Our Christian walk is not only believing in Jesus Christ, but confessing that He is our Lord and Savior (Romans 10:9-10). We are born again by believing and confessing. And now this is the way we continue to walk in Christ. Every new understanding of truth we believe as we read the Word of God, we must also confess.

Hebrews 10:35 says, "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward." The Greek word for "confidence" is "parrhesia" and actually means "all out-spokenness--frankness, bluntness, publically and boldly speaking, assurance." We do not hide our salvation; we proclaim it. We do not hide the truth God reveals to us; we boldly speak it out, even in the face of ridicule and resistance from family and those around us.

Confession keeps our faith real. Confession keeps truth vibrant in our hearts. The more you share the truth with others, the more it becomes part of your life.

This same word is used of Jesus, the early disciples, and of Paul speaking boldly. Paul and Barnabas "waxed bold" in the midst of people "contradicting and blaspheming" them (Acts 13:45-46). It was because Jesus spoke boldly that He came from God and was one with God that they crucified Him!

Our confession may get us into trouble, but do we stop confessing? We dare not! I think that now we had better start boldly confessing the truth more than ever, because we don't know how much longer we will be able to do it without real persecution! A new day has dawned in America. It's time to be more radical than ever!

Love from Nancy

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There are lots of twins mentioned in the Bible. I'm not talking about physical twins, but spiritual twins. One set of twins are RIGHTEOUSNESS and JOY! Sometimes we imagine that righteousness is associated with legality and seriousness. How do we get these strange ideas? God links them together.

Talking of Jesus, Hebrews 1:8-9 tells us, "Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." This is not ordinary joy, but joy more than anyone else.

Shouldn't we have the same attitude as our Savior? We should also love righteousness and hate evil. In other words, we are to be a friend to righteousness and an enemy of evil. This requires action! We have to actively go after righteousness. We have to actively hate evil and do something about it (Psalm 97:10; Proverbs 8:13; Ephesians 5:11).

When we have this attitude, our twin JOY will accompany us. Isn't that great?

Have a joyful day. Love from Nancy

There are lots of twins mentioned in the Bible. I'm not talking about physical twins, but spiritual twins. One set of twins are RIGHTEOUSNESS and JOY! Sometimes we imagine that righteousness is associated with legality and seriousness. How do we get these strange ideas? God links them together.

Talking of Jesus, Hebrews 1:8-9 tells us, "Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." This is not ordinary joy, but joy more than anyone else.

Shouldn't we have the same attitude as our Savior? We should also love righteousness and hate evil. In other words, we are to be a friend to righteousness and an enemy of evil. This requires action! We have to actively go after righteousness. We have to actively hate evil and do something about it (Psalm 97:10; Proverbs 8:13; Ephesians 5:11).

When we have this attitude, our twin JOY will accompany us. Isn't that great?

Have a joyful day. Love from Nancy

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One of my constant prayers is that God will daily lead me into truth and expose all deception in my life. I hate deception. I love truth. I am sure this is your attitude, too.

Jeremiah 5:3 says, "O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth?" Because God is Truth, and can't be anything else than truth, He hates lies, but aligns Himself with truth. I want to be in sync with God so I hanker after truth. That means I must immerse myself in His Word.

Man's humanistic reasoning is no match for God's eternal truth. It is only when we know His truth that we discern deception. It is interesting that when the children of Israel were taken captives to Babylon that God warned them through the prophet Jeremiah to watch out for deception "in the midst of you" (Jeremiah 29:8-9). You would have thought He would have warned them to watch out for the deception in Babylon as Babylon was filled with deception and confusion! However, he knew they would see through that deception because it was so blatant. The deception we have to be concerned about is that which is so similar to the truth that it takes being filled with God's Word to discern it!

I want to be a truth seeker, a truth finder, a truth lover, a truth embracer, a truth adherer, a truth speaker, and a truth promoter! Don't you?

And let's raise children who have a love for truth, children who will not be swayed by humanistic propaganda, children who can discern the difference between good and evil, and children who will be able to stand, "and having done all stand" against all deception.

Love from Nancy

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I was looking at my daughter, Evangeline's Facebook and noticed her answer to an article she read called, "Why Motherhood is not the Finish Line for Biblical Womanhood" written by a single woman. I thought I would share it with you. Of course, Vange writes in her style! Those who know Vange will love it! If you haven't been introduced to her yet, well, look out! Nancy

The problem with this article is in its very, very, narrow definition of motherhood. If you define motherhood as the few short years where you have your own children around your knees, she is right, because once the children are no longer little ones in your arms you have reached a finished line of sorts--which is the most limited and incomplete view of mothering I've ever heard.

BUT, if you step back and look at the bigger picture and a more biblical view of mothering - mothering is INNATE. It is the compassionate, nurturing, God-given nature of the female gender. It both predates and postdates having children of your own. It is expressing God's compassion and tenderness to those around us whether they be our family or the families He puts in our lives. I would never argue with the author that having a firm basis of biblical truth is not critical. Anyone who replaces the Bible with the La Leche League manual is asking for trouble eternally, but they are equally asking for trouble if they try to strip the compassionate, nurturing, mothering heart out of women and turn them into theological robots who do not understand one of their greatest callings while on earth.

If you actually look at the biblical injunctions that are addressed to women I believe that they demonstrate that God cries out for women to be encouraged in these very roles that the author is so sick of the church encouraging (loving your husband and loving your children). Maybe she does not have a husband or children so therefore needs to realize that she can still manifest who she is with the God-given female mothering nature within her. She ALSO needs to realize that mothering never has a finish line. Never! NEVER!!!

That is why Paul told the older women to instruct (mother) the younger women to be great wives and mothers before all other earthly ministries, the very thing this author is griping about. We are told that when we mother we are then fruitful for the Kingdom of God more than by doing other ministries. In this way we light up the world! In this way we keep the world going! In this way we bring God's nurturing heart to the world! In this way we honor Him! Talk about doctrine - could we be reading from the same bible? Part of training in theology is part of training to be a good mother. Good godly mothering is a dying art in this society today. It is belittled, despised, rejected, touted as disturbing, to name just a few attitudes.
Yet, most women, at sometime, become or embrace mothering and are left bewildered, discouraged, and lonely in a mothering land that is despised everywhere we turn today - EVEN in the churches... and if we do not encourage or teach them that this is God's own heart, His idea, One of His destinies for us - then we ourselves have become blinded by this age and God himself will reach out and take them by the hand and gently lead those that are with young!
God is calling a revival of mothering. Calling them to stand in their land of mothering and nurture with all their God-given power!

LIVE MOTHERS! LIFE TO MOTHERS! MAY GOD GRANT THEM ENERGY AND POWER FOR TRULY THE EARTH QUAKES WHEN A MOTHER UNDERSTANDS HER DESTINY ON EARTH AND BEGINS TO PRAY OVER HER DOMAIN!

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