FORTY DAYS OF PRAYER: Day 16 - October 13, 2012

Day 16

Target: Academia

Colossians 2:2-3

…be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ. In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Founding Father Quote:

"…I know that my Redeemer liveth…I am not interested in science or anything else that leaves God out of it."

-George Washington Carver

Prayer:

Father God, we have removed Your hallowed Name from the door posts of the very universities established to honor You. We have kicked You out of our elementary, middle and high schools and allowed idolatry to infiltrate the hallways that train our children. Your Word says to train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. But we have left our first love and allowed wickedness to reign supreme in our school system. We have taken your Commandments off the walls. We have banned public prayer to you, but allowed other religions to pray to their own gods. We have completely disobeyed the command telling us to have no other gods before You. We ask for Your forgiveness, and that You have mercy upon our children. May they not inherit the blame for our foolish choices. Forgive us for locking You out of the school house, for taking Your Word out of our text books and instead allowing alternate learning to replace our Christian values. Forgive us for not standing up for what we know is the good and the right thing to do. Lord, turn our hearts back to the Bible, back to the Source of all knowledge and wisdom. May our children take on the minds of Christ. May they choose the path that is narrow, even in a world full of ridicule and hatred for Your followers. It is only through Your help that we have even the remote possibility of regaining our schools. We ask that You allow us the opportunity to once again place You first in our schools, that we may bring honor to Your name. Amen.

THIS PARTICULAR PRAYER HITS THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD ESPECIALLY WITH WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON WITHIN THE BENSALEM SCHOOL DISTRICT, AS WELL AS OTHER SCHOOLS. FOR TOO LONG, OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION HAS BEEN THREATENED WITH INDIVIDUALS WHO ROB THEM OF THE CHANCE TO GET A PROPER EDUCATION, BY STEALING FROM THE VERY SCHOOLS THEY WORK FOR. THEY EITHER STEAL VALUABLE EQUIPMENT, OR THEY STEAL EMPLOYMENT TIME, BY CLAIMING TO HAVE WORKED HOURS THEY NEVER WORKED TO BEGIN WITH. WHAT IS EVEN WORSE, IS WHEN A HIGH RANKING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL TRIES TO COERCE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT INTO NOT FIRING, AND TO NOT PRESS CHARGES AGAINST THE MAIN PERPETRATOR OF THIS! OUR CHILDREN ARE FURTHER THREATENED WHILE IN SCHOOL, BY PREDATOR TEACHERS, AND STAFF, WHO SEXUALLY VIOLATE THEM, AND TRY TO THREATEN THEM INTO SILENCE. EVEN WORSE ARE HIGH RAKING SCHOOL OFFICIALS WHO NOT ONLY CONDONE THIS, BUT COVER IT UP!!
ITS TIME THAT WE HOLD ALL OF OUR EDUCATORS TO A HIGHER STANDARD, AND THAT WE TAKE A STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT. WE NEED TO EXPOSE WRONGDOING, AND HOLD THOSE WHO DO WRONG ACCOUNTABLE TO THE LAW, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE.