A Back-to-School Prayer for My Children

Thank you, Lord, for my children and for the gift of summer vacation.
As this new school year begins, I pray for your blessings on them:

Lord, please give my children Christian teachers.  Let the people who lead and teach them be led and taught by You.
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Surround my children with kind and patient authority figures, who are also consistent and structured.

Lord, please help my children know and remember their identity in You.  Help them understand how You see them .

Help my children have a healthy self-esteem throughout the school year.  Let them be confident in how well You made them.

Lord, please put people in my children's paths that will encourage them, motivate them, inspire them, and guide them in the right way.

Give them friends who will encourage them in their faith, and let my children encourage others. Teach them how to be a friend.

Please let my children encounter people who are different from them, so they will see how creative You are in Your most important handiwork.

May you expand my children's knowledge of science this year, so they will marvel at Your awesome creation.  Let them learn more about the history of the people you have placed on this earth, so they can learn from the mistakes and the successes of the past.  Give them a passion for reading, and for language, so they will learn how to think and to communicate.  And, let each lesson my children are taught contain only truth.

Teach them how to be responsible.  Teach them how to deal with stresses and pressures.
Please give my children endurance to accomplish the tasks set before them every day.  Help them to try their best at everything, with a good attitude.  Give them a healthy pride in their accomplishments at school.  Please teach them to accept and learn from their mistakes.
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Father, let this be a fun and happy school year.  I pray school will be a joyful place for my children to spend their days.  I pray this year will be exciting and memorable to them.

Please protect my children from all mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual harm.  Guard them, Lord, with Your strong hand.

Help my children to let their light shine for You.  Please present them with opportunities to show people Your love, at school and everywhere they go.

Above all, let Your will be done in the lives of my children.
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​Amen