PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 355: WE MUST NOT BE DECEIVED, Part 2

LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 355: WE MUST NOT BE DECEIVED, Part 2

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Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Here we are together again, and another little reminder for the April Easter Family Weekend coming up at Laguna Beach in Florida. This is our annual family retreat in Florida. Make sure you don’t miss! Oh, you're going to so love it! If you've never been before, you're missing a most wonderful experience. It’s not just for parents, but for young people also, and for the whole family. Go to AboveRubies.org, and you’ll be able to find the information there.

We also have another family camp booked for Gatlinburg, East Tennessee. That’s in August, the 22^nd through the 25^th. So, you can pop that on your calendar too. And married couples, if you want to get a special getaway together, you can have your wonderful time alone together. But also, time for getting together with other wonderful couples. That’s going to be in June in Cancun, Mexico.

You can look up the webpage, AboveRubies.org, to find the information on that, too. That’s going to be special. They’re now closing the rooms booked especially for us and opening them to the general public. But you can still get in. The more we get in pretty quickly, the more we will have of our togetherness which will be so wonderful.

Well, today we are continuing on this subject of deception, and especially how we, as women, can be prone to deception. We ended last week on Romans 1, how that not only was it the woman who was the first to be deceived back in the very beginning of time, but also, we see that she was the first one to turn away from her natural maternal function.

It’s interesting that I often think, I mean, those people would hate to even think of my mentioning this, but it’s a fact that women were also the first to change their way of clothing into wearing more men’s clothing. Today, most people, most women, and most women even in church, wear men’s clothing. Not exactly like men, of course, but they wear pants.

And yet, it’s interesting, it was the women who did that first. Even today, if we see a man cross-dressing and wearing a dress, we want to vomit. That’s just disgusting. And yet, somehow the women brought that in. We have to watch this, women, of how we can be deceived, and how deception has such power, because Eve’s deception, and we learned how she was “thoroughly hoodwinked,” her deception had power to convince Adam to sin.

I know, even in my own life that we, as women, although God has planned that we are to honor and to submit to our husbands that they are the leaders. But at the same time, we also have such incredible power to influence our husbands for good or for bad. If we are influencing them in the wrong way, that can have devastating consequences.

God created us to be their helper. We know that. God said, “I am going to make a helper for you, Adam.” This is who He created us to be. Now that doesn’t mean to say we are inferior in any way. No, of course, we are to help our husbands but we’re not just an inferior helper. We are a divine helper.

It’s an amazing mandate, because that word “helper” is first used about a woman, but it is actually the same word that is used of God’s attribute of Him as our Helper. Oh, how wonderful that we have God as our Helper, who comes to our aid! This same word is a divine word. It’s one of God’s attributes and yet it was first given to the woman.

And God has given us attributes that are specifically designed for us. They’re different from the man but they will bring such help and blessing to the man. He has attributes that we don’t have. This is the glorious thing about God’s creation of male and female. Each one is so different. Each one of us have godly attributes that are different from the other. We don’t have to try and be like the other. We as women don’t have to try and take the man’s place. Let’s just embrace our role. As we do, it all fits in so beautifully, and we live in the blessing that God has designed for us.

Now, let’s look a little bit more at 1 Timothy 2:14. We saw there that she was “fully deceived.” But then I want to look at another part of that Scripture, and some different translations.

The Complete Jewish Bible says: “It was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who, in being deceived, became involved in the transgression.”

The Young’s Literal Translation, a very literal translation. This was the guy who wrote the Young’s Concordance. We have the Strong’s Concordance, and we have the Young’s Concordance. This one says: “The woman, having been deceived into transgression came. It was her deception that caused her to transgress.”

Now, what is that word “transgression”? It's parabasis, meaning, “a going over, a violation, a stepping over the line, a going beyond a command.” This is what Eve did in the very beginning. As she listened to the serpent and as she was being deceived, what was really happening? She was taking on her husband’s role.

Instead of submitting to him, instead of saying, “Wow! Let me talk to my husband,” or “Adam,” because Adam was right there. “Adam, what do you think?” Instead of coming to Adam, she took on that role of leadership. That’s the word “transgress.”

It was going over beyond where she was meant to be. It was a stepping over the line. What happened there was an exchange of their distinctive positions and functions. Eve was the one who began leading, whereas Adam began listening to his wife. It tells us that, right here in Genesis 3:17.

We read here, when God spoke to Adam, and He says: “Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife (because you listened to Eve) and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat oft: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.”

But the first thing God said is, “Adam, you listened to your wife. I made you the leader. I told you; I was the One Who told you first about the Tree. You are the one to teach, and lead, and cover, and protect your wife. And you were standing right there. But you listened to your wife instead of Me.”

Wow, that’s challenging, isn’t it? We want our husbands to listen to us, of course. It is good that a husband will listen, and, of course, he’s meant to listen to his wife talk to him. But he has to be also guarded that he doesn’t listen to deception, because we can get into deception When we get into the deception of our stepping-out of our role and taking the leadership. It can be very destructive. Really, that’s what happened there, back there in the Garden.

So, we see this here in 1 Timothy 2:14. I’m going back to it again. “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness and self-control.” Here, this passage is in the context of deception. It is a deception of the truth.

But it says here that the woman will be saved. She’ll be saved from deception. It’s not talking about being saved and being born again, and that she’s going to miss out on eternal life. No, she’ll be saved from deception by embracing childrearing and mothering. This is her role. This is what God created her for.

Ultimately, not every woman is going to get married, although the majority will. And not every woman will have the privilege of birthing a baby from her womb, although the majority will. This is what God primarily created us for, for the bringing forth of His children, His Image into the world, and nurturing, and mothering, and training these children that God gives to her. This is our ultimate career.

The Word of God is saying here, “Yes, we can be prone to deception, but if we will embrace our role that God has given us, this maternal role, this mothering role, this child birthing role, that we will be saved from deception.”

This is very true, because when a woman decides to leave her home and her mothering, that which God intended for her, and even created her physically for, she can be prone to become more deceived in other areas. In fact, she will be deceived into stopping more children because it’s very difficult to keep having children in the home and training them for God when you're out in a career. It doesn’t quite work. There will be many other areas where she will be deceived.

GOD’S WONDERFUL PROMISE TO WOMEN

But this word “saved,” “She will be saved in childbearing,” it’s not meaning that she’s going to be saved from a painless childbirth, although there are some women who do have painless childbirth, but that is not what it is saying here. She’ll be saved when she embraces this role. That word “saved” is sozo.

Oh, what a glorious word it is! It doesn’t only mean “saved.” It means “saved, delivered, protected, healed, and made whole.” Wow! That is incredible! Wow! You couldn’t get anything more wonderful than that. Do you want to not only be saved, but delivered, protected, preserved, healed, and made whole? Well, that’s the promise to you when you embrace your childbearing and childrearing.

That word where I said, “made whole,” those are the very words that Jesus used so often when He was healing people. He would heal them, and He would say: “Your faith has made you whole.” That’s the word sozo. Every time you read those words, “And they were made whole,” it’s sozo, because that is the full meaning.

That word is used for salvation. It is also used for healing. It’s also used for preservation, and what a wonderful promise that is! You will be preserved, even physically. You’ll be saved from deception. You’ll be preserved. Your body will be preserved.

There are many women who are so deceived that they think, “Oh, goodness me, if I have too many children, well, that’s going to be too hard on my body. I want to preserve and look after my body.” We all want to preserve our bodies physically. But you're going to be preserved through childbearing. God created your body to function this way, and you will actually be preserved.

Oh, it is such a wonderful promise! But once again, women today, in our society, are deceived. They think that mothering and birthing and breastfeeding will be a negative to their physical body. No, it is absolutely the opposite. We only have to look at these examples.

I have around me so many women who are part of my life. This is just personal. I’m sure you know so many too. Maybe this is a testimony of yourself as you are listening. But some of them have six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven children, and they are perfectly beautiful. Their physical bodies are still glorious! They still look wonderful. They’re not out of shape.

It is not having babies that gets you out of shape. It is the way we eat and the way we live. No, there are mothers with big families, and they are in perfect shape. There are mothers with only one or two children who are out of shape. That’s not determined by childbearing. We can claim that promise of preservation.

OK, we must guard against these deceptions, even the deception of home. This is such a deception today, because we look out across the church today. You can go to many churches. Of course, there are many where there are lots of wonderful, big families, but there are other churches, perhaps the main churches where there are hundreds or thousands of people going.

What is the testimony of all the mothers? Most of them only have one, two, or three children. Most of those mothers are out at work. Most of those mothers are putting their children in daycare. This is looked upon as the norm in the Christian church. But that is not the norm according to the Bible.

Even the passage in Titus, where the older women are to teach the younger women, they are to teach them to be “keepers at home” because there in the home they are raising their children. They’re embracing their childbearing, and their childrearing, their mothering. We cannot truly mother if we’re not in the home watching over our children.

When God gives us a baby, when He gives us children, He doesn’t give them to us to give them to somebody else to raise. He gives them to us! He’s given us a home. Yes, our home is our gift to us, a sacred place for us to raise our children in peace and in joy, and without all the storms that are around us.

Oh, as women go out into the workforce, into that career world, they face so many storms and difficulties. Of course, we face difficulties in rearing children too, but we are in the home. It’s amazing how we can find blessing and help and deliverance for the difficulties we face when we are in the home. When we are out of the home, we are not being covered. We are not really where God’s covering is. His covering over women is in the home.

IN THE RECESSES OF THE HOME

I love that the New Testament talks about “keepers at home.” We go back to the Old Testament, and we read that picture of God looking upon the family. He says in Psalm 128:3: “Your wife is like a fruitful vine in the heart of your home.” That’s a modern translation. It’s the true meaning, but the actual Hebrew word is the word yerekah. It literally means, “in the recesses of the home,” which is the heart, the heart of the home.

The true mother is in the heart of the home and her heart is in her home. This is where God sees the mother, in the very recesses, in the heart of the home, in that protected place, raising her children for God.

There will come a time when she has to let them go. In fact, when she is sending them forth to be arrows in this world, to reveal the Image of God, and children who will be walking in truth, and fulfilling all the principles that she has poured into them. That day will come. It comes too soon, actually, far too soon.

I remember, as each one of my children was ready to leave home. I always said, “Oh, but I haven’t had enough time! I haven’t had enough time to put into them all that I wanted to pour into them!” Oh, dear, dear precious mothers, mothering is not just some part-time job. It is your life! There’s never going to be enough time! It’s going to go so quickly.

You’ve got to use every moment to pour into your children God’s ways and His principles, and His lifestyle, and living that lifestyle in your home, so they will grow up to live it in their homes. This is what He wants us to do. Make the most of it. It will go so quickly. And then, OK, they’re out on their own. They’ve only got what you put into them.

Yes, that’s what it talks about, isn’t it, in Proverbs 6. I’m just thinking of that now. Proverbs 6:20. What does it say here? “My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.”

That’s talking there, of putting into them when they’re young, for when they go out, that teaching, that which we have put in them will continue to lead them. It will keep them, even when they’re sleeping. When they’re awake, it will talk with them and remind them of the lifestyle they’re meant to live. This all comes back to the mother in the home.

And what does it continue? “Thy wife is like a fruitful vine in the heart of thy home. Thy children, like olive plants, all around your table.” Breakfast, lunch, and supper, sitting around the table, eating together. When a mother is out in her career, she’s not there at the table with her children. Oh, that is one of the biggest things she’s missing out on. And it totally grieves me.

