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Hey friends, welcome to my channel, blessed homeschool, and welcome to week 16 of the homeschool prayer challenge
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I'm Sarah, and the purpose of this series is to encourage homeschool moms to intentionally focus in on an area of homeschooling each week and pray over that specific area
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There will be a new prayer here on my channel each week, and I also have a website set up where you can grab a printable of each prayer for free
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If you have not signed up yet, check out the link in the description below to do that after you watch this video
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This week we are going to be praying about keeping our priorities straight each day and the best lesson that we can teach our kids as we homeschool them
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Okay, I want you to think back on the lessons you covered in your homeschool last week
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Which one was your favorite? Does anything stick out to you about how your week went
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For me, we had times where we struggled last week. We are nearing the end of the school year and motivation for schoolwork is definitely starting to start
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slide both for me and the kids. I had a big workload and deadlines for my business. We are
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dealing with insurance stressors from a recent hailstorm here, and there just weren't enough
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hours in the day to take care of everything There never are And I don know about you but it so easy to let frustrations from life carry over and manifest through my homeschooling and my interactions with my kids If I being honest I personally get the
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most frustrated when I don't have my priorities straight. For example, when I'm supposed to be
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focused on the kids, but my heart and my mind are somewhere else. My attitude can get bad. I have a
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big tendency to complain and I begin to feel entitled about how I want things to go. And then
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I get upset when they don't go that way. Now, we got through most of our schoolwork last week
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but when I think back to the lessons I probably taught my kids about how to behave under pressure
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and how to serve selflessly, I admit that I fell far short. I remember just a couple of years ago
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when I would be brushing my teeth and my then two-year-old toddler would want to join me. And I
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remember how he pretty much copied everything I did, glancing at me to learn how he should be
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taking care of his teeth and looking up to me for direction. It was super cute and it always reminded me that I was given my kids to be their role model
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To not only teach them academics in our homeschool, to not only teach them valuable life skills
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but I have an opportunity as I homeschool them day in and day out to live my life in a way that points them to Christ
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And on those days that I do fall short to not let those opportunities go to waste and to model repentance and reliance on the Holy Spirit to help me in ways that only he can You guys have probably saw this meme I saw it on a homeschool
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Facebook page once and it said as a parent it is my priority to get you into heaven, not Harvard
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And as most social media posts do, this one had lots of people agreeing and just as many people
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with something negative to say about this meme. I like the overall message of this. I take from it that we
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need to keep an eternal perspective in all we do. We can teach the best academic lessons to our kids
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each day, but if we neglect their spiritual lives, we have greatly missed the mark. The best lesson
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our kids will learn is the message of the gospel, which we can weave throughout our homeschooling
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not only through our curriculum, but by our actions, which means we need to look to Jesus daily
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be in the word daily. He is our greatest role model and example. We want his thoughts to become
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our thoughts and his actions to become our actions. And we can't do this if we don't know him
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personally and deeply. And when we mess up, whether it's with bad attitudes or impatience or
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general complaining or whatever it may be for you, we can use those opportunities to repent
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and share with our kids how we are all sinners in need of a savior and Jesus is that savior So let pray this week that we will keep our priorities straight in what we been called to do and follow Christ example in our actions and our attitudes as we homeschool Let me pray for us
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Heavenly Father, when I think about the perfect example for our lives you have given us through Jesus
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I am in awe of you. I so desire to be a shining example of your love to my kids, but every day I fall short
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Forgive me for any unkind words I've spoken this week, for any bad attitudes, harsh tones, or any way I've disobeyed you
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Show me the areas I need to grow and improve so that our homeschool is pleasing to you
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I don't want anything to get in the way of your power working through me. It's only by keeping my focus on you that I can set a good example for my kids
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Help me to keep my priorities straight. And as I love and take care of my kids, serving, teaching, and spending time with them
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let my actions point them to Jesus, our perfect example, so that they may need
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know and have a relationship with him. Thank you for loving me and for your presence in our
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homeschool. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Okay, friends, that wraps up another week. Print out this
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prayer and keep it close to you this week to remind you to keep Christ at the center of your homeschooling and of that incredibly important lesson that you are teaching your kids. I will see you
