Friday, September 19

These are petitions to you Heavenly Father!

Adoration — This is an opportunity to praise God for who HE IS. No answer to prayer or prayer requests during this time.

Love is the fruit for September

Attribute: God is Love.

Definition: strong and intense affection, benevolence, kindness, and tenderness

We worship you, Lord Jesus, because you are love!

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

1 John 4:7-10

Verses to read:

• Psalm 136:1-9
• Ephesians 3:16-19
• 1 John 3:1
• John 3:16
• Romans 8:38-39
• 1 John 4:16
• 1 john 4:10
• Isaiah 49:15-16
• Jeremiah 31:3

Supplication — This is our time to call on God for guidance and help, and to intercede for others.

For our children:

I pray that out of Your glorious riches You may strengthen _________ with power through his Spirit in _____ inner being, so that Christ may dwell in ______ heart through faith. And I pray that ________, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that __________ may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:16-19

For our school:

Lord, our Father, make our school bright, safe halls of learning. Fill it with health and joy. Furnish the tools necessary for good learning. Make Our Shepherd a place where children grow into the people You want them to be. Keep those who would injure our students far away. Give students and teachers deep love for one another and for their work together. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen (from Portals of Prayer, July-Sept)

For our teachers:

Lord, bless our teachers at the start of this school year and throughout the coming year. Pour love into teachers’ hearts, so that they will care for their students. Fill them with enthusiasm for their subjects, so that they may inspire eager love for learning. Through our teachers, train up our young people in the way they should go. Grant them wisdom in all they do. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen (from Portals of Prayer, July-Sept)

Specific Prayer Requests for our School:

• Unity with the teachers and staff
• Sufficient enrollment
• A successful October Community Connection
• Volunteers and ‘goods’ for the rummage sale and lots of sales
• Thanksgiving for all the helpers with the library book sale
• Generous giving to the Church and our budget
• Wisdom in spending
• A safe, fun and faith-filled Oktoberfest
• Successful start for some of the clubs at school -- The Drama Club, The Latin Club and the Technology Club