The BLOOD of Jesus SETTLES it! and Robinson Curriculum

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"Jars" by Bekah Schermerhorn

Hello Sisters!

A few weeks ago at my friends house, she commented, “I’ll never forget when you said”…“you act like I can REALLY believe the bible!”

10 years ago she had faithfully come to my house weekly, sometimes visiting more than once a week. She not only put up with, but welcomed my 3-5 times a day phone calls about faith topics. What if God doesn’t….what if God won’t…what if we’re reading scripture wrong,…what about so and so, they died, how do you know my daughter won’t…how come more Christians don’t believe in healing…how come Christians don’t believe it when Jesus says that the sign of true believers are those who speak in tongues and heal (Mark 16).

Well, that was 10 years ago. I still believe, and even more so!

22 years ago I sat in a church and while the pastor never gave an alter call, Sunday after Sunday and all through the week the Holy Spirit was prompting me to respond to Him. On my knees in a rented spacious bedroom with windows all around, tall Eucalyptus trees swaying in the breeze, I bent down on my knees and asked Jesus to be the Lord of my life. I was 18 and had just got a hold of No Compromise by Keith Green. We had a lot in common, both hippies and both had vw vans and both of us on fire for Jesus.

When I believed that Jesus was the way, I simply reached out and received His Holy Spirit, in a second I was Born Again. I didn’t look any different and other than peace abiding in me now, I had no firecrackers go off to make me “FEEL” any different.

It was the same with healing for my daughters physical needs when she was just 6 months. I decided that the Word did declare Jesus to be Jehovah Ropah (the God who heals) and that He changeth NOT! I opened my mouth, asked Him for healing, and from that point on NEVER asked again. My daughter didn’t look any different, and none of us felt any different. But we KNEW that our daughter WAS healed.

Have you ever asked God to “save you again?” Probably not. When you asked the first time, it was A DONE DEAL. You had faith that His Word was true and what He said was a promise to you. So why is it any different with healing….? It’s not. You ask once and THAT SETTLES IT.

We are a people who are so post to walk by FAITH and NOT by sight. Did you walk by sight for your salvation? Did Jesus come down and appear to you and tell you to choose Him? No, you simply believed. So it is with healing, you simply believe.

When the devil comes to you and says, “your not good enough for heaven, your probably not saved” you know that’s hogwash. You know what the Word says, you come right back at him with the Word (READ Matthew 4, Jesus got satan on the run by speaking the Word, we should do the same!) So it is with healing. SALVATION and HEALING are not a feeling, they are a fact. Receiving either is not based in the physical senses, it’s based in the Blood. The Blood settles it, and from THAT point on when you get a little squarmish in your boots, and we all do from time to time, we GET RIGHT in the Word and put satan on the run!!! satan is UNDER us, we have all authority over him (Luke 10:19-20). He should not be making us miserable, we should be making his life miserable.

I have been running errands all over lately and when I hear people talk, you know what we ALL have in common? WE ALL HAVE PROBLEMS!!!! From the tattooed 24 yog with a baby, to the grandma caring for her grandchild, to the deacon at church, the pastor and us. We have problems. Right now I can think of a few BIG problems I have personally. But THE BLOOD OF JESUS SETTLES it and puts it under my feet. I roll my problems over to Him and say, “JESUS YOU HAVE MAIL!!!!” Then when ever these problems lurk back into my mind (like they do about every 30 minutes) I rebuke those thoughts, cast down those silly imaginations because that’s all they are, is imaginations and take every thought captive (2 Cor. 10). An imagination is something that is not real. One of my problems is not having the money to get a new laser printer. That’s silly because Jesus said to ask anything and it’s mine. So when satan reminds me I don’t have a new laser printer in the room, I just laugh and say, “Oh, I thank you Lord for your Word you said ask and I did, and I know RIGHT now You are behind the scene getting that laser printer to me!” And then, I worship Him and thank Him for what He has ALREADY done. I act like it’s a done deal. I act like the I can REALLY believe the bible, every single Word!!!!

I forgot to talk about the curriculum I’m using. Well, I’m using the Robinson curriculum. The biggest reason is because I’m a great mom, but not a great teacher. I want to get on to important things in life like gardening, composting, caring for chickens, sewing, exercising, caring for others, studying the word. HOW can I do all those “real life things” and still do school with the children. I can’t. So the Robinson method is simply just having the children self-teach themselves. They read excellent literature, look up vocab words of their choosing, they write a page, they do math. That’s about it. They do EVERYTHING THEMSELVES. The house is QUIET for about 3-5 hours while the olders are working. Even the 7yob works alone for about an hour. Then we get on to important things (the 7 and 2 yog) like baking and watering the garden, and reading. The olders finish up with the 3 R’s, I have done nothing and we can all join up to get on to the important things in life. We have been implementing this method for a few weeks now with just books we have around the house and the children LOVE IT! My 17 yog said, “we should have been doing this all along!!!”

Blessings,
Shannon