Back to School Prayer — Morning by Morning, August 10, 2026

“Then (Jesus) took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them, ‘Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me’” (Mark 9:36-37).

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Morning by Morning, August 10, 2026 — Back to School Prayer

Good morning, Lord Jesus. From the communion of prayer, I’m waiting for Your leading. …
 
“Then (Jesus) took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them, ‘Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me’” (Mark 9:36-37).

I was honored to help lead in prayer yesterday evening, as we went school to school throughout our community to pray at the beginning of this new school year in our community of Fredericksburg, Texas. “Teachers, parents, students, pastors, leaders, and those who just have a big heart for children came to pray in the religious freedom we’re blessed to have in Texas (Texas Constitution, Article I, § 6), lifting up each campus in the name of Jesus.”
 
Lord Jesus, take our children in Your arms and hold them in Your heart. Be a Shield about them and the Glory of God within them (Psalm 3:3; Zechariah 2:5). Keep them safe and secure “in the secret place of the Most High” and “under the Shadow of the Almighty” as You “give (Your) angels charge over (them) (Psalm 91:1-16).
 
Father God, their true Father, You’ve entrusted these children of a generation to us to watch over and love, to guide and direct. May You watch over them and train them up in the way they should go according to Your ways and Your will in their lives (Proverbs 22:6). 

Holy Spirit, may You fill their hearts and guide their steps (Ephesians 5:18), confident in Your unfailing love (John 3:16). For the children of God are led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14).

May each child know Your mercy and love and come to know You as Savior and Lord, along with every one of their families at home (Acts 16:31). May they be kept secure in their true identity in You and fulfill Your true destiny for each one of them in all the good plans You have for them—“to give (them) a future and a hope” on the path You’ve prepared for them (Jeremiah 29:11).
 
May their teachers have wisdom, their protectors have courage, their leaders have character, their friends have loyalty. May their hearts be filled with a love of learning all that is pure and right and true, with discernment to know anything that is not. May they be “taught of the Lord” so that “great shall be the peace of (our) children” (Isaiah 54:13).

May those who know You and come to know You carry Your light and love in their hearts as salt and light into every classroom and across every campus (Matthew 5:13-16). May they be “ambassadors for Christ” and expressions of the love of God everywhere they go and with everyone they encounter (2 Corinthians 5:20).

May they grow in wisdom and stature, in favor with God and man (Luke 2:52), growing from faith to faith and grace upon grace (Romans 1:17; John 1:16). May they “grow up in all things into Him who is the Head (Ephesians 4:15), into Christlikeness (1 John 4:17), into the image of the Son of God (Romans 8:29).
 
By the grace of God, we entrust our children to You, for our “children are a heritage from the Lord” (Psalm 127:3).

We even boldly pray that their hearts and their campuses experience Your revival fire, as You set them ablaze with a fresh passion for You in a great awakening of the Presence of God in their midst this year! (Acts 2:1-4)
 
Over these precious and beloved children of our community, and over all those who are entrusted to love them and lead them, we declare:
 
“The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
The Lord life up His countenance upon you and give you peace”
(Numbers 6:24-26).

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.