60. 4th WK – Prayer@The-Gates – EDUCATION Gate

EDUCATION GATE – 05.05.24

PRAYER GUIDELINES & PRAYER POINTS

Christ’s teachings are the eternal truth & the whole truth.
The Holy Spirit is the ultimate teacher leading us into those truths.
Pro 8:35
“For whoever finds me (wisdom) finds life, And obtains favor from the LORD.”

“In Biblical times and in the 1st century…a disciple’s goal was
to learn by emulating his Rabbi’s every move—not only
by listening and learning about the Rabbi’s instructions.
There was a popular blessing back then that stated,
“May you be covered in the dust of your Rabbi.”
This means that a disciple would follow so closely behind his teacher
that they’d catch the dust kicked up behind their rabbi’s feet.”
From: An East-West stateside missionary – Covered in the Dust of Your Rabbi

“The ultimate message to be taught to all of creation, is the message that Christ taught.” M. Munroe

Strategic Prayer Points – Education Gate –The Education & Calling of a God-fearing nation.

Thank you everyone, for taking hands, uniting His body in Prayer. Especially over this precious precious Nation of us. You are highly valued & deeply appreciated.

QUESTIONS to lead our meditations, prayers & discussions:

a) What does the Bible teach us about learning, wisdom, God’s statutes…, laws for living?
b) What was the purpose for growing in wisdom, knowledge, impartation & education how God intended it to be primarily?
c) Understanding that our complete character-“make-up”, upbringing, education, gathering of knowledge, skills & pursuing maturity through grace & faith were meant to form, attain, equip, & develop God’s purposes & the call of God on our lives…
d) Assessing: Where are we now regarding the “education of a Nation”/ knowing God?
e) What is the current situation on the current laws & challenges in education?

A. INTRODUCTION – Week 4 – The number 4 represents the following:

• The 4 wind directions, the Earth / material creation – air, fire, water, earth, unity… (See Rev8:12 – 4th angel; Rev7:11; 14:3, 19:4 – 4 living creatures)
• From the East, West, North & South, we come to STAND in agreement/unity: declaring God’s Promises, His Faithfulness & sufficient Grace over us & this Nation.

Luk 13:29 And [people] will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit down (feast at table) in the kingdom of God.
Jos 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you,..
Deu 4:10 … ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.

B. PREPARATION GUIDELINES.

Please refer to PREPARATION doc of Week 1– (PREP)

Introduction to the EDUCATION SPHERE

I want to encourage you to take note of the guidelines and information for week 4 re. the Education Gate. Especially that this does not only pertain to the general concept of education, but what the Lord laid on my heart is that we need to fervently pray for the redeeming of mandates and callings – so to speak – of His sons & daughters. As Father desires to position His Bride firmly in her authority, “to know what is the hope of her calling, the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints” (Ephesians 1)

Mandates and Callings

This is the season that the believers in Christ are arising to take up their mandates, standing their ground, overcoming evil by the blood of the Lamb & the daily words of our testimonies & in doing God’s bidding as He releases us by His Grace… Not by human strength but the power of God, by His Spirit alone… For all will know that man does not live by bread alone but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord… For indeed every knee will bow to Him & every tongue will confess to God.. AS He decrees in Isaiah 45 “Look to Me, & be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

Our Father gave me a glimpse of His love… His omni-benevolent love for all things created, and His deep affection for His children, for you, to strengthen you, to encourage you & move us also to bow our knees before His greatness – for He alone is worthy!

C. STRATEGIC PRAYER POINTS:

1) PRAISE & ADORATION

Lift His Name on high! He is worthy to be praised! All of creation shall worship Him!

• Every created thing will bow before His greatness & might! Worship Him!
• He deserves all our awe & wonder!

Psa 98:1-4

(1) Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory.
(2) The LORD has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
(3) He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
(4) Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; Break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises.

2) PERSONAL REPENTANCE – “Let us be serious being set apart for Him …”

Our God is the only God that requires “holiness” from His followers – for He is Holy!

• Idols cannot claim holiness! Therefore, no other self-proclaimed deity or man-made idolatrous obsession has demanded holiness from its subjects/followers…
• Only our God is Holy & worthy to be worshiped!

