Morning Manna for Week 3 of the Advent Season – December 14 – December 20, 2015 – Weekly Prayer Focus: Education
Advent Book Club Morning Manna
Please join Our City On A Hill to take this Advent Journey together! Below is the link to get your copy of Not Yet Christmas, by J.D. Walt.
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About Not Yet Christmas, by J.D. Walt:
It’s time to stop crying in our soup about the consumeristic commercialism of Christmas. Instead of bashing the culture for making Black Friday bigger than Thanksgiving, let’s do something different this year. Let’s do Advent. Instead of quibbling over saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas,” let’s recover what it means to celebrate Holy Days. Instead of our cheesy slogans about “the reason for the season,” let’s practice a sacred season for the sake of the reason. Let’s joyfully embrace the fact that we will do Advent in the midst of a culture that loves Christmas but doesn’t really understand it. When the church reclaims Advent, the culture will behold Christmas.
This twenty-five day reader offers an opportunity for individuals, groups, and communities to get on the same page in preparation for the season of Christmas. Here you will find the trusted texts that have guided the church for centuries combined with daily insight and prayers composed by some of the best Christian poets of our time.
Continue with Our City in Week 3 of Advent:
Day 16
Day 17
Day 18
Day 19
Day 20
Weekly Prayer Focus: Education
“May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen
you in every good deed and word.” II Thes. 2:16-17
This week, Father, as we pray concerning the Education Mountain in Huntsville/Madison County, we want to focus our prayers on the personal lives of our leaders in the education system. As we come before you on behalf of our superintendents, school board members, principals, teachers and the school staff that impact our children’s lives, forgive us for critical comments and judgements that may have limited Your Hand in pouring out blessings. We thank You for these servants and humbly admit they are needy, ordinary people like us who need encouragement and blessings.
We ask that you bless our educators with peace, good health, strong marriages, wisdom in dealing with their own children, healthy priorities and good time management. We bless their finances, especially those teachers who often use their own resources to provide for their classroom. Thank You for their talents and the years they have invested to be educators. Encourage those who are new or struggling. Grant wisdom and grace for handling the needs of students and the interactions with parents. Download creative ideas to handle discipline issues and for motivating students.
We cover our educators with revelation knowledge of who You are, Lord Jesus, and pray for those who have yet to embrace Your love and forgiveness. Cause the eyes and ears of their hearts to open and hunger for Truth – teachers with teachable hearts! During this advent season, may they encounter and enjoy You as Emmanuel, God with us. Fill their Christmas break with rest, relaxation and good family time.
We especially lift up to You Superintendent Wardinsky for the loss of his wife, Susan, this past week. Comfort him, Holy Spirit, and provide what his family needs during their grieving process.
Father, we ask for a fresh wind of Your Spirit to blow on the lives of our teachers and administrators giving a renewed sense of their calling to train up the next generation of leaders on the mountains of culture. Give them a hope about the future.
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