PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 217: The Four L’s of Raising Children, Part 1
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 217: The Four L’s of Raising Children, Part 1
Michele Schrum talks with me today about how they raise their children according to the four L's. The first is to LOVE THE LORD. We can't make our children love the Lord, so how can it happen? In what ways can we help them and exemplify this?
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! It’s always so great to be with you. I feel so blessed that I can talk to you, you precious ladies, all over the USA, and all around the world.
It was so wonderful, as my husband and I have been doing an Above Rubies itinerary in England, to meet ladies who say, “I listen to your podcast.” It’s so great to hear of people listening in other countries. I know you are listening in many different countries of the world.
Today I have with me Michele Schrum. Michele and I are going to be sharing together today. But before we do, I want to catch you up with a few things. But I’ll get Michele to say “Hi!”
Michele: Hello, it’s so great to be here and be part of this.
Nancy: So I thought I’d catch you up with what’s been happening in the last few weeks. Colin and I have just got back, after three weeks of being away. We were nearly three weeks in England, speaking at an Above Rubies Family Camp.
Then at different meetings, traveling up throughout the UK. We started down in the south of England in Hampshire. Then we gradually went up, until we got right to the north of England, up in Cumbria. Of course, it was beautiful to travel through that lovely country. And best of all, meeting the wonderful families as we had meetings, and the precious families that we stayed with along the way. It was so wonderful!
I must say “Hi,” to Claire in the bath. Claire told me that she loves to listen to the podcast in the bath because that’s her quiet place where she can be on her own, although she loves being with her four darling little children. They were so beautiful!
I was amazed, as we traveled and had different meetings, to meet lots of new people, but to meet dear old friends. One lady arrived and I said, “Wow! Hello, Margaret! How are you?” And later I asked her, “Margaret, for how many years have you been coming to Above Rubies retreats or meetings?” She said, “Nancy, I first came 24 years ago.” Isn’t that amazing? I can’t believe we’ve been going to England for meetings for that many years.
We stayed with another lovely family, Vicky and Phil Goldby, in their lovely, wonderful home that God has so amazingly provided for them. I actually printed a testimony about how God provided this home for them in Above Rubies.
I met Vicky about 14 years ago. She has been coming to Above Rubies retreats and meetings all through those years. I’ve watched her little children grow. Now they’ve grown into fine young men and women. Now she is having her tenth baby. That was so exciting.
Of course, Chris and Anna Peach, I wonder if you are listening. And their amazing family. We’ve been friends for years. Every time we go to England, we never fail to see them. Of course, I have here, right now I have Emily, who is one of my Above Rubies helpers here. While Emily was here holding the fort, I got to be with her mum and dad and other daughter back in England. Her daughter, Samantha, was an Above Rubies helper too, two times! So, it was lovely to catch up with their parents also.
We got to the end of our meetings, and we had one day, one free day. Our dear friend, Martha, came down from Scotland to pick us up to take us back to Scotland. I thought, “Well, we’ve only got one day together. We’ll have a nice time of catching up on what’s been happening in the last couple of years.”
But no! That was not Martha’s plan at all! She said, “We’ve got a day planned!” The next morning, we set off. She said, “We’re going out to the west coast of Scotland. I’m going to take you to a little island.” Because she knew how much I have longed to go out to the Hebrides, to the islands out in the Hebrides west of Scotland, where there was once a mighty revival through Duncan Campbell. Actually, it started with two women who prayed and prayed. God came mightily and moved.
I’ve always wanted to go out and wondered if I would still feel the lingerings of that revival. We had planned to do that with Martha and Adam, her husband, two years ago. It was all planned, and we also had other meetings, and a big women’s conference in London. But it was all cancelled because of the plandemic. This was the first time we’d been back.
We only had one day, so she said, “We’ll go to one little island.” So, we couldn’t believe it. We thought we’d just drive out to the west of Scotland, not believing how beautiful the scenery was going to be. We drove through the most beautiful hills, and sheep on them, and glorious trees, and forests, and the river flowing by. It was so restful and wonderful!
Then we came to Oban, and then onto a bridge that we had to cross over. It was called “The Bridge across the Atlantic”! Really, ladies, it was only a little bridge, but it did cross the Atlantic. It was just a little part of where the Atlantic came in. We were truly crossing the Atlantic! But that was quite fun to do.