When I hear of mothers, oh, they may just be doing a part-time job. Oh yes, you're only working part-time. “I just go out in the evenings because my husband is home then.” But ladies, you are missing out on the most important time of the day because I believe the evening meal is perhaps the most important.

It’s that time of the day when you’re not so busy. You’re not rushing to this and that and fathers leaving for work, and you've still got all these things to get accomplished during the day. Evening is time to rest and fellowship. It’s time for you to prepare a meal. That doesn’t happen at the last minute.

Often, you've got to be in the kitchen at four o’clock or at least five o’clock, preparing that meal, preparing that nutritious meal for your family. And then, sitting down together, teaching them how to set a beautiful table, how to sit together at the table, how to have dialog and communication.

And then, of course, that’s all paving the way for the most important part of hearing from God through the Word and praying together. Are you going to miss out on that every evening? That grieves me. No, the mother is meant to be there in the home.

Then we go back to the very, very beginning and we see that when God created the man, He created him before He created the home. It tells us in Genesis that God formed the man, and then He put him in the Garden (Genesis 2:7). But He hadn’t yet created the woman. Oh, no. He had the home ready for her first.

In fact, in that chapter, Genesis 2, we don’t even read about the woman until right down in verse 18! Then it talks about how God is going to create a “helper” for Adam. But he didn’t have her at the beginning. God was getting the home ready. Now He created the man before the home was ready. Not quite sure how he survived. And I’m not sure how it all happened, but I don’t think he left Adam staring into space while He created the first home which was a delightful home, the Garden of Eden.

Eden means “delight.” The first home was a home of delight, the prototype of all homes to come. He created this home. I’m sure He took Adam with him and showed him the principle right at the very beginning of creation that the man is to prepare the home and get it ready for his wife. And then, when the time came when Eve was created and came forth into this world, where did she wake up? She woke up into her home. The home was ready for her, because this was the place where God had planned for her.

Sadly, so many women are deceived about the home today. They think they can just leave their homes and go off in their careers but that is not the truth of the Word of God. Many women too, think much the same thing, really. They really haven’t got the full understanding of their motherhood. Yes, they love their children. Oh, goodness me! Every mother loves her children. Yes! But they don’t love motherhood.

You see, there’s a big difference between loving children and loving motherhood. We can love our children, but we’ll never enter into the total fullness of motherhood if we don’t love motherhood, because motherhood is the ultimate career that God has given to us as mothers.

When He gives us a baby, we enter into motherhood. I know what I’m talking about, because I remember back, back when I first started my motherhood. Well, I loved my babies. I remember when I had my first baby. I didn’t know it was possible to love so intensely. I had never felt so much love in my whole life! Then I had twins. I had three babies in 17 months, and I loved these babies. They were my life.

But I have to confess, I didn’t love motherhood. Oh, I loved my children, but I wasn’t enjoying this motherhood. I thought, “Help! What have I done?” And I wasn’t even going out into a career, but I was, “Oh goodness me! What have I done?” I had up until that time been serving the Lord with my husband.

He had gone out full-time for God when we were engaged. We had been out in the Philippines when we got married, serving the Lord. Now, at this stage, we were back in New Zealand when I had the twins. I thought, “Help! I can no longer serve the Lord! I’m just stuck here in this home, and my husband is still out doing great things for God. And I’m just here with these babies and I’m wasting my life!”

And I cried out to God. God was so good. Little by little, He began to show me, yes, I was in His perfect will! This is how He created me! For this purpose. I was in His perfect will. I was fulfilling the very mandate that He brought me into the world for. I was to embrace these children and mother them and train them for Him and for His kingdom.

And actually, it was the first time in my life, although I’d been brought up in a Christian home, that I embraced my femaleness. I’d never done that before. I always thought, “Oh, wish I’d really been a man. They have a more exciting life.”

But as God began to speak to me and show me, I came to that place for the first time in my life. I said, “Oh God, I thank You for making me a woman, for making me female. You chose to create me female. I embrace with all my heart. I embrace my motherhood. I embrace this role You’ve given to me, to raise these children.”

And as I embraced it, instead of being frustrated, I began to live in the joy of it and the fullness of it. The more I came to understanding of it, and the more I embraced that understanding, the more I was able to walk in the fullness of motherhood, the mandate of a mother being in the home, where this is God’s ultimate plan.

Oh, I know there are mothers who are on their own, even husbands have passed away. They’re on their own. Single mothers, and they’ve got to provide. Some have had to go out to get jobs. God understands. Oh, He understands the mothers who are on their own. God fights for them. The widow, the single mother, God’s heart is for you.

And yet, it’s amazing how even many single mothers and widowed mothers have been able to find a way to work at home. Do something with a webpage or do something where they can do it at home. There are many things that can be done at home. God is able to even work them out.

But I just want to share as we close with some things for those who may be tempted to leave the home. Sometimes we can think, “Oh, we’re not surviving. But maybe I need to go and get a job.” Well, dear ladies, it doesn’t really work. If you trust God, if you trust Him, God will show up, because there are great implications when we leave the home.

I remember reading a quote from a beautiful woman of God, Connie Holmquist, who has now passed away. But she said, “Can you imagine any woman in the Bible leaving their own home, and going out to build up the kingdom of another man or household? No, the virtuous woman puts all she has into building up her own husband’s kingdom.”

Now, there are just one or two things I’d like to mention of what happens when a mother leaves her home.

No. 1. When she leaves her home for another career outside the home, she leaves the sphere God intends for her, the sphere that He planned for her at the very beginning of time.

No. 2. When a mother leaves her home for another career outside the home, she leaves her babies and little children who God has given to her as His love-gift. He doesn’t give them to you to give to anyone else.

No. 3. When a mother leaves her home for another career outside the home, she goes out to make another man wealthy. She serves him, rather than her own husband. She spends finance on cars, gas, clothes, daycare, fast food, and so on.

She can bless her own husband more by being at home with her children, and cooking from scratch, and making everything from scratch. You save so much money by being at home! Oh, you can’t believe how much you can save! Wow! As my husband says, “A husband cannot afford for his wife to go to work outside the home. Too much is at stake.”

No. 4. When a mother leaves her home for another career outside the home, she is no longer fulfilling the biblical pattern God has given in His Word. This may not be modern theology, but it is Bible theology, and it is motherhood theology.

No. 5. When a mother leaves her home for another career outside the home, her children are deprived. No other woman, no matter how caring and affectionate, can take the place of Mother. No one but the mother truly understands the inner needs of her children.

Oh, and it’s unbelievable. You know that today there are many people who raise dogs and so forth to make money. Most dog breeders will not sell their dogs until they’re at least eight weeks. And yet today, mothers will leave babies at six weeks to go out into their career outside the home! Can you even believe that? Even dog breeders will not allow that.

And I was talking to a daycare person recently. She said to me, “I cannot even understand it. Many of the mothers don’t even bother to ask, ‘Well, did my child have a nap today?’ Or how many foods or ask questions about it so that they know when they’re going. They don’t even ask a thing.” Can you believe this? They were made to be mothers.

No. 6 (the last one). When a mother leaves her home for another career outside the home, there is no one at home guarding and guiding the home. We, as mothers, are the watchdogs of our home. Even as our children get older, they may be able to come home from school (because most home mothers are homeschooling) but most working mothers have their children in school. The children can come home and look after themselves. They’re able to do that. But what are they doing? What are they watching? What are they getting into? We are needed in the home as a watchdog. What’s the use of having a watchdog if he doesn’t know how to bark and guard the home? What’s the use of having a mother if she is not there to guard her home?

So, dearest, precious, wonderful ladies, I know that most of you who are listening to me are not deceived. You are in the home. You’re home-workers, home-lovers, home-keepers, oh, home-everything. Praise the Lord! Don’t be ashamed. Never be ashamed of being in the home. Lift up your head and know that you are in the perfect will of God. Share the joy of it with other mothers, so they’ll have such a desire to come home too. Amen.

“Dear Father, we thank You that You have given us our homes to raise our children. They are sacred places that we can fill with Your presence, and Your joy, and the way You want us to live. Help us, Lord God, to create a biblical lifestyle in our homes, a heavenly lifestyle in our homes.

“I pray that You will bless these beautiful homes, loving homes, working homes, making homes, children-raising mothers. Bless them abundantly today. Fill them with joy. Provide miraculously for all their needs. I pray in Jesus’ Name. Amen”.

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

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PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 354: WE MUST NOT BE DECEIVED, Part 1

LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 354: WE MUST NOT BE DECEIVED, Part 1

We come to the last of the seven mandates God gave to His people in Jeremiah 29: DO NOT BE DECEIVED. In what way was the first woman deceived? How do we guard against deception?

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies. I’ve got two messages for you before we begin our session today. I had a call from Allison Hartman. Allison and Daniel are the couple who organize our Above Rubies Family Retreat in Panama City, Florida. She called to say, “Nancy, don’t forget to remind everybody that the April retreat is coming up!”

Yes, in one month, the big April retreat, which we often have up to a thousand coming to this retreat. It’s the most amazing time. It’s hard to describe unless you've been there and experienced it. Just the wonderful fellowship of families. The parents, but also the hundreds of young people who come. It’s such a glorious way for young people to find other godly young people. It’s such an amazing time. Families come from all over the States.

The dates are April 16^th to the 23^rd, and that includes Easter weekend. It’s going to be over the Easter holiday this time, so why not take an Easter break, and bring your family? Go to AboveRubies.org, and you’ll be able to pick up the information, and get in touch with the right people. You’ll need to do it right away. Accommodation is going fast.

And then I had a message from Stephanie who is doing the organization for our Romantic Getaway Couples’ Retreat in Mexico. That’s from June 6^th to the 9^th. Today is actually the last day they’re holding all the rooms for us. After today, you can still get a room, but it will be open to the general public as well. So, get in quickly, today, tomorrow, the next few days. Get in as quickly as you can.

This is going to be such a special time, just for couples. You can come for three days, or you can come for the whole week, whatever time you have. Look into that soon. You can find the information on the Above Rubies website, AboveRubies.org. So, make the most of these wonderful, wonderful times.

We also have another family retreat coming up in eastern Tennessee. That’s going to be the most amazing time. But check out the website for everything.

Today, ladies, I am beginning the very last point in this series we have been doing from Jeremiah 29, talking about the seven things that God, the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of heaven, told Jeremiah to give to the people in Babylon. The tribes of Judah and Benjamin had been taken by King Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon, and they were captives there.

No. 7. DO NOT BE DECEIVED

But God gave them seven things that He wanted them to keep doing, even though they were in captivity. We’ve been talking about these things over the last few weeks. We start the last point today. It’s an interesting point. Let’s read it from verse 8. “For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel.” Remember the Lord of hosts is the God of the armies. “Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.”

Here God is warning them against deception. The interesting thing, ladies, is that He doesn’t say, “Now people, watch out, my dear people. Don’t be deceived by the deceptions and the evils in this Babylonian nation around you.” The people of Israel were used to God’s ways. Even though they weren’t following His ways, they did know His ways, and how God wanted them to live.

This was so foreign. This was a foreign nation who were bowing down to foreign gods and worshipping those foreign gods. But God didn’t say, “Don’t be deceived by these people.” He knew they wouldn’t be deceived. It was so foreign to them. It was something that was so different.

