As our journey continues onward and forward- CHILDREN

Since my 'Addict" training season, God has taken me to new dimensions and greater understanding of His Life and purposes.

I was instructed to start with the 'little ones' and after praying for it and confessing it, God started it in June 2008. Yes we started as God sent 3 parents on one day desiring to send their little one's into our 'day care'.

This didn't surprise me one little bit. I obliged to bless them and we were on our way to do all that He had revealed and instilled in my heart.

The REVELATION and INSTRUCTION:

God comes first

Firstly God taught me that the BEST education that I could give my child is a relationship with Him and the TRUTH of His love, mercy and unconditional love. This can not just be done through teaching, but also by action and example.

Children should be taught and should know how to communicate and that we show our love to one another by being willing to listen to one another. Furthermore the way a child shows his/her love to his/her parent is by being willing to listen to our words and doing what we have asked or according to our instruction. This is also so for us that are children of God (although we are not under the law, it is our response to His WORD that shows our love for Him).

Due to the above, God also showed me that as a mother, I had been given authority over my child and I was accountable to Him to ensure I facilitate my child into a relationship with Him as He was the CHIEF PARENT. I also could not put the responsibility on another's shoulders seeing He had given ME the revelation and I needed to be accountable to Him foremost. How could I put my child under the authority of another that did not know Him as I did and did not receive the revelation what gives life by faith (not by knowledge or law) .


Have Faith in Him for He will do all that He purposed

Secondly, God showed me that He had already instilled in every child all that they needed to be all He had called them to be. Just like a seed, all we need to do is prepare the soil (classroom), plant it, water it (give love) and make sure it gets sunlight (instruct and discipline), and the seed becomes the tree God had ordained. So, with children, we need to help them to find who they are and to be according to His character and nature instead of trying to get them to be what we would like them to be (according to our thoughts, purposes and/or desires). We need to TRUST God just like when we plant seed. We need to give what He had blessed us with back to HIM.

In order to do this, I need to spend time with the parents as well. They need to be in agreement and they need to be supportive and believe God and have faith in Him, as do I. God said He would send the children and parents to me.... I need not search for them. We need to all be in agreement that God is not a God of wrath, but that He is merciful and He does not punish, but He disciplines and we (His children) love His discipline and we run to Him and His throne of grace when we have done wrong. This is what we need to teach our children, and to teach this, we need to agree that we do NOT HIDE FROM HIM as Adam and Eve did, as He has already revealed Himself to us through Jesus Christ and all who were sick, heavy laden, sinful etc RAN to HIM.


Lay a proper foundation for them to know Who they ARE (as He is)

Thirdly, a proper foundation of the truth and who god is and that we are as He is = love and the proper foundation and definition of love is important. We need our children to act out and live "who they are" instead of acting in a certain manner when we are there. Consistency in their nature of love needs to be instilled.

It is documented that Eli was a bad father and he never disciplined his sons, yet he did a great job in raising Samuel. The reason for this is HANNAH, the mother. She instilled the correct foundation in him and the scripture 'train a child up in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it' , rings so true.

If we follow God's ways, our children with the correct foundation, will remain good kids even with bad parents and teachers as examples. This is one of my reasons for wanting to offer free pre-schooling to the world. If we teach them to do according to who they are 'heartbelief' (as it is their nature) instead of it is what we expect them to do 'behaviour modification', we will raise up a new generation that need not be policed, but will act out of the belief of WHO THEY ARE.


Work with the source that will influence them and those they love

Fourth, we need to think a little wider and not be so narrow minded. If you believe that looking just after your own child, will keep him/her on the right track for the rest of his/her life, you are mistaken. Your child has social needs and you his/her friends will influence your child. Those children's heart beliefs and values were instilled by their parents, teachers and role models, their behaviour, their heart beliefs and actions. You need fellowship with your child's friends parents and you need to influence them in the correct manner (by building them in Christ and the TRUTH) if you are indeed concerned with your child's future. This will be an impossible task should they refuse the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Therefore it is important that we AGREE on the TRUTH, that Jesus, the Son of God is the exact representation of God and He came to abolish the law and to free the captives by the receiving of His Holy Spirit.

Unless we can agree that God loves us unconditionally, that we are able (by receiving His Spirit as our source) to love our enemies and that ALL fear has been removed from us by His completed work, we have not the way of Jesus to come together and agree that we are FREE INDEED!

We need to fellowship and draw on one another's revelation of Christ as to edify and build the body of Christ.


Cruelty and expenential power

Fifth, it will indeed be very cruel to take a bird in a cage and show him the wonderful world and freedom and then deny him to be released and to be free. So, also, will it be very cruel of us if we teach our children the freedom we have in Christ, but we expect them to surrender and be under the yoke of parents, teachers, role models etc that are not sensitive to the Holy Spirit and that are NOT WILLING to submit under the Spirit of God in whatever form or through which person/child He chooses to manifest Himself.

It would be better if the bird just knew it's cage. it's restrictions and it did not desire freedom at all. So too will our children suffer as they grow in revelation and we restrain the Spirit of God to move and work in them to accomplish all He wills in them and we confind them to our reality and refuse them to walk in GREATER deeds, revelation and works than us by holding them captive to our fears, ideas, ideals and restrictions in this realm that we call reality.

Jesus said 'GREATER DEEDS THAN THIS WILL YOU DO', but the leaders have restrained and beaten the sheep of God due to fear & unbelief
- that others will take over their ministry,
- that God had called them and ordained them to lead,
- that they will loose their position,
- that they will loose the power they have over people
etc etc

THIS IS GOD's KINGDOM, NOT YOURS OR MINE,
just surrender to Him and He will lift you up and up and up.

If we teach the TRUTH, they will walk in consistency to their (also His) nature and they will not rebel, steal, rob or destroy, but they will build with us and together, in unity, without fear or manipulation (witchcraft), we will overcome all by LOVE.


WHEN TRUTH AND REALITY MEET, ONLY TRUTH REMAINS (REALITY HAS TO CHANGE). So, let it be for our childen, whom we love, if we indeed trust God and indeed love them.