For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with all spiritual wisdom and understanding.  And we pray this in order that you live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.  For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.  Colossians 1:9-14

Wednesday:

Today’s focus of prayer from our key passage is:

“…and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience” (Colossians 1:10- 11)

We thank you Father for your promises and your faithfulness.  We thank you that you have not called our teachers to self-sufficiency, but rather full dependency on you.  We claim for our teachers your Son’s words that told us it is to our Father’s glory that we bear much fruit.  You desire that we be successful in your purpose for our lives.  What a God of grace you are!  You are not a God that gives knowledge and then withholds the strength to act on spiritual wisdom; but rather you are a God that reveals your will to your people, and then supplies the needed strength to accomplish the good work.  And what kind of strength do you supply?  Glorious might!  Father, pour out your might on our staff and produce in them all the fruits of the Spirit.  We thank you Lord that we are able to endure, because you first endured the cross.  We pray that our teachers will run with perseverance the race marked out before them, and fix their eyes upon Jesus, the author and perfecter of their faith.  May the fruit which they bear bring you much Glory.  Amen!

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with all spiritual wisdom and understanding.  And we pray this in order that you live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.  For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.  Colossians 1:9-14

Wednesday:

Today’s focus of prayer from our key passage is:

“…and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience” (Colossians 1:10- 11)

We thank you Father for your promises and your faithfulness.  We thank you that you have not called our teachers to self-sufficiency, but rather full dependency on you.  We claim for our teachers your Son’s words that told us it is to our Father’s glory that we bear much fruit.  You desire that we be successful in your purpose for our lives.  What a God of grace you are!  You are not a God that gives knowledge and then withholds the strength to act on spiritual wisdom; but rather you are a God that reveals your will to your people, and then supplies the needed strength to accomplish the good work.  And what kind of strength do you supply?  Glorious might!  Father, pour out your might on our staff and produce in them all the fruits of the Spirit.  We thank you Lord that we are able to endure, because you first endured the cross.  We pray that our teachers will run with perseverance the race marked out before them, and fix their eyes upon Jesus, the author and perfecter of their faith.  May the fruit which they bear bring you much Glory.  Amen!

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For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with all spiritual wisdom and understanding.  And we pray this in order that you live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.  For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:9-14

Tuesday:

Today’s focus of prayer from our key passage is:

“And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord…” (Colossians 1:10)

What a high calling we have Father: to live a life worthy of our Lord.  We are reminded time and time again in your Word that we are to conduct ourselves in a manner that is worthy of the gospel of Christ.  This we pray for our teachers and staff!  We ask you Lord to unify this body of believers, that you would make our school like a city on a hill, one that lets it’s light shine before men.  We thank you Father that it is by grace alone that we have been called, and it is by grace alone that we will be fruitful.  Pour out yourself on our teachers Father, and continue to transform them into the perfect image of your Son.  We, like Moses, in humility and boldness, ask you to show us your glory!  We thank you Father that you have done that through Christ, and that we are free to live with unveiled faces, reflecting the Lord’s glory.  May our teachers shine brightly with the light of Christ!  May they reflect your glory to their students, so that our children will be able to reflect your glory to a lost world.  May we walk in the freedom that we have in Christ and live a life worthy of our Lord, the holy One that we serve.  Amen!

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As I mentioned on Friday, this week at Playing Sublimely is being devoted to praying for our teachers.  I recently had the great privilege of writing a prayer guide for my children’s school.  These prayers are in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, and they are a guide for lifting up teachers and staff before the One true teacher and giver of wisdom.  Thanks so much for being here, please join us in praying.

An Introduction:

As we approach this week of prayer for our teachers, staff, and school; let us be reminded of whom we come before with our prayers.  We are approaching a God that already knows what we need, even before we ask it.  We are approaching a God who is sovereign in all things and seated victoriously on his throne.  One whose eyes run to and fro throughout the earth looking to strengthen the hearts of those that are committed to him.  We are approaching a God that is ever present, always available, and forever faithful to hear the cries of his people.  We are told in 1 John 5:14 that “This is the confidence that we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.  And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked of him.”  May we also remember this week Jesus’ own words that said “It is to my Father’s glory that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.”  So let us then pray according to his will, seeking the Father’s glory, and then rest assured that he has heard and will act according to his purpose.

You are encouraged to pray this week as the Spirit prompts you.  For those of you that may prefer a guide for prayer, one has been provided below for each day of the week.  We will be following Paul’s words to the Colossians, and using it as a guide for our own prayers.  Our key passage will be from the first chapter of Colossians, verses 9-14.  Each day we will narrow our focus to a specific verse, as it is our desire to make God’s own Word, our words and prayers.  We know that we are praying according to God’s will, when we are praying his Word over our lives.  So then, stand with us and come boldly before the throne of grace with your needs and prayers.  May this week be a time that we, as a school, humbly seek the might and strength of a willing God.  “Now to him who is able to do immeasurable more than we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever!  Amen.” (Ephesians 3:20-21)

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with all spiritual wisdom and understanding.  And we pray this in order that you live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.  For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:9-14

 Monday:

Today’s focus of prayer from our key passage is:

“For this reason, since the day we have heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with all spiritual wisdom and understanding.” Colossians 1:9

Heavenly Father, we come before you today as children looking to their Father for guidance.  We stand before your eternal throne; seeking your will for our lives, for our teachers, and for our school.  We acknowledge that our will does not always sync with your will; and today we ask that you align our hearts with yours.  We ask Father that you make yourself known to our teachers, and that you would fill them with the knowledge of your will.  Your will.  Not our fleshly will or desires, but your sovereign and eternal will.  We pray today that our teachers and staff will receive a deep and thorough understanding of your perfect will and plan for their lives, one that penetrates deep into their hearts.  We know that knowledge alone is not your will; but rather, that you desire a deep, spiritual wisdom, the kind of wisdom that leads to full understanding.  We pray that out of this understanding comes forth a school that is literally the hands and feet of Jesus.  May our teachers continue to seek you: the one that was, and is, and is to come.  Make yourself known to us Father, and guide our teachers in your will, as they guide our young children.  It is in your Son’s precious name that we make our requests, the only name that is worthy.  Amen!

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