But what did He say? “Don’t be deceived by the prophets that are in the midst of you. That is, your own people. Watch out for what they are saying.” Obviously, there were many prophets there that were prophesying. “Oh, don’t worry, everybody! We’ll soon get back to our beloved land of Israel and get back to Jerusalem.” There were prophets that were prophesying that.

But God had said, “No, you are going to be living there for 70 years. I want you to make life there. I want you to build houses, and plant gardens, and have children. This is My plan for you while you are in Babylon.

But every one of these things that God said to His people there, He says to His people today. And God still comes to us today. It says: “Don’t be deceived by the prophets that are in the midst of you.” Of course, there is the true word of prophecy. But we must listen to know if it is God’s voice. Prophecy must be confirmed. It tells us in Corinthians that the prophets were to judge the prophetic words that came through that they were of God (1 Corinthians 14:29).

So, we still need this warning today. Do not be deceived. Deception is such a subtle thing. Usually when we are deceived, ladies, we don’t even know we’re deceived. That’s what deception is. You are believing something, and you don’t even know you're deceived. That’s why it’s so subtle.

That’s why we have to constantly be in God’s Word. That is the only deterrent against deception, because if we don’t know what God says, well, we will believe what somebody else says, or even what some prophet says. I know, when I am listening to a message, usually I find that when a man of God is speaking God’s truth, somehow it witnesses within me. Your heart is stirred within you.

It’s like the disciples on the way to Emmaus. Jesus came alongside them and talked to them. Their hearts burned within them as He spoke to them of Himself and how He was prophesied in the Scriptures, right from Genesis, right through, that He would come to die and to save His people from their sins. Their hearts burned within them (Luke 24:25-35).

But there are times when you can be listening to someone, and your heart jars a little bit. Have you ever felt like that? You think, “Ooh, I don’t really know about that.” So, you go home, and you check it out. You get out your concordance and you look up every Scripture on that subject to see if what that man is speaking is the truth. Well, sometimes it can be the truth, because you may have been ignorant of that truth.

But sometimes it’s not really according to the Scriptures. Who do you believe? We must believe the Scriptures. We don’t believe just one Scripture, because the truth of what God says about any subject is not one Scripture. It is what God says on that subject from Genesis to Revelation.

That’s why we have to be like the Bereans, who, when Paul preached there in Athens, the Bereans searched the Word of God daily to see if those things were really so (Acts 17:11). They wanted to check out that what Paul was saying was the truth. We all need to be like that, always checking out the truth.

In fact, just the other day, in our family devotions, we are at the moment reading through books of the Bible. We got up to 2 John. I was just amazing how much here John speaks about the truth.

He starts off in 2 John 1:1: “The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth.”

Verse 2: “For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us forever.”

Don’t you love that Scripture? I’m sure he’s speaking about Jesus, who is the truth, but also His Word that is the truth. “For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us.” Oh, we have to have the truth. Not only Christ who is the truth but His Word that is the truth, dwelling in us. “And shall be with us forever.” Isn’t that amazing? It’s not only for this life but for eternity. Truth will be in eternity. We will have truth for the eternal ages.

It goes on, verse 4: “I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth.”

In 3 John, when he was writing to Gaius in verse 4, he says the same thing. In fact, verse 1: “The elder unto the well-beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.”

Then he says in verse 4: “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” That’s a prayer that I’m sure you pray for your children too, that they will walk in the truth.

There’s no greater joy that we can have as parents than to know that our children, yes, while they are young, but not only while they are young but as they grow older, as they get into their teen years, as they get to that age where they leave home to begin life on their own, that the truth is continuing to dwell in them, that they are continuing to walk in the truth.

Yes, go back to 2 John 1:8-9: “Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.” What a powerful Scripture! Wow! That is so amazing, because that says that if we’re abiding in the doctrine (the doctrine of Christ is the truth), if we are abiding in that, well, we have the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

But then it says that if we’re abiding not in the truth, we do not have Christ. We do not have God. It’s as simple as that.

Then it goes on, verse 10: “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine (this truth), receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

Now, back when I was speaking to you on the THEOLOGY OF MOTHERHOOD, I remember speaking to you about all the points about doctrine. Actually, I started off, after great study, with 14 points that God says about doctrine, and what we are to do with the doctrine, which is the truth.

GUARD THE DOCTRINE

But then I found another point. Fifteen points, and then, when I was reading this passage, I found another point! Sixteen points. Actually, I think we’re up to 17 now, because I found another one which is 16, and then this one, I hadn’t noticed. And what does it say? “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house.”

There is another very, very important point about doctrine. This is my 17^th point: GUARD THE DOCTRINE. How could I miss that important point? Guard the doctrine. It is important that we guard the truth and that we do not allow into our house anything that is not the doctrine of truth. In this Scripture, they were talking about people coming into your house. That also applies today. We don’t allow people into our house who are speaking a false doctrine.

It is especially parents who must guard the truth. We dare not let anyone in who would put false doctrine into our children. But we must also guard the other ways it can come in—through books, literature, social media, the internet, and the iPhones. Help! Oh, dear parents, we have to guard every way that false doctrine can come into our homes. Remember, we must not let it into our homes. We must guard the doctrine.

Well, today, that’s like a full-time job, isn’t it? Wow. So many young people today have access to iPhones where they can get anything. I know there are many godly parents who won’t allow their teenagers to have iPhones, and yet, some parents even allow their young children to have iPhones. Many will say, “OK, a flip phone is all you're getting. You’ve got your flip phone. You can always call us. We’re always available. It’s our communication together, but we’re not allowing you that access to all that other stuff that is false, and that is fraud, and that is deception.”

So, they are guarding their children’s minds and hearts. That is so important because of deception, oh, dear precious ladies, when did deception first start? Well, right at the very beginning of time. It is the first thing that happened to the first couple, Adam and Eve. We all know the story, don’t we?

We go back to Genesis three and we see where satan, the devil, came in the form of the serpent. Who did he come to? He didn’t come to the man. He came to the woman. He knew that he’d be able to get through to her more easily than the man. And yes, it worked. Eve was deceived.

Of course, the devil knows how to deceive. He doesn’t make it look evil. Oh, no! He made it look so good! Oh goodness me, and if you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you’ll be like God! Oh goodness me, and what does it say here? Genesis 3:5: and the devil was speaking: “And God knows that in that day when you eat, your eyes will be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good,” oh yes, he made it out to be good.

“And that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired, and to make one wise.” Oh, can you see how cunning he was? And yet, dear ladies, it is how satan tempts us today. He’ll even choose to tempt me that way. He’ll tempt you that way. He won’t ever come with evil. Goodness me! You’d say, “Get out of here! I rebuke you in the Name of Jesus!”

You don’t want evil. You don’t want it in your life. You don’t want it in your home. But when he comes with things that sound so good, when he comes with things that sound so wise, you can be tempted. You can be deceived. And that’s what we have to watch for.

We cannot think, “Oh well, I’m great. I won’t be deceived.” No, unless we are in the Word and know the truth, we can be deceived, because there are many, many things that look good, that look wise. Oh, they just look the very best thing to do! And yet they’re not God’s truth.

We’ve been talking about this. We’ve been talking about the THEOLOGY OF CONCEPTION. What do we believe about that? Well, most of the Christian church today believe that when you start a family, when you have your one or two children, or maybe three, it’s the end. You stop having children because, well, you've got other things to do. You’ve got your career, and you've got to save for them to go to college, and you've got to do this. How can you manage it, to have more children, and there are so many excuses.

And all these excuses sound so good! “Whoo! What about this? I don’t have to have any more sleepless nights! Oh, goodness me, I can just sleep all night. I don’t have to sit up with a baby in the night.” Oh, you can think of all these lovely excuses. They sound so wise, and so good.

But are they the truth? No. That is totally humanistic doctrine that actually comes from the pit of hell. It’s not God’s doctrine. If you’ve been listening to the last two or three podcasts, we’ve been going into the Scriptures to see God’s heart about the subject which is totally the opposite. So, who do we believe? Do we believe that God and the Scripture? Or are we deceived by the things that sound so good and sound so wise!

Then, of course, people even today, even in the church, they make fun of families having lots of children. I’ve heard even pastors make snide remarks. And yet, they’re speaking against the truth of God. They’re very deceived. I think they can be wonderful people, loving God with all their hearts. However, because we love God with all our hearts doesn’t mean that we can’t be deceived. Deception is so subtle.

We go over to 1 Timothy. Let’s go over to 1 Timothy, ladies, because this is where it talks about women being deceived.

1 Timothy 2:13-14: “For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” Here it tells us that the woman was the one who was deceived.

The man was not deceived. The man also partook of the fruit, but he didn’t do it in deception. He did it knowing what he was doing. God held him responsible. What does the Bible say how sin came into the world? Sin came in by one man, Adam (Romans 5:12). It doesn’t mention Eve. Sin came in by the man. God holds the man responsible for bringing sin into the world, but it was the woman who was deceived.

It’s an interesting Scripture here. We often have to go into the Greek to fully understand it. Many commentators and many translations of the Word translate it correctly and give a fuller emphasis on the second word “deceived.” In verse 14, the word “deceived” is mentioned two times. “Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived.” There is a greater emphasis on the second time the word “deceived” is mentioned. In fact, the preposition with which this Greek word is compounded conveys the idea of thoroughness. Therefore, this is how many translations translate the Scripture.

The Way Translation: “It was entirely through Eve being utterly deceived. You see, not just deceived, but utterly deceived, that women have become involved in transgression.”

The New English Translation: “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.”

Weymouth: “Adam was not deceived, but his wife was thoroughly deceived.” All these translations are the understanding, the Greek compounding of that second word.

The CEB says: “She was completely fooled.”

I like the Wuest Translation which says: “Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been completely hoodwinked, has fallen into transgression.”

We see here that the woman had the tendency to that deception. The Scripture tells us here that this is why God gave the place of leadership to the man. Not because the man is squeaky clean. He is the one who brought sin into the world through doing it knowingly, but God knows that just the way He created us, that the man is created more for headship and leadership than the woman because she has this tendency to deception.

We see this not only back in Genesis. We see it in Romans one. I’m sure you're familiar with this Scripture.

Let’s start at Romans 1:26: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.” And then the next verse, 27: “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,” and so on.

But who began the deception first? Once again, the women. Oh, I’m sorry, us women. But it’s interesting too, the word “women” here is a different word that is used. Usually, the most common word for “women” in the New Testament is gyne, which means “woman, wife.”

But there is another word, and it’s only used two times. It’s used here in Romans 1 and another time when Jesus was speaking. It is the word thelus, which comes from the word thelazo, which has a very interesting meaning. Do you want to know what this word means? It means literally “the nipple of a woman’s breast.” It’s the picture of a suckling mother, a woman suckling a babe at the breast.

That’s the word that’s used here in Romans 1, saying that women turned away from their maternal, their womanly functions. When they began to do that, then men began to turn away also, and turned to the opposite thing. But it was women who were first in the deception.

We do have to watch. This is also why I believe that God gives us that covering. Growing up in a home, a daughter has the covering of her parents and of her father. When we get married, we have the covering of our husbands. I am so blessed that I have my husband as a covering, and I have my husband as my leader because I cannot even imagine where we would be if I was in charge!

I think we, as women, this is our fleshly tendency. Our fleshly tendency is that we want to lead! Oh yes, we would lead them, and we would tell them what to do and we would run the roost if we could. But that doesn’t work. If you are doing that in your home, you may not really find that it’s having very good fruit, because how is your husband responding?

