Back To School Prayer for Your Anxious Child

This Back To School Prayer for Your Anxious Child will not only help your child but also your anxious mama heart.

The first couple of weeks of school, our little one would lick and bite around his lips, until he developed a sore from breaking the skin. It broke my heart to watch him come home from school with fresh blood around his mouth.

We have a school picture where the sores around his mouth were so bad it looked like he had a goatee. I shared a little bit about this a few years ago here.

I tried every counseling trick in the books to help calm him and it would help him for a few days but then he would start up again. Only leaving me feeling “hopeless”.

Though I felt hopeless I knew I was NOT without hope. One thing that I rest assured of, every night, when I lay my weary head and hurting heart down is that my kids are in very good hands– God’s hands.

Relinquishing them over to Him is easier said than done. To hand over the control to Him is freeing but honestly it can be frightening, because as their mama, I feel and sometimes act like ONLY I know what’s best for them.

I hate to think I’m ill prepared as a parent, but the reality is often I am, because I can’t do it all and I definitely can’t fix it all.

But God walks this parenting journey with me and you. We are not alone.

My hope and prayer as a mom is that I would have wisdom, discernment and love to guide my children through another year of school.

Whether you homeschool, send your kids to public or private school it doesn’t make a different because one commonality we share is our love for our children. The prayer of our heart is for:
God to give us ears to listen,
a heart to empathize,
a mind to understand,
and a spirit to discern between the pain and drama.

Back to School Prayer

This prayer below is very personal to our family and it’s something I’m using to pray over my worry-ridden child. Pray this out loud over them and/or when they are in school pray for them. I strongly believe in the power of praying scripture over our children so I have filled this prayer with lots of scripture!

You can download this prayer HERE Back To School Prayer for Your Anxious Child (2). Print it off to add to your prayer journal or put up on your fridge. You can fill in the blanks with your child’s name to personalize it.

God is teaching me to turn my worries into prayers instead of just sitting with my thoughts and talking to myself about them as His child I have the privilege and honor to go before Him with my heart, concerns, thoughts, worries..

Fill in the blanks with your child’s name and personal pronouns (he, she, his, her…). The prayer below is slightly different from the one above.

Sweet Jesus, My __ is starting another school year and you know how this can do a number on his/her heart and mind. You also know my mama heart and how it grieves me to watch __ filled with anxiety over all that overwhelms his/her mind with concern.

I lift __ up to you and ask that your Holy Spirit would remind __ you are with him/her and will never leave. Calm his/her heart.

Also, remind me that you hold all things together even the everyday happenings of my children. {Colossians 1:17}

You know how new situations and people overwhelm __. Lord, I pray when he/she walks through those school doors that __ will be filled with a new found confidence remembering he/she has nothing to fear because you are with him/her. May __ rest in the full confidence that you will give him/her strength and courage in the midst of his/her fears. {Joshua 1:9}

I know recess and lunch time can be filled with anxiety as __ tries to figure out who to play with, eat with, sit with… Please put the right child in __ path and surround him/her with a friend who honors you. Just as iron sharpens iron, I pray that you would help __ build one solid friendship with a student who will help bring out his/her strengths, not focus on the weaknesses.

Give __ the wisdom and discernment to remember that bad company corrupts good morals. {1 Cor. 15:33}. Help __ treat others as he/she would like to be treated. Help __ not compare himself/herself to others but instead be filled with your truth of who he/she is in you. __ Your word says __ is wonderfully and uniquely made by You and You declare your workmanship–GOOD. {Psalms 139:14}

As a mom, I want to protect __ from hurt, fear, pain and sadness but I also know that you use these things to help him/her grow in character. Give me the discernment to know when to get out of the way. Remind me to always point him/her back to you.

I am thankful that Your joy is the source of his/her strength not the circumstances. {Nehemiah 8:10}

I pray __ would always remember he/she is yours, is seen, loved and known by You! {Isaiah 43:1,4-5} Help __ see the lies he/she is believing that don’t align with your Word.

Help __ not be anxious but in every situation may __ come before you with thanksgiving and prayer so your peace will guard __ thoughts and feelings. {Philippians 4:6-7}

Greater are YOU who is in __, than he who is in the world. {1John 4:4} The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. {John 1:5} Praise you!
In your name, amen!