{"id":151,"date":"2009-09-11T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayerplainandsimple\/2009\/09\/prayer-for-schools-to-be-havens-of-truth.html"},"modified":"2009-09-11T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T06:40:00","slug":"prayer-for-schools-to-be-havens-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2009\/09\/prayer-for-schools-to-be-havens-of-truth.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Schools to be Havens of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Our schools teach knowledge. But learning wisdom and learning truth means more than mastering facts and information. Here&#8217;s a prayer that our schools would be havens of true knowledge, the knowledge of God. Even in public schools which can not promote overt religious messages we can pray for an atmosphere of receptivity to&nbsp;the things of God. <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span><b><span>God, you love truth, open the eyes of each person who walks through the school doors today to see that you are Truth.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our schools teach knowledge. But learning wisdom and learning truth means more than mastering facts and information. Here&#8217;s a prayer that our schools would be havens of true knowledge, the knowledge of God. Even in public schools which can not promote overt religious messages we can pray for an atmosphere of receptivity to&nbsp;the things of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-praying-for-children","category-praying-for-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prayer for Schools to be Havens of Truth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2009\/09\/prayer-for-schools-to-be-havens-of-truth.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prayer for Schools to be Havens of Truth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our schools teach knowledge. 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