It doesn’t really work, because God made the man to lead. He made the man to be the head. He made the man to innately want honor and reverence. This is how a man is created. When he doesn’t have that, when he is told what to do, when he is nagged at, when he is the one who thinks he is just little boy around the place, he rebels.

That’s why there are so many marriages that are ending in divorce today. More than any other time, I think, in the history of the world. Many may not be divorced, but are they really happily married? Because we can only truly be happily, truly happily married, when we are not deceived and when we begin to embrace our role as God created us.

I think that my husband Colin and I would enjoy what I would call a most blissful marriage, a sublimely blissful marriage. But more so in later years because I think back in earlier years, although I was always in love with my husband, I didn’t always know how to truly honor him. And I was very good at telling him what to do and he didn’t really appreciate that at all.

It’s amazing. Often it takes time, and it takes years to learn God’s ways. You think, “Goodness me, but I know better than him! And I know what’s right, and that’s just not right!” We’re indignant about so many things. But we have to learn to shut our mouths and let our husbands lead.

When we do, you can’t believe how much it changes them! They can live in such a joyous life and rest in who God created them to be as the leader and not try to have to fight for it. Some men will fight for it. Other men are wimpy, and they’ll just give up. It might be sort of peaceful, but it won’t be truly blissfully happy because it’s not God’s way.

But anyway, our time has gone by, so I think we’ll just have to have another session to talk a little bit more about this subject. OK, let’s pray.

“Dear Father, I pray that by Your Holy Spirit, You will come to us and show us Your ways. Lord, we’re living in an age of deception all around us, even in the church, even in the midst of this world, as Jeremiah says, God, that ‘you do not be deceived by the prophets who are in the midst of you.’ Dear Father, help us to be women of truth who listen to You, who know Your truth. We ask it in the Name of Jesus. Amen.”

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PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 353: DO WE THINK LIKE GOD THINKS?

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EPISODE 353: DO WE THINK LIKE GOD THINKS?

God’s vision is as big as the stars in the heavens, the dust of the earth, and the sand upon the seashore—all of them too impossible to count! And then we talk about changing the nation by prayer from the heart of your home.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies. We’re together again, and I am finishing off “IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY.” Last week we finished off the 19 different points of the ways God wants us to be fruitful. God uses 19 different Hebrew words to describe His people multiplying.

I don’t know whether there is another subject in the Word of God that uses so many Hebrew words to describe it. It is truly amazing. But we haven’t finished yet. God also used pictures to describe it. We’re going to look at those today.

No. 1. STARS OF THE SKY

God promised that the children of Israel would be like the stars of the heavens, which cannot be numbered for multitude. We’ll read Genesis 15:5: “And He brought [Abraham] forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell (or count) the stars, if thou be able to number them (which he couldn’t) and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be.”

In Genesis 22:17, it says: “That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven.” Now how many times did God give this description? Did He give it three times? Did He give it six times? No, God gave this description 11 times in His Word. I will give you all the Scriptures in the transcript so you can get them.

Even over to the New Testament we read, in Hebrews 11:11-12: “It was by faith that Sarah was able to have a child, though she was barren and was too old. She believed that God would keep His promise, so a whole nation came forth from this one man, who was as good as dead. A nation with so many people, that like the stars in the sky, there is no way to count them.”

No. 2. DUST OF THE EARTH

He describes them as “the dust of the earth,” which is absolutely impossible to count.

Let’s read Genesis 13:16: “And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.” Of course, we know that’s impossible to count. That’s another description that God gave. He gave this four different times in His Word.

No. 3. THE SAND ON THE SEASHORE

We all know it’s impossible to count the grains of sand. Genesis 32:12: “I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.” I will give you the other references. God describes it that way six times in His Word.

No. 4. THE GRASS OF THE EARTH

Job 5:25: “You will have many children. Your descendants will be as plentiful as grass.”

No. 5. THOUSANDS OF MILLIONS

Genesis 24:60: “And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her . . . be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.” The phrase “thousands of millions” speaks of that which cannot be numbered.

I wonder if young brides getting married today would love to have that blessing on their wedding day? Maybe they wouldn’t like to have it. But Rebekah was so blessed to receive that blessing that they put upon her. “Be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed (thy children) possess the gates of those which hate them.”

I would love to have that promise. I long that down the generations our family will continue to bring forth the godly seed, not only little numbers, but great numbers, to fill the earth with His truth, and with His glory.

Some more Scriptures. Numbers 10:35-36: “Then it came about, when the ark set out, that Moses said, ‘Rise up, O Lord, and let your enemies be scattered.’ When it came to rest, he said, ‘Return, O Lord, to the myriad thousands of Israel.’”

Deuteronomy 1:11: “The Lord your God make you a thousand times, so many more as He promised you.” I’ll give other references in the transcript.

No. 6. LIKE A FLOCK

Psalm 107:41: “Yet setteth He the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.” This is how God describes the family that He wants to bring forth. He sees them as little flocks. Now a flock is not really two children, or our 1.9, which is the average number of children in America today for each family. No, that is not a flock.

Of course, a flock is not huge like in New Zealand where I come from, where farmers have literally thousands and thousands of sheep out on the paddocks, as we call them. What do you call them here? The pasture.

But in the Middle East, over in Israel, they l have little flocks. The shepherd will go ahead of his flock. You can see the Bedouin shepherds often walking along through the desert with their little flock behind them. Maybe six, maybe ten, maybe fifteen, maybe whatever. But they’re not thousands and thousands. At least they are a flock. They’re not just one or two. God wants to see our families like a flock.

We see this prophetic word also in Ezekiel 36:37-38: “I will multiply their people like sheep, like the sheep for offering, like the sheep of Jerusalem during her appointed feasts. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

I think it’s speaking specifically there of the heartland of Israel, which is yet to be totally possessed. So much of the heartland is still stones and dirt, waiting to be possessed. There are still more and more Israelis that need to go out to that heartland to farm the land, to build the cities.

These promises are in the Word of God, that the cities will be built. The vineyards will be sown. It will flower and bring forth great fruit out of that stony ground. But it says that they’ll be filled with flocks of people, so there are still more people to come out to this heartland. We need to pray those Scriptures into being.

Let’s read in Daniel 7:9-10, a beautiful description there. It’s speaking of God, the Ancient of Days, “whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head like the pure wool: His throne was like the fiery flame, and His wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him: thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.” There are going to be thousands and thousands and thousands which cannot be numbered.

Revelation 5:11-12: “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.” We can hardly take in those numbers, can we? But that’s God’s heart. God’s heart is not just for a little tiny few. His heart is for a big family.

We read in Hebrews 2:10 of how Jesus came to bring “many sons unto glory.” Here we read this picture in Revelation of the “ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.” These are more of the descriptions God has for the ultimate plan for His people.

NUMBER 6. PRAY FOR YOUR CITY AND YOUR NATION

Now we must go on to our point number six from our passage in Jeremiah 29:7. Let’s read it, shall we? It comes straight after “increase and do not diminish.”

“Seek the peace of the city, whither I have called you to be carried away captive, and pray unto the Lord for it, for in the peace thereof shall you have peace.”

Point No. 6, dear ladies, is to pray. There are quite a few thoughts about this. Well, I know that you've heard me speak to you about prayer so many times. But I have to talk about it again, because this is the point we are up to of the seven points that God wanted His people to do in Babylon.

They are still the same things He wants us to do today, and He says, did you get it ladies? He says that if we pray for our city and our nation, we will have peace. We want peace, don’t we? But we won’t have it without prayer.

Let me encourage you again. We always need to be encouraged. I need to be encouraged. Every one of us needs to be reminded about prayer because it is the easiest thing in the world to give up. Because life is so full, life is busy, life is filled with everything. If we don’t make it a priority in our home, everything else will crowd it out.

That’s why I believe we have to make set times. If you don’t make set times, dear mothers, it won’t happen. We have to make set times for ourselves personally. I have always made it a habit in my life, although there have been seasons, of course, when it hasn’t worked out. I’d been having so many babies and so on in all those days.

It’s always been my precedence to try to begin the day with the Lord. I get up and have my personal time in the Word and in prayer with the Father. Then we have our family devotions. I love our family devotions.

I cannot encourage you enough to make these set times in your homes. Unless you do, they’ll never happen. I find that in our home, I have to make these set times and everything else in our family life will go around them. If I was to try to just fit it in with everything else we’ve got going on, we’d never fit it in! We make that time.

After breakfast, it’s family devotions time where we come together. We hear the Word, we pray, and we worship. What a blessing to pray! We pray mainly for others. I think your personal time is more time to pray, if you have needs, to pray for yourself. But during family devotions we pray for the nation. We pray for Israel. We pray for the persecuted church. We pray for the needs of the world.

Of course, at this time, we’re praying so much for our nation. In the last four years, we prayed so extensively for our nation along with thousands of others across this nation. God answered our prayers. He saved us from going down a communistic, destructive path. If Trump had not won this election, we would already be going down a communist path. We were so blessed to be saved from that. We should never stop thanking God.

But now that Trump has come to that place of presidency, it’s still a fight. There is still a great fight against the enemy. It is a strong and powerful enemy. If you watched that speech that Trump gave the other night to the two houses of Congress, they were all there. It was so sad to see the democratic party, to see their hate for this nation.

There was no heart. There was no compassion, and even when Trump spoke about the good things that he is doing for this nation, there was resistance. When he spoke about people who had lost their children, and different things like that, there was no response. They could not care about anything. All they want is this destructive path.

Trump can do what he can, but really, it’s the prayers of God’s people that will really win the day. I know I’m speaking to people who love the Lord, who I know are praying families. I’m sure most of you have that worship, prayer, and Bible time with your family each day. But if it’s lagging, can I encourage you to keep going? Make it happen. If you've never started, well, just get started. Begin the morning and evening devotions. We do it after breakfast and we do it after our evening meal.

It’s amazing how the devil robs us of the most important things in our lives. I know the devil does not want prayer because prayer is so powerful. Prayer stops the enemy in his tracks. Prayer brings down evil. That’s not the plan of the enemy. If he can get families sidetracked, and today so many things we do for our families—often all that time when you would normally be in the home preparing the meal for the family, ready to sit down together to eat as a family, which is so important, and then to read the Word and pray together. But often so many families are out on the sports field, or still driving home, just grabbing some fast food. Nothing is set up for gathering the family together to pray.

The devil’s laughing. “Yippie! I’ve got them out of that prayer time again!” The more he gets you out of prayer time, the better he likes it. We’ve got to seek to make those prayer times.

Even in our churches, it doesn’t really happen much today. Churches have worship, and they have great preaching and teaching. But how much do they pray? How much time do they set aside for prayer? How many prayer meetings do they have a week?

I think of that Scripture in 1 Timothy 2:1-2: “I exhort therefore that first of all” (the first thing you do when you come together) “supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, for those in leadership, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of our Savior, who would have all men to be saved, and to come into the knowledge of the truth.”

This is why we pray. This is why we are meant to pray, even in our churches. The first thing we do is to spend time praying for our leaders, praying for the nation, that we may have peace and lead this quiet and peaceable life that comes through prayer.

So, ladies, I’d like to exhort you at this time, to encourage you. I’m sure many of you are, but can I ask you, how much are you praying for President Trump, and for his cabinet ministers, and for those who are in authority, and those who are seeking to put away the evil in our nation and to bring it back to righteousness?

