review, that Your Will be done, that Your Kingdom will come, and that we, Your people, will be wise, courageous and worthy ambassadors for You in the world of nurseries, schools, colleges and universities across our nation.

AMEN.