Prayers for Back to School

It is that time is year … school is back … so we need to do this first … pray

This was taken from a CrossWalk article by Rachel Dawson.

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Join us as we pray for our nation’s schools, students, and teachers. These prayers for school focus on various needs, including safety, purpose, focus, and more! 

Simple Prayers for School

Prayer for a New School Year: Heavenly Father, we thank You for the gift of another school year and for keeping us safe. Bless our school, the teachers, staff, and students. Guide us in Your wisdom as we learn and grow. Protect us, lead us, and grant us Your peace. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Prayer for Wisdom and Guidance: Lord, grant wisdom and patience to the teachers and staff. Help them to share their knowledge in kind and effective ways. Provide students with the curiosity and determination to learn and thrive. Keep our school a safe and nurturing environment for all. Amen.

Prayer for Protection: Almighty God, please protect all who come through our school doors. Guard our children from harm, watch over their journeys to and from school, and keep our classrooms safe. Bless our efforts to create a community of care and respect. Amen.

Prayer for Unity and Peace: Father in Heaven, help our school to be a place of unity and peace. Teach us to accept one another and learn from our diverse experiences and backgrounds. Help us to work together in harmony and respect for the betterment of our community. Amen.

Prayer for Parents: Lord, we lift the parents and guardians of our students. Provide them with the strength, wisdom, and compassion they need to support their children. Help them to find balance in their lives and to feel connected to our school community. Amen.

“Always pray and never give up.”(Luke 18:1)

Pray against physical harm. Make a daily habit out of praying for their physical protection from cuts, bruises, fist-fights, bike crashes, abduction, abuse, and addiction. The reality of child trafficking should make every parent overly-cautious. The fact that cough meds have to be purchased with an ID is a red flag to parents to be aware. The rampant problem with bullying in this country proves abuse is just as prevalent outside the home.

Pray that school fulfills its purpose – giving your child an education. The most powerful way to pray is by quoting God’s Word, and I believe it’s important to memorize Scripture for that purpose and beyond. In a transcendent way, this verse also illuminates the importance God places on learning. He created a world to discover and knowledge to be attained. Classrooms can be packed and distracting, making it hard for students to focus and teachers to teach. Mandated testing doesn’t always align with a child’s actual capacity of knowledge. 

5 More Things to Pray for Your Local School (from Proverbs 1:1-7)

1. Thank God for learning. Thank God that he has provided everything we need “for gaining wisdom and instruction; for understanding words of insight” in his word (v 1-2). While human minds enjoy unravelling the puzzle of how the world around us works, God has not left us guessing on the question of why—he’s told us clearly through Scripture. That’s a big reason for thanksgiving!
2. Get future-proofed. Pray that students would learn “prudent behaviour” (v 3). Thank God for the way he uses education as an instrument of his common grace in restraining the effects of sin on society. Pray that this school would teach children “prudent behaviour”, and equip them to make choices that do good, not harm, to others as they grow up.
3. Love fairness. Pray that students would learn to do “what is right and just and fair” in God’s eyes (v 3).Sometimes it seems that our culture’s definition of right and wrong is drifting further and further from the Bible’s definition. But pray that children in this school would be taught that what God thinks is right is indeed right; that what God says is just is indeed just; and that what God says is fair is indeed fair. 
4. Learn discretion. Ask God to teach “discretion to the young” (v 4).Kids can be very cruel with their words. So pray that these children would learn to control their tongues and speak words that are kind and patient, not offensive or mean. 
5. Fear God. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (v 7).Pray that students and teachers would come to fear God—and realise that this is far more important than all the knowledge the world offers. Pray for Christian teachers you know, and anyone else who has an opportunity to witness to the gospel—ask that they too would fear God, not humans, and so speak faithfully and courageously.  

Public? Private? Homeschool? Pray!