Then we moved on. In a little boat, we went over to this island. It was called Easdale Island. It was a slate island where they used to mine the slate that was used for roofing all over the world. Back in 1881, there was a terrific storm that came. With the high tide and this storm, it completely flooded the island, flooded all the slate mines, so they were never able to mine slate there again.
We were able to walk around the island and see where these slate mines were. Now they were filled with water, and they were beautiful little lakes. It was so lovely. Colin wasn’t able to walk around the island because he’s been on crutches for quite a few months with a very bad knee, although when we left for England, he decided to throw away his crutches.
He went on two walking sticks which wasn’t so cumbersome. He managed to get around everywhere on those. He had to stay behind in the museum, which turned out so great for him, because he found out that way back, going way back to our ancestors, that Duncan Campbell, yes, he had married into another family who owned these mines. Then it became part of the Campbells. He found out that our ancestors actually owned Easdale Island, and some of the other islands around. He thought that was quite great.
That one day was like a month’s holiday. Then we flew home the next day, from Edinburgh, down to Heathrow, caught a plane back to the US. We were home for a day, to find lots of things had happened. We found that somehow, someone had taken the plug out somewhere, and two deep freezers had gone rotten. We lost two deep freezers of food. I had to take hold of that Scripture where it says where they “joyfully took the spoiling of their goods” (Hebrews 10:34).
Then the sceptic tank had overflowed into the house! It’s amazing how all these things happen when we’re away. Oh, and another adventure that happened, they even had a skunk in the office! I’d never even seen a skunk on our property for the 22 years we’ve lived here. Here they had this skunk that they had to try to get out. And you can still smell it! Even since I’ve been home.
As soon as we got home, we had a day at home. Then we flew to San Diego, to our Above Rubies Family Retreat over there where we have been going for many years. Gary and Trish Evans have been organizing these retreats for guess how long? For 24 years! This was our 24th retreat that they had organized. Such wonderful faithfulness. They have kept going through thick and thin. Many times, quite challenging circumstances happening that would maybe stop them from doing it. But they’ve kept on and we’ve had these wonderful retreats out there for all these years.
Here we are today, back again. As I said, Michele is with me. Michele is now my closest neighbor! They live in an RV right next to our house because they are working on building up on the Hilltop. They’ve got ten acres there and I’ll let Michele tell you all about it.
Michele: Oh, we are so excited! We have ten acres, heavily wooded. My husband and my boys, all of us, have been working on it. We’re so super-excited to be down here. We moved here after seeking the Lord, and praying, and looking for land all over. This is where we ended up. This is where we landed. Nana doesn’t know all the stories while she was gone. There was a mouse. There’s even a mouse story!
Nancy: Oh, no!
Michele: We got it fixed before you came back. A mouse chewed through the air conditioning wire, and the whole air conditioning was out. Randy, my husband, came over, and fixed the wires, once he figured out what it was.
It still wouldn’t work, so we had to call this air conditioning guy out here. It had fried the motherboard, so he had to replace it, and fix it so it wouldn’t happen again. We got all that fixed, and we’ve been catching the mice. It just goes to show, we don’t want you to leave for three weeks again! [laughter]
Nancy: Oh, no! I can’t believe it! The whole place falls apart! But praise the Lord, we had you here to rescue it!
Michele: We put it back together as best we could. Yes, so we’re living in the RV. We have four children still at home. We have seven total. We have a 28-year-old daughter, Taylor, and then a 23-year-old daughter, Callie, who was a Ruby girl here three-and-a-half years ago. A son, Carter, who is 20. Then we have twins that will be 15 in just a couple of weeks. We have Elijah, who will be 11 soon. Then Ruthie, our youngest, is six.
Nancy: We’re so blessed having them here. When you do get built up there on the Hilltop, we’ll so miss you here. The other day, Michele and I were talking about raising family. She said, “Well, we have raised our family on four L’s.” I said, “Oh, that sounds interesting. Tell me what they are.” So, she told me, and I thought, “Oh, wow, I agree with every one of them! Michele, you’ve got to come and tell the ladies on the podcast all about them.”
So, we’re going to start today. We’ll start with the first one. I won’t tell you the others because we’ll keep them a secret until we get onto them. Tell us the first one, Michele.
