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Praying for Our Children As They Go Back to School · 5–Minute Parenting: Tips to Help You Raise Competent, Godly Kids.

• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to another episode of Five Minute Parenting.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: For the month of August, we have focused on topics about getting our kids ready to go back to school.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Some of those topics talked about preschool kindergarten, and others focused on high schoolers.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about tips for helping your kids get organized.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about the different choices for schooling, homeschooling, private school, public school.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: So today, most of your children are probably already back in school and your grandchildren.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to talk about the one thing that it's most important for parents and grandparents to do, and that's to pray for your children and grandchildren every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in a spiritual battle, a battle against an enemy who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy our children.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we don't fight that war with natural weapons, but with the spiritual weapons of prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our enemy is focused on destroying this generation of children with cultural lies, worldly distractions, and sexual perversions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, as grandparents and parents, let's pray together for our children.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these prayers will be listed in the show notes so that you can keep them and pray them every day for your children and grandchildren.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, Lord, we ask that our children be kept safe physically, spiritually, and emotionally while in school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Develop discernment and stand firm for what is right and refuse what is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help them develop a strong and healthy self-image and self-confidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help them treat others with respect and obey the authorities in their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help them recognize that you created them and you have given them gifts and talents and you have a plan and purpose for their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And help them discover their God-given gifts and talents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help them to be motivated, disciplined, and challenged in their learning experiences at school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help them to choose their friends wisely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help them to find Christian fellowship.
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  SPEAKER_00: I pray that they would have teachers who would be good examples for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I pray that they would have a peaceful classroom where they can learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another important prayer focus is to pray for our schools.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's pray these five blessings and prayers over our schools.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, place a hedge of protection and blessing around our schools, children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Send your angels to guard them from the violence or mean acts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, make our schools a place where students and teachers are kind and forgiving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Show us ways to bless our enemies and give us grace and encourage to do what you show us.
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  SPEAKER_00: God, teach us and all the students at our schools to obey and respect the principal, teachers, coaches, and other adults at school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help them submit to their authority because you have put them in their position.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, protect our children from unhealthy relationships with people who will mislead them and pull them into the wrong choices.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, I pray what's on your heart that every student and every teacher at our school would come to know the truth about you and be saved.