And to expose the evil, expose the fraud, to expose all the terrible things that have been going on which need to be exposed and brought to justice. They’re having a hard time doing it because it’s a powerful enemy. But we must pray. It’s the prayers of God’s people that will break through.

Now, can I ask you another question? Do you know the names of the people in Trump’s cabinet? If you don’t know them, how can you pray for them? Can I encourage you to go on the internet and look up Trump’s cabinet ministers? Print them off.

I don’t know whether you have prayer boxes in your home. I couldn’t do without prayer boxes. We have our prayer boxes. We have nine or ten of them on different subjects. We have our prayer box for President Trump and the nation. Now we have all the cabinet ministers in that box so that we are praying for them.

They can do everything they want to do, but without the power of God, without the anointing of God, without the backing of prayers of God’s people, what can they accomplish? We want them to accomplish these good things. We want evil to be eradicated. We want the evil that’s been going on to be exposed and brought to justice. It will only happen through prayer. Can I encourage you? Imagine if every family listening today will begin to pray, morning and evening, for Trump and for these people. Amazing things will happen.

I’m not going to give all of the cabinet to you today, but can I just mention a few? Make sure you're praying for these. You should pray for them all, but of course, pray for J. D. Vance, the vice-president. It’s wonderful to see he is so open in acknowledging the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord, and how he is so bold to speak about his love for the Bible and standing for righteousness. But we need to keep praying for him. We need to pray for the safety of Trump and Vance.

We need to pray for Mike Huckabee. He’s the ambassador to Israel. He used to be the governor of Arkansas and he’s a wonderful evangelical Christian. He loves Israel and it’s amazing that Trump appointed him. He’s the right one for Israel. Pray that God will give him such anointing as he deals with the difficulties over there in Israel that they face constantly.

Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense. He's now over the military, which has, oh, our military is so sad. It’s become so weak and defenseless. Most of the people who are in top positions are gay or transgender. It’s unbelievable. This has to be rooted out. It has to become a true, strong, brave military again. Pray for Pete Hegseth as he seeks to purge out the military.

Pray for Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, which is such a very powerful position on behalf of the president, going to the different countries of the world and seeking to bring peace in those countries. He needs such wisdom and anointing in doing this.

Tom Homan, the border czar. Oh wow, this is a great guy. He’s full of courage and boldness, but he needs such help. He needs God’s help and strategies as he seeks to protect the border which has been overrun, of course, completely. Our land now is filled with millions of murderers and prisoners and all kinds of people and gangs. All those who are illegal, he’s got to get out somehow. So, pray for him.

Kristi Noem was the governor of South Dakota. Now she’s Secretary of Homeland Security, an important position. And, of course, we do have to pray for Elon Musk, don’t we? We need to pray for his salvation.

I think we should also pray for the salvation of Melania, Trump’s wife, and for Usha, JD Vance’s wife. J. D. Vance confesses Jesus as his Lord and Savior, but Usha is a Hindu. Let’s pray. Such a beautiful woman but let’s pray she finds Jesus.

Elon Musk has changed so much, but we need to pray that he finds Jesus and has a true encounter with Him. Pray for him because he is doing a great job as he is investigating all the fraud that’s been happening in the nation. And so many others. You can look them all up. But those are some of the main ones. Get to know who they are. Get a prayer box with their names in it and start praying for them. Teach your children who they are and get them to pray for them.

OK, so you're not only going to pray in your home. What about prayer meetings, where you gather with other people? Are you part of a prayer meeting, praying for the nation? Well, if you're not, if you don’t know of one around you, why not start one yourself? Just start it in your home. Call a couple of other families, and say, “Hey, come and pray with us. Just one night a week. Let’s get together and pray for the nation.”

Oh, it’s a wonderful thing. We have two prayer meetings a week for the nation here on the Hilltop. We have one at our place on Monday night and one at Serene and Sam’s on Wednesday night. They’re such powerful times. We don’t come together to eat. We eat before we come, and we get together. We worship and then we pray.

We get stuck into prayer, and it’s not only adults. The families come, right down to the little ones. And the little babies, and the pregnant mommies. Oh, it’s so beautiful to see these little ones, and then the ones who are just getting a little older. Even the five and six-year-olds. I was looking at my little granddaughter, Solly. She’s just seven. I think she’s seven now. I can’t believe where the time has gone. But oh, to see her with her hands waving, worshipping the Lord, and then being part of the prayer.

These children are part of the prayer meeting. Don’t leave your children at home. We don’t put them to bed because it’s a prayer meeting going on. You let them be part of it. We often have 30, 40, or more at our prayer meetings. Prayer meetings should be filled with people praying. If you don’t know one that’s around, well, start one. Don’t you think that’s a great idea?

And, of course, pray for revival. I do believe that as things continue to happen, and the fraud and the evil, and the hidden things that have been going on will be exposed in our nation, and brought to justice, it’s going to make a greater atmosphere for revival. We need to see a revival in the church, but a revival that also affects society. That’s what I long for.

I can remember, because we do come from New Zealand, that there was a time in New Zealand where we look back. We believe we were living in revival days. It was so incredible; the presence of God was do mighty in our midst. Every week, every Sunday, people would come to the Lord and be baptized. There was hardly a Sunday when people weren’t getting saved and baptized. During the week, they were coming to the Lord and being baptized.

It was an incredible time. And yet, even though that was wonderful, I have never yet seen a revival that’s really affected society. This is what I pray for. I was just reading to Colin the other night. I was reading him the account of the Welsh revival that happened with Evan Roberts in Wales.

There have been so many glorious revivals throughout the world. Of course, there was the Hebrides revival in the West Islands of Scotland. A couple of years ago, Colin and I, with others, went out to the Isle of Lewis and went into the very church where that revival started. That was an amazing experience. It was such an incredible revival where the presence of God came down and was felt by everyone.

But then I was reading to him about the Welsh revival because Colin and I were also very blessed. One time when we were in Wales, we were not far from that church where that revival began. We had the privilege of going into that very church, sitting on the very seat where Evan Roberts was and where the power of God came upon him and this revival began. There was something about being in a place where mighty revivals happened.

But I was reading to him how it not only affected the church. Evan Roberts believed for 100,000 souls to be saved. Within a year, they say there were 150,000 souls saved and that was a very conservative number. That was in a time when they didn’t have the populations they have today.

It so affected society that the pubs were closed! There was nobody in the pubs, and magistrates went to work and there were no cases for them to deal with. Can you imagine that? There was not a case for them to deal with! The whole of society was converted to the Lord. How amazing!

If that happened there, it could happen again. In fact, what happened on the day of Pentecost? Three thousand souls came to the Lord in a day. The Bible talks about the early and the latter rains, and how in Israel the early rain came, but then there was another rain, which was a bigger rain. The Bible talks about the early and the latter rain spiritually, how there is a greater spiritual harvest to come, even greater than in the early church (James 5:7). That’s what I am praying for, as we pray at home, and as we pray at our prayer meetings.

Oh, let’s all pray for a mighty, mighty revival. I’m just thinking, maybe I’m going overtime, but oh, I was really a little bit naughty. When I was courting Colin, I was so longing to be married. I remember praying, “Lord God, I do long for Your coming, but please, would You mind just waiting until I get married?” Anyway, the Lord answered my prayer.

But then, I was a little bit naughty again, and I wanted to have my first baby. I said, “Lord God, oh, I am looking for Your coming” because the Bible says that He’s coming for those who look for Him. And I do desire His coming. I desire the eternal world. But I said, “Lord, could I just have my first baby?” And He answered my prayer again.

Oh, and then came the time when it was time for grandchildren. I said “Oh Lord, here I am. I have had all these children and now it’s time for grandchildren. Can I just see my first grandbaby?” Well, I’ve got 50 grandchildren now and over 30 great-grandchildren! But now I’m saying to the Lord, “Oh God, I’m ready for Your coming, but if You would just let me, I would love to see a mighty world-wide revival that affects society. How I long to see that!” Well, I hope God answers my prayer!

Time to pray.

“Lord God, we thank You that You have given prayer into our hands. Lord, You don’t need us, and you don’t even need our prayers. And yet You have ordained that You work according to our prayers. And prayer, Lord. You long for us to come into Your presence. You want us to ask You for the things that You’ve promised.

“Lord, in Your Word, You give the promises. At the end of Ezekiel 36, God promises so many promises to Israel, and then He says, “I want you to ask Me for these things.” Lord, help us to be faithful prayers in our homes and together with the saints. We ask it in the Name of Jesus. Amen.”

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FURTHER SCRIPTURES:

1. THE STARS OF THE HEAVENS

Read Genesis 15:5; 26:4; Exodus 32:13; Deuteronomy 1:10; 10:22; 28:62; 1 Chronicles 27:23; Nehemiah 9:23; and Jeremiah 33:22.

1. THE DUST OF THE EARTH

Read also Genesis 28:14; Numbers 23;10; and 2 Chronicles 1:9.

2. THE SAND UPON THE SEASHORE

Read also Genesis 22:17; Isaiah 48:18, 19; Jeremiah 32:22; Hosea 1:10; and Hebrews 11:12. We read this description 6 times.

3. THE GRASS OF THE EARTH

Job 5:25 (NLT): “You will have many children; your descendants will be as Read also Ezekiel 16:7.

4. THOUSANDS OF MILLIONS

Hosea 1:10: “Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which CANNOT BE MEASURED NOR NUMBERRED.”

Deuteronomy 1:11: “The LORD your God make you A THOUSAND TIMES SO MANY MORE as he hath promised you.”

PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 352: IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY! Part 2

LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 352: IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY! Part 2

Can you imagine God using 19 different Hebrew words to describe how He wants us to multiply? It’s pretty amazing.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, wonderful, amazing mothers! It’s you mothers who are doing the most powerful job in the whole nation. You are determining the destiny of this nation as you raise your wonderful children, your sons and daughters for God. There is nothing, there is nothing more important that you could ever be doing than raising godly children. God sees this, and He is pleased, and guess what? You are in the very perfect will of God.

When God gives you a little baby, when He gives you children, He gives them to you to raise for Him on His behalf. He doesn’t give them to you to give to somebody else. He gives them to you, and He gives you this wonderful, powerful responsibility, and yes, also this wonderful joy and delight of raising God’s children to impact the world. You have a world-changing career. There is no other career in the world that can get anywhere near it. Be encouraged today, dear mothers!

We are continuing today our podcast on the subject of “IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY.” This is part two. We are looking into the Scriptures of how God wants us to be fruitful. We know that in the very beginning, the very first command God gave was to be “fruitful.” We read that and we don’t think much about it.

But when we go into the Scriptures and we see that the descriptions that God gives of how He wants us to be fruitful, it really, truly, does blow your brains away! It is amazing! Because I found 18 different Hebrew words to describe this commandment. But now, guess what, ladies? Today I found another one! I can’t believe it. So now I’ve got 19 points. I’m always finding more in the Scripture. Even though I think I have done the most thorough study, it’s amazing how many times I’ll find more.

So, let’s continue, shall we? We’re up to . . .

No. 8. NUMEROUSLY

Let’s read Exodus 1:7: “The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty. And the land was filled with them.” This is giving a description of the Israelites in Egypt and how they were fruitful and multiplied.

