"Giving up freedom lightly leads to the most heavy tyranny."
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Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
Through the weekly and daily devotionals you can be constantly encouraged in your great role of parenting, the highest career in the nation. You can also stay updated on what's happening with the Above Rubies ministry.
The easy roads are crowded
And the level roads are jammed;
The pleasant little rivers
With the drifting folks are crammed.
But off yonder where it's rocky,
Where you get a better view,
You will find the ranks are thinning
And the travelers are few.
Where the going's smooth and pleasant
You will always find the throng,
For the many, more's the pity,
Seem to like to drift along.
But the steeps that call for courage,
And the task that's hard to do
In the end result in glory
For the never-wavering few.
~ Edgar Guest
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Men who do not have "spark" are bland and boring. Their eyes are dull and lifeless. They have no oomph in their personality or spring in their step.We know how bad it is when we keep pulling the rope to start the engine of the lawnmower but there is no spark. You feel like throwing the wrench at it! No woman should marry a man like this and no one should ever hire such a man.
Spark denotes life. As men get older, they tend to lose their spark and zest for life but I do not believe that it should be this way. Men should take all the corrective measures possible to stop themselves from oxidizing and getting rusty. We know that drugs, alcohol, and pornography can ruin a man's personality. Sitting around and living a sedentary lifestyle, coupled with laziness, and not showing initiative also take the spark out of a man.
Mountain climbers would never dream of taking a man without any spark on such a dangerous expedition. God wants men like Abraham and Caleb with lots of spark to climb His mountains.
Let’s be reminded again of Caleb’s confession: “As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come. Now therefore GIVE ME THIS MOUNTAIN” (Joshua 14:12, 12). This mountain was inhabited by giants, but he was ready to take them on at 85 years of age!
Remember, it only takes a few sparks to get a fire going. The best sparks come from Christians filled with the Holy Spirit. Reading God's Word and praying daily are an excellent cominbation to create sparks.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
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Men, if we have no zeal, we are like gasoline without octane. What man wants to drive a car that has no "get up and go"? Come on! Sluggishness is something we men cannot stand when it comes to driving cars or working any kind of machinery, including computers.Some may think that zeal sounds a little fanatical, but the truth is that most of us could do with a bit more of it! Some, a lot more of it!
True zeal spurns compromise, especially when it comes to principles. Jesus acted with zealous fanaticism to cleanse the house of God. John 2:17 tells us that it was zeal that motivated his actions.
If it's okay for communists, socialists, progressives, and Islamics to be zealots, what about God’s people?
The Greek word for "zeal" is “zecos” meaning "heat, ardor, fervent mind." It's most important for us men to be zealous for our families, our homes, our principles, our work or career, and most important of all, our service to God. A man without zeal will tend to be overly casual. He will be a "moocher" Have you heard this word before? We use “mooching”in New Zealand and Australia for loitering about aimlessly.
A man lacking zeal is like trying to drag around a heavy weight. He has no spring in his step, no oomph in his personality, no twinkle in his eye, and no passion for anything. He is like a dead man walking. He is a bore to be around, a fire without heat, a drag on society. This is not the man being created into the image and likeness of God (Romans 8:29).
Let’s be men who are zealous for God and His kingdom.
Be encouraged,
Colin Campbell
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Who can tolerate a spineless man?
The nation needs men with backbone--
Men with backbone in their commitment to Christ and His course!
Men who have stickability in the battle of life!
Men who will not bend and bow in the face of opposition!
Men who will not give up on their marriage and fatherhood!
Men who will not give in to the tyranny they are trying to force on this nation!
Men who will be bold like lions instead of acting like lambs.
Men who, no matter what the enemy hurls at them, will not quit.
~ Colin Campbell
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Are you praying?
Continuing the 12 aspects of God’s “weapons of war.”
4. With thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider.”
When we are moving in the direction God wants to take us and the enemy attacks with overwhelming forces, all we have to do is “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever” (Exodus 14:13). What amazing words of faith!
And then we read in verse 15: “And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.”
In this Scripture, God admonishes Moses for crying out to Him instead of continuing to speak words of faith that are coupled with actions. There are times when we need to rethink about waiting for God to act before we ourselves take action.
We notice something similar to this in Mark 4:38-40: “And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow, and they awake him, and say unto him Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?”
I think Jesus was saying, “Why didn’t you do what I have just done?
As a result of Moses speaking the words in faith to “go forward” we read in verse 25 that God “troubled the host of the Egyptians. And took off their chariot wheels, that they dove them heavily.” Spiritual Warfare removes chariot wheels!
Verse 26-28 “And the LORD said uno Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea . . . And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them: there remained not so much as one of them.”
The horses and chariots of Pharoah are just as real today as they were during the exodus, putting fear and panic into the hearts of God’s people. However, we must go forward and stretch out our hands with the rod of God’s word and see again what will happen to the horses, chariots, and riders.
Many people believe that we are at a red sea situation right now in our nation as we wait for God divide the waters and give us deliverance from our illegitimate election and the evils that are being proclaimed daily.
We must continue with faith in our hearts, and our mouths, and the rod in our hands, stretched out over the sea. Only then will we see the victory.
To be continued.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
P.S. Don’t forget to call your senators and please with them vote NO against the EQUALITY ACT which literally relegates Christians to second class citizens. We will not longer by able to stand freely for our biblical convictions. IT IS URGENT WE DO IT RIGHT NOW.
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If the church of today does not see its role in spiritual warfare and take a strong stand against all evil, it will suffer defeat.
Jeremiah 51: 20-24 lists twelve ways God used His people in warfare against the nation of Babylon. God said to the Israelites: “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war.”
Many might say this is Old Testament doctrine and does not apply to the New Testament. However, spiritual warfare is a very strong doctrine in the New Testament. We must give serious attention to this declaration of God’s people being His battle axe and weapons of war, otherwise we ill not only suffer great loss in the day of battle but we will never wear the crown of victory.
TWELVE WAYS GOD USES HIS PEOPLE TO DESTROY THE ENEMY
1. “With thee will I break in pieces the nations.”
God wants to use His people to break in pieces the nations.
2. “With thee will I destroy kingdoms.”
There are still many kingdoms of darkness that God wants His church to destroy, e.g., North Korea, the so-called hermit kingdom that is the No. 1 persecuting country of Christians in the world. Terrible atrocities are taking place on Christians in that nation. Many Islamic kingdoms. China and The New World Order with its multiple heads.
Through the prayers and intercessions of His people Gid will raise up other nations to accomplish his physical warfare on the wickedness of the nations. However, the spiritual aspects of warfare can only be accomplished through God’s spiritual armies. This is where God calls the church to be involved.
3. “With thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider.”
This is how God dealt with Pharoah and all the Egyptians at the Red Sea (Exodus 14:23-25).
After the triumphant victory at the Red Sea, Miriam began her song with the words: ”Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea” (Exodus 15:21).
Psalm 20:7: “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.”
It is more important to remember the Lord in the time of battle than to trust in the physical forces of man.
We will continue with the 12-point list next post.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
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God is calling His people to . . .
Wake up!
Stand up for truth!
Stop compromising!
Sharpen up!
Totally surrender of every aspect and area of our lives to Him.
Without this full surrender we will not have the power to destroy the mountains of evil that loom in front of us.
1. WE MUST WAKE UP TO SPIRITUAL WARFARE
Isaiah 41:14-16: “Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel: I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the holy One of Israel.”
Ecclesiastes 10:10: “If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.”
TLB: “A dull ax requires great strength, be wise and sharpen the blade.” Unless we keep spiritually sharp, we cannot effectively combat evil.
2. WE MUST HAVE RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION
Nearly two million people went to Washington DC to the SAVE AMERICA MARCH on January 6 to express righteous indignation regarding the fraudulent election. My wife and I were privileged to attend. It was an amazing day. We spent about two hours at the Capitol and never saw anything happen. We began to receive phone calls from family and friends asking if we were okay and we didn’t know what they were talking about. They heard on TV what we didn’t see in person.
The Democrats were scared of such a huge turnout and had to do something. It was obviously a staged affair and the people who were righteously indignant over a stolen election were blamed.
Did you know that God is indignant and angry about evil? Shouldn’t we have the same attitude that God has? We are overwhelmed by God’s love and compassion, but He would not be God if He didn’t abhor evil. There are so many Scriptures about God’s indignation. Here are just a few:
Isaiah 30:27: “Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire.”
Isaiah 30:30: “And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire . . . “’
In Nahum 1:6, this one verse uses five different Hebrews words to describe God’s incense against evil: “Who can stand before his indignation (za’am)? And who can abide in the fierceness (choron) of his anger (aph)? His fury (chemah) is poured out like fire (esh), and the rocks are thrown down by him.”
Zephaniah 3:8: “For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.”
