Prayer

"So He said to them, 'This kind can come out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.' " Mark 9: 29 NKJV

This Thursday, May 7th, is the National Day of Prayer. For more information go to this web-site: http://www.ndptf.org/home/index.cfm

Prayer is important in the daily life of a Christian homeschooler. It is the energy that helps us to survive the school day. Prayer is what brings miracles to our daily life. It fills in the 'gaps' where we as human teachers may fail. Prayer brings the impossible to happen.

Thinking about prayer reminded me of the books in the S.V.H.E. library about prayer. My favorite is The Power of a Praying Parent by Stormie Omaritan. Stormie has written many books on prayer. Her books are all based on prayers using the Word of God. She was raised by an abusive mother. When she married she saw the same patterns of abuse developing in her marriage. She needed a solid foundation to based her life and her prayers on which she found only in the Bible, the Word of God. Another book we have in the S.V.H.E. library is The Power of a Praying Nation, which is also by Stormie Omaritan. We are told in I Timothy 2: 1- 2, " Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. " NKJV

Another one of my favorite books is How to Pray for Your Children by Erwin Prange. He gives the why and how of interceding for your children. Lam. 2: 19 states: "Arise, cry out in the night pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to Him for the lives of your children." This book is about family covenant prayer based on Acts 16: 31, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved and your household." On page 62 it talks about the wholeness of salvation and exactly what the word soteria, the Greek word for salvation, means. Chapter 6 talks about World War II. The author had served in the military during the war. He had wondered for years about the many miracles of that war: the Dunkirk Evacuation, why Germany turned away from totally destroying Britian, the Normandy invasion, the defeat of the Afrika Korps at the gates of Cairo, and Germany's mistakes in Russia. The author found out the answers to his questions when he was given a book entitled, Rees Howells Intercessor by Norman Grubb. This man, Rees Howells, and his school of intercessors prayed every night for five years about the war and God did intervene in the affairs of mankind during World War II. So if God can change the outcome of history through intercessory prayer, He can change the outcome of your children's lives. God can turn the outcome of your homeschooling and parenting attempts into good. You only have to pray! We have both these books in the S.V.H.E. library.

Other books we have include: When Children Pray and When Families Pray by Cheri Fuller, Prayers for Homeschool Moms by Michele Howe, How to be a Praying Mom by Jeannie St. John Taylor, and God Be with Us by Quin Sherrer and Ruthanne Garlock. For children we have the book I Can Talk to God by Jennie Davis and a cassette tape All about Prayer by Frank Peretti.