Test Prayers 6

My dear Christian educators,

We are still testing in Florida and I know some of you are just beginning today like my friends in Ohio. There is a time for everything under heaven. There is a time to test and a time not to test! (teacher application of Eccl. 3:1!) It really hasn't been that long ago that we didn't test these children so much, remember? Do not despair. With the Lord's help, you will come through this season also. As Christians, we need to be the light of how to respond to our duties at school. Make an effort to enjoy the change of routine with your students and before each day, before they ever enter your room, pray for them, sit in some of their chairs and name them by name. Prayer is a mighty tool for every teacher. Ps. 17:6 - I call upon You, my God, for You will answer me; turn Your ear to me and hear my prayer.

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank You Father for seasons in life. Thank You for seasons in school. Lord, we count it an honor and privilege to come before You at our school and ask for Your favor. Lord, bless the children today with willingness to do their best. We ask that they have a spirit of kindness towards each other and that you grant them grace and peace.  Lord, help us as teachers and support personnel to guard over them and keep them safe, to encourage them and display gentleness in our words and actions during the off schedule time. Lord, only You can answer prayer and we lift our needs to You in grateful thanks. Amen.

As always, I am
Prayerfully dependent,

K

Karen C. Seddon
CEAI, State Director, Florida

kseddon@ceai.org

Test Prayers is a 10-day series for educators in a high-stakes testing environment.

Note: To more fully understand the 16-9 Movement, please read the first blog entry by  clicking here.

Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) is the only professional association in the United States specifically for Christian educators in public schools.  CEAI protects our members first in prayer, next with excellent professional liability insurance and other benefits while helping them live out their high calling as a Christian in the public school.  

Test prayer 5

My dear Christian educators,

How are your testing days going? I hear a variety of reports from "all is well" to "can't wait to be done." It's Friday and you've come to the end of a long week and it's time to not just make it through, but to praise it through. Let's look for ways we can be thankful for the little things and show the students gratitude. Don't make a big deal about it, but go out of your way today to thank the students for trying their best. Sometimes it's just the little things that make the big difference.  Let's give thanks this morning to God who is worthy of our praise.

Dear Lord,

We want to thank You today for giving us this new day. Thank You Lord for these students we are responsible and for protecting them during this testing period and always. You are the Only One Who can truly give us the ability to be successful in school. Thank You for giving us the ability to learn, read, write and communicate. It's really quite miraculous when we look at the rest of Your Creation. Thank You, Lord for calling us to be educators and giving us the privilege to touch the next generation for You. Please help the families of the Waco and Boston tragedies this week as they begin the healing process. Lord, bless this day and help us to be thankful. In Jesus's mighty Name we pray. Amen.

1st Thess.5:16-19 - Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; of this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

As always, I am
Prayerfully dependent,

K

Karen C. Seddon
CEAI, State Director, Florida

kseddon@ceai.org

Test Prayers is a 10-day series for educators in a high-stakes testing environment.

Note: To more fully understand the 16-9 Movement, please read the first blog entry by  clicking here.

Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) is the only professional association in the United States specifically for Christian educators in public schools.  CEAI protects our members first in prayer, next with excellent professional liability insurance and other benefits while helping them live out their high calling as a Christian in the public school.  

Test Prayer 4

My dear Christian educators,

Do you agree that it's not necessarily the testing itself that makes us all tired and restless? It's the change of routine and the upset of our schedules. During this test period, let us be diligent to be calm. One of my favorite expressions in the New Testament is "Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." A version of it is found in at least 17 verses. My prayer for us today is from 2nd Peter 1:2 - Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Dear Heavenly Father,

How great is Your Name. You are Abba, Beloved, Christ, Designer, Excellence, Father, Gracious, Holy, Intercessor, Jesus, King of all Kings, Lord of all Lords, Merciful, Name Above All Names, Omnipotent, Powerful, Quieter with Your Love, Righteousness, Savior, Teacher, Understanding, Victorious, the Word, eXpert,Yahshua, and the Zenith Over All.  We love You, Lord. Please bless this day with grace and peace. Give us words of grace. Grant us hearts of peace when our schedules are all mixed up.  Help us to see opportunities for peace in our pressure days of testing. Please send Your Spirit of grace and peace over our school today.  We love you, Lord. Amen.

As always, I am
Prayerfully dependent,

K

Karen C. Seddon
CEAI, State Director, Florida

kseddon@ceai.org

Test Prayers is a 10-day series for educators in a high-stakes testing environment.

Note: To more fully understand the 16-9 Movement, please read the first blog entry by  clicking here.

Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) is the only professional association in the United States specifically for Christian educators in public schools.  CEAI protects our members first in prayer, next with excellent professional liability insurance and other benefits while helping them live out their high calling as a Christian in the public school.  

Test prayer 3

My dear Christian educators,

It is so much more difficult to be in education today. The pressures of test scores, evaluations, lesson plans, paperwork and other duties assigned continually creep up to cloud our high calling. However, remembering the gift that God has given us to be an educator helps us to humbling focus back on what is most important - whatever we do, we do unto Him. If you are overwhelmed, pray. There is peace. In fact, 1st Thess. 5:16-19 admonishes us to "rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 

Dear Lord,

Thank you for designing us to be educators. Thank you for allowing us the privilege of working with children and molding them to be all they can be. Lord, help us to encourage the discouraged today. Help us to be able to be someone to whom they can come to. Help me to be available and present and not too busy for the little things that matter most to them. Lord, may we have a double portion of wisdom to choose the right words today. Show us how to be careful with what we say, because they always seem to listen when we don't want them to. Help the students to really try their best on the tests today and have success. Lord, thank You for being our Guide and Protector.  You are so good to us. Thank You, Heavenly Father for Your love. We ask it all in the name of Jesus, Amen.

