How did you do? Have you gotten a clearer picture of an area that God wants you to minister?
Now prayerwalk that school.
What is prayerwalking? I like the adage, get nearer to pray clearer. Prayerwalking is just like it says, walking and praying at the same time. The school(s),that God has shown you, need(s) your prayers. Ideas will pop in your mind as you are praying for that school that normally would not if you were praying at home. A great resource for prayerwalking ideas is at http://www.navpress.com/product/9781576839010/Power-Packed-Prayers-for-Public-Schools-Ida-Rose. I walk around the schools and just start praying each of those prayers and then more prayers will come to mind.
This fulfills two purposes. First, how many people do you think are praying for that school? Not very many, if any! You are covering and protecting that school from Satan's plans and secondly, you are showing God that you are committed to doing something, anything, that He wants you to do. We must not forget that our battle is not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers. The fight for our youth is spiritual!
The time that God has given us to be effective in the public school is drastically diminishing with every year that passes, as more liberal agendas and ideas take hold. If we are to do anything, it needs to be now! Please do not wait and think: Oh I'll do that when I have kids, when I retire, I'm too busy or I homeschool. No, you need to do it now! Our liberties as American Christians are soon going to be stripped from us, unless something miraculous happens, and we need to have things in place in the schools so that kids will still be hearing the gospel even if we can't "officially" get into the schools.
Don't forget what your goal is for this week: To prayerwalk the school(s) that God has planted in your heart.
Blessings
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How adults can make a difference
People tend to see the public schools as the enemy instead of a place where the enemy lives. It needs to be enveloped with the love of Christ. It is a battlefield and Christ does not call us, as adults, to withdraw into our Christian circles but to be warriors in an eternal battle for the souls of these children and their parents. At the same time, being examples of a fearless parent to our children, willing to advance the kingdom through discipleship and obedience on the battlefields of our home and our culture.
Are We Wasting What We've Been Given?
I have read articles and books about people in other countries and times in history and how they have suffered, and wondered why God put me in America in this time period. It just didn't seem "fair" that I would have it so well, while others suffered so horribly. These people used those horrible circumstances to bring glory to God and to give thanks in all things.
Joni Earekson Tada, a quadraplegic, says in her article for Answers Magazine, " I'm convinced my response to my wheelchair has a direct bearing on my capacity for joy,worship, and service in heaven. Of all the things I may waste here on earth, I do not want to waste my quadriplegia!" John Piper writes in his article "Don't Waste Your Cancer" on http://www.desiringgod.org/, about 10 ways to waste your cancer, to not utilize the crisis that God has put in your life for His glory.
I don't have any of those problems. Isn't it even more evident that I should not waste being an American? Having the liberty to share the gospel freely and in the public arena, including the schools? And taking advantage of opportunities that lay themselves at my feet?
God has put me in America in the 21st century to NOT waste what he has given me. He did not put me in America during the Civil War to be a part of the underground railroad, or in Berlin during World War II to hide Jews. But he has asked me to adopt a sibling group of five children, to share the gospel in the public schools and to trust Him more in ALL circumstances. I see everyday how I have wasted opportunities, my money and my time on things that just don't matter. Ellen Vaughn in Time Peace, tells us that "God gives us enough time each day to do His will for that day." We all are here in America for "such a time as this". How much of your time,which is given to you by God, are you wasting?
This blog is about ways that God has shown me to NOT waste the opportunities which have been given to us in America.
Joni Earekson Tada, a quadraplegic, says in her article for Answers Magazine, " I'm convinced my response to my wheelchair has a direct bearing on my capacity for joy,worship, and service in heaven. Of all the things I may waste here on earth, I do not want to waste my quadriplegia!" John Piper writes in his article "Don't Waste Your Cancer" on http://www.desiringgod.org/, about 10 ways to waste your cancer, to not utilize the crisis that God has put in your life for His glory.
I don't have any of those problems. Isn't it even more evident that I should not waste being an American? Having the liberty to share the gospel freely and in the public arena, including the schools? And taking advantage of opportunities that lay themselves at my feet?
God has put me in America in the 21st century to NOT waste what he has given me. He did not put me in America during the Civil War to be a part of the underground railroad, or in Berlin during World War II to hide Jews. But he has asked me to adopt a sibling group of five children, to share the gospel in the public schools and to trust Him more in ALL circumstances. I see everyday how I have wasted opportunities, my money and my time on things that just don't matter. Ellen Vaughn in Time Peace, tells us that "God gives us enough time each day to do His will for that day." We all are here in America for "such a time as this". How much of your time,which is given to you by God, are you wasting?
This blog is about ways that God has shown me to NOT waste the opportunities which have been given to us in America.
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- Going Public-David and Kelli Pritchard
- Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions- George Barna
- Come Ye Children-CH Spurgeon
- Family Driven Faith-Voddie Baucham Jr
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- God's Call-Brother Andrew
- Hero Tales-Dave and Neta Jackson
- Hudson Taylor's Spirtual Secret-Dr and Mrs Howard Taylor
- The Adventure of Missionary Heroism-John C Lambert
- The Cross and the Switchblade-David Wilkerson
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- Angie Miller
- Chesapeake, VA, United States
- Mom with kids in public school and homeschool. Just have a desire to inspire others to see the public school as the largest unreached people group in America and do something about it, whether we have kids in the school system or not.
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