Prayer For Teachers Beginning Of School Year
Lord God, You are a global God. Grace us and grace our students with global vision in our mission to spread your love. May we be trailblazers as we bring that "touch of magic," that touch of your love, to those we meet each day. We make this prayer in your name, Jesus Christ. Amen
Dearest Father in Heaven, Bless us all and bless this day of new beginnings. Smile upon this staff and student body, And surround us, Lord, with the soft mantle of your love. Teach this community to follow in your footsteps, And to live life in the ways of Love, faith, hope and charity. We ask this through your name, Jesus Christ Amen
Loving Creator, Map your goals for us in our hearts. Make our classrooms oases in the busy world. Make them places of warmth and trust. May our affirmation of our students enable them to know that their opinion counts. Free them to stretch themselves as they seek holistic growth in a safe, nurturing, Christian environment. Amen
Lord, Give us insight to see realistically "what is"; but make us dreamers and give us vision of all the possibilities for "what can be." Use us as your instruments to form, inform, reform, and transform those who come to us. We ask this in your name, Jesus Christ. Amen
Lord Jesus, we ask for Your help as we begin this new school year. Allow us to experience Your presence in the many blessings You put before us. Open our eyes to the new challenges and exciting opportunities that this new school year brings. Open our heart and mind to new friends and new teachers. Give us a generous spirit to be enthusiastic with our studies and courage to accept new opportunities. Help us to be attentive to one another and let us experience Your presence in our new friends. Jesus, inspire us to do our best this year! Amen
Dear LORD,
Thank you for allowing me to see another year. To meet another group of students and to spread your love through my actions yet again. Thank you for my students and their parents. Thank you for my colleagues and thank you for my school. As this new year arrives, LORD, please grant me the wisdom to lead righteously, the discernment to best be able to live above reproach and the energy to make it through each day with a smile.
I pray for my students, that their minds are being prepared to learn, and that their hearts may be opened to learning life-lessons as well as the lessons I will teach in class. I pray that you protect them from the dangers of this worldboth physically and emotionally. Be with the overachievers, the socialites, the athletes and the popular students. Stand with them as they face the pressures of school and social life and help them to see the impact that they can make by reaching out and helping others. And, LORD, please be with the studious, more quiet, meek and mild ones the ones who struggle in the classroom and the ones who struggle in the lunchroom. LORD, be with the ones who sit alone, whether by accident or by choice. Help them to find their voice, their inner beauty and to love who they are. God, I pray that they see you in their struggles and in their successes and that they feel your presence even if they don't know you. I pray that they all find an adult who can show them your grace and can walk alongside of them through the year, whether or not that person is me. These babies (even though some are close to adulthood) are lost and some are alone. I pray for them in general and I pray for them as individuals They are more than deserving of our love in that way.
I ask that you bless them
Bless their pencils, that they may express themselves freely.
Bless their lunch boxes, especially the ones of those who are hungry.
Bless their tennis shoes, that they may not dread the social hour that is recess.
Bless their school buses and cars, that they may arrive to and from school safely.
Bless their devices, that they may make wise decisions with how they use them.
Bless their backpacks, both the physical and emotional weights they carry.
I pray for my school. God, please protect my building. Keep it safe this year from fires, natural disasters, accidents and vandalism. Please move through the halls and out onto the fields and protect all the people inside and out of the building from the chemistry projects to recess to football games. Please keep each door secure and each adult in school on alert and safe from the harm of predators who see a school as a target. Please change the hearts of the students or adults who seek to harm others as a way to cope with anger, mental illness and pain Give them someone who can love them through their emotions and keep them away from the building. Be in the attendance office, be in the parking lots and the lunch lines and the nurses office. Help those who help our children and give the students a heart of thanksgiving for the paraprofessionals, the maintenance men, the office ladies, the school nurses, the principals and the janitors. Bless the administration, the Headmasters, Superintendents and School Boards.
I pray for all the other teachers and students in Texas, the US and our world. I pray for peace in our schools, for our children to be blessed, and for our teachers to be strong. I pray that the lessons taught, both inside and outside of the classroom work to benefit your kingdom. I pray that this generation of students sees the beauty of family time. I pray that they learn to put the phones down and take what they see on social media in stride. I pray that the parents of our nation stand alongside the educators and push their children to be the best that they can be.
Lastly, I pray for myself, that I may remember who I truly work for, you. And that I may remember that I am called to serve and to love, even when it's hard. Please pray that I am strong and do not ever give up on a student, that I remember that the ones who are the hardest to love, need my love the most. Please help me control my temper on the days that are hard. Please give me the patience to continue working with the students who have given up on themselves. Help me to remember to keep my classroom door open to all who need someone. Bless my lessons and my homework assignments, that I may hold my students to high expectations, yet remember that school should be fun. Bless my classroom. May it be filled with laughter and love. Give me grace, LORD, so that I may infinitely give grace over and over. And when I'm given credit for my successes, may I remember that you are deserving of it all That You are the reason I chose this profession and that You have given me the strength and energy to make it through another year. Most importantly, help me to always remember that I love them because You first loved me. For each one of them is your child a child of the King.
This is my prayer. Amen.
Gracious God, we come to you at the beginning of this academic year
with our many feelings, expectations, fears and hopes.
Help us to remember, however, we have the comforting
assurance from you: "I will always be with you."
Loving God, for all of us this is a time of transition. It is transition
from the work and leisure of summer back to the classroom.
It is transition from time spent with family and friends.
Give us patience with ourselves as we transition as well as
patience with one another.
Faithful God, this beginning is totally new for some among us.
Turn the sadness of leaving families to openness to new friends
and opportunities. Turn the anxiety about academics to a quiet confidence in the way
you have blessed us in the past.
Give us a new perspective to see persons, events, and academic work as an
invitation to develop the many gifts you have given us to be used in service for others.
Creator God, some in our community are moving into their last year at Marquette.
Bless them with your gifts of awe and wonder at the friends they have made,
the way their minds and hearts have been changed, and the many opportunities
that lie ahead. Give them the gift of discernment to make the right choices about the future.
Finally, God, give to each member of the Marquette Community the seven
gifts of the Spirit: wisdom, understanding, right judgment, courage, knowledge,
reverence, and awe and wonder.
Amen.
Dear Lord,
I lift up our teachers and ask Father that as classrooms fill up with new students this year, that you will enable and guide each and every teacher and staff member of the school.
Help them to teach and care for our children with love, honor, and respect.
Fill their hearts with your love and their minds with your wisdom and give them the strength and patience to be the best teacher they can be.
I ask Lord that you would cover the school with your protective hand and send each student, teacher, and staff member home safely each day.
Thank you for those that instruct our children for they are a blessing.
I pray this is Jesus' most precious name Amen.