LOVE THE LORD
Michele: The first one is “love the Lord.” Our job as parents is to teach our children, and equip them, and influence them. Then they get to decide. We can’t make our children love the Lord. But there are things we can do, practical things that we can do for our family, and for our children, to teach them.
Nancy: Yes, I love that you have started with that because that is the very first thing, isn’t it? To love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our might, and with all our strength. That’s our whole being, isn’t it?
To me, and I know Michele feels that same, how can our children love God like this? They’re only going to do it as they see us loving Him. I think our children learn more by seeing than what we teach them, don’t you think? It’s more caught than taught. Our children need to see that we love God. Do they see it in our lives? Do they see that He is the passion of our lives? That He is the pre-eminent One in our homes. He is the pre-eminent One in our lives.
Michele: Yes. That is definitely the number one thing when it comes to teaching your children to love the Lord. It’s to live by example, to give them an example. Children are imitators and we need to give them something great to imitate. They observe everything we do, our actions, and our speech.
Are we loving the Lord with all of our hearts, and our minds, and our strength? If they see that, and they see the joy that comes out of that, and they see God’s blessing that comes out of that, hard times and good times, they’re going to desire that more. I heard a pastor a while back say, “Our children will tend to do what we do in excess, whether it’s good or bad.” Even in mannerisms and the way we say things.
I have a silly little story about my daughter Ruthie, when she was younger. She wasn’t even two years old. I think she talked from the day she was born. She’s always been a talker. We were in the car, driving somewhere, and someone said something silly. We hear from her little car seat, “Oh, my word!”
And I turned around and said, “What?” My husband looked at me and said, “That sounded just like you!” I realized that little phrase I picked up, I would say it if something was silly, or if it was ridiculous, “Oh, my word!” Here is my little one-and-a-half-year-old, saying “Oh, my word” Just the same way I would say it. They are definite imitators.
Nancy: Oh, yes, Scripture says: “As is the mother, so is the daughter” (Ezekiel 16:34). It is so true, isn’t it? I think I shared with you on a recent podcast that passage from Nehemiah 13, where Nehemiah found that there were Jews who had married foreign wives.
He discovered that these children couldn’t even speak the Hebrew tongue. They lived in Jerusalem and couldn’t even speak the language that was their language! They were speaking foreign languages. Why? Because that’s what their mother spoke. They imitated their mothers.
So, our children are going to imitate us and take on the kind of vocab we have. It’s so true. But I was thinking, Michele, that in loving the Lord, it also includes loving His Word, doesn’t it? It’s part of loving the Lord. If we really love Him, we’ll love His Word! We’ll love it like David loved it.
In Psalm 119, that Psalm with 176 verses, ten of those verses, David bursts out and says: “I love thy law. I love thy commandments.”
Verse 167 says: “I love them exceedingly.” Not just love them, but love them “exceedingly,”
He says in verse 127: “I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold.”
I wonder if we truly love the Lord and love the Word above fine gold? Does it mean more to us than all the money we can make, and all the material possessions that we want to acquire, and even fill our homes with? I think if we really show to our children where our priorities are, even by the way we plan our days . . .
I’ve often talked with you about this on our podcasts, so forgive me sharing it again. But I do believe it is so important. I have always felt that it is so important for us to gather our families every morning and every evening, to come into the presence of the Lord to listen to His Word, because we love it, and to pray to Him and worship Him because we love Him. We don’t do it, “Oh, this is a duty you’re supposed to do.” But we do it out of passion, because we love Him, and we can’t wait to do it.
In fact, the little time we spend in the morning, and in the evening, out of 24 hours in the day, is the least we can do. I think it’s the least we can do to show, even to our children, that God is number one in our lives. Because this habit of, well, some people call it “Family Devotions,” some “Bible Time,” some “Worship Time,” or whatever you call it in your home. It doesn’t matter, as long as you do it.
But I guess you have found, like everyone finds, it’s easy for it to be crowded out. There are so many things that happen in our lives. We’re so busy, and this happens, and that happens. Oh, wow! We can’t fit it in.
But I have found that the only way I can make sure that I fit it in, is that this is going to happen. It is our habit, and everything else in our plan of the day, everything else in life fits around it. So, THIS IS WHAT WE DO AND EVERYTHING ELSE FITS AROUND IT! Because Who is the most important? Is God the priority in our lives?
