Back to the Garden | Listen & Obey
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In the beginning in the garden of Eden, man’s spirit had dominion over the soul and the body. Adam and Eve had the mind of Christ as their first nature. They experienced intimacy, companionship, constant communication and communion with their Maker, who was also their Friend and their King. What they had in the beginning was not only beautiful but it is what we, too, are called to. Everything might have changed after Adam and Eve had listened to and obeyed the serpent, but Yeshua came to open the way back to that garden. We are called to garden lifestyles where we are the last Eve who chooses to go back to the garden instead of being desert wanderers with no true dwelling place. The garden isn’t just a place, it’s a relationship and lifestyle in Yeshua. This is our starting place! The Harvest Life children will be given the keys in order to unlock a life in His garden. They will be taught on all levels of life what it means to live in His garden. They will learn how to tend and keep the garden of their own lives through living a lifestyle of listening and obeying.
The soil of who I am | Identity (behold)
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We never learned to look at ourselves through God’s eyes and we never learned to look at others through His eyes either. Most of us also never learned to look at God through the eyes of truth, but rather religion. The result of this is disastrous. Learning to have God’s perspective on everything in life is FUNDAMENTAL. It determines what you will choose and who you will become, it affects how you will love. This is our starting point.
Our children will have to learn to behold, to cultivate God’s perspective, His eyes, and therefore His mind, in order to learn to love Him, themselves and others. As we go through this theme with the Harvest Life children, they will learn who they are and who God is. They will behold themselves through His eyes – spirit, soul and body – through learning to cultivate God’s perspective in the three areas of relationships – with Abba, themselves, and others. If our children do not learn to behold through God’s eyes, they will never be able to become like Him and be the disciples He created them to be. Identity is the foundation of life, it is the soil in which they will plant everything in their lives, and if the soil isn’t healthy, they will not be fruitful according to God’s design for them.
The Tabernacle | Build Up
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The tabernacle is such a deep, significant and prophetic model for us to learn how to dwell with our King. After Yeshua came to earth and gave His life for us, we became His living tabernacle. We are His dwelling place. As we live our lives, we need to bring every area of our lives – spirit, soul and body – into a place of dwelling with Him, where we live from the place of His presence to cultivate a covenant relationship with Him. There are so many wonderful things to learn from the tabernacle, and this will be one of our main themes within Harvest Life School. God gave Moses the blueprint in order to build the tabernacle because He had to carry that which was in heaven into the physical and manifest it so that heaven and earth could align. The same way, God has a blueprint for each one of us, He has a plan for our lives, and as we learn how to dwell with Him, we discover that heavenly blueprint.
Before the foundation of the earth, God had a plan and a purpose with each of us, with each of our children. We want to help them discover what they were made for. What did Abba write in the scrolls of their lives before they were even born? When they are able to discover God’s blueprint for them, they are able to have purpose, more than just being a child in school, going through the system. Every child is unique, has a special calling, purpose and blueprint for their lives. We want to help them discover this through learning how to dwell with YHVH. His presence is the starting place. We want to teach the children to live from the inside out. This is one of this biggest keys of this theme, it all starts in His presence. That is where they were planned, conceived and called to live from. It is also in His presence that they will discover what they were made for and what God’s blueprint is for their lives. They will build their own lives according to what they see and what seed has been sprouted within them. When we build them up with the word of God, through affirming their identities and callings, we create an environment of love for them to be able to tabernacle (dwell) with God. One of the fundamental things that we want to build into them with this theme is that they are living stones and that YHVH can build His Kingdom in and through them as they seek His presence and His blueprint.
A seed | Choose Life
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Every choice that we make is like sowing a seed. It is either a seed of life or a seed of death, a seed of light or a seed of darkness. We want to raise up children of light who live their lives within God’s garden where they live under the shade of the tree of life, whole and blessed. We want to teach our children to sow in righteousness, to be responsible and mindful with how and what they sow. Here they will learn that God has given them so much. He gave them the ability to choose, to create, to establish, to speak, hear, touch, and taste. What will they choose to do with their choices, their tongues, their hands, what and who will they listen to, etc.? We desire to raise up children who choose life, as this is the basis of what Yeshua has called us to, and it is also what causes us to either live in His garden or in the desert. Generations have gone through the desert, but NOW is the time for the Joshuas and Calebs to possess the land of God’s fullness, His Kingdom manifesting on earth like never before. We need to prepare this generation for it. If they sow life, love and light, they have godly, blessed harvests in every area of their lives.
Strong Roots | Establish
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This is fundamental because life is not easy; there are many challenges, pressure, hardships and even sufferings. We want our children to be so deeply rooted and established in who God is, that they are not easily shaken or moved. They are living in a dark time that will only get darker until Yeshua returns. His word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our paths. The children will learn to interpret Scripture accurately. They will learn to declare Scripture, memorise Scripture, speak Scripture, pray Scripture, live and breathe it. The Spirit and the word should be the rhythm according to which our lives beat. We desire that the roots of the Harvest Life children will be the word of God, which is the solid foundation on which they will build their lives. The wisdom and ways of the world are nothing but sand, an unstable foundation not fit for the children of light. We need to become strong, shaped, refined and defined by the word of God. We will take time with the children to lay a solid Biblical foundation of truth.
Cultivate Character | Grow
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It is easy to hear the word of God, but it is entirely another thing to live it daily, practising the principles of the Kingdom. I think we can all agree that it takes determination and love for Yeshua to keep running the race of faith in and through everything. This will be the same for our children. We cannot just listen to the word and learn knowledge of His Kingdom. We need to live it, practise it daily, so that we are not just eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. We live the word when we allow it to change us and correct us. Here we will focus on character. Who is Abba and who are we in Him? How do we practically live a covenant life? It takes time to grow, it takes the right conditions, and we desire to bring the children into those right conditions so that they can grow in godliness.
Harvest Life | Become Fruitful
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God promises us abundant life in John 10:10, and we believe that a life in God’s garden brings us to that place of abundance. God has called us to be fruitful, and we can only be truly fruitful if we behold Him and become like Him. We believe that beautiful things will be born in Him. Children will have revelation, encounters, visions and dreams as it is prophesied in Scripture. A new generation will arise who will become pioneers in their time. They will be children of excellence who are aligned with the heart of God. A generation that is prepared for the dark hour in which we find ourselves. They will be the city on a hill, light in the darkness. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this, a work of the Spirit.
Where we are at this stage
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Currently, we are busy planning and preparing to put everything in place. The school development stages include the following:
