This prayer has been curated from our partners at the Global Faith and Work Initiative, a ministry of Redeemer City to City. We encourage you to check out their vast resources for workers and church leaders.
Our Father in heaven, you are humanity’s great teacher. You taught Adam in the Garden of Eden to take care of creation. You taught Moses your commandments. Through your son Jesus, you showed us how to live, how to respond to injustice, and how to find salvation.
You are our greatest teacher. Even when we have not learned our lessons well, patiently you have taught us the truth. Bless those dedicated to teaching and research. May they study and learn about your creation in all its splendor and apply that knowledge to the improvement of our communities through the arts, sciences, and humanities. May they develop knowledge which uplifts the human spirit and allows people to live healthy and fulfilled lives in service of neighbors, cities, nations, and the world. Help them to follow your example by finding new and creative ways to teach and inspire students to want to learn and develop their minds. May their students be filled with passion and love to dedicate their lives to the service of others in the glory of your name.
We pray that college communities would be open to listening and learning. That different ideas would be treated with respect and dignity and that people would be eager to look outside of themselves for wisdom. We pray that those with differing ideas would not be antagonistic towards each other but love and respect one another. And we pray that our students would be able to learn new ideas and then hold them up to the light of truth in Christ to examine them. We pray for their professors, that you would help them see the broken places in their students’ lives and shine light into those areas to love their students well.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.