Hello dear 🎓 Students,
Welcome to our second Blog Post Fellowship!
Yesterday my Beloved gave me this beautiful promise: “Then I will compensate you for the years That the swarming locust has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust— My great army which I sent among you. " Joel 2:25
Reading this verse, He reminded me of the time I lost with my children during the year and a half that I was a "weekend mom" (RJN “My Custody Loss” Adina Jacobs – NarrowRoad Publishing House). But my Beloved Lord gave me back those times by not only making it possible to move closer to my children, but also to Homeschool my children. So, I have then with me every day to Homeschool and just do not see them every second weekend when they are with their dad.
He also reminded me of this lesson: HHM C1 “They Don’t Have It” from the "He Healed Me" course, and the intro verse:
"They will possess a double portion in their land . . .
*I will* faithfully give them their recompense [reward, repayment]."
—Isaiah 61:7
This lesson reminded me that we shouldn't look for recompense from our perpetrators, but from our Beloved Lord. Because I surrendered and trusted Him to repay me for the time the locust ate with my children, my Beloved gave me my recompense. I am also claiming this verse for my children and everything they lost after the divorce and custody case, only their Heavenly Father can give them their recompense, not anybody else.
So, dear students please read the lesson and come and share what He showed you in this lesson in the comment section.
Dear 🎓 Students, our topics for today are about the portfolios.
I have made a video to explain the portfolios a bit better, please leave any question you might have any regarding the portfolios, levels or certificates in the comment section below,
Here is a reminder of the Student Levels:
L1 MTA Become an Apprentice today!
L2 MTI
L3 MTR
L4 PM
Thank you Students.
Updating your Portfolio Transcription
(0:03) Hello students, in this video I want to show you how to update your portfolio. (0:11) So here I have a portfolio open and I'm just going to scroll down (0:19) until I get to the ministry commitment lessons. So after I've enrolled as a student and I'm (0:28) on a MTA level, you must do these ministry commitment lessons.
(0:37) So you're going to start with the intro lesson. Once you've done it with the journal, you're (0:44) going to hover over this little block and just click on it with your mouse. So you'll see that (0:50) will add a tick there and it will put a line through the name and that means that you have (0:57) completed the lesson.
So the same for all these lessons. As you finish them, you can just tick (1:05) them off in your portfolio. For your RMIOUFT lessons, which is your blog post training, (1:19) you will also, as an MTA, be moved up to a contributor and you can do your three (1:29) contributor lessons by just clicking here and opening up RMIOUFT and then completing (1:39) these three lessons.
After you've done that, you'll come back and you'll tick off the lesson. (1:46) Then when you move down to your certificate courses, here you will also, as you complete (1:56) your courses, you will just click them and tick them off. You can go to the course by just clicking (2:09) on the name of the course and then you'll see there's a pop-up that will open. You can just (2:15) click on it and it will open the course and then once you're completed with all the lessons (2:23) and the journals, you can come back here and just tick off that course.
Something else that I want (2:31) to show you, is completing certificates. So to become a homegrown coach, you need to complete all these (2:41) courses.
So once you've done all of them, you can click on the homegrown coach because you've (2:52) completed homegrown. Then the same with abundant life coach, once you've completed all (2:59) these lessons, you can just come back and click for the abundant life coach and the same with (3:11) marriage minister. Now to move up from MTA to MTI, you can open, if you click on the brownish link, (3:27) you can open MTA to see what you need to do as MTA and here is the explanation of everything that (3:39) you must do and the ministry commitment lessons that you must do.
(3:51) So to move from MTA to MTI, you need to complete all the MTA ministry commitment lessons (4:04) and then any eight of the RMIOU courses. So if I've done all of the homegrown coach (4:14) coursess and one other course, so let's take this off. I will now have eight courses, (4:26) one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
So now I can move up to MTI. So you can just let (4:34) Adina know at this email address that you have completed eight (4:43) RMI courses plus your ministry commitment lessons for MTA and then you will be moved up (4:50) to MTI level. Once you are moved up to MTI, you can do the MTI ministry commitment lessons and (5:03) then you need to do 15 RMI courses to move up to MTI.
So you're going to complete all of these (5:14) and now I have eight courses here so I still need seven. So let's say for example I'm doing (5:29) all of these and then 13, 14, 15. So now I have 15 RMI courses plus my ministry commitment lessons (5:43) here.
So now I can move up to MTR. So once I'm at MTR level, I will complete all my MTR (5:57) ministry commitment lessons and then to move up to practicing minister, I need to do (6:06) all the lessons or all the courses that I haven't done yet as well as your practical. (6:15) So once all of these level blocks are ticked plus all of your commitment lessons, (6:33) you can move up to practicing minister.
So I hope this helps you and explains a bit more (6:44) about your portfolio and how to keep it updated.