And what do our children see? When they see other things, “Oh, well, we don’t have time for family devotions today. Look, we’ve got to go here. We’ve got to do this. Here, this is really, we’ve got to get this done.” They see these things, things that really, we’re not going to take to eternity with us. Things that may seem important.
But where’s the priority? Who is the most important? Is that thing the most important? Is it more important than meeting with the One we love? So, I think this is one of the ways, of many ways, we show our love to the Lord. Because we want to do it.
Michele: Absolutely. And that’s one of the other keys to teaching your children to love the Lord is to remove distractions. Remove the busy-ness. Remove, it could be anything. Anything in this world can be a distraction for it sometimes. Entertainment, relationships that maybe aren’t the greatest. But yes, remove those distractions. You have to put the Lord first.
We expect our children to love Him with all their heart, mind, and soul. We need to, which means He’s first, He’s Number One. Remove the distractions. Our schedule, in our home, revolves around what my husband has sought the Lord after, such as Monday-night prayer meetings, Wednesday-night prayer meetings.
Other things might come up, but my children know that’s what we’re doing, and that’s where they’re expected to be. They can be out fishing with their friends, or working, or doing good things. But when it comes to prayer time, they know they need to be home, and be over here.
Also, we tried to make our time in the Word, we call it “family devos” in our house, family devotions. We try to make it fun. We sing songs, especially when they were younger. Singing silly songs that were just Scripture, even in the car, anything. Make it fun.
We also did family fun nights on most Friday nights. So, our devotion would be more geared towards an activity. But it always had a lesson in God’s Word in it. For example, one of my children’s favorite memories, I’m talking about my older ones when they were little. We were talking about Proverbs, where it talks about controlling your tongue, and words that you speak. There were several different verses around that.
My husband had gone to the Dollar Store and bought every child a tube of toothpaste. We gave them a paper plate and some tools, like Q-tips, some different tools they might need for this activity. He told them all to squirt out the entire tube of toothpaste on their paper plate. So we did, and then he laid, I think it was a $50 bill in the middle of the table.
He said, “Whoever can get all the toothpaste back in the tube, and it’s full, can have this $50.” They were trying everything! Needless to say, nobody got the toothpaste back in the tube. It was all about, once your words are out, you can’t take them back, and how powerful words are. It was an example of one of the fun family nights.
Nancy: Oh, that is a powerful one! I think that would be a good one to try in your family, wouldn’t it? I think you’ll most probably keep the $50! That is amazing. I love that. I think there’s nothing like practical things. That’s how Jesus taught. He taught so practically, didn’t He, about the everyday things of life.
You were talking about prayer, and the priority of prayer, too. I think we’re living in a day where prayer is not really a priority in most homes. Our children grew up with prayer meetings. It was part of their lives. People often think that “Oh, it’s just adults who go to prayer meetings.” But no! The prayer meeting is the most wonderful place for children and for babies. In fact, God wants the whole family to come together.
At so many of our prayer meetings, there are nursing mothers, and little toddlers and children. We have seasons of whoever is there, and they’re different ages. But often Colin will say to the children, “Ok, children, you all pray first, because you’ll most probably be going to sleep.” So, the children will pray, and then it won’t be long before they’ll be going to sleep. It’s so wonderful that they’re sleeping in the presence of the Lord. It’s such a beautiful thing.
But it also shows to our children that God is our priority. We love Him. We long to be in His presence. We love to pray. It’s the same with church on Sunday. Many people go to church because, “OK, that’s what you do.” But no, we go because we love to go. Because what does it say in 1 John 3:14? “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.” If we love them, well, we’ll want to be with them, won’t we?
Many times, today it seems that people can make excuses. “Oh, something happens,” or “We’ve got to get this done, so we can’t get to church today.” Or “These people turned up, oh, so we couldn’t come to church.” But I don’t believe that we ever should have one excuse!
Rain, hail, or snow, whatever happens, that is our commitment. There’s something about commitment in life, isn’t there? Commitment to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, but we show it in our actions, and what we do, don’t we? I think one of them, there are so many ways, but I do think that one of them, too, is our commitment to the people of God, our commitment to that weekly gathering.
Did you notice I said “gathering,” because during this last plandemic, there were so many churches that just caved in and stopped church. Of course, they had their Zoom meetings. Now, zoom meetings, they can give a powerful message but they’re not church! They’re a Zoom meeting! They’re not church. Church is the ASSEMBLING OF YOURSELVES TOGETHER! (Hebrews 10:25). That’s what it’s about. No matter what, that’s what God has told us to do.
