SICK MOTHER...PREPARING CLASSES

[Othualmance]

Supernatural speed and favorable circumstances to create material for one class today. I am afraid that principle will come, also pupils are disturbing my classes alot in this particular class. I have only one hour. I dont have time to prepare properly my classes. I work in another city, no car but train and my mom is sick, we have non stop ghings to do for her. My brother is also exhausted. Please let the principle not come into my class today and let pupils be good and peaceful and cooperate with me today.
LET ME BE EXTREEMELY SUCCESSFUL IN THIS CLASS in Jesus name.
I dont have time to rest properly. 5 days a week with my mom in a senior home by her bed for two hours to watch over her - because they will leave her to die if i would not ask them to examine her by doctors.(dementia, stroke recently, diabetes, catheter,...). We have payed ### euros for month which is the amount of my salary and we still need to give money for her body care, doctors, physical therapy etc...before stroke ### days ago she could normaly walk lord help us and heal my mom
JOHN 10:10 -DEVIL COMES TO STEAL KILL AND DESTROY AND JESUS CAME TO GIVE US LIFE AND LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY.
By the way the principle knows for my situation but she is still putting pressure on me in the next ### weeks because pupils and parents ARE OUR CLIENTS. Its like she is having her own business in the school!! And education is simply merchandise. Lord please let this wrong attitude be removed from our school in Jesus name! Let our principle come to senses and stop pressuring and controlling people and creating tense atmosphere of mistrust. She was very kind to me before she became princiole and after that she turned into a snake, draggon and crocodile. Unbeleivable! This lasts for cca ### years. Nobody can touch her. She created her empire in the schopl. Lord help!!!

 

[Articles]

We hear the heaviness of your burden and we lift you up together before the throne of grace in Jesus' name. You are carrying so much at once, teaching with limited time and a difficult commute, caring for your beloved mother who has suffered a stroke and lives with dementia, diabetes and so many needs, supporting your exhausted brother, and bearing financial pressure and pressure from your principal. We thank you for quoting John 10:10, for you are right that the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus came that we may have life and have it abundantly, and we cling to that promise with you.

We understand your fear about today, having only one hour to prepare material and facing a class that has been disruptive, and your desire for supernatural speed and favorable circumstances. We pray with you for God's help, but we also want to gently encourage you about your request that the principal not come. We know the anxiety observation can bring, especially when you feel unprepared and already under strain, yet our prayer together is not that God would hide you from authority, but that He would give you favor, peace, and strength whether she comes or not. God calls us to do our work heartily as for the Lord and not for men, Colossians 3:23, and to trust Him to establish the work of our hands. We pray for wisdom to prepare what you can in the time you have, for clarity and simplicity in your lesson, and for a calm and cooperative spirit among your pupils today. We ask the Lord to quiet their hearts and to give you authority clothed in gentleness.

We also hear your pain regarding your principal. You described her change in very strong terms, and we understand how deep hurt and long years of tension can make us speak from anguish. Yet we lovingly urge you to guard your heart and your words, for we are called to bless those who persecute us and to pray for those who mistreat us, Matthew 5:44, and to as far as it depends on us, be at peace with all men, Romans 12:18. Your principal is in authority over the school, and we are called to respect authority while also praying for transformation. We join you in praying that any wrong attitude that treats pupils and parents merely as clients and education as merchandise would be removed, and that the atmosphere of pressure, control and mistrust would be replaced with truth, grace and mutual respect. We pray for your principal herself, that the Lord would soften her heart, give her wisdom, and restore kindness in her leadership. Vengeance and judgment belong to the Lord, and our calling is to overcome evil with good.

For your dear mother we weep with you. To watch her decline so quickly after being able to walk, to visit her daily for hours to ensure she is cared for, to carry the cost that equals your salary and still more, is an exhausting labor of love. The Lord sees every hour you sit by her bed, every train ride, every euro given, every prayer whispered. He is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble, Psalm 46:1. We pray for her healing according to God's perfect will and mercy, for comfort in her confusion, for diligent and compassionate care from doctors and caregivers, and for physical strength and relief from complications. We pray also for you and your brother, that God who gives power to the faint and increases strength to those who have no might, Isaiah 40:29, would renew you both. You said you do not have time to rest properly, and Jesus invites us, Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest, Matthew 11:28. We pray you will be able to cast all your worries on him, because he cares for you, 1 Peter 5:7, and that God will provide for your financial needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus, Philippians 4:19.

We pray for you now, Father in heaven, we come together in the name of Jesus Christ, our only mediator and Savior, and we lift up our sister to you. Lord, you know her schedule, her weariness, her fear, and her love for her mother and her students. Grant her today supernatural wisdom and efficiency as she prepares, James 1:5, let your Holy Spirit guide her thoughts and give her words. Let your peace which surpasses all understanding guard her heart and mind in Christ Jesus, Philippians 4:6-7, and take away the spirit of fear, for you have given us a spirit of power, love, and self-control, 2 Timothy 1:7. We ask that you make her class peaceful and fruitful today, that the pupils would be attentive, respectful and cooperative, and that whatever the principal does, your favor would rest upon her. Let her be successful not for pride but to glorify you and to bless her students.

Lord, we lift her mother to you for healing, comfort and dignity, and we ask you to strengthen and encourage her brother. Provide for their financial needs, open doors for better care, and give them moments of true rest. Heal the culture in this school, convict where there is wrong and bring reconciliation. Help our sister to not grow weary in doing good, for in due season she will reap if she does not give up, Galatians 6:9. Sustain her day by day, Lord, and let her feel your abundant life even in this hard season. We ask all this in the mighty and merciful name of Jesus Christ, amen.

We encourage you to continue to bring everything to God in prayer, to prepare as faithfully as you can with the hour you have and trust God with the rest, and to seek help from your church family or trusted colleagues where possible so you and your brother are not bearing this alone. Keep praying for your principal with a heart of forgiveness, and keep leaning on Jesus, for He is near to the brokenhearted and He will carry you through.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear how much you are carrying right now. That one hour to prepare, the train to another city, the worry about the principal walking in and the class feeling unsettled, and then the long hours by your mother's bed. It makes sense you feel stretched thin and tired, especially with your brother also exhausted and the costs weighing so heavily.

For today, if time is so short, it can help to keep the lesson to one clear aim and a simple structure you can hold onto even if visitors come or pupils get restless. A short opening, one main activity, and a calm close often carries a class more steadily than trying to build something elaborate in an hour.

We also notice the longer strain of caring for your mom after her stroke with so many needs. Families in this place often find the demands go on for years and touch finances, time and sleep. You are not alone in feeling worn down. If you have someone at the senior home, a social worker, a nurse or a pastor, it may be worth asking what local supports exist for respite, caregiver groups or help with care costs, so you and your brother can get some breathing room. Please keep staying close to her medical team for her ongoing care, and care for your own rest too.

Father, in Jesus name we bring this teacher and caregiver to You. Give clarity and steadiness for the class today, peace in the room, wisdom with the principal, and strength and rest for this family. Lay Your healing hand on their mother and provide for their needs day by day. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The burden you carry has been heard, and it is a heavy one, to labor with the mind in the school and with the heart by a mother's bed, to go to and fro by train with no rest, and to feel the pressure of those set over you.

The Lord seeth your weariness. He knoweth what it is to watch over the sick and afflicted, and how the heart would gladly bear the pain for a day or two to give the suffering one a little rest. Your mother in her great infirmity, visited with stroke and weakness of mind and body, is not forgotten of Him who healeth the sick in the temple after He hath cleansed it. We will pray that He will lay His hand upon her, and give wisdom to those who care for her, and sustain you and your brother who are spent with watching and with cost. The expense that taketh your whole salary and more is known to your Father in heaven, who provideth for His children, and we ask Him to make provision and to give you strength for each day as it cometh.

You ask for help in this one hour of teaching, fearing the eye of the principal and the disturbance of the pupils. Remember that no hand can heal but the hand that wounded, even the hand of God through Jesus Christ our Lord, and so no help is sure but His. Commit that hour to Him. Prepare as faithfully as that hour will allow, and leave the issue with Him. Whether the principal come or not, may you be found faithful, gentle and firm, speaking the truth in love. Pray not only that you may be delivered from trial, but that you may be made equal to it, that the pupils may be quieted and made attentive, and that your labor may be blessed to them. The Lord can give supernatural speed, but He more often giveth clear thought, orderly speech and a calm spirit, which are better than haste.

Concerning her who hath authority over you, we must pray otherwise than in bitterness. It is easy in weariness to speak hard words, but the Lord would have us pray for those who press us, that their hearts may be softened and their rule be just and kind. You say she was once kind and is now changed, and hath made herself to be feared. This is a grief to you and to many. Ask the Lord to remove from the school that spirit which maketh education to be merchandise and parents and children to be counted only as clients, and to give to her who governeth a spirit of wisdom and of grace, that there may be trust and peace instead of mistrust and fear. Vengeance belongeth unto the Lord, and He can turn the heart whithersoever He will.

You have well quoted that the thief cometh to steal and to kill and to destroy, but Jesus came that we might have life, and that we might have it more abundantly. That abundant life is not always ease or plenty, but Christ Himself present with us in affliction, keeping the soul in patience and hope even when the body is weary and the purse is empty. The Church is a mother, and never doth she appear more truly a mother than when she nurseth her sick ones, not only sick in body but sick in spirit. So would we nurse you now with prayer.

Let us pray together. O Lord our God, look in mercy upon this thy servant, pressed on every side, and upon a mother afflicted and aged, and upon a brother who is faint. Lay thy healing hand as it pleaseth thee, and give patience under thy will. Provide for their needs according to thy riches. Grant to thy servant this day wisdom and utterance in the classroom, quietness among the pupils, and favour in the eyes of those in authority. Take away the spirit of harshness and of gain from that place, and make it a place of truth and kindness. Forgive us our sins, and heal our sin sick souls by the blood of Jesus, in whom alone is salvation. Keep this weary one from fainting, and give rest to the soul even when the body cannot rest, for Jesus sake. Amen.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. Do what lieth in thee to do in that one hour, and trust Him for the rest.