Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs

Isaiah 49 speaks of the restoration of Zion. Allegorically, verse 23 speaks of nursing mothers and says that “queens” will be “thy nursing mothers.” Breastfeeding is elevated to queenship. You are a queen when you nurse your little babe.

I love the way Sarah describes her motherhood. She could have talked about playing with her baby, teaching her baby, and all the things required to care for him. Instead, she talks about breastfeeding. Genesis 21:7: “And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children su_ck? For I have born him a son in his old age.”

We also read a similar description about Hannah. After crying out in agony for a baby at the temple in Shiloh, God blessed Hannah and she conceived. The next year she didn’t go up to the temple because she wanted to stay home with her baby. 1 Samuel 1:23 says: “And the woman abode, and gave her son su_ck until she weaned him” after which she took him to the temple. It doesn’t say that she stayed home to care for her baby and enjoy all the lovely mothering moments. Instead the Bible describes these years (maybe three to five years) as a breastfeeding mother.

Are you nursing your baby? Dear mother, you are doing a great thing. A queenly thing. A glorious thing.

Enjoy the nursing moments (and hours) with your baby today (and tonight). Don’t try to wean your baby too soon. Nursing is mothering.

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

Painting: La famille Jakob Smits, entre 1880 et 1928 Aquarelle (?) Musée Jakob Smits, Mol, Belgique

If President-elect Joe Biden Kamala Harris win this election it will be the end of America as we know it. It won’t take long before everything changes. All borders will be open. Terrorism will be rife. Police will be defunded all over this nation and there will be chaos. They will open the doors to China who will gradually influence every business and government office in this nation. They will take us down the road of extreme socialism/communism. This is their expressed agenda.

What will become of the “The land of the free”?

Dear fellow mothers, we can’t sit back. We can’t be silent. We must stand up for the country we want our children and future generations to enjoy

Already, because of Roe v. Wade, over 63 million precious babies have been murdered in the sanctity of the womb in this country. If Biden/Harris get in, the slaughter will become a greater holocaust. Their agenda is for abortion for any reason, even when the baby is born! Infanticide! Child sacrifice! God vomited the children of Israel out of their land for child sacrifice!

They have cast aside God’s mandate for a one man and one woman” marriage. Now they advocate transgender. Where will it end?

The democratic party do not stand for Israel. They would love to give this land to the so-called Palestinians, but it was given by God for an “everlasting possession” (Genesis 17:8).” As Bible believing people we cannot go against God’s Word.

And how can any person who confesses they believe in God vote against the very things that are so precious to the heart of God?

Please make every effort to vote. Prepare every one of your children who are 18 years and over to vote. There are thousands of university-brain-washed young people who will be voting for socialism. They are propagandized by socialistic professors and they don’t understand the truth. We must encourage our young people to vote for life and liberty and stand for a God-fearing nation that they want to live in.

Please don’t get into political arguments on this thread, dear friends. Look at the options. We either vote for the destruction of our nation (rioting, destroying our cities, anarchy, and socialism) or for life, liberty, and righteousness for our children now and future generations.

Nancy Campbell

1. HUSBAND LOVERS

Every couple is in love with one another on their wedding day. However, marriage is all about keeping on loving one another, even when we face all the habits, idiosyncrasies, and annoyances we didn’t know about them before. We don’t love because we feel like loving. We love because that’s what we’re meant to do.

We love through the hard times. We love through the unlovely times. And amazingly, the more we love the more we fall in love. We must be proactive about loving. Speaking words of love. Writing words of love. Showing our love by our actions. Did you passionately kiss your husband as he left for work this morning?

2. CHILDREN LOVERS

It’s easy to love our children, isn’t it? Or most of the time! The Greek words for husband-loving and children-loving in Titus 2:4 are friendly and affectionate love. It’s love we express with our hands by touching and caressing. However, I think we need to realize that there’s something even greater than loving our children. It’s loving motherhood. Every mother loves her children, but not all mothers love motherhood. When we finally embrace motherhood—accept it and love it, knowing that we are in the perfect will of God, even loving our children becomes greater.