As always, I am
Prayerfully dependent,

K

Karen C. Seddon
CEAI, State Director, Florida

kseddon@ceai.org

Test Prayers is a 10-day series for educators in a high-stakes testing environment.

Note: To more fully understand the 16-9 Movement, please read the first blog entry by  clicking here.

Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) is the only professional association in the United States specifically for Christian educators in public schools.  CEAI protects our members first in prayer, next with excellent professional liability insurance and other benefits while helping them live out their high calling as a Christian in the public school.  

Test Prayer 2

My dear Christian educators,

It is unbelievable to us as teachers that anyone could inflict such intentional harm on others as we saw in the Boston Marathon yesterday. As we pray today for our students and colleagues in their testing setting, remember to ask God for comfort for the victims and their families.  Today's prayer begins with this scripture: Matt. 6:34 - Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Dear Lord,

You are our Peacemaker and Guide. You are the only One Who can grant us success through our trials. Lord, be present today in our classrooms whether we are testing or not.  We need Your guidance and direction.  Please send a spirit of calm and peace to all the children today especially in the wake of such evil as yesterday. Lord, help our students to know that You are the answer to all our needs in good times and bad times. Please place guardian angels around each and everyone of them today as they travel to and from school.  Lord, we love you and ask for the gift of concentration today if their minds are wandering. We ask for the gift of kindness if they are feeling hopeless and although we cannot tell them of Your greatness, help us to be the kind of educators that display Your goodness.  Thank You Lord for present help and thank You for showing us how to present in today.  We ask special favor for those who were at the Boston Marathon yesterday, Lord. May they find peace in You. We love you and need you and ask this in the mighty Name of Jesus. Amen.

As always, I am
Prayerfully dependent,

K

Karen C. Seddon
CEAI, State Director, Florida

kseddon@ceai.org

Test Prayers is a 10-day series for educators in a high-stakes testing environment.

Note: To more fully understand the 16-9 Movement, please read the first blog entry by  clicking here.

Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) is the only professional association in the United States specifically for Christian educators in public schools.  CEAI protects our members first in prayer, next with excellent professional liability insurance and other benefits while helping them live out their high calling as a Christian in the public school.  

Test Prayers

Today is the beginning of the official testing period (as if you didn't know!) Have you prayed yet for your students? I prayed for you right now. Please ask God to give them the ability to try their best. Ask for help for your colleagues and yourself to be educators of integrity. I love Col. 3:24 - Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. 

Can you imagine if everyone took the test or administered the test as unto the Lord? We would be able to get rid of testing! We admonish the children to eat a good breakfast and get plenty of rest, but the only true food and rest is in our source. Let's be connected to Him all day, everyday, but especially through this testing period. 

I will post a special prayer for the next 10 school days for your success and connection to Him.

As always, I am
Prayerfully dependent,

K

Karen C. Seddon
CEAI, State Director, Florida

kseddon@ceai.org

Note: To more fully understand the 16-9 Movement, please read the first blog entry by  clicking here.

Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) is the only professional association in the United States specifically for Christian educators in public schools.  CEAI protects our members first in prayer, next with excellent professional liability insurance and other benefits while helping them live out their high calling as a Christian in the public school.  

Equip

I love these three words: encourage, equip and empower. As Christians in the public school, it is often difficult to know the fine line between living out our faith and being a public employee. Truly "being Jesus" is the best gift we can give any of our students and colleagues, and knowing how to do that is powerful.  Some our Christian Educators (CEAI). tips are below for your review. Save these links and feel free to share. That's what we are all about!

Christians serving in public schools often express they feel isolated.  Christian Educators Association offers a multitude of services and resources designed to offer encouragement and remind them that they are not alone.

Below are links to some of our resources. Will you share these with the public school educators in your sphere of influence and suggest they share them with their peers as well?

 Daily Email Devotionals

(http://ceai.org/resources/daily-devotional.html)

Christian Educators Facebook Page 

(https://www.facebook.com/CEAI.ORG)

TIPPS Radio is a daily sixty-second radio program with the goal of encouraging, equipping and empowering Christian teachers, parents, and students to live out their faith in the public school.

(http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/tipps-your-host-dr.-bill-ziegler/id219111723?mt=2)

The 16-9 Movement seeks to define the high calling of Christian educators in a legal and graceful manner. (http://the16-9movement.blogspot.com/)

Christian Educators Association Vision is:

God's Love and Truth Transforming Our Schools.

To learn more about or join CEAI visit our website at www.ceai.org or give us a call at 1-888-798-1124.

As always, I am
Prayerfully dependent,K

Karen C. Seddon
CEAI, State Director, Floridakseddon@ceai.org

Note: To more fully understand the 16-9 Movement, please read the first blog entry by  clicking here.

Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) is the only professional association in the United States specifically for Christian educators in public schools.  CEAI protects our members first in prayer, next with excellent professional liability insurance and other benefits while helping them live out their high calling as a Christian in the public school.