Every year at Higher Calling Conference, a mission conference for youth and college students held by Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC), numerous breakout sessions are provided for students to attend based on their interests. One of the seminars offered this year was titled "Unlocking Your Destiny," led by Sunhee Son Robinson. Robinson is one of two senior pastors--the other being her husband, Benjamin Israel Robinson--of Living Hope Christian Center in Emeryville, CA, and executive director of Not Forgotten Faces, a non-profit organization that brings freedom to victims of human trafficking. She came to the conference to speak to students about their inheritance as children of God, and the power and freedom that comes from this knowledge.
Robinson started off with her own testimony of how she used to live under the confines of the Korean Presbyterian Church - how, as a woman, she was not allowed to become a pastor or do certain things, not because these were based on biblical grounds, but cultural ones. She continued to hunger and thirst for the Lord, but even as she was seeing what she was hungering for (revivals, healings, prophecies, etc.), her heart never felt secure. She would continually ask God, "God, are you going to do that again? I'm not sure." Her life was full of worry in every season of her life.
The turning point of her faith came when she fully realized her inheritance in God.
"You need to be an heir to receive an inheritance," she told the students attending her seminar. "Inheritance is something you don't pay for. Someone else paid for it and you received it freely."
Robinson then reminded them that many Christians today do not seem to understand that they do not have to pay for their inheritance.
"For us, we believe that we have to pay for every step of the way. You have to pray, you have to fast, etc"¦ A lot of us, we waste so many years of our lives trying to pay for something that has already been paid for."
Once she realized this, Robinson said she was set free from her worries and anxieties and was able to live out the power that is available to every Christian. She stressed how important it was for people to take hold of their true identity as children of God, and to let go of the identities the enemy puts over their lives, identities such as Liar, Failure, Hopeless, Sinner, etc.
Robinson also talked about the importance of biblical submission, whether that was submission to Christ, submission to your husband, or submission to your pastor. "When God calls for our submission, it's to benefit us," she said. "The power is in the level of submission."
After she concluded her seminar, Robinson invited students to come talk to her and receive prayer. Many students came to her, crying because of the convictions they had received during her message, and shared with her their prayer requests. She prayed over each student individually, casting out any demonic influences, praying for healing, and blessing them before sending them off.
Sunhee Son Robinson was one of nine other speakers for breakout sessions, all which took place during the second day (December 22) of the four-day conference in San Diego, CA.
Irene Kim is a volunteer student writer from University of California, San Diego.