3. HOME LOVERS

The J: B. Phillips’ translation says we are to be “home lovers.” Too many mothers want to get away from the home. They would rather be in their careers than at home. I’ve heard mothers say: “I can be a better mother if I have time away from my children.” That’s not “hands on” mothering. And that’s not being a home lover.

God created the home for the woman and He wants us to be lovers of our homes. That’s not talking about our décor. It’s talking about making our home a place for the presence of God. A place where we love to be with our children and where we make it an exciting place for them. It’s where we manage and rule our home well with all efficiency and order. It’s hard to love living in a messy home. Therefore, we make it a place where we love to be.

Enjoy “the good life” today.

Love from Nancy Campbell

Painting: Georges Moreau de Tours (1848 – 1901, French)

And the third thing is we have is a bucket full of cards we printed out with questions that help steer our conversations.

The above picture shows an example of some of these powerful words that are written on the sticks. I will gladly send you a list of the words that are on the sticks if you are interested."

Jennifer Corcoran
Slaughter, Louisiana, USA

The Bible expositor, by Alexander MacLaren, calls it living in continual sunshine. You’ll enjoy reading what he says:

“There is only one thing that breaks the continuity of that blessedness, and that is our own sin. We carry our own weather with us, whether we will or no, and we can bring winter into the middle of summer by flinging God away from us, and summer into the midst of winter by grappling Him to our hearts.

“There is only one thing that necessarily breaks our sense of His Presence, and that is that our hearts should turn away from His face. A man can work hard and yet feel that God is with him. A man can be weighed upon by many distresses and yet feel that God is with him and loves him; but a man cannot commit the least tiny sin and love it, and feel at the same time that God is with him.

“The heart is like a sensitive photographic plate, it registers the variations in the sunshine; and the one hindrance that makes it impossible for God’s light to fall upon my soul with the assurance of friendship and the sense of sweetness, is that I should be hugging some evil to my heart. It is not the dusty highway of life nor the dark vales of weeping and of the shadow of death through which we sometimes have to pass that make it impossible for this sunlight to pour down upon us, but it is our gathering round ourselves of the poisonous mists of sin through which that light cannot pierce.”

Were you challenged by those words, “We carry our own weather with us.”? It’s not our circumstances (good or bad), but our relationship with God that enables us to live a blessed life.

Dear ladies, your life does not depend on the difficulty or hardship you are going through. Or even the frustrations and overwhelmingness you are facing in your home today. You can experience God’s sunshine even when life is tough. Look up to Him. Thank Him for His presence with you. Thank Him that He is smiling upon you.

May you live in the sunshine of God’s presence,

Nancy Campbell

Sometimes it’s inconvenient to attend a baby celebration, but I believe we should always try to celebrate new life, don’t you? I love the words of K. Wiggan: “Every child born into the world is a new incarnate thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.”

We are meant to rejoice when a baby is born. Psalm 107:41-43 tells us that when the upright see God increasing families like a flock that they REJOICE. They are not negative about new babies coming into the world. They understand it is the lovingkindness and goodness of God. It even goes on to say that the wicked are reduced to silence.

We love having baby celebrations. Sometimes we have the celebration after the baby is born rather than before, so we can celebrate the baby.

Many blessings to you today,

Nancy Campbell

One of the powerful places in the home is the table where we eat and fellowship. It is the gathering place. The home centers around food and fellowship. If we do not smell the wonderful aromasof spices and herbs enhancing the food cooking on the stove and the aroma of homemade bread in the oven, we miss some of the joys of home.

If we do not sit around the table to communicate, discuss, and share our revelations and thoughts as we eat together, we miss the true essence of home. The table is communal. It promotes oneness, not independence.

The picture God paints of a blessed family is of children “all around the table” (Psalm 1238:3). Tables are meant to be filled. God didn’t plan the 1.7-member family of today’s society. He loves the filled table. And not only the immediate family, but often grandparents and extended family. And friends and strangers. Each one comes with expectancy, ready for new dialogue. The place hums with conversation. No one is lonely. The togetherness brings healing and joy.

To talk about the things that are on our hearts help to heal our confusions or brokenness. And when we eat, it is important to eat healthy foods. This word “healing” that is used for “household” is used in only two other places in the Bible. Both talk about healing.

