The Sphere/ Mountain of Education

(An extract from 40 Days Prayer and Fasting for 7 Mountains or Spheres of Influence by Lilian Schmid, available on Amazon and Kindle)

“Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
What house will you build for Me? says the Lord,
Or what is the place of My rest?”
(Acts 7:49 NKJV)

Throughout history, both the state and The Church have claimed responsibility for the role of educating children.

Yet the primary responsibility of educating children is a task God has given to parents.

Parents have direct authority over their children.

Parents are commanded to teach their children the ways of The LORD.

“These commandments that I give you today
are to be on your hearts.
Impress them on your children.
Talk about them when you sit at home and
when you walk along the road,
when you lie down and
when you get up.”
(Deuteronomy 6:6-7 NIV)

While schools have responsibility of teaching the academic curriculum, The Church on the other hand has a role to equip and aid parents (and school staff) to carry out fully their responsibility for the spiritual education of the future generation.

Over the past 150 years, the majority of Western countries have become dominated by monopolistic and compulsory state school systems, often taking over or being given church-established school systems (e.g. the Anglican local schools in Australia), and then progressively removing or excluding Christian principles as part of the ‘separation of Church and State’, to now ‘demonising’ the Christian foundation of their school system as being ‘unfair’ and introducing liberalistic mythology as a new layer of ‘ethics’ on top of purely academic teaching.

Twenty-first century people are members of a global community, connected to the whole world by ties of culture, economics and politics, enhanced communication and travel.

This shared environment enables young people to be part of a global education and participate in influencing a better future for the world.

In principle, it also emphasises the unity and interdependence of human society, develops a sense of self and appreciation of cultural diversity, affirms social justice and human rights, and builds peace and actions for a sustainable future in different times and places.

Yet at the same time we see lots of challenges around the world, but if we pray into these issues asking God to give us wisdom, provision, blessings, knowledge, assurance, affirmation, connection; we can make a difference to change the culture of countries who are suffering because of war, poverty and natural disasters which prevent the people from having good education.

~ Bjorn and Lilian Schmid
Prayer Coordinators
Spheres of Influence
“Prayer Strategy for the Spheres of Influence”

Prayer Strategy for the Spheres of Influence

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