Prayer for School Children

Father,
We come together as your Church in Miami to lift up the thousands of children across Miami-Dade who start school today or in the coming weeks. Cover the schools with the presence of your Grace, your Peace, and your Spirit even (and especially) those campuses where you may not be invited. We invite you, Father, on behalf of our children and our neighbors children. We invite you to inspire the children of Miami. We invite you to love the children of Miami. We invite you to guard the hearts of the children from preschool through high school. Cover them with physical protection, emotional protection, spiritual protection. We also invite you to encourage the teachers and the administrators. We invite you to grant them all wisdom in the guidance and teaching of all the children in Miami-Dade. We invite you to instill the drivers and the security officers with a deep sense of love and responsibility for the children who they watch over and transport. We invite you to fill the coaches and trainers with passion, patience, and discernment. We invite you to intercede in the workings of the various education systems around the county. Honor those teachers and leaders who love you. Protect them and raise them to positions of influence. Give them encouragement and renewed sense of joy at the challenges facing them this year. Provide for them in all their needs as they pour themselves into the future of Miami's children. We ask this together as your Church in midst of your Grace and in the authority Christ's name.

Amen. So be it.