The truth about Christ will either lead us to draw closer or turn away from God

(11) He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
(12) “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. (13) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” (14) Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. (Rev22:11-14)

PRAY FOR :
• His holiness to become a hearts cry & pursuit, forgive us…
(15) but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
(16) because it is written, “BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.” (1Pe 1:15-16)

• Revive this generation to seek Him… forgive where we lost our 1st Love (Psa 24:3-10)
(6) This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah

• Allow Christ to sanctify us, to be presented one day before the Father… (Eph 5:26-27)
(26) that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
(27) that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

• Forgive us Lord, where we fail you… Your statutes & ways not adhered to & obeyed…
(6) By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. (7) When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. (Pro 16:6-7)

3) COMMUNION – He is our life & sole existence as He gave Himself as an offering to God.

“The things signified by these outward signs; are Christ’s body and blood, His body broken, His blood shed, together with all the benefits which flow from His death and sacrifice: it is the New Testament in His blood.

• His blood is the seal and sanction of all the privileges of the new covenant; and worthy receivers take it as such, at this holy ordinance.
• They(we) have the New Testament, and (our)their own title to all the blessings of the new covenant, confirmed to them by His blood.”
  From: M.H. Commentary of the Whole Bible

1Co 11:24-26

(24) and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
(25) In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” (26) For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.

4) THANKSGIVING for HIS TEACHINGS of Wisdom & Knowledge

Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Thank You, Lord :-
• Your every word guides us into all wisdom to walk, live & have our being in You.
• All created things exists IN You & provides all things pertaining to life.
• God’s Presence, Pre-eminence, Power, Authority… will be revealed over all the earth, also in our lives & over this area / Nation…
• All wisdom & knowledge, all powers & thrones, will come together FOR & IN You, for Your glory, purposes & plans.
• Your Word and truth will bring Your peace, rest, favour & counsel as we follow You close;
“May we be covered in the dust of our Rabbi, Jesus Christ our Lord”

Exo 18:20 And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.
Col 1:15-17 (15) He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
(16) For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. (17) And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
Ecc 2:26 For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

5) IDENTIFICATIONAL REPENTANCE

Psa 90:12 So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

We REPENT FOR :-

• Those who disobey & reject the light , the wisdom, knowledge, ways, and statutes & salvation message of God that will perish in the dark…
• The prominence of the church that has been compromised in its relevance, influence, impact & standing in society? Yet God will build His Church!
• All hurt, harm, abuse, children, we ourselves led astray by error, false doctrines…

Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that you shall be no priest to Me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Mar 9:42 “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and- thrown into the sea.

Psa 51:13 I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.
Psa 143:10 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God Your Spirit is good.
Lead me in the land of uprightness.
Psa 94:12 Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O LORD, And teach out of Your law

Deu 10:12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you but [reverently] to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being

“We must fear the Lord our God, We must adore His majesty, acknowledge His authority, stand in awe of His power, and dread His wrath.” M.H. Commentary (Deu10:12,20).

6) EDUCATION LAWS, SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS & EDUCATORS

Mat 19:14 But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

PRAY For :-

• Educational institutions purposed to be places of learning; to educate people to attain and contribute to society God given intellectual development & wisdom.
• Enabling tutoring to guide learners in living well-balanced, wholesome lives.
• Instilling God-fearing principles & foundations on which all of creation should function.

PETITION AGAINST / RESIST & DIRECT our Prayers :-

• Reversing the works of the evil one that distort and corrupt the education institutions by removing its self-governance, being used to indoctrinate young, eager minds with sinister, hidden agendas of the elite powers in this world.
• Reversing these agendas by declaring God’s agenda by Truth, Hope & Love through declaring the two-edged sword of the Word over this.

INFO re. current legislation challenges to give perspective:

Prayer for the protection of : Biblical education laws, parental & educators rights in SA:

• Family values
• Parental rights
• Well-being of children
• Right to fundamental Biblical rights & education
• Right to home schooling

Prayer for exposing the hidden agenda behind the proposed :

• Comprehensive sexuality education
• Management of learner pregnancy education = abortions on demand

Prayers to reveal the true agenda’s behind Bela Bill

• Criminalizing parents
• Flawed public participation process
• Undermines parental rights: extermination of their authoritative intervention in children’s lives
• Small school closures
• Limits SGBS power
• Give the state power overreach
• Makes children vulnerable
• Gives HOD undue power
• Makes homeschooling complicated & un-affordable

ECD Toolkit ( Early Childhood Development agenda) – aimed at children 0- to 9-year-old

• Promotes ideas that conflicts with our faith-based values & beliefs : encourages children to question their gender & promotes transgender ideologies
• Normalizes uses of pronouns -they, them instead of he & she
• It teaches that gender is a choice – toilets to correspond
• Encourages hosting LGBTQ speakers at nursery & primary schools to expose learners to this

7) RESTORATION of a whole nation’s identity in Christ (Eph 1)

Eph 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the
spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,
Luk 2:40 And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.

PRAY FOR :- Hearts of the “Fathers & children”/ God’s heart & His children… P.6

• Restoration of Godly generational relationships & teachings/impartation… of the ways of God to be taught to the next generations through parents, grandparents, families, … church families & healthy social/society initiatives. (Mal3:6, Titus2)

• Supernatural hunger after the knowledge of God stirred up in our hearts – to know Him who is true.
• Flee from idolatrous ways & trusting in ourselves or the things of this world.
• The fear and reverential awe of God printed deep into the hearts of man
• The redeeming of THE MOUTH; our WORDS & SPEECH to come in line with the TRUTH of God – the truth that He declares & speak over our lives

1Jn 5:19-21

(19) We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. (20) And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. (21) Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Psa 34:11 Come, you children,…; I will teach you to revere and worshipfully fear the Lord.
Pro 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, And before honor is humility.
Pro 22:4 By humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches and honor and life.

Deu 6:7 & Deu 11:18-21
(7) You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Deu 6:9, 25 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
(25) Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.’

1Co 4:15-16: – “Father’s” can teach sons to follow in their footsteps.
(15) For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

8) Prayers : PURPOSE & CALLING – individuals, leaders (government & faith)

All accumulated knowledge, educational systems, curriculums, social & faith education/structures … are supposed to provide, equip & steer into knowledge & truth- based facts that will educate/direct people finding their natural God-given talents & gifts.
Thus, to equip & enable people to live their lives – fully purposed in their God-ordained mandate – to live for the glory of God and to fulfil our missions!!

• Churches & faith communities are supposed to help develop our God-given gifts, train in character and callings to endorse believers into purpose & calling…
• Many people have lost or never stepped into their divinely ordained, purposed callings.

Our God given personality, character traits, intrinsic “make-up”, aptitude, and capabilities form all part of God’s equipment to enable us to fulfill our God ordained purpose & calling in Him – for the honor & glory of His name.

Pray for :

• Healing of emotional wounds, self-confidence/image damage that many people walk with today…. (resulting from educational system, regulations & policy’s shortcomings, human/educator’s dispositions, personal challenges, compromised agendas…)
• Supernatural release of mandates, stepping into callings in the knowledge, all things given in God’s divine nature withing to make our salvation election sure… entering into His divinely ordained purposes, calling… anointing & plans for us.

2Pe 1:2-3,-9

(2) Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of
Jesus our Lord, (3) as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain
to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us…

2Pe 1:4

by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2Pe 1:10-11

(10) be even more diligent to make your call and election sure,… (11) for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom…

Eph 1:18

(18) the eyes of your understanding being enlightened;
that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints…

9) Own declarations / Words / Prophecies by the Holy Spirit

• God’s Wisdom to fill/lead our Nation forth…
• Changing the heart, mind & utterances of man to align with His wise counsel through His holy spirit.

Ecc 12:9-14

(9) And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs.
(10) The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was
upright—words of truth.
(11) The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd. (13) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.
(14) For God will bring every work into judgment, every secret thing, Whether good or evil.

Eph 3:10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.
1Co 2:5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

10) Thanksgiving & Praise: Shofar blast in Worship of Him!

Ps 98:5-9
(5) Sing to the LORD with the harp, With the harp and the sound of a psalm,
(6) With trumpets and the sound of a horn; Shout joyfully before the LORD, the King.
(7) Let the sea roar, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell in it;
(8) Let the rivers clap their hands; Let the hills be joyful together before the LORD,
(9) For He is coming to judge the earth. With righteousness He shall judge the world, And the peoples with equity.

11) The Lord’s Prayer

12) Thank you for Praying with us! Amen & amen!