Shining for Jesus—Even When School’s Out!

GOD’s still teaching; SCHOOL 🚌 is OUT… you are the next grade level!! YEAH!

🙏🏾 This prayer is for yourself and other students around your community, state, nation, and world.

(I pray it for students everywhere!)

✝️ LORD, thank YOU for being my very best Friend.

YOU are THE ONLY ONE Who remains:

faithful, dependable, trustworthy, kind, unselfish, true, helpful,

a pure JOY to be with all the time.

NO better friend than that!

🙏🏾 Show me how to be/find that kind of friend!

I believe YOU to do exceedingly, abundantly above what I could ask, think, and imagine in my friendships, classmates, and school now and in upcoming years!

🙏🏾 Forgive me for the times that I have

🤔 thought, 🤬 said 🗣, 😳 done things that hurt YOU 😢

and were not CHRIST-like.

I now bring all my

💭 thoughts, emotions 😤, actions 🤪, feelings 😩

to YOU!

YOU made me and know ALL that there is to know about me anyway.

Thank YOU for understanding me when I don’t understand 😳 myself

and for loving me at ALL times.

🙌🏾 Use me to let the 💡 light YOU have put in me be shining brightly:

✝️ spiritually

🛀🏽 🏃🏿‍♀️ 🎳 🩺 🏃🏽‍♂️ 🛌 💪🏾 physically

🛍 financially 🎁 ⛪️

💬 🧠 mentally

👩🏾‍🤝‍👨🏿 👨🏽‍🦼 🙋🏾‍♀️ 👋🏽 🛴 🧑🏾‍🦱 🚘 👩‍🦰 socially

👨🏽‍🎓 📚 👏🏽 academically

in EVERY

🎷 🪣 🧽 🎨 🧹 🩰 area of my life

for YOUR honor 🙌🏾 and glory.

🙏🏾 Help me to speak 👍🏼 when I should—with YOUR wisdom and truth.

👂🏽 Listen

👀 Observe

🙊 Keep quiet when I should

Help

🦯 🗑 💔 🔐 ⛽️ when I can.

Go 📮 that 💯 extra mile 🎉 🧾.

Say 🛑 no, when I need to—for the sake of making

godly, wholesome, good 🚸 wise choices 🆙 among my 🚭 peers 🆒.

🙌🏾 May many ask me of my faith!

Speak through me as I answer

in graceful, understanding, and simple-understandable words.

May many of my friends and enemies accept YOU

as their personal Savior, Guide, and Very Best Friend!

In this way, we will be:

🚴🏼‍♂️ 🚣🏽 🤽🏽‍♂️ 🍽 🤼‍♀️ 🍦 🎭 🤽🏽‍♀️ ⛹🏾‍♂️ 🪁 🏈 🤽🏼

friends 🌄 forever, 🌅 eternally

when YOU, JESUS, are 👑 LORD of them!

Thank YOU, my forever Father, my faithful Friend!

Amen!

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Penelope Allen White is a wife, mother of two young adult sons, and grandmother. Her passion is for all children and people to have an intimate knowledge of God. She works as a Christian educator, speaker, church school curriculum writer and teacher, workshop facilitator, middle school counselor, and neighborhood tutor. Despite her busy schedule, she still finds time to enjoy a game of hopscotch!