Wednesday Night Prayer March 13, 2024

Education Mountain of Influence 

This area of influence is critical for us because it greatly shapes the minds and expectations of our younger generation and our future. 

Isaiah 60:1-3 (HCSB) We are a light in this area of influence. 

1Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord shines over you. 2 For look, darkness covers the earth, and total darkness the peoples; but the Lord will shine over you, and His glory will appear over you. 3 Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your radiance. 

1st Prayer Point: Pray for our Children: 

• We are believing and interceding for revival in our schools.  
• Father, pour out Your Spirit on our sons and our daughters. We ask for a harvest of souls of both teachers and students. Acts 2:17 (HCSB) And it will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 
• Pray that our Christian students will conduct themselves in ways that honor You and everyone they encounter. Give them boldness and courage to share the gospel with their peers. 1 Peter 2:11-17 (HCSB) Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you. 12 Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do evil, they may, by observing your good works, glorify God in a day of visitation. 13 Submit to every human institution because of the Lord, whether to the Emperor as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. 15 For it is God’s will that you, by doing good, silence the ignorance of foolish people. 16 As God’s slaves, [live] as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil. 17 Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the Emperor. 
• Pray that our children will be able to discern false teachings and truth.        1 John 4: 1-6 (HCSB)   Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  2 This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 3 But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now. 4 You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception. 
• Pray for daily protection around our schools. Lord, dispatch your angels to minister to and protect our schools in Hillsborough County, FL, and our nation. Psalms 91:11-12 (HCSB) For He will give His angels orders concerning you, to protect you in all your ways. 12 They will support you with their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. 

2nd Prayer Point: Pray for our Educational Leaders 

• Pray for our US Department of Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona. 
• Pray for our FL Department of Education Commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr. 
• Pray for our Hillsborough County Superintendent, Van Ayers, and the entire school board. 
• We are asking that God will call believers to be principals, administrators, and school board members. Also, that these high-level leaders would seek Godly council and spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 12:8-10) 
• Pray for Karen Bendorf who is petitioning to be placed on the November ballot for School Board Member of District 7 (county-wide). https://www.electkarenbendorf.com 

3rd Prayer Point: Pray for Curriculum Writers 

Isaiah 60:21 (HCSB) 21 All your people will live right and well, in permanent possession of the land. They’re the green shoot that I planted, planted with my own hands to display my glory. 

• We need men and women of God to move into this area to bring righteousness and truth into our curricula. 

• Pray that wisdom and truth will be deposited into Christian writers in such a way that their work will be so brilliant that every district in America will want to adopt it. 
• Pray for this calling to explode in men and women who love to write. 

Pray for our Educators:  

• We are asking for more Christian teachers to arise and enter the classrooms and to be bold in their faith.   
• Pray that Christian educators will awaken to the great calling of influencing this mountain with the love of Jesus.  
• Pray that these Christian teachers will be the best of the best, that learning will be easy for them, and that classroom management will come easily because of the love of Jesus flowing from them. 
• We believe He is standing at the doors of our schools and knocking. Whenever just one teacher hears His voice and opens the door, He will come in, and bring divine order as more teachers open up to Him. 
• Pray that as these men and women stand up for Biblical values in our school systems, that they will be protected and promoted. Pray that they will be promoted to team leaders, teacher mentors, and other areas of great influence. 
• Pray for our local Christian Schools and home-school families. 

4th Prayer Point: Spiritual Warfare for our Education System 

1 Corinthians 1:19-25 (HCSB) 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” 20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. 

• Come against the principality Beelzebub, and his tools which are lies. 
• Come against pride and humanism that is currently ruling over this mountain. Humanism rejects the validity of our dependence on faith, the supernatural, and divinely revealed truths. 
• Come against atheism, the belief that there is no God. 

Ways to actively get involved in influencing this mountain:  

*Hillsborough County is home to over 300 schools and over 200,000 students. Please partner with us in choosing at least three schools to intercede for weekly. Together, we can change the atmosphere and direction of this entire district.  

*Go to the Hillsborough County Public School website and read the agenda for every board meeting and attend the ones that you can attend.   

*Vote for new board members who will support Biblical views in the next election.  

*Complete a petition for Karen Bendorf to be added to our November ballot for District 7 County-wide Board Member.