Often times I see posts on social media and hear people say we need to put prayer back in school. I don’t like assuming, but I suppose I must, I assume they’re talking about corporate prayer during the day. I wish that were allowed too, but it’s not. Corporate prayer can be done at home, in church or wherever you care to pray. There are no boundaries that prayer can’t break through, no matter if they take place at the kitchen table or the church altar.
You don’t have to be at the school to pray. Also there is nothing to stop individual prayer that is done away from others, even at school, in the student or teacher’s own time. Which is what the bible, Jesus, instructs anyway (Matt. 6:5-6).
For some reason many have concluded, wrongly, that we can’t pray for our schools anymore simply because it isn’t allowed to be done openly in front of others during the school day. That’s where the real loss is, prayer isn’t a show. It’s a conversation with God, and no one, not even a pair of Roman guards can stop it, when done as God wants.
Teach your family at home to follow Jesus’s instructions in Matthew when they’re in front of the world, after all, isn’t He the one we’re talking with anyway. So in light of these verses, prayer is as much in school as ever, if we pray the way He teaches us.
This post, Why limit the power of prayer, first appeared on www.leewimmer.net on May 27,2022. Copyright © May 2022 by Lee Wimmer – American Author