2016 True Education Symposium

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Pattern Education

Vicky Jorgensen

Behold My Servant

I'm very thankful that we can take this time to encourage 1 another and strengthen each other because these things are so vital and so important that we don't want to miss a thing.

And there's so much that we could cover, but I'm thankful for what was already covered because many of the quotes and things were very, very good for laying the foundation here for what I want to share.

And when I was asked to speak here, right away I thought about this particular quotation that says, and this is taken from research, and it was on a website called Family Connect.

Did you know that educators believe more than 80% of what children learn comes to them through their vision?

80% of what children learn comes to them through their vision.

And that's why when I was asked to speak here, and it was education by example, this came right to my mind and I said, yes.

80% of what children learn, it comes right through here, what they see.

When they walk into a room, we all did it.

We did it because we didn't even realize we were doing it.

As soon as we walked in, we started taking analysis of the whole situation here and processing it in our minds and coming up with conclusions and learning things.

Just the table up there with the children's things.

These things that are all here with the quotations on it, the pictures, everything adds to what we're doing here and we're learning just by being here and looking around.

If you find that surprising, think of what happens when you enter a room.

At a glance, you typically see and understand the contents of the room.

And if there's a window in the room, even what the weather is outside, much of what children learn is acquired almost automatically and instantaneously.

That is, incidentally, as they watch other children and adults interact with the environment and They imitate their actions.

That's why God gave us the family as we mentioned this morning.

And family starts before the baby is in your arms.

And my husband, he used to tell us, often he would say, he'd say that the most important time that you have as a parent is when you're carrying that baby.

You have the most influence in those 9 months.

If you will allow yourself to be controlled by the Holy Spirit during that time, you will lay the best foundation for that child in their character development, in their intellectual abilities.

Well, now you say, well, my children are already sitting beside me.

Well, I want to just tell you, 1 of the things that we talked about this morning was taking children out in nature.

Nature is a grand teacher, and children will love the lessons that are out there in nature.

1 lesson that is so beautiful, and you'll see it Every time you take the children out and you go for a walk, if there are trees, now here on campus everything is planned, but if you just go out to the woods, you're going to quickly see that there's a valuable lesson there.

And when you grasp it And you teach your children and you discuss it and you have morning and evening worship.

So you have these opportunities and you're always interacting all through the day and it is a joy because you're bonding with each other, you're enjoying, you're learning, You're growing.

And this is the lesson I want to share, that when you go out in the woods, you will quickly see that even if, and it really applies, even if you have children sitting beside you and you didn't do everything right up to this point, there's a valuable lesson, and that is you do the best you can.

You do the absolute best you can under the circumstances.

You'll go and you will find trees laying down on their side.

But there's just enough and that tree is still growing.

You'll see a tree too close to the next 1.

It's just so crowded it can't even put out a limb this way because it's too close to the next tree.

It's doing the best it can under the circumstances.

And so I want to tell you that true education starts in the mind.

You must have an attitude that the Lord can work with.

And 1 of the things that you need to do is cherish the Holy Spirit.

And 1 of the things that grieves the Holy Spirit is murmuring, complaining, repining, being discontent and expressing it.

That has 1 of the worst influences on your children that you could possibly impart.

And the other is just as true, that as you stay in the Spirit of the Lord, He will give you.

And this is why the quote, and you'll see that It all goes together beautifully.

But in Isaiah 42, verse 1, and then verse 4, I want to bring this out.

It says, Behold my servant whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.

I have put my spirit upon him." What a precious promise God is saying.

He beholds his servant and his servant is the 1 he upholds And he calls that servant his elect.

And he says, his soul, God's soul, delighteth in his servant.

And so in Verse 4, It says, he shall not fail nor be discouraged.

When you walk in the Spirit, you will find that he will uphold you, he will delight in you, He will put His Spirit upon you.

And you need to remember, because you're going to be tested, things are going to come your way all the time.

But if you are always walking in the Spirit, you'll be able to meet them and not fail nor be discouraged.

And you can claim that promise every single day of your life, and you will also, by living it, teach your children.

What was the percentage that they learned by what they observed?

When I saw my mother kneeling by her bed and pouring out her heart to God for help, because my brother was getting into trouble and she didn't know how to deal with it.

And when I saw her finding her source of help in God, she didn't have to preach me a sermon.

I knew right away because I loved my mother.

And when I saw that she got help for her needs, I knew That's where I can go.

And do you know, as a small child, what little bit I knew, I wasn't raised in the faith, but what little bit I knew that I picked up by this, I was able to plea with the Lord when I needed help, When I saw other situations that needed help, that's where I went.

And so we can take great heart, great heart that God, He is working in the plan of simplicity and He does profound things with that.

So now the next thing I want to mention, because it's not all a bed of roses, and that is that we're told in the spirit of prophecy that the children are the lawful prey of the enemy.

But God in His great mercy has to tell us the facts.

See we were born in this world and this isn't Heaven and it's not the new earth.

But the beautiful thing is, is that every single challenge that comes to us, He has more than abundant grace to help us meet it.

He that is in you is greater than he that is in this world.

But that's the reason I'm sharing this is that you will know that you're going to have to avail yourself and you're going to also have to watch for the stealthy approach of the enemy.

And that's why the Word of God is so beautiful because we can show our young people how to put the armor on each day.

Make it so real that they will know in whatever level they are at, You have to gear it for that, but God will help you.

And so another thing then is that that's why the greatest want in the world is the want of men because you just aren't born that way.

It has to be educated and trained slowly.

And the biggest display that we just talked about right there was that you're going to have to demonstrate it in your own experience.

You can never give your child anything that you do not have.

And they pick up on this quicker than anything.

Children are perceptive, and they see whether what you are telling them is what you are living.

And that's why I say the prenatal influence is so important.

If a person has that opportunity still, that's the best time because we know that even from research, we know of people who were reading the encyclopedias out loud to their unborn child and that that child was so intelligent.

Well, that's not necessarily our ambition, but If we read the Bible out loud, if we choose what we are around that the child will hear, if we are careful in all of our habits and all of our approaches, if we're careful in our own language and, as I mentioned, our own attitudes, We are told in inspiration that these simple efforts will not only reward us by our child's tendencies and natural things, we can take half the load off just by doing the right things in this realm.

And as I said, if you didn't have that opportunity, don't get discouraged.

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