I don’t know whether you noticed, ladies, but in this one Scripture, just this one Scripture, there are six Hebrew words (adverbs or adjectives) to describe how they were fruitful. Let’s go over it again. “The children of Israel were fruitful (parah) and increased abundantly (sharats) and multiplied (rabah) and waxed mighty (atsam, that’s a new one we’ve got for this point), exceeding (meod) and the land was filled (male) with them. There are six Hebrew words in only one Scripture, trying to describe it. It is amazing.

Our new word for this point is atsam. I called it numerously because it means “to be numerous, to be strong, to be mighty.”

Let’s go over to Exodus 1:20: “The people multiplied and waxed very mighty (atsam).”

Psalm 105:24: “And He increased His people greatly and made them stronger (atsam) than their enemies.”

All right, let’s go to . . .

No. 9. GREATLY

And we see this word in Deuteronomy 26:5: “A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.” It’s talking about Abraham, and it gives three descriptions here to describe how he multiplied, even though he only had one son. Well, he did have more but he had the promised son, Isaac. Then, later, after Sarah had passed away, he married Keturah, and he had six more children with her.

But we see three adjectives, great, mighty, populous. The word “great” is another Hebrew word, gadol, and it means “to be large in number, magnitude, intensity, and extent.”

Some other Scriptures, Genesis 12:2: “And I will make of thee a great nation.”

Genesis 18:18: “Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.”

No. 10. MIGHTILY

The Hebrew word here is atsum. It means “mighty, vast, numerous, strong in number, countless.” That’s the second adjective in Deuteronomy 26:5, where Abraham became a great and mighty nation.

We read this also in Genesis 18:18: “Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great (that the word gadol) and now this word, atsum, and mighty nation. And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.” So many of the Scriptures use more than one Hebrew word. Read also Exodus 1:9 and Micah 4:7).

No. 11. POPULOUSLY and ABOUNDINGLY

That’s the same Scripture, Deuteronomy 26:5 where “he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.” Populous in the Hebrew is rab, meaning “much, many, abounding, more numerous than, greater than, strong.”

We see it also in Exodus 1:9: “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more (rab)and mightier than we are.” Did you know that that is God’s plan for His people? He wants them to be more and mightier than the heathen. That’s what happened in Egypt. The children of Israel were in Egypt, but they became more and mightier than the Egyptians! That’s what God wants His people to be. He wants them to fill the land as the Israelites did in Egypt.

It says: “And the land was filled with them.” God wants the land filled with His people, sharing and revealing His image, His attributes, who God is. He wants His image revealed in the world because we are made in the image of God. He wants His image to be revealed. We are image-bearers of God.

When God spoke that first commandment in Genesis, and said: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth,” He didn’t stop. That was actually only half the sentence. It goes on to say: “And also to take dominion.” That is what God wants His people to do, to take dominion.

God doesn’t want evil to take dominion. He wants righteousness to take dominion.

He wants the land to be filled with righteousness and goodness and mercy, and His salvation, and all that He is.

This is the plan. This is God’s heart, and this happens when we multiply, because it is another fact that the people, no matter whether they’re, Christian, non-Christian, or whoever they are. But if they fulfill God’s principle of being fruitful and multiplying, they will take dominion.

We see this happening in the UK where they have opened their doors, their gates of their land to all these Islamic people. Over the last number of years, more and more and more have been coming in. Now they are overtaking the land. They’re taking dominion. Actually, that’s what they have planned to do.

In fact, I don’t know whether any of you would remember the name of David Pawson, a great man of God. He’s passed away now. If you're younger, you most probably don’t know his name. If you're older, you most probably do. Many, many years ago, God woke David Pawson up and gave him this prophetic word that the UK was going to become an Islamic nation. It absolutely terrified him. He could not believe it. He didn’t know if what he was hearing was from God or not, because it was so unbelievable.

He brought it before many, many other men of God and pastors, to check it out. Did they believe it was right? They all were aware that it was a word from God. Unless the UK stopped what they were doing, this is what would happen. Now we’re seeing, before our very eyes, just what is happening. They’re completely taking over because they multiply. They don’t limit their families and the more they multiply, the more they will take dominion. Read also Exodus 5:5 and 2 Chronicles 1:9.

No. 12. POWERFULLY

This is the Hebrew word gadal. It’s different from gadol. Some of the words are similar, but they are different Hebrew words.

We see this word in Genesis 48:19: “I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.”

No. 13. GROWINGLY

I’ve had to make up some English words to keep up with all these Hebrew words! There are so many Hebrew words. I’m finding it hard to find enough English words to describe them. This Hebrew word is dagah. It means “to increase, to multiply.”

Genesis 48:16: “The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them.” This is Jacob blessing the children of Israel, his children, his twelve sons. “Let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.” The word “grow” there is dagah. It means “to increase and multiply.”

No. 14. INCREASINGLY

The Hebrew word is paras. It means “to break forth, break out, to increase.”

Genesis 28:14: “And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad (that’s the word paras, spread abroad, to break forth, to increase) to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” That was God’s promise to the Israelite people.

Exodus 1:12: “But the more they afflicted them . . .” This was when they were in Egypt, and because they had grown more and mightier than the Egyptians, the Pharoah was intimidated. That’s why he put hard tasks and persecution upon the Israelites. But it says: “The more they afflicted them” What’s happening? Did they think, “Oh, no! Here we are. We’ve got to build these cities for Pharoah. We’re getting beaten and whipped. They’re not giving us enough food. There’s terrible persecution. This terrible life, and we can’t have any more children in this kind of lifestyle! We’ve got to stop!”

But no, the Word says: “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.” That word is “to break forth and increase.” Wow, that’s a real challenge, isn’t it? Today, even in the little excuse, “Oh, I don’t think that we could really afford another baby,” people will stop having children.

“Oh, I don’t think we would ever have enough money to send our children to college, so we’d better not have any more!”

“Oh, but my mother, and mother-in-law, and everyone is telling me to stop. Oh, I think we’d better stop having more children. We can’t have any more than two!” Then others say, “Oh, well, it would be too hard on my body. I don’t think I can have any more children.” They don’t realize that we, as women, were created for the very purpose of having children.

But we have all these excuses that come up. Whereas, back in Exodus, wow, let’s read what was really happening. Exodus 1:11: “Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens . . . And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.” But verse 12: “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.”

1 Chronicles 4:38: “These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.” That’s that word paras. Actually, this reminds me of this whole passage that we are talking about where I started this series in Jeremiah 29, which was the word of the Lord that Jeremiah gave to the people of Judah when they were taken to Babylon.

They were captives in Babylon, but God came to them. He said, “This is what I want you to do while you're there.” What He told them was the very things He had told this in the very beginning. We’ve been talking about them. There were seven things. Number one, they were to build houses. Number two, dwell in them. Number three, to plant gardens. Number four, to eat the fruit of them.

Now we are at number five, TO INCREASE. I’ll read you that Scripture. It’s Jeremiah 29:6: “Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.” Just as in Egypt, when they were under this hard bondage and rigor, they continued to multiply. God said, “Even while you are in Babylon, I don’t want you to diminish. Keep on increasing and multiplying.”

No. 15. FULLNESSLY

Well, I am really running out of English words, but we’re finding a new one to describe these Hebrew words. This time its melo, and it means “fullness, that which fills, a mass, a multitude.”

Genesis 48:19: “Jacob said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great [gadal] but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude [melo] of nations.”

Here’s another new Hebrew word. We’re up to the fifteenth Hebrew word. Can you believe how many different words God has to describe multiplying and filling the land? That’s how much it is on the heart of God. This is why I’m calling this session, “IT WILL BLOW YOUR BAINS AWAY.”

Ladies, we read the Bible. Yet, I don’t think we really read it! We don’t really know what it’s saying. Here I’ve just given you all these different words. It takes more than one English word to describe each one, because it’s so big, and so vast. Each one is very similar, but then, a slightly different meaning. God has all these different words.

It’s the same word that’s used in Isaiah 6:3: “The whole earth is full of His glory.” Yes, the whole earth is filled with the glory of God’s creation, but God’s greatest creation is man, who He created in His image. God wants His greatest creation, that which He created in His image, to fill the earth. He wants it filled with His people, because they are His glory, far greater than the physical creation of the world.

No. 16. INNUMERABLY

It’s the word mana, but it’s not the word manna that God gave to His people to feed them in the wilderness. That’s a different Hebrew word and we spell that with two “n’s.” This is the Hebrew word mana, and it means “to count, to number.”

Genesis 13:16: “And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.” Here God is describing that He wants His people to be multiplying in numbers, so much so that you can’t really count them. Like the dust of the earth, you can’t count the dust of the earth.

1 Kings 3:8: “And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people.” This is Solomon praying. “Which Thou hast chosen, a great people that cannot be numbered for multitude.”

No. 17. COUNTLESSLY

Here’s another word that is just too much to count. The word in the Hebrew is saphar (pronounced sa-fare) and it means “to number, to take a count of.” It’s often used for a scribe writing down things.

Let’s see where they used this word. Genesis 15:5: “And He brought [Abraham] forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell (saphar) count the stars if thou be able to number them: and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be.” As Abraham looked up into the starry sky, and he was out there in the desert where he could see the stars so clearly. Oh, we can see the stars out where we live here in the county, but we have houses around us, and so on. I can imagine what it must have been like out in that desert and how the stars would have been so clear.

Often people come to our home, and we have them for a meal. Then it’s time to go and we go down the stairs with them to wave goodbye to them. Often, it's a dark night and they come out of the door, and they say, “Wow! The stars are so glorious!” They often live in the city, and they just don’t get to see the stars like we see them out here.

But Abraham would have seen them even more greatly. As he looked up to the stars, God said to him: “Abraham, so shall your seed be.” And the next Scripture says: “And Abraham believed God.” He believed. At that time, he didn’t even have one son although God had promised him a son.

Often, when I read that Scripture, for many, many years I somehow thought that Abraham was believing God for his one son. But I was wrong. I wasn’t reading the Scripture correctly. God told Abraham to look at the stars which he couldn’t even count. He said, “You can’t even number them, Abraham, but that’s what I’m going to make your seed.” And he believed God for a multitude to come forth from his loins. What great faith that he had!

Genesis 16:10: “The angel of the Lord said unto her (that was Hagar) I will multiply thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered [saphar] for multitude.” Although the greatest promises were for Isaac, God did not leave Ishmael out. He received the promise too.

Genesis 32:12: “I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”

Jeremiah 33:22: “As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant.”

Hosea 1:10: “Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered.”

I’ll give you one more: 1 Kings 3:8. Once again, this is Solomon praying. “Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen; a great people that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.”

Wow! Now we’re up to . . .

No. 18: ADDINGLY

I thought that was all we had. This one is yasaph. It means “to add, to increase, to do it again, to do it more.”

Genesis 38:5: “And she yet again conceived, and bare a son.”

Deuteronomy 1:11: “The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more [yasaph] as you are, and bless you as He hath promised you.”

Psalm 115:14: “The Lord shall increase you more and more (yasaph) you and your children.”

A GENERATIONAL VISION

Wow! That’s a great promise. Do you want to take hold of that promise, dear mothers? Not just for you. You see, this is a vision. This is not only talking about your current family, and the children God has given you. Yes, it is talking about the children God wants to give you, but it’s more than that. It's their children, and their children again, and down the generations.

This is a vision that we must have, not only for ourselves, but we must pass it onto our children. They have got to get the vision. It saddens me to see families, and many times, they’ve opened their hearts to embrace the children God wants to give them. They have all these beautiful children, but they grow up. They get married, and they limit their families. They’re not challenged by the vision.

