Weekly Watch Focus: Back to School

FRIDAY, Aug 25, 2017— Put a hedge of protection around all our children as the new school year begins. Pray for your children returning to schools or colleges and the specific institutions they attend as well as children in your church. Where possible, lay hands on your children and bless them. Pray for wisdom, favor, and good success. Ask for God’s angelic protection to surround your children and their schools, bind back any satanic plans of violence and terror. Declare biblical values will undergird their teachers and administrators. Pray for our educational system, from kindergarten to university, to experience transformation and revival. Pray specifically by name your children’s teachers, principals and administrators. Pray also for all those being homeschooled, that the Lord would give wisdom and strength to families as they teach their children at home. Lift up Christian schools and universities who are standing for biblical values in education. Pray for various Christian campus ministries that strengthen our children in high school and college.

Psalm 127:3, “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.”

Isaiah 54:13, “All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.”

Psalm 91:11, “For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.”

Psalm 34:7, “The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them.”

Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Weekly Watch Focus Part 2:
Hurricane Harvey
—Hurricane Harvey, a category 3 storm, is expected to make landfall in Texas tonight or early Saturday. Forecasters are warning the gulf coast to prepare for catastrophic rain-fall, winds, and flooding. Pray now for Harvey to weaken and turn out to sea. Bind the spirit of destruction and pray blessing, protection, peace, and supernatural deliverance from this storm for our coastal regions. Put up a shield of protection over Texas, that there would be no loss of life. Pray for our law enforcement and first responders as they assist in the preparation and response to Hurricane Harvey. Speak shalom to this storm.

Mark 4:39, “And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.”

2 Sam. 24:25b, “So the Lord heeded the prayers for the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel.”

Is. 43:2, “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you.”

Ps. 29:10-11, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, and the Lord sits as King forever. The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.”