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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.
It's over to you, Mom. You can make your home a dreary, boring place, or you can make it the most exciting and productive place in your whole city. God has given you your home, whether small and humble or big and spacious, to raise your children for God and to use for His glory and blessing to many.~ Nancy Campbell
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How we praise God for this wonderful victory of Trump winning the election. It was God’s wondrous mercy. Because of the evil going on in this country we deserve His judgment, but He was so good to give us His mercy in answer to the fervent prayers and intercessions of thousands of God’s people all over this country and overseas.This morning I heard Biden’s former Press Secretary, Jen Psaki say that she could not understand how Trump had won and they will be digging deep to look into it. Sadly, she doesn’t know our God. This was God’s doing, and we rejoice. Hopefully she’ll dig deep enough to find God.
This morning we sang the hymn, “To God be the glory, great things He has done.” And this evening at one of our weekly prayer meetings we will all praise and worship God for His intervention.
But now that Trump has won against all odds (with constant persecution for the last eight years from the left, which no other human being could have survived, from trying to impeach him when he was president to during this last term seeking to imprison him for life and assassinate him) we must not rest on our laurels. The liberal left still have the same agenda toward him and therefore we must pray more fervently than ever.
Because we will now have freedom of Christianity (which we would not have had if Harris had been chosen) we must make the most of every moment of this glorious window. We must pray for a great revival of repentance and turning back to God. This nation needs to turn back to God, back to His ways, back to family and the home. Let’s keep praying.
I am challenged by the words in Psalm 85:8: “I will hear what God the LORD will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: BUT LET THEM NOT TURN AGAIN TO FOLLY.”
Instead of being taken up with the spirit of this world, we must seek God more earnestly and realize that “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14).
Keep praying.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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There’s a natural resistance to this statement, isn’t there? But it’s straight from the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 6:19 (CJB) states: “You don’t belong to yourselves.” Or if you want it from the King James Version: “Ye are not your own.”This Scripture tells us we don’t belong to ourselves because our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. We are just the house. He is the One who wants to direct and rule our lives. This is expressed again in Romans 14:7, 8.
But God not only owns us when we invite Him to be Lord of our lives. He owned us since conception. The first statement in the beautiful description of God creating the baby in the womb in Psalm 139:13 states: “Thou hast possessed my reins.” The word “possessed” is the Hebrew word “qanah” and means “to create, to procure by purchase, to own, to possess.”
Psalm 100:3: “Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves.” God begins with ownership. He is our Creator and therefore the Owner of our lives.
Why do we want to take control of our own lives? Do we really think we can do a better job than the One who designed and created us? And the One who not only created us, but because we were lost in our sin, purchased us back again with the price of the precious of blood of Christ.
We are twice owned!
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were an offering far too small,
Love so amazing, so divine,
Shall have my life, my soul, my all.
Many blessings to you today,
Nancy Campbell
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I was talking to a mother expecting her 10th baby. She shared with me that on a recent Sunday morning at church some of the young mothers asked her how she survived with so many children.“Oh, more is easier,” she replied.
“Truly?” they gasped in surprise.
She then shared with them her testimony of that very morning: “I hadn’t slept well last night and because I’m pregnant, I slept in a little later. When I got up, I noticed my 13-year-old daughter preparing breakfast and getting all the clothes ready for the other children to wear to church. Another daughter was looking after the baby. All was well. So I leisurely took a shower and then spent some time reading the Word. When I came out to the kitchen the breakfast was all waiting on the table and we sat down together.”
It is true that when you have many children, they are not all little toddlers! Each child grows every year. And each child you train to take a little more responsibility and do their specific tasks.
Each time a new baby comes along there are more and more arms wanting to hold the baby and play with him. There are more helpers to help with meals and keep the home running smoothly.
I think the most overwhelming time of motherhood is when you have your first two or three children. You have no helpers. But as more children come along, you have more and more helpers. And yes, it’s true, more noise! But also more love, more cuddles, more joy and laughter, more entertainment, more playmates for your children, more excitement, and more blessings.
Who wouldn’t want more children?
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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Do you sometimes wish you could forget about looking after littles ones, doing dishes and laundry, and cooking meals day after day? You wish you could be out serving the Lord and really doing something great for God.Dear mother, I want to remind you that you ARE serving the Lord. God gave you your precious children and He didn’t give them to you to give to someone else to care for. He gave them to YOU. This is your service to Him. You are nurturing and training these children for Him. It is more important than any service you could ever do.
I think back of how I dreamed of being a single missionary and changing the world for God. Instead I got married and had children! And I have impacted the world in a far greater way than if I had served the Lord on my own. My service to the world is multiplied through our children.
“For what is service but the life of Jesus,
Lived through a vessel of earth’s fragile clay,
Loving and giving and poured forth for others,
A living sacrifice from day to day.”
~ Freda Hanbury Allen
This is a picture of motherhood. Pouring out your life for your husband and children. Living a life of sacrifice each day. It is not only a picture of motherhood, it is the revelation of Jesus. Jesus came to serve and give His life (Matthew 20:8). And the greatest service you can do each day is to allow the life of Jesus to live through you which is loving, serving, and pouring out your life for others.