3. WE MUST HAVE RIGHTEOUS VIOLENCE AGAINST EVIL
Matthew 11;12: “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
God wants us to be His weapons of war. Jeremiah 51:20 says: “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms . . . “
Next post we will discuss what it means to be God’s battle axe.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
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“We cannot listen for a moment to men, however profound in their reading and thinking, who dare to treat God’s book as though it were man’s book, and speak of those pages that were penned by the All wise, Almighty, and Eternal God, as though they were the production of a shallow and short-sighted mortal.”~ Charles Henry Mackintosh (1820 – 1896).
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"The divine blessing has ever rested upon nations and communities just in the measure in which they have kept marriage and the home pure and holy. Blight and curse have come just in the measure in which they have departed from these divine models, dishonoring marriage and tearing down the sacred wall of home."
~ J. R. Miller
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Like a wet blanket with a frown and a gruff voice? Or do you bring joy and happiness to your family the moment you arrive home? Come home with surprises. Walk in the door with an encouraging word and a smile for everyone. What a difference you can make to your wife who has been home with the children all day! Let your wife and children anticipate your homecoming with joy and excitement.
~ Colin Campbell
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There are several countries who want America to be a part of an extreme socialist/communistic ungodly, church-hating, one world government but Donald Trump has been the big problem because he believes in the sovereignty of all nations. The EC, for example, is full of problems because certain member states have had to foot the bill for delinquent badly run states that do not know how to work. There is a huge waste of money on a huge over-bloated administration of unelected officials who are always forcing member states as to what they can and cannot do. No wonder England wanted out!Is this what we would want for this nation? Socialism/communism always seeks to tread down the church and persecute those who they think are against moral, government, and national corruption.
America has held high the banner of religious freedom and liberty. Communism does not want freedom based on the truth of the Bible. They want freedom to include all manner of sexual misconduct. They want freedom to include all manner of stealing, lying, fraudulence. They want freedom of speech only if it is what they believe. They will lie their heads off so long as they can convince the people that the apple on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil will be good for them.
However, what these communist/socialists really want is a people brought to poverty, a people who were once rich but made poor and totally dependent on a false and atheistic dictatorship. They become the persecutors of all those who dare to question. This type of power squashes innovation and self-betterment because it requires everyone to be on the same level of housing and income, etc., except the elite leadership.
They want power with enormous control of everything you do and say. This is why thy put brutal police on their borders, not to keep people from coming in but to keep the masses from breaking out.
This Biden fraudulent government is hell-bent on a Chinese style communist dictatorship. We are already experiencing it. We already have communism without a shot being fired, especially in democratic states where they are using COVID-19 as a weapon to shut down the economy in order to bring poverty and limit the conduct of church gatherings and visitors to our own homes.
We must pray as we have never prayed before. We who call ourselves Christians must wake up, stand up, speak up, and pray up to God.
The election was won by the Biden administration, based on huge forgery, stealing, and cheating. We are on the verge of being too late.
Many Christians are already submitting and yielding to this fraud in the hopes that in four years’ time the people will be tired of the evil restraints and lost liberty, lost jobs, and lost property and will vote in a new conservative government again. But that will be too late. We can’t wait that long.
He country will already be under communism, especially as Biden is only a puppet of China.
We must believe, pray, and trust God for a victory very soon.
And do you think they will not cheat again in four years. If they stack the Supreme Court as Biden is preparing to do, who says we will even be allowed to go to the polls again in four years? Or eight years? Or ever?
Spiritual warfare is very critical for this hour in our history. We must cry out to the only true and living God and pray that our military will stand up and be strong and not yield an inch to our interior and exterior enemies.
It is time for javelin piercing prayer meetings and javelin piercing men of God who will stand against evil and stand for God and what is right (Numbers 25;1-13).
It is time for sword-piercing prayer meetings against demonic forces (Psalm 149:6-9).
It’s time or battering ram prayers meetings to demolish evil (Ezekiel 4:2 and 21:22)..
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16).
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
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How is it that God searched for one man to stand in the gap but found none?Ezekiel 22:29-31: “The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.”
Before God pours out His indignation on a nation because of the unrestrained evil that is going on, and continues to increase, in His grace and mercy of justice He looks for man. Even better, He looks for “twos and these” who will pray the prayers of agreement in Jesus’ name and stand in the gap between judgment and mercy.
The minimum “gap stander” in the Ezekiel passage is one man. The minimum in the New Testament is “two or three” (Matthew 18:19, 20).
