These declarations are designed to be spoken aloud, prayed regularly, and carried into the school year as reminders of identity, wisdom, spiritual authority, courage, discipline, and assignment.
Lower Elementary
God made me wonderful and made me for a purpose.
Jesus is with me everywhere I go.
I will be brave when things feel hard.
I will be kind when others are not.
I will listen, learn, grow, and do my best.
I will guard my heart and use my words for good.
God gives me wisdom to make good choices.
His light shines through me at home and at school.
I am not afraid because God is with me.
Because I know who I am, I will make God known.
Upper Elementary
God created me with gifts, ideas, and purpose.
I will not be afraid to stand for what is right.
I will guard my heart, choose my friends wisely, and watch my words.
I will ask God for wisdom before I make decisions.
I will not let pressure make my choices for me.
I can lead with kindness, courage, and confidence.
When something is difficult, I will learn instead of giving up.
God is developing me into everything He created me to become.
I will let people see Jesus through the way I live.
Because I know who I am, I will make God known.
Middle School
I know that God created me intentionally and positioned me purposefully.
I will not surrender my identity to popularity, comparison, pressure, or fear.
I will guard my heart because what I allow in me will eventually come through me.
I will watch my mouth because my words carry power.
I will pursue wisdom instead of simply following the crowd.
God has given me power, love, and self discipline.
I have authority over my reactions, my choices, my habits, and my attitude.
I will recognize spiritual battles and fight them with spiritual weapons.
My school needs the light God has placed inside of me.
I am positioned in my generation for such a time as this.
Because I know who I am, I will make God known.
High School
I enter this year knowing that my life carries heaven’s assignment.
I refuse to live distracted, intimidated, compromised, or complacent.
God has given me wisdom to discern, courage to stand, and discipline to build.
I will guard my heart because everything I do flows from it.
I will govern my words because my mouth can create life or destruction.
I will build my future with God as my foundation.
I will not allow culture to disciple me more deeply than the Word of God.
I recognize that some battles are spiritual, so I will pray before I panic and worship before I worry.
I will pursue excellence without allowing achievement to become my identity.
I will use my gifts, influence, relationships, and opportunities intentionally.
I have been positioned in my family, my school, and my generation for such a time as this.
My transformation will be visible.
Because I know who I am, I will make God known.
College
I know who I am and I know Whose I am.
I am called to think deeply, live wisely, work excellently, and walk boldly.
I will not surrender biblical conviction for cultural acceptance.
Neither will I confuse boldness with hostility. I will carry truth with courage, wisdom, grace, and love.
I refuse intellectual laziness, spiritual complacency, hidden compromise, and wasted potential.
I will develop the gifts God placed in me and become skillful enough to serve my generation well.
I will guard my heart, govern my words, discipline my desires, and renew my mind.
I recognize spiritual warfare, and I will not fight spiritual battles with merely natural weapons.
I will pray boldly, think clearly, discern carefully, and move courageously.
I have been positioned in my family, on this campus, in my field, and in this generation for such a time as this.
I am here to learn, but I am also here to lead.
I am here to prepare, but I am also here to serve.
I am here to succeed, but I am also here to make God known.
May my transformation become visible enough that others encounter God through the life I live.
School Faculty, Administrators and Personnel
God has entrusted me with influence in this school community for such a time as this.
I receive fresh wisdom for every decision, every conversation, and every person placed in my care.
I will not allow exhaustion, frustration, bureaucracy, or discouragement to diminish my assignment.
I will lead with excellence, courage, compassion, discernment, and integrity.
I ask God to guard my heart and govern my words.
May what I carry into every classroom, office, hallway, meeting, campus, and conversation produce life.
Give me discernment to recognize what is natural and what is spiritual.
Give me courage to stand when conviction is required and wisdom to know how to stand well.
I declare that fear will not govern me and complacency will not define me.
I pray for divine protection over our students and our schools.
I pray for peace where there is confusion, wisdom where there are difficult decisions, healing where there is brokenness, and hope where students have lost it.
Use my position, my profession, my gifts, and my influence for purposes greater than myself.
I have been positioned here for such a time as this.
Let transformation become visible through me.
And because I know who I am and Who sent me, I will make God known.