Thank you for sharing this valuable lesson, Adina, and for sharing the video transcript so the ladies can read it.
Regarding the lesson you share, I can identify with you. I always sought to get rewards from my perpetrators, and unfortunately many times I even manipulated or did anything to achieve my goals. Still, when my Beloved brought me to the desert none of those old ways of getting what I wanted worked, and now I see that He intervened so that I could finally surrender to Him. As true as in your case, He has given me what the caterpillar and the grasshopper stole from me, I did not imagine it possible to have so much peace and joy when I was in the desert, but He is faithful and it is true, it rains but then the sun comes out.
I had to walk in faith because my reasoning could not accept that I should simply wait for something to happen by “staying still” “Be still, and know that I am God” S4610, getting out of my ways of thinking was the biggest battle, but once HE began to manifest Himself as a result of following His principles, my faith was strengthened and that helped me move forward.
Learning that the reward comes from HIM took the burden off my shoulders and those of my family and friends, I perceived that they felt burdened and uncomfortable because they thought they had to be and do what I wanted, it is very difficult to try to please a person like that. So I thank my Beloved for opening my eyes to the truth and bringing peace to my relationships with that principle.
Anastasia I also always used to manipulate others to get my way, or I tried to make them feel guilty for what they have done by bringing it up again and again, not knowing that none of my ways will or did work. But I am so grateful that my Beloved Lord stepped in and saved me from myself and put me on a journey to get His make-over.
Previously I thought that getting my recompense from my perpetrators would make me feel better, but it didn’t, and like you shared, it put them in a difficult spot as well.
But when we get our recompense from the Lord, it comes with peace and joy, the burden is lifted.
Thank you Adina, this lesson has always given me so much healing, and has allowed me to see how much I failed when I wanted to turn to others. And as it says, when we go to others instead of Our Lord, inevitably, the goodness and help of others runs out, and rather, they become swords, which often with their words, do more harm and cause more pain.
And I have seen that even people are so indifferent to pain, because they have not gone through it, so they assume that it is so easy to just go on with your life. But it is there, when I realize, that my Beloved, does know me, does know and can feel my pain, because He has already gone through it, because He knows, and feels what I am going through, and that is the beauty of running into His arms, because we will not come out ashamed or humiliated, because He comforts us, embraces us and we come out renewed every time we seek Him.
And everything I have walked, every day, every test, has led me to Him, and knowing that even if I feel hurt or rejected, my Heavenly Husband loves me, and has everything I need. And if sometimes it is difficult for me not to think about debts, about payments, but He is my Source, and everything I live has His purpose. I know that He gives us the reward, and just looking back and seeing where He brought me, what He has made me change, the opportunity to be here, is already an enormous reward that I never thought I would have.
I agree dear Liza, we cannot get healing, fulfilment, unconditional love or acceptance from anybody else because it runs out. But if we seek all those things from our Beloved, He fills all those voids until it overflows, then we can share that abundance with others, even our perpetrators. He is our Source of everything, and it will never run out.
“They don’t have it” is a lesson that my Heavenly Man taught me. I have searched for unconditional love so often with my parents, my ex-husband and other family members.
This week I learned that without realizing it I also long for unconditional love from my children. It touches my heart so deeply when they make a harsh comment or are critical of me or each other, because I long for my children to treat each other and me in a loving way, as He tells in His word. This week there were many situations with harsh words and criticism, that caused me to flee to Him and He showed me that I longed too much for unconditional love from my children. While I can only find that with Him.
Another mistake I made was that I shared much of what my Heavenly Man gave me in my heart to do with my children. They gave their opinion about it (which makes sense because I share it with them and ask for it) this caused doubts in my heart.
This lesson teaches me to follow HIM alone and not to ask the opinion of others, because they do not have it, even my children whom I love very much, do not have what I really need. He alone must be my counselor and my first Love. He alone gives me unconditional love.
I can relate so much to what you share dear Hanna, I also looked to others for love and acceptance, only to be left unfulfilled and often hurt.
Sometimes I still feel hurt when I receive criticism, but I am getting better in giving it all to Him.
Yes, even our children do not have what we need, only our Heavenly Husband have everything we need.
Thank you, dear Adina, for sharing this meeting, the video and the transcript for better understanding. It was great, dear.
I loved rereading this lesson that you shared, because it reminds us that we can find EVERYTHING only in the Beloved of our souls and only when we learn to love Him and give Him the rightful place, which is first in our lives. If we look to someone else, in search of something, we will continue to be needy and emptier than before.
What we need is to stop expecting something or for our expectations to be met by someone else because they cannot. We are all needy and everything we have is given to us by the Lord. So the secret is to trust and rest only in Him and to direct others to Him as well.
I agree dear Marta and I have experienced feeling empty and in need even so many times in my life before my journey started. Although I am not perfect yet, I know my recompense can only come from my Beloved because He is our Source of Everything.