How did people know who were Christians in the early church? They were known as the people who called upon the name of the Lord.
In 1 Corinthians 1:2 Paul addressed the believers as those who “call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord." When writing to Timothy he spoke his message to him and “them that call on the Lord” (2 Timothy 2:22).
Before Paul was converted, his whole passion was to bind for prison and destroy all those who called on the name of the Lord (Acts 9:14, 21). He knew which ones he wanted to throw in prison because they called on God’s name.
Is your family known as a family who call upon the name of the Lord? Would your neighbors consider you people who call upon the Lord? Do your friends think of you as a family who daily calls upon the Lord?
This is how we are meant to be known. Or perhaps we can’t be identified as people of the Lord after all. Jeremiah 10:25 always challenges me every time I read it: “Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name.” This Scripture reveals that the families who do not call upon the name of the Lord may as well be heathen families.
This reminds me of a powerful quote from James Russell Miller: “Christ must be our guest if our home is to be a fit place either for our children or for ourselves. If there is no sincere prayer in it, it is not a true home at all. It is only a heathen lodging-place!” It’s just as well this quote is not mine, or you might want to stone me! But if we are honest, we must admit it is true. How can we be known as God’s people if we don’t bother to call upon His name?
The early patriarchs all made altars as a place to call upon the name of the Lord. Check out Abram (Genesis 12:7, 8; 13:4, 18; and 21:33); Isaac (Genesis 26:25); and Jacob (Genesis 35:1-7).
Seek to make a time and place every morning and evening to gather your family together to call on God’s name. There is an unprecedented stirring of anger, hatred, and rebellion in this nation. It’s time for God’s people to pray--to really cry out to God. We are not fighting flesh and blood, but principalities and powers.
Will God’s people rise to be who they are meant to be? Will families arise to be “calling upon the Lord families”?
Will you be one of those families?
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
FURTHER EXHORTATIONS AND TESTIMONIES TO CALL UPON THE LORD
Genesis 4:26; Judges 16:28; 1 Samuel 12:17,18; 2 Samuel 22:4, 7; 1 Kings 18:24; 1 Chronicles 16:8; 2 Chronicles 7:14;
Psalm 4:1; 14:1 (53:4); 17:6; 18:3, 6; 27:7, 8; 28:1, 2; 31:17; 50:15; 55:16; 79:6; 80:18; 86:3-7; 88:9; 91:15, 16; 99:6; 105:1; 116:2-4, 13, 17; 118:5; 120:1; 145:18;
Isaiah 12:4; 43:22; 55:6; 58:8; 64:7; 65:24; Jeremiah 29:12; 33:3; Lamentations 3:55; Joel 3:32; Jonah 2:2; Zephaniah 3:9; Zechariah 13:9; Acts 2:21; 22:16; and Romans 10:13.
You are not only mothering for today. You are building a godly dynasty that will impact generations to come and eternity. You have the most influential career in the nation! Be encouraged. 
We influence our children by our example more than any other way.
As I honestly seek to answer these questions, would you like to also?
"I wish I had a life!" I sometimes hear mothers making this statement.
We talked yesterday how God sees the mothering and home managing works we do in our home as GOOD THINGS. But He also tells us how to do them. God doesn’t leave us in the dark about anything!
This quote is both true and false. We do not train our children to think they can do whatever they want to do, because many choices can be selfish or unbiblical choice that would ruin their lives. However, we encourage them to dream and think outside the box and that God can enable them by the power and leading of His Spirit to do things that no one has ever done before. Things that will bless others and advance the kingdom of God in earth. 
What are the older women to teach the younger women? Titus 2:3 says that they are to "be teachers of GOOD THINGS.”
What are you teaching your children? It's easy to get into the mode of packing information into your children's brains, the more the better! But "information" is not education. "Right thinking" is education. Unless your children know how to think correctly, information won't do them a lot of good.
Most Christian organizations have a Mission Statement. Yes, we do have one for Above Rubies and I am happy to send it to you if you are interested.
Before the world began she was in God’s mind,
Did you know that God has a resting place for you? Our 21st century lives are so frantically busy that often we live in a state of turmoil instead of a state of rest. God says in Jeremiah 50:6: “My people . . . have forgotten their resting place.”
"There never has been a generation whose view of marriage is high enough."
As women we have the privilege of showing to the world what God’s maternal heart is like. By the way we embrace our mothering anointing we reveal or dampen the image of God. Dear mother, you are the manifestation of God’s motherly heart in this world. 
Do you feel as though you are overworked and underpaid? Sometimes you can feel like this as a mother. But don’t despair, you will receive your pay.
I love this picture Evangeline painted for her wall of her and Howard and their ten children. They were at the ocean, all praising God together. The children now now range from 25 - 8 years. They had longed for more, but no more came. Although at nearly 53 years she still keeps believing! And chides me if I don’t keep believing with her! Fertility is a very special gift from God. We should always be open to God for His gifts in the time of our visitation. We never know how long it will last. 
Have you got on to the new podcast yet? At last I am doing a podcast for you. It’s called FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS. Each week I share with you treasures from God’s Word that will encourage you in your high calling of being a wife and mother. From time to time I will introduce you to members of our family and other special guests.
The message of the cross is not a popular message, is it? When we are faced with the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Son of God on the cross, it challenges us to give up our own lives. The great missionary, C. T. Studd wrote: “If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”
Vicki Goldby, an Above Rubies mother in England posted this in response to my post below, WHAT’S THE PREDOMINANT THEME IN YOUR HOME? I have met Vicki and her lovely family on many occasions when ministering in England. I can’t count how many Above Rubies retreats she has attended. I loved what she wrote and want to share it with you here:
God loves fruitfulness. His first words to mankind were “Be fruitful.” Sadly. We don’t live in a perfect world and there are those who cannot at this time conceive (never give up hope). Our God is a God of miracles. The important thing is to have the right heart and attitude and always be open to fruitfulness. Intended sterility is the opposite of God’s way.