Prayer for the Education Mountain
by Kitty Shipshock
Deuteronomy 4-9: 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.
The words of Deuteronomy to this generation seem to be obscured. We have removed prayer, the 10 Commandments, even the mention of God's name from schools. The mandate was clear, the Commandments of the Lord God were to be written in the hearts of our children. Our public schools and many of our private schools fail to recognize the importance of that mandate. Our children spend most of their time in our educational system gaining knowledge that excludes the presence of our Lord. We are raising a generation that does not know God, His laws or His heart.
As the school year comes to an end, we may be tempted to ignore the importance of education for the next 3 months. However, the generation that is coming behind us needs to know the truth of the living God.
I am asking you, his blood covered sons of God, to turn your hearts towards the children. I am asking you as mothers and fathers of the faith to take seriously the Malachi mandate and welcome the spirit of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children. This summer as you drive by your schools cry out to the Lord for his mercy on our education system. Let's make this summer a time of seeking Father for the minds, hearts, and souls of those children he has entrusted to our nation.
Heavenly father, we come before you boldly this day, into your throne room, where we know your scepter is always extended towards us. We ask you, in the name and through the blood of Jesus, to cleanse our schools of all heresy. We ask you father to reveal to us the controlling spirits of our educational system. We ask you to give us wisdom, discernment and strategies for reclaiming every educational institution for the glory of God. We also ask that you will raise up people in the educational mountain to stand in intercession and awareness for our state's children. In Jesus name we proclaim victory for your kingdom in every school in our state.
Kitty Shipshock
Education Mountain Coordinator
FASTminnesota Administrator
fastminnesota@calltothewall.org
