Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs

"Respect and honor your husband. Let him be the leader. Look at him and give him attention when he speaks to you. He will thrive when you respect him."

"The more children God gives to you, the more blessings come to your home. You are blessed, grandparents are blessed, the nation is blessed, future generations are blessed, and eternity is blessed."

"You are a nation builder. You build and strengthen the nation as you embrace motherhood. It is mothers who determine the destiny of the nation.

When mothers vacate the home and childbearing the nation weakens. When mothers come back to the home with a vision to raise godly children the nation strengthens again."

"Release your husband to fulfill his role. He is ultimately responsible to protect you and provide for you. God didn't create two Adams. He created an Adam and an Eve."

“Husbands are desperate for love and encouragement. Maybe your husband did not receive all the encouragement he needed as a child and his confidence tank is not yet filled up. You can fill up that lack in your husband."

Proverbs 12:25 TLB says, “A word of encouragement does wonders.”

"Look out! When you start encouraging your husband, wonders will happen!”

"I am walking in the power of the cross of Jesus which is greater than my feelings, greater than my circumstances, and greater than the temptations of this world."

"In the midst of lots of noise

I will never lose my poise,

Although my work may never cease

I refuse to lose my peace!"

“Mother, you are not wasting your life in your home.

God says that children are at the very center of life in the kingdom of God. When you take time to hold a little child on your lap, you wield a mighty power.

You are in the perfect will of God. You are not only doing something that is good, you are doing what is BEST.

You are in the very center of God’s heart."

"Hallelujah! As a mother and home-maker I am in the most high-powered career in the nation, and I am employed by God Himself!"

"Encourage your husband today. Speak loving and encouraging words to him--your words either build or destroy your marriage.

Smile at him each time you look at him. Concentrate on his good points and be big enough to overlook the negatives--you didn't notice them when you fell in love."

"I will not be moved by trials,

I will not be moved by doubt,

I will not be moved by those who would steer

me away from God’s ultimate truth!"

“Many of our children have accomplished things that we could never have dreamed of! They have achieved things that were beyond our abilities!

Your children, too, are filled with divine talents that God has put into their lives. Don’t let them go undiscovered. Look for them. Encourage their hidden traits. Bring them to the surface.

Delight in their special abilities, rather than expecting them to be like everyone else in the family!"

"When the truth of God's Word is strong in the home, it will once again be alive in the streets."

“Encouragement is the rich soil in which we grow our children to their full potential.”

"Embrace your calling of motherhood. You live in the glory of who you were created to be when you are nurturing and nourishing your children."

"Be committed to the vows you made on your wedding day. Marriage is a covenant to be kept, not broken."

"To grumble and complain is a miserable way;

Instead I will be thankful to enjoy my day!"

Philippians 4:6 TLB says, "Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything" Do you think you could get through today without one worry? How would you like to go through today...

            Unanxious

            Undisturbed

            Unflappable

            Unflustered

            Unfrowning

            Unperturbed

            Unruffled

            Unstressed

            Untroubled and

            Unworried!

Your husband and children will be blessed out of their socks! And the atmosphere in your home will change."

I remember someone saying to me when I was raising our children, "There is never a convenient time to have a baby!"

How true. If we wait for the perfect time, it will never come. There is always some trauma happening in our lives which could cause us to think that it is not an opportune time to embrace a child! But, when we receive the blessing of conception and a baby comes, the BABY ALWAYS FITS INTO THE FAMILY! AND WE WOULD NEVER EVER EVER BE WITHOUT THIS PRECIOUS CHILD.

God's plans are always better than ours.

Love from Nancy

When God brought the plagues upon Egypt to show His mighty hand, He put a division between the people of Egypt and the Israelites. God said, "I will put a division (separation, distinction) between my people and thy people" (Exodus 8:22-23). It is still God's plan that there to be a distinction between His people and the people of the world of which Egypt is a type.

How distinctive are you from the people of the world around you? Are they aware that you are different or are you gradually submitting to the ways of our humanistic culture? You don't show your separation by outward show. It's not by the clothes you wear. Or being religious. It is by people seeing the power and presence of God upon you. This is your distinction.

When Moses asked how the heathen would know that God's people found grace in His sight, he answered, "Is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be SEPARATED, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth" (Exodus 33:14-16).

Do your neighbors know that God is with you? When you go shopping with your children, are people aware that God's presence is upon you? This is your greatest distinction.

Love from Nancy

Scriptures to check out: Exodus 19:5; Leviticus 10:10; 20:24, 26; Numbers 14:14; Deuteronomy 4:6-8; 7:6; 14:2; 2 Samuel 7:23-24; 1 Kings 8:53; Jeremiah 15:19; Ezekiel 22:26; 44:23; John 15:18-19; 17:14-16; 2 Corinthians 6:17-18; James 4:4 and 1 John 2:15-17.