Luke 9:11 where Jesus “healed them that had need of healing (therapeia).”

Revelation 22:1, 2 speaks of “A pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing (therapeia) of the nations.” Healing foods, not refined junk foods.

Are we careful to prepare healing foods for our husbands and children? This is such an important part of being a homemaker.

Make your home a beautiful place of healing for the spirit, the soul, and the body.

Love from Nancy Campbell

But it rarely happens without food. Food paves the way for these life-changing and sometimes nation-changing moments to happen. And who does it come back to? The mother in the home. She is the one who prepares the atmosphere by lovingly preparing the food and graciously setting it on the table. It doesn’t have to be exotic food. It only needs to be simple food. But food is needed!
Jesus loved to sit at the table and share divine truths. What was Jesus own testimony of himself? “The Son of man is come eating and drinking” (Luke 7:34). Robert Karris, the author of “Eating Your Way Through Luke’s Gospel” says: “In Luke’s Gospel Jesus is either going to a meal, at a meal, or coming from a meal.”

Proverbs 31:15 (NASB) says: “She (the mother in the home—notice the word is “SHE”) rises also while it is still night and gives food to her household.” SHE is the one who prepares the food. SHE is the one who prepares the way for family togetherness. SHE is the one who sees beyond the work of cooking food to the great things that will happen as the family and others come to the table around the food.

Of course, it’s not always perfect. Especially when your children are little. It can be exhausting and hair-raising! But dear mothers, keep establishing the habit of family meals around the table. You are training your children. You are establishing godly and biblical habits. Eventually your work and training will be rewarded. Your children grow, and you will eventually have amazing times of conversation and discussion together.

In the meantime, if you are desperate for more intelligent fellowship, open your home in hospitality. Invite people to your home to sit around your table with you. This is normal Christian life. It is the extension of our mothering and homemaking ministry. It is the lifestyle of the kingdom of God. Acts 2:46, 47 (NET) says: “Every day they continued to gather together . . . breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts, praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.”

Instead of grumbling that you need to prepare another meal today, rejoice and be glad. You are doing a powerful work.

Love from Nancy Campbell

And yet when it comes to the womb, the part of us that more than anything else distinguishes us as a woman, we don’t want it to work! What is wrong with that?

I think It is the deception of the devil who hates the womb and hates life! Genesis 3:15 tells us that there is enmity between the devil and the woman. One translation says: “There will be war.” Satan is at war against the womb because it is the place of life. It is the place where life is conceived, grows, and comes forth into this world. An eternal soul from conception. A life that will live forever. A life that is destined from the foundation of the world. A life that can be filled with God and bring the revelation of God into this world.

Dearest mothers, let’s not be deceived by the devil, the hater of life (John 10:10). Let’s embrace the way God created us. All His works are perfect. They are wonderful, marvelous, and amazing (Psalm 139:14).

When we embrace the function of who God created us to be, we live in His blessing. We are on His side. 1 Timothy 2:15 tells us that we are saved through childbearing and the embracing of our maternal anointing. The full meaning of the word “saved” means you will be “protected, healed, preserved, delivered and made whole.” What more could you want?

Be blessed today,

Nancy Campbell

What is happening here? The enemy has come to attack and therefore the soldiers (the men) prepare and go out to war. They are the army in the field.

But there is another army at home—the women. They are also called an army. The word “company” means those who are part of an army, a military, a war! My KJV Bible gives the word “army” in the margin. It’s the same word that is used of God who is THE LORD OF HOSTS! The One who is the mighty, powerful Warrior, ready to intervene for His people.

Where is this army of women? They are not out fighting the enemy in the field. They are at home. Do you notice it says: “SHE who stays home”? It is not the men who stay home, but the women. Some fathers stay home to look after their children while their wives go to work. This is opposite to the Scriptures.

While the men fight to save their homes and families out on the field, the women fight to protect their families and “hold the fort” in the absence of their husbands.

And when they win the battle, they go forth as a conquering force to proclaim the good news! Back in Bible days they danced and sang. And when the men brought back the “spoil,” the gold, silver, and beautiful garments, they didn’t give a little to the women. They gave it all to them. They gave them the authority to divide it and share it among their daughters, handmaidens, the poor, