A time of prayer

Last week in assembly we were delighted to welcome staff from one of our local church aided schools, to our whole school assembly and to learn something about what makes us both similar and different as church schools.

As our focus is on prayer this half term we really wanted to support them in prayer and one of the key questions we asked was what could we pray for?

Prayer is a real privilege and something that is a central aspect of our relationship with God. We have been thinking in our assemblies how the opening lines of the Lord's Prayer really set the scene for us, telling us to pray to God our Father. 

In fact the bible even goes further encouraging us to even use the word Abba Father, something very similar to our word daddy. Quite amazing really if we think about the simplicity of this language and yet how powerfully it speaks of our relationship with God.

So as we pray for our friends, we do so in the confidence that we approach God in the full knowledge that he is our father and that he promises to hear our prayers.