Evening of Blessing for Teachers

Sunday evening, August 23, was a very sweet, powerful time in the worship center as teachers, home-schoolers, school administrators and staff, school board members and students were prayed for on the eve of the new school season.  I think this service will become an annual gathering at Rocky. Pastor Carey Dean has provided a "record" of the evening, including
Scripture passages read by Rocky people who shared from the Word and prayed for educators and students.  I encourage you to read the passages and pray for all those involved in education in various ways as you read.

And here is a prayer suggestion: Think of a "prayer prompter" for students, teachers, schools and homes that will remind you to pray.  For example, as you are driving, let the sight of schools or school buses move you to pray for students, home teachers and staff, praying especially for a strong move of God in our homes and schools.

Prayer for Administration/Staff               

• Gal 6:9  Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. 
• Mat 5:16  "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Prayer for Homeschooling families           

• 2Co 9:8  And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;
• Col 3:12  So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;
• Col 3:13  bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.

Prayer for Students                             

• Psa 139:23  Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
• Psa 139:24  And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.

Prayer for Teachers                             

• Jas 3:5  So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!
• Hab 3:19  (HEIGHTS theme verse) The Lord GOD is my strength, And He has made my feet like hinds' feet, And makes me walk on my high places.
• Eph 4:29  Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.
• Eph 4:30  Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
• Eph 4:31  Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
• Eph 4:32  Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
• Eph 5:1  Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
• Jas 2:1  My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
• Jas 2:2  For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes,
• Jas 2:3  and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, "You sit here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,"
• Jas 2:4  have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?
• Jas 2:5  Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
• Jas 2:6  But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?
• Jas 2:7  Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?
• Jas 2:8  If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well.
• Jas 2:9  But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
• Jas 2:10  For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.