7 Days of Unified, Citywide Prayer & Encouragement for San Antonio - Day 3
DAY 3 Guide: Local Media & Schools
Start by picking one nearby school and one local media contributor (think out of the box: online newspaper writers, local social media influencers, graphic designers)
At 9:00 Take time to pray intentionally for both. (or whenever works!)
Find a way to virtually and creatively let them know you are FOR them.
Some ideas: Give them a shoutout on instagram or facebook, let them hear and see your support. Send them something they need or want. Be shockingly generous toward their family, their cause or their org. Have your kids do a cheer, make poster boards or draw pictures and post it online. Remind them of a time that they impacted your life positively and express your gratitude.
Use the hashtags: #7daysSA #held #weareheld
Not sure who to pick? Take the time to ask Jesus and pay attention to whomever God brings to mind after you ask.
Not sure how to encourage? Ask God and listen for what ideas pop in your mind and are impressed on you. Check and see if that idea would encourage you...if so, it’s probably a great direction to follow.
Here’s a prayer for local media you can use at home:
Jesus, you are the master Storyteller!
Thank you for those you have called to share news and stories with us.
We honor the important bridge they are for each of us.
We respect the bold ways they navigate communication gaps between time, space, people and place.
We do not take lightly the vulnerability and bravery required from them each day.
Thank you for their unique and essential service to our city.
Thank you for their passion, their integrity and their mission.
You promise to give us feet for our specific path, right now we ask that each journalist, news anchor, writer, and creator is equipped with fresh new shoes for this unique road ahead.
You are the master writer.
You are the master manager.
You are the master producer.
You are the master provider.
You are the master designer.
May the work produced by our local media in this season be full of Mastery.
Guide these skilled minds as they seek answers to important questions.
Give each one space to process in the midst of seeming lack and loss.
Shut down that which is unimportant, irrelevant and unproductive from making any headline: in our hearts or in our homes.
We look to You, God, to be who You say you are to us: more than enough.
We ask for your hand to be upon the work of our media.
Their daily, important, sacred work.
Amen.
-Cayce Harris
Here’s a prayer for our Schools you can use at home:
“God always makes His grace visible in Christ, who includes us as partners of His endless triumph. Through our yielded lives He spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere we go” – 2 Corinthians 2:14 TPT
God,
Thank you that your visible and tangible grace through Christ Jesus is being poured out on our educators. Thank you for including school faculty and staff in San Antonio as active participants in the endless victory of Jesus.
May their hearts be held by You and may they know Your great name.
Let them feel your hope in this challenging season. Let them know your Presence.
In You, they are anchored. They are secure.Let them be constantly aware of You. Let their hearts be filled with heaven’s reality of peace, joy, and hope.
Bless them with divine wisdom and creative solutions to navigate this season.
We bless our San Antonio schools and all their employees to take courage and to prosper
May their health be protected and their minds kept sound.
Father, we ask that you breathe new life into our students. Let every child at home experience amazing teaching from You. Let their time in virtual school be life-giving. Let hope arise within their homes and take up residence. Bless the work of their hands.
Cover all faculty, staff, and students under the shadow of your wings.
We bless all independent school districts to flourish in this season.
In Jesus name, we pray,
Amen
-Gabrielle Leonard