This is a family vision. This is not only for now but for the generations to come. Take this Scripture: “The Lord shall increase you more and more; you and your children.” Do you have a vision for your children to bring forth children? Oh, I do. I long for my children to bring forth children. And now, I long to see my grandchildren who are getting married to bring forth children. Oh, that’s the greatest joy of my heart.

IT'S A PROACTIVE VISION

That’s what it was talking about in Jeremiah 29:2, where it says that: “You are to take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may increase and not diminish.” So, we see the vision there. It’s a very proactive vision. It’s not, “Oh, well, if it happens, that will be fine.” No! It’s a proactive vision.

We should take hold of a promise like this and claim it for our family. “The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.”

Isaiah 26:15: “Thou hast increased the nation, oh Lord. Thou hast increased the nation. Thou art glorified.” The word “increased” is yasaph. Do you notice that it says: “The Lord has increased the nation. He is glorified.” God is glorified when the nation is increased, especially God’s people.

No. 19. NUMBERLESSLY

Now, I’ve got to give you the number 19, and I only discovered this one today. It’s found in Numbers 23:10: “Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!”

This was part of the prophesy of Balaam. Do you remember the story of how Balek, the king of Moab, hired Balaam to come and curse the children of Israel? Because Balek looked out upon the children of Israel, and he saw that they were so vast and so numerous. They were a threat to him, and he was terrified of them. He wanted Balaam to come and curse them.

So, Balaam came along, and you remember the story of how even the donkey tried to stop him. Even the donkey spoke to him. That was quite a miraculous thing. But every time Balaam began to speak words of cursing over the children of Israel, instead God poured forth out of his mouth great blessings! Oh, blessing after blessing after blessing!

It wasn’t just one. It was about three different prophecies, maybe four. I know it was at least three that he gave over the children of Israel. They were all powerful, oh, incredible glorious prophetic words. This one is saying: “Who can count the dust of Jacob? Who can number even the fourth part of Israel?” The word “number” there is the word mispah, and it means “innumerable.” So, there we have another one, so I’ll have to have an English word for that. I’ll call it “innumerably.” But I’ve already got “innumerably” so what’s say we call it “NUMBERLESSLY.” Read also other Scriptures where this word is used:1 Chronicles 22:4, 16; 2 Chronicles 12:3; Job 5:9; 9:10; 25:3; Psalm 147:5; Isaiah 40:26; Hosea 1:10; and Joel 1:6.

So, there we are. We found 19 different Hebrew words just to describe how God wants us to be fruitful and multiply. Can you believe it, ladies? Does it blow your brains away? Wow! We really have to begin to think like God thinks, don’t we? I love that Scripture in Isaiah 55:8-9: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

Oh, dear ladies, and dear me! Help! We’ve got to get our very lowly thoughts up to God’s higher thoughts. One of the biggest things in life is to begin to think like God thinks. To stop thinking our puny thinking which is so puny and shallow and to get up to God’s thinking, which is so much higher.

The only way we do this is knowing His truth, knowing what He says, knowing His ways, knowing His mind. We find this as we read it in the Word. When we discover it, we’ve got to somehow get our minds around it and begin to think like He thinks! Yes, and so, we’ll end on that prophetic word again.

I love the Scripture: “Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like His.” Balaam is prophesying from the Word of the Lord. Even though he meant to be cursing Israel, instead he says, “Oh, I want my whole end to be like Israel! And all the blessings God has for them, and all the blessings that have come out of my mouth for them.” Amen.

All right, ladies. That’s it for today but there’s more next week. I haven’t finished yet.

“Dear Father, we come to You today in the Name of Jesus. I pray for every wife, every mother, every daughter, and whoever else is listening. Lord God, bless them. I pray that You will lift our puny minds up, Lord, up to Your thinking, Your way of thinking, to how You think, Lord. Let us be those who think Bible thinking, rather than our own puny thoughts.

“Oh, Father, I pray for any mothers who are listening who are with child today, and the baby is growing in their womb. I pray for them, that You will bless them. I pray, Lord, that You will protect this little baby, and, Lord, that these little ones growing in the womb will grow to full term. And that You will give them the blessing of a safe and natural birth, and You will bless these babies, and bring them forth to be filled with Your glory and Your knowledge, and that they will be true image-bearers in this world. We ask it in the Name of Jesus. Amen.”

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EPISODE 351: IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY!

We talk about "the time of life." What is it? Then we begin our new study called IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY. God's vision FAR EXCEEDS our puny mind and understanding.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Continuing our study of THE THEOLOGY OF CONCEPTION, I want to look today at Genesis 18, the most beautiful story of when God came to speak to Abraham and Sarah. Remember, He came as three men. Whether it was three angels, or the Godhead, we don’t know for sure. But they came to meet Abraham and Sarah at their tent and to give a specific message, actually a very specific message to Sarah, who was in the tent. She didn’t even come out of the tent. But God spoke to her even in the tent.

Let’s read it here. Genesis 18:10: “And He said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.” We know that Sarah laughed in herself, because she couldn’t believe that being old as she was, that she could ever conceive.

Verse 13: “And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Is anything too hard for the LORD?” Nothing is too hard for God. That word “hard” and also “is” are actually very interesting. Both those little words that you take no notice of in this Scripture are actually the Hebrew word pala.

Pala, oh goodness me! Pala is one of the most wonderful words in the Old Testament. This word means, this is the amazing thing. When you look up a Hebrew word, you will usually find more than one word to describe the English word because there’s not enough English words to describe it.

In fact, we, in our inability, we can never fathom the fullness of this Hebrew language in the Bible, because you take a word, but every letter of that word has a meaning. Then every letter has a number which also has a meaning. We only read on the surface. We don’t read all the revelation in every word.

It’s like my brother said to me when I was down in New Zealand just before Christmas. He is in the last stages of Parkinson’s. Much of his time is spent in bed. He was sharing with me how he just loves to meditate and contemplate the Word while he’s in bed and how he loves the Word of God. He said to me, “You know, Nancy, I believe that we’ll have the Word even in eternity, because Jesus says: ‘Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away,’ and that we will come into greater revelations of things in His Word that we could never even understand here on this earth.”

But this word pala, which is translated “Is anything too hard?” It means “marvelous, wonderful, surpassing, extraordinary, miraculous, astonishing, beyond the bounds of human power or expression.” That’s the full meaning of that word.

So, God is saying, “Goodness, what’s giving you a baby when you’re 90 years old, and Abraham’s 100? It’s nothing to Me! Oh, goodness me! I work in miracles that are astonishing and miraculous and extraordinary.” He says: “Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life.” He repeated that a second time: “according to the time of life.”

It was such a miracle for Sarah to conceive at her age. She was past menopause. She was no longer able to conceive in the flesh. But I believe that the miracle that God gave to Sarah was that He brought back to her again her cycle so that she began to cycle again each month.

Of course, in a woman’s cycle in those childbearing years, from when she begins to cycle until she reaches menopause, the average time of a woman reaching menopause is about 50 years of age, although many are infertile before then. The average age of infertility today in this country is about 45 years of age. But to women who will conceive later, some will conceive when they’re 50 or even above that which is miraculous. But some will become infertile, even before that.

But it’s in this time, this season of childbearing and having our cycles (and before we go on, to talk more about this . . . this time in our lives, ladies, is only a short time). Sometimes I think mothers think, “Oh, this is my cycle for the whole of my life, and I’ll be having babies forever, and I’ll end up with 30 children!” Ridiculous nonsense! No, that is not true.

Usually women who trust the Lord to receive from the Father the children He wants for them, usually it’s only an average of six, eight, ten, twelve or so children. You may meet some mothers with more children that that, but it’s not huge numbers.

Really, when we think about it, our cycle is not for long. When I think of, goodness, since I went through menopause, I have been a woman post-menopause for well over 30 years of my life! Wow! That’s a long time!

So, back to Sarah. I believe God restored her cycle, which is a beautiful thing. In her cycle, there is “the time of life.” Every month there is a time of life, the time of ovulation. It’s the only time you can conceive, in that time of life.

During that time, God came and visited Sarah, and she conceived. In fact, if we go over to Genesis 21:1, it says here: “And the Lord visited Sarah, as He had said.” “As He had said”. What does He say? “I will return unto thee according to the time of life. And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age.”

That’s another beautiful word, isn’t it? God visited Sarah. When did He visit her? During the time of life. That’s when she could conceive. Isn’t it an amazing thing? What a privilege women have to receive a visitation of God. Wow! I hear people say, “Wow, I’d love to be visited by God and have an experience with God.” Well, every time you conceive, you've been visited by God. Because it’s only God Who can give conception.

We read the same thing about Hannah. Remember God, after great prayer and intercession, He gave her Samuel? And then she dedicated him to the Lord and took him up to the temple. But God saw her sacrifice, and the Bible says that “He visited” (that same word again), He visited Hannah five more times, and He gave her five more children (1 Samuel 2:21).

We’re back to this time of life. Wow! It’s a very special time you have every month. But once again, it also has serious consequences, because in this time of life, when God wants to come and visit a woman, He may not come every month. My, there are some mothers who are desperate for children. They’ve been waiting for years for children and maybe they only end up with one or two. It’s not how many children you have. It’s just being open to the visitation of God, when He plans to visit you in those times of life. He doesn’t visit every cycle. No. But God does it in His perfect timing.

When we say “no,” and some women, during that time of life, they make it a time of stopping, the time of death instead. They say, “No, God, I don’t want You to visit me! Help! No, I’m doing everything in my power to stop Your visitation!” This is what we’re really doing. We’re stopping a visitation of God. God’s way is the time of life, not the time of stopping life.

That brings us to contraception again. All contraception is “contra” to embracing a life. It’s not God’s plan. The sad thing is that many contraceptives today, or most of them, can be even abortifacient. They are more than contraception, such as the pill and all its associates, all its brothers and sisters and cousins. They keep bringing out new ways of stopping life.

The basic thing of the pill actually has three mechanisms to hinder the baby being conceived. It attempts to suppress ovulation. If that’s successful, of course, there will not be conception. That’s contraception. Secondly, it thickens the woman’s cervical mucus, which stops the sperm from getting up into the reproductive tract. That is also contraception. Those things can stop life but they’re not abortifacient.

But they’re not always successful. That doesn’t always work. If manufacturing companies are going to be able to sell the pill, they’ve got to make it work. So, they do have another mechanism, which is usually fool proof. If the first two do not work, it also causes changes in the lining of the womb so that it becomes a hostile environment.

If there is conception, if conception has broken through the first two ways of trying to suppress it, if there is conception, now there’s a new life. But what is the next thing after conception? It is implantation. That happens six to seven days or so after conception. That’s when this newly conceived life, with all the DNA of a person, that DNA that will be in them when they’re 80-plus years of age, that little life comes to implant in the uterus, in the lining of the womb, to grow and feed, and begin to develop.

But if this little new life comes to implant, and because of the change in the lining of the womb which has now become shriveled, the new life tries here and there and yet there’s nowhere for it to implant. What happens? This newly conceived baby, this zera, which is a life, a person, dies. It dies in the womb. Abortifacient.

This doesn’t happen all the time. The trouble is, with these abortifacient methods, the pill and all the ones that go with it that they keep inventing, the actual breakthrough conception, may only happen one or two percent of the time. Or it could happen one hundred percent. We don’t know. Therefore, no Bible-believing person can take the pill, knowing that there could be a death in her womb of her own flesh and blood, the child ordained by God.

Yet it is so sad that the majority are on the pill today. You can talk to Christian couples. I have talked to them. “Oh, you're getting married, and you're looking forward to having children?” “Well, no. We’re going to wait. We want to make sure we’ve got everything we need before we think about having children. We want time to get to know one another.”

I truly get sick of hearing that. No, that is not God’s plan. You’ll get to know one another just as well having a baby, as not having a baby. You do not have to stop having a baby so you can get to know one another. That’s not God’s plan for marriage.

But most of them will say, “Oh, we want to wait.” I will gently say, “So, what are you doing to stop babies?” Because you have to do something. They will say, “Well, of course, we’re on the pill!”

“Oh. Do you know how it works?”

“No, no. Everybody’s on the pill, aren’t they?”

Most people don’t know. They don’t know that every time they take it, there is an opportunity for death to take place. We, as God’s people, we must know the truth and walk by the truth. Amen? We dare not be guilty of one of those most important ten commandments; “Thou shalt not kill.” Amen.

Well, now I want to move on to something that’s all part of this subject. It’s all part of it. But I am calling it, “IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY,” because actually I think it WILL blow your brains away! I want to now go into the Word of God to see how He wants us to be fruitful.

We all know that first command that God gave in the Bible: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.” I think everybody knows that command, and yet, isn’t it amazing that the majority of Christians don’t take any notice of it today? When you think about it ladies, how much do we truly fear God? How much do we truly believe His Word?

The very first command, the very first word He spoke into the ears of man, if we can think, “Oh, well, I don’t have to take notice of it,” we’re playing God. We’re saying, “I’m God. I’ll do what I want, thank you!” Yet these were the very first words.

But, oh goodness me! That’s not the part that blows your brains away. Some time back, I did a check of all the Scriptures in the Word of God. Now you know how I love to find out everything. If I’m doing a study on any subject in the Word, I will go and find, not only every Scripture, but every Hebrew word on that subject so I can truly feel God’s heart and know what He’s saying.

Well, I found 18 different Hebrew words about the way God want us to be fruitful. He doesn’t want us to only be fruitful, but He gives us 18 different adjectives or adverbs to describe how He wants us to do it. I’m going to share them with you, because we really should know what God says, don’t you think?

All right. Now the trouble I had, ladies, was trying to get English words to coincide with 18 Hebrew words, because I don’t know. God has more words in the Hebrew language than we have in our English language. But let’s get started, shall we? I will give you just a few Scriptures on each one, and if there’s a lot of them, sometimes there’s a load of them, I’ll pop them in the transcript for you to look at further if you would like to do that.

No. FRUITFULLY

Well, of course, we know that: “Be fruitful.” That was the very first word God said. The Hebrew word is parah, which means “to be fruitful, to increase.” That is the foundation, but it wasn’t only fruitful.

No. 2. MULTIPLYINGLY

That was the next thing. “Be fruitful and multiply.” The Hebrew word is rabah, or ravah. You can use either. It means “to be many, to be abundant, to increase greatly and exceedingly, to enlarge.”

Just one or two more Scriptures: Genesis 22:17: “And blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying (rabah) I will multiply (rabah) thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies.” You notice that it’s two times in that one Scripture, that word rabah.

Then it goes on to say: “Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.” Thy seed, thy zera, coming from the sperm. But sperms can’t possess the gates of enemies. No, sperms grow into people.

Genesis 16:10: “I will multiply (rabah) thy seed exceedingly (rabah), that it shall not be numbered for multitude.” Once again, the word rabah is pretty amazing, meaning “to be many, abundant, increase greatly and exceedingly, enlarge.” Whoo! That’s a big enough meaning. But then it says it two times, again!

We can just read these Scriptures and just gloss over them, or we can begin to read here how God thinks, and how He wants us to increase. God’s plan is for His people to multiply and fill the land with His glory, with His image, with His truth, with His salvation, with everything that He is.

God doesn’t want evil to fill the land. No! He wants His people to fill the land and righteousness to fill the land. How does righteousness fill the land? How does truth fill the nation? It happens through people! God’s heart and His plan is always for His people to be the ones who are bringing everything into subjection and dominion.

When we diminish, we become weaker;

When we multiply, we become stronger!

That’s why, when He said those first words, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue and take dominion,” He didn’t finish at “fill the earth.” No, He kept speaking and saying, “Subdue and take dominion.” How do we take dominion? By multiplying. When we diminish, we become weaker. When we multiply, we become stronger, and we take dominion. This is God’s plan.

No. 3. FILLINGLY

You’ll have to excuse me making up some English words, because I’ve got 18 English words to think about here. This word, this Hebrew word, is male, pronounced mah-lay. It means “to fill to completion, to be filled to overflowing.” That’s, of course, in the first mandate, Genesis 1:28, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.” To fill the earth means “to fill the earth, to fill to completion, to fill to overflowing.”

It’s a sad thing that in these last years, the deception has come into the household of faith. People, instead of listening to God’s Word, they’re listening to the world. They followed the world. They followed the pattern of the ones who maybe, at the most, have three children. No longer are the people of God filling the land. Not only filling physically, but filling the land with His truth, and His righteousness, and His glory, and the image of God.

Instead, it’s this big fight against evil which we’re even fighting now, even as President Trump is seeking to eradicate the evil in the swamp, it’s a fight. These people are fighting back and protesting in the streets. Even now, Elon Musk is exposing all the millions and trillions that they have stolen of our tax-paying money to give to all these ridiculous nonsense things. Really, it’s money laundering, and it’s all coming back to them.

They have become millionaires, not just on their salary. They couldn’t do that. But they’ve become millionaires. How? Because of what they have been doing. Now, of course, they don’t like the exposing of this. They are fighting and protesting on the streets. But imagine, if God’s people had not diminished, had not fallen into the ways of the world, and if there were so many more millions of God’s people filling the earth with His glory.

Let’s see some other Scriptures here. Genesis 9:1. It’s repeating Genesis 1:28 again.

Exodus 1:7: “The children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty. And the land was filled with them.” That’s God’s plan.

Psalm 80:8-9: “Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt . . . and it filled the land.”

Psalm 127:5: “Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them.” Yes, “full of them.” You know, it is so sad that there are even pastors who will make fun and laugh at big families in their congregation. And they will make snide remarks about people who keep having babies, when actually they’re speaking against the very Word of God they proclaim to be spokesmen for. Wow.

Zechariah 8:4-5: “Thus saith the LORD of hosts.” Oh, I love this Scripture. “There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem” (I think this will be in the time of the millenium) “and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.” Isn’t that the most beautiful picture? I love that. The streets filled with boys and girls playing in them. That is the blessing of God.

Well, I actually grew up with that blessing. I’m sure it’s not anything like the way it will be in that glorious time. But when we grew up years and years ago, way back in the dim, dark ages, we would all come home from school. We didn’t know about homeschooling in those days, sadly. But then schools weren’t what they are today.

We would all come home, all the children from each home in the street. We’d walk home together, and then we’d go in and throw our cases inside. Then we’d come out to play. We would play together on the streets. They were so safe. Nobody had to worry about anything. But today, you can’t do that. My! You dare not let your children out on the streets. You can’t even let your children walk home after school. You’ve got to take them, unless they’re going on a school bus, because it would be too dangerous.

Ezekiel 36:18. This is a prophetic word for Israel. God wants His land to be filled with flocks of men. All these wonderful words, “filled.”

No. 4. ABUNDANTLY

The Hebrew word is sharats, and means “to swarm, to abound.”

Genesis 9:7: “And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”

The modern Living Bible says of that Scripture: “As for you, be fruitful and multiply. Swarm over the earth and multiply.” That is the actual correct rendering of the Hebrew word.

No. .5. EXCEEDINGLY

The Hebrew word this time is meod, which means “vehemently, wholeheartedly, exceedingly much, muchness, to a great degree, abundantly, greatly, speedily, diligently.” Whoo! Do you see how many meanings there are in the Hebrew words?

Genesis 17:2: “And I will . . . multiply thee exceedingly.” Two times meod is used.

Genesis 17:20: “Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly.” It’s used two times again!

Genesis 17:6: “And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.” Notice, it’s not just “fruitful.” It’s “exceeding fruitful.” Meod, which is “exceedingly much, abundantly, greatly,” and so on.

Oh now, here, and this verse we’ve got three different adverbs to show how God wants us to be fruitful. Genesis 47:27: “And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew (parah) and multiplied (rabah) exceedingly (meod).” There God uses three different Hebrew words to describe them filling the land.

I think that’s most probably enough of that one to read to you. I’ll just give you a couple more Hebrew words and we’ll leave the rest for next time.

No. 6. PLENTEOUSLY

This is the Hebrew word yathar, meaning to “just over, to exceed, to cause to abound, over and above, beyond measure.” Do you get how God thinks? He is never boring, normal, average. It’s always more than, over and above, beyond what we could ever think.

Deuteronomy 28:11: “And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy womb.” Amen?

No. 7. MULTITUDINOUSLY

How’s that for a word? The Hebrew word here is rob, or rov. You can use the “b” or the “v.”

Genesis 32:12: “I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.” The word means “multitude, numerous, abundant, multiply by the myriad, ten thousand, be increased, more in number.”

Genesis 48:16: “Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

One more, Deuteronomy 1:10-11: “The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)”

Well, ladies, we’re just getting started on that. We will look at the rest of those words next time. I just hope you’re getting a feel of God’s heart because I’m not making this up. I’m reading the Scriptures! That’s all it is. I think we are not really very familiar with the Scriptures, so we don’t know God’s heart.

Ladies, we’ve got to be ladies of God’s heart, even as David was. God chose a man after His own heart. That means a man who would think like God, and act like God, and feel like God. We can only understand that if we get to know His Word and His truth.

“Dear Father, we pray that You will open our blind eyes to Your truth. Help us to see as You see, to think as You think, to feel as You feel. We pray that You will draw us more and more into Your truth and more and more into Your ways. I pray Your blessing upon every family listening. In the Name of Jesus. Amen”

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Further Scriptures for:

No. 1. FILLINGLY (parah)

Numbers 14:21; Psalm 127:5; Isaiah 27:6; and Luke 14:23.

No. 2. MULTIPLYINGLY (rabah)

Genesis 9:1,7; 17:2, 20; 26:4, 24; 28:3; 35;11; 47:27; 48:4; Exodus 1:7, 10, 12, 20; Exodus 32:13; Leviticus 26:9; Deuteronomy 1:10; 6:23; 7:13; 8:1; 13;17; 30:5, 16; Joshua 24:3; 1 Chronicles 5:23; 8:40; 27:23; Nehemiah 9:23; Psalm 107:38; Isaiah 9:3; 51:2; Jeremiah 23:3; 29:6; 30: 19; 33:22; 16:7; Ezekiel 36:10, 11, 37; 37:26; and Zechariah 10:8.

No. 5. EXCEEDINGLY (me’od)

Deuteronomy 6:3 and Psalm 105:24.

No. 7. MULTITUDINOUSLY (rob)

Genesis 16:10; 32:12; Deuteronomy 10:22; 1 Kings 3:8; 4:20; and 1 Chronicles 4: 38.

"A capable, intelligent and virtuous woman,
who is he who can find her?
She is far more precious than jewels and her
value is far ABOVE RUBIES or pearls ."
Proverbs 31:10

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