How blessed you are.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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Who are you building for? Every wise woman builds her home.
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How easy it is to speak off the top of our mouths too quickly. We speak before we think. We speak before we give God time to show us the whole picture.David was guilty of this too. In Psalm 31:22 he says: “I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes.” He was facing persecution and threats to his life. But he talked too quickly. He soon realized that God had not given up on him and had not left him, and he then acknowledges: “Nevertheless thou hearest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.”
Read through the whole of Psalm 31. David continually states the dangers that are happening in his life but immediately following confesses that his trust is in the Lord. For example, verses 13, 14: “For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. But I TRUSTED IN THEE, O Lord; I said, Thou art my God.”
When difficult things are happening your life, don’t spout off blame toward God. Keep your mouth shut. God is always in control of every situation. Lift your heart up to Him and trust Him. He will show you His ways and what He wants you to do.
When your husband or others say things to you that stir up your anger and negative reaction, close your mouth. Don’t speak in haste. You’ll regret everything you said.
Instead of opening your mouth, smile sweetly and say nothing. Or if possible, say something sweet and loving. That has more power to ward off anger and gives God opportunity to deal with your husband or whoever. If you have the right reaction, God will deal with him. It works every time.
Remember the words of Proverbs 15:1: “A soft answer turneth turns away anger.”
James 1:19: “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear SLOW TO SPEAK, slow to wrath.”
And I am always challenged by this Scripture in Proverbs 10:19 (NLT): “Too much talk leads to sin. Be sensible and keep your mouth shut.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
P. S. Here are some more Scriptures to encourage us about our tongues that get us into so much trouble!
Psalm 19:14; 39:1; 141:3, 4; 34:13; Proverbs 12:16-18; 13:2, 3; 15:4; 17:27; 18: 21; 21:23; 26:4; 29:11, 20; Ecclesiastes 5:2, 6; Matthew 5:37; 12:36, 37; 2 Timothy 2:16; Ephesians 4:29, 32; James 1:26; and 3:1-12.
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Many women think they will find their fruitfulness outside the home. No. God’s word does not lie. Your greatest fruitfulness is in the heart of your home!
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Be blessed in your home today, dear mother. You couldn’t be doing anything more important!
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“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall NEVER HOLD THEIR PEACE day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, KEEP NOT SILENCE, And GIVE HIM NO REST, till he stablish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth" (Isaiah 62:6, 7).This Scripture certainly gives us no excuse for not praying for Israel. We are to give God no rest until He establishes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. In our home we have Prayer Boxes. One of our boxes is OUR ISRAEL PRAYER BOX. In this box I have cards with certain needs to pray for Israel which helps us to remember what to pray, especially for the children. I have also written many of the Scriptures that I have been posting each day in this prayer box. I think one of the most wonderful ways to pray is to pray God’s word, to bring God’s promises before Him, and remind Him of them, as He encourages us to do in the above Scripture.
I love Ezekiel 36 which is a wonderful chapter of promises of what God plans to do in the land of Israel, but at the end of the chapter He says: “I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, TO DO IT FOR THEM” (Ezekiel 36:37).
~ Nancy
Photo: Praying for Israel in Jerusalem.
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ARE YOU DAILY PRAYING FOR ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM?“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee”
(Psalm 122:6).
Image: The East Gate of Jerusalem, often called The Golden Gate.
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I love this nostalgic picture. It reminds me of the old days when mothers wheeled their big perambulators into town. But I actually took this picture the other day of my friend, Courtney Kelly, a beautiful mother of 10 amazing children. She is wheeling baby Zion.
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Duties are the underlying foundation of our lives and each day. As we are faithful to them, they give us freedom to be creative and do the projects that fill our minds. The end result of faithfulness is delight.
~ Nancy
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Israel Scriptures for today:
The land of Israel is ultimately God’s land, and He has sovereignly given it to His people, Israel.
“This land shall not be sold forever: for the land is MINE” (Leviticus 25:23).
“(God) will be merciful unto HIS land, and to HIS people” (Deuteronomy 32:43; Ezekiel 36:20).
God is called “the God of the land” (2 Kings 17:26-27).
“Then will the Lord be jealous for HIS land, and pity His people” (Joel 2:18).
“They have divided up MY land” (Joel 3:2; 2 Chronicles 7:20; Psalm 85:1).
“The LORD’S land” (Hosea 9:3; Zechariah 9:16).
Go to this link to read many more promises about ISRAEL AND THE LAND.
~ Nancy
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How true. Every ordinary moment can be extraordinary if we have the right attitude.
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God not only promised the land of Israel to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, but to their children and their children’s children FOR EVER! “We and our children must know what the Scriptures say!
"And they shall dwell IN THE LAND that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, AND THEIR CHILDREN, AND THEIR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN FOR EVER . . . Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an EVERLASTING COVENEANT with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore” (Ezekiel 37: 25, 26).
~ Nancy
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