As believers, we must take up our God-given privilege to stand in the gap and pray like never before.
The evils and wicked practices of America (a nation has been blessed beyond what most nations have ever been blessed) have mounted up to Heaven and are fare more wicked and evil than what most Christians realize.
Abortion is the shedding of innocent blood. It is horrific to read the statistics that 70 percent who go for abortions can state the name of their church and 30 percent of those can give the name of their pastor. Many youth pastors accompany girls from their churches to the abortion clinics. What an indictment against the church!
Child trafficking and unbelievable evil acts upon innocent children and youths are being financed and practiced by many of our politicians and state and city leaders, plus wealthy businessmen. Many of these evil practices are too wicked to talk about publicly. Although I hear that much of this could soon be made public by military tribunals. I trust so with all my heart. Evil must be exposed and brought to justice.
Ezekiel 22:29 mentioned above tells us that the people of the land have “used oppression.” This could include the shutting down of our churches, the laws against singing in church, and even the restrictions of how many people we can have in our own homes! The exercising of robbery can refer to what we are facing now with the stealing of an election, raising taxes, and the cutting off of jobs. Vexing the poor and the needy describes the tent cities of our democratic cities etc.
We pray for justice and I tend to believe that this nation is under some type of marshal law which the mainstream media will not acknowledge. The are giddy with their fraudulent and stolen victory over Trump.
However, time will soon tell who is really running this country. It may take few more weeks, but the truth will come out I am sure. I am optimistic about this matter of who really is in charge.
Joe Biden, as predicted, is a wrecking ball of all the good things that Donald J. Trump accomplished during the most difficult four years I think any USA president has ever had to endure.
Because Donald Trump is a nationalist and a pure constitutionalist, perhaps his greatest accomplishment was his heroic effort to free America from its ties to the US Incorporation which is now a bankrupt organization.
After the Civil War, when the nation was at a low ebb financially, private bankers, some of whom were not even US citizens such as the Rothschilds, conspired to change the wording of the Constitution. There are now three cities in the world that come under no national authority. They have separate laws, their own police force, their own flag, and pay no taxes. These three cities/corporations are the City of London (one square mile within greater London), the Vatican, and the District of Colombia, (DC).
Washington DC is not part of the USA. It operates under a tyrannical Roman law and has nothing to do with the American Constitution. The Act of 1871 passed by Congress created a separate corporation known as THE UNITED STATES & corporate government for the District of Columbia. The flag of Washington’s District of Columbia has three red stars (the three stars denoting DC, Vatican City and City of London).
They later formed the IRS and the Federal Reserve offshore so they could collect US citizen’s taxes for their own use and have control over the US monetary systems.
These foreign entities have been ripping the American taxpayers off in a big way for many years. However, through President Trump the USA is now free from his bondage and is well on its way to having the original Constitution of the United States completely reinstated. I believe that most of the USA population, if they knew what happened, would without doubt, want the United States to govern and rule its own affairs without having to be told what they can and cannot do by any foreign interference.
But there is much more going on. Please check in tomorrow to read more.
There is also much we can be doing, the greatest of which is to pray. Are you gathering your family to pray daily for this nation? Are you gathering other folks to pray with you?
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
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Amid the cares of married strife
In spite of toil and business life
If you value your dear wife—
Tell her so!
When days are dark and deeply blue
She has her troubles, same as you
Show her that your love is true
Tell her so!
Don’t act as if she’s past her prime
As tho’ to please her were a crime
If ever you loved her, now’s the time—
Tell her so!
She’ll return for each caress
A hundred-fold of tenderness,
Hearts like hers were made to bless;
Tell her so!
You are hers and hers alone;
Well you know she’s all your own;
Don’t wait to carve it on a stone—
Tell her so!
Never let her heart grow cold
Richer beauties will unfold
She is worth her weight in gold
Tell her so!
~ Unknown
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It is a say day for our nation today, but hopefully for not too long. This nation cannot survive an illegitimate president who not only stole the election but sold us out to China.
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Testimony from Colin Campbell
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"In good men, the 'fear of God' is a holy awe or reverence of God and His laws which springs from a just view and real love of the Divine character, leading the subjects to it to hate and shun everything that can offend such a Holy Being, and inclining them to aim at perfect obedience."~ Founding Father Noah Webster.
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"The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments."~ Benjamin Rush, Signer of the The Declaration of Independence
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We cannot accept a stolen and rigged election. That would be the end of America as we know it.
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