Now we see many saints in countries where they’re being persecuted. They are not allowed to meet together, but do they stop? No! They don’t stop, even in the face of persecution! A lot of how we live, what we do, our children see it, and they know whether we truly love God with all our hearts, or whether we really find that all these little interruptions in life are more important.
Michele: Oh, absolutely. And another thing we have to teach our children is obedience. Obedience, people argue, “Well, obedience is not love.” But it’s closely related. In the Old Testament, God gave His people the Ten Commandments, the Law, so He could keep them safe. But also, so they could follow them, to show their love to the Lord. Yes, teaching our children obedience, and how to listen, and how to hear our voice, teaches them how to hear God’s voice. If you don’t have those things, how do we expect them to love the Lord?
Nancy: Yes, I love to look up the different Hebrew words. One of the most common words is for “hear.” Michele was just saying how important it is to learn to hear. I believe, before our children can even obey, they need to learn to hear. Hearing is very important. I think it’s one of the first things that we teach our little children. is how to listen. How to listen.
Jesus said over and over: “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” We can hear sounds, and even people talking with our ears, but are we actually hearing what they are saying? Before our children can learn to obey, they’ve got to learn to hear.
I love to encourage mums, when they’re first teaching their children how to obey, and they tell their little child, perhaps they’re talking to their little girl. They say, “Now, Susie, I want you to pick up your toys.” We have to make sure that she has heard, so we say, “And what did Mommy say?” “Pick up toys.” “OK, now when Mommy says something, you always have to do it straightaway, so OK, can you pick up your toys right now?”
And so, they will respond, and pick them up. We keep doing that as we’re teaching them to obey, so that they’re hearing our voice. We’ll ask them to repeat it, so we know they have heard. If they’ve heard, they must obey immediately. We’re teaching them how to obey right away.
Even as our children get older, it is important to make sure that they hear. It’s no use saying, “Hey, Bobby, can you bring that thing in for me from outside? I need the rubbish bin (“rubbish bin,” you call it the “trash” here0. [laughter] I still say all our New Zealand words. “Bring in that trash can,” and you could be shouting it out. He may not have really heard you. You think he’s in hearing distance, but he could have his mind on something else.
You have to make sure they hear before you can maybe discipline for disobedience. No, because they must hear. But once they hear, we have to teach them that habit of obeying right away.
Michele: We have a saying in our home that goes:
“Slow obedience is no obedience.”
My children have to finish it. If I say, “Slow obedience,” they have to say, “Is no obedience.” And they know what that means!
Back to hearing, something our children will be in the other room. I have a child in the other room, and I might say something. They might not hear my instructions, but they’ve heard my voice. They’re expected, instead of saying, “What?” They’re expected to come and say, “Mom, did you need something? Did you say something?” That is another form of obedience.
Nancy: That is very important, too, teaching them that. Even if they didn’t hear you properly, they come back and find out what it was that you wanted. Yes, that is so good.
I love your phrase, “Slow obedience is no obedience.” That’s so good, because many children will lag to do what you tell them. Hopefully we’ve got them into that habit. When they were little, I always used to say:
“Delayed obedience is disobedience.”
Take either of those slogans, or both of them, into your home. Your children should grow up with those.
Also, I have written here,
“When you children learn to listen, they learn to obey. And when they learn to obey you, they learn to obey God, because we are parenting on behalf of God.”
We have to remember that mothers. Sometimes we sort of forget, really, who we are, and the authority that God has given to us as mothers.
God has given authority to the status of motherhood and fatherhood. It is a powerful status in God’s eyes, because God is ultimately the Father, and even in the fatherhood of God, we see the mother-nurturing heart of God. It all comes from God. Fatherhood comes from God. Motherhood comes from the very heart of God. And so, we are revealing what God is like, and He has given us an authority from Him to parent on His behalf.
Ultimately, our children are His children, so we are parenting them on His behalf. That’s why God says: “Children, obey your parents,” because when they obey us, they are obeying God.
When He says: “Children, honor your parents,” they are honoring God. When they dishonor or disobey, they are dishonoring God Himself.
