When did you last say something encouraging to your husband? #encouragement #lovingwords #encouragingwords #upbuildingwords #sweetwords #affirmingwords #forgivingwords #aboverubies
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Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
Through the weekly and daily devotionals you can be constantly encouraged in your great role of parenting, the highest career in the nation. You can also stay updated on what's happening with the Above Rubies ministry.
Bright, positive, optimistic men make the best husbands and fathers. A gloomy, pessimistic person who cannot see the bright side of life is very difficult to live with. Who wants to hang around a person who is always down in the mouth, depressed, and negative about everything? I for one would not like to live a single day around such a person, let alone be married to one.
The children of Israel, having left the great oppression and “doom and gloom” of the slavery of Egypt, could not shake the negative mindset. It had become so ingrained into them over the years of their slavery. They were freed from their physical slave shackles, but were still mentally, emotionally, and spiritually slaves to fear and unbelief. All this negativity and unbelief eventually stopped them from entering into the Promised Land.
God did not want this complaining spirit to enter the Promised Land. This attitude of negativity would never enable them to bring down the giants that inhabited Canaan. The strongholds of Canaan could only be defeated by a people with an optimistic belief that with God nothing is impossible.
Proverbs 15:13, 15: “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. . . . All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.”
The Passion Translation says: “A cheerful heart puts a smile on your face . . . When you CHOOSE TO BE CHEERFUL, every day will bring you more and more joy and fullness.”
It’s your choice.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
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Oh touch the hem of His garment
And thou too shalt be free,
His saving power, this very hour
Shall give new life to thee.
#reachouttojesus #touchthehemofhisgarment #jesusisyourhealer #jesusreachesdowntothelowe
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Do you need some miracles in your marriage and family life? You don’t have to stay in the same rut. There is always a way out. Begin with some encouraging words. Even if you don’t feel like saying them. Think of a new and encouraging word each day—and SAY IT! Begin now! Say them. Write them. Text them. #encouragingwords #speaklife #speaklove #encouragement #sayiloveyou #sayiloveyoueveryday #expectmiracles #aboverubies #nancycampbell
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“I beg your pardon. Are you talking to me?” That’s not me. I’m for ever failing and getting angry with the children.” Yes, I understand. The Bible says: “There is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Psalm 14:3 and Romans 3:10). True!
“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51:5). True!
“All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). True.
However, when Jesus died upon the cross for our sins, He died to not only save us from our sins, but to make us righteous! Yes, that is His purpose. He not only died for our sins, but lives in our hearts by faith. When Jesus Christ comes into our lives, He comes in the fullness of who He is. And who is Christ? “Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1).
The blessing of salvation is Christ in you and you in Christ. And because He is in you, He is righteousness in you. You have to get hold of this truth. You have no righteousness of your own, but you are righteous because of the righteous life of Jesus Christ who dwells in you.
1 Corinthians 1:30 says: “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” Read also 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Therefore, in your home, in your kitchen, caring for your children, and managing your home, you are Mrs. Righteous.
Righteous Emma--Yes!
Righteous Rachel--Yes!
Righteous Jennifer--Yes!
As you embrace this truth and confess your righteousness in Christ, you will live in the truth. You can’t confess that you are living in the righteousness of Christ and at the same time fly off the handle!
Be blessed today,
Mrs Righteous.
Love from Nancy
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"There is more in a mother's hands than a king's scepter"
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John 6:66-69: “From that time many of HIS DISCIPLES WENT BACK, AND WALKED NO MORE WITH HIM. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Ruth 1:14-17: “Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth cleaved unto her. And she said, behold, thy sister in law is GONE BACK UNTO HER PEOPLE, AND UNTO HER GODS: return thou after thy sister in law. And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.”
Orpah is the type of the apostate church who kiss Christ and yet go back to the gods of this world.
Ruth, through her declaration, becomes the type of the true church who become worthy to be married to the heavenly Kinsman Redeemer, Jesus Christ. These are the ones who are the true overcomers who “Follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth” (Revelation 14:4).
Through her 100 percent sell out to Naomi and consequently the God of Israel, Ruth, the Moabite Gentile woman becomes the great-grandmother of David, the greatest prophetic King of Israel, through whom the Messiah was prophesied to come and then came into this world. What a great reward for Ruth. Amazing.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
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I love the line from the delightful children’s book by George MacDonald, “At the Back of the North Wind.” He says, “For our Selves will always do pretty well If we don’t pay them too much attention.” How true are these words. It is the same principle Jesus gave us in Mark 8:35: “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.”
When we focus on ourselves--our own problems, sicknesses, and how to make ourselves happy we end up self-serving which pulls us down into the slough of self-pity and delusion. It is an eternal principle that when you forget about yourself and pour out your life for others you become fulfilled. You are happier and more relaxed, peaceful, hopeful, and content.
“But what about me? you cry. Of course we have to care for ourselves spiritually, mentally, and physically. That’s basic. But we don’t tune all our thinking on ourselves. I’ll never forgot a moment in my life years ago. My children were all little and I had just come home from purchasing the groceries. As I walked over the threshold of my home, I felt the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking strongly to my heart, “Nancy, how can I reveal to you the needs of others if you are always thinking of yourself?” I have never forgotten those words. From then on I learned to give much more room in my mind and heart for others.
Will we be forgotten when we pour out our lives for others? No, the opposite. God makes sure that our “self” as George MacDonald puts it, will be blessed and comforted. God pours into those who pour out.
Mothering is a liberating ministry into this eternal principle. Not on the odd occasion, but 24/7 we forget self as we pour out our hearts for our children--praying for them, teaching them, training them, caring for them, cooking for them, and often agonizing over them.
Let’s embrace this eternal principle and live in the fullness of the joy and life God intends for us. We teach our children how to be joyful; we need to adhere to it ourselves.
J Jesus first
O Others second
Y Yourself last
Be blessed,
Nancy Campbell
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