But I am always, perhaps, challenged or encouraged, in that Scripture in Leviticus 19:2, where it says: “Fear thou thy mother and thy father.” Did you notice something different? In every other place, it says: “Obey thy father and thy mother . . . Honor thy father and thy mother.” But here, in Leviticus 19:2, it says: “Fear thy mother and thy father.”
God never puts anything haphazardly. Here the mother is mentioned first, which I believe is significant, because we’re with the children all day. By the end of the day, they’re hardly hearing what we’re saying. Sometimes it can all be in a big shambles. Whoo! Father comes in the door, and woof! Everything comes into shape. One word from Dad and look out!
There is something, there is an authority on the father. But God wants a mother to have that authority too. Yes, she has that beautiful, loving, gentle, nurturing bond with her children. But God has also given her an anointing of authority that her children should even have an awe of her, because they must know that even Mother is parenting on behalf of God. That’s quite amazing, isn’t it? It really is.
Michele: Absolutely. There’s another aspect I don’t want to leave out. Teaching your children to love the Lord is testifying, to remember. The word “testify” means “to remember what the Lord has done.” So, remember the family.
But then your children, your children can hear from God, just like they learn at a small age to hear your voice. They will learn to hear God’s voice if we cultivate that in our lives. As they learn to hear God’s voice, and they see God doing things in their lives, or your family’s life, give them opportunities to testify and remember.
One of the things we had in our home before we sold it, now it’s in a storage box, so it’ll go back up some day. We had a remembrance wall. It was a wall full of all these different little trinkets, and some pictures, just odds and ends. People would walk in and see it, and they would be like, “What is that?”
It gave us and our children the opportunity to testify. Everything represented something God did for us, in our family, something significant that we wanted to remember and thank God for. There was everything from seashells to pinecones, you name it, a nail. But they all had a story of how either God provided, or God came through, or this amazing opportunity we had from the Lord.
We encouraged our children to participate in that. There were some things significant to them. They found the trinket and put it up there. They were able to testify. But you don’t have to have a remembrance wall to do that. Just get your children talking. If they can go back and teach what they’ve learned, or what God has showed them, then they’re going to remember so much more.
Corrie Ten Boom once said, “The best learning I had came from teaching.” That is, I’ve noticed, significant in my boys. I loved during the prayer meeting, when some of the gentlemen here will call out my young men and say, “What’s on your heart? What does God have on your heart today?” It was amazing, because God can speak to them, and it challenges them.
It reminds me of some of my early morning walks with Nancy’s daughter, Vange. She comes over, many mornings of the week, at 6 am. She tried 5:30, and I pushed it back to 6. We go on these early morning hikes. One of the first things she asks me almost every day is “What has the Lord revealed to you this morning?” I’m like, “This is weird! I just rolled out of bed! I may or may not have brushed my teeth.”
But it challenges me. I have to stop for a second, like, “Yes! Yes!” Because God is always speaking, and He’s always revealing Himself. We have to open our ears and listen, be willing to hear, hear from the Lord.
Nancy: Oh, yes. I just want to reiterate there, as we’re closing this session, how I love seeing your boys in the prayer meeting. Here they are, just 14-year-old boys, but they are into prayer! It is so wonderful! And they are into the Word of God! Most prayer meetings they will have a little Scripture that they will voluntarily read out.
Why are they like this? Because they see this passion to pray and love the Word in their parents. They have got it too. It’s so beautiful. I believe we pass it on, don’t we? I’ve always had such a love for the Word of God, just to receive from His Word, always getting revelations. Now, it just passes on down the family. Anyway, time has gone, so let’s pray.
“Dear Father, we thank You that we love You, because You first loved us. Oh, Father, we ask that You will do something in our hearts. Help us to love You more, to love You, Lord, with all our mind, and all our soul, and all our heart, and all our strength. Yes, that means with all our actions.
“Oh, Father, I pray that You will bless every precious mother and wife, and daughter, and whoever else is listening, Lord, that we will all love You passionately, seek after You, love Your Word, love to pray, love being in Your presence. Oh, God, just help us, that we will not be distracted so much by all the material things of this world, but we will seek after You with all our hearts. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Transcribed by Darlene Norris * This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
If you have a moment, it would be lovely if you could email a little thank you letter to Darlene. She sacrifices much of her time to transcribe these podcasts for you and I know it would encourage her to know that you are blessed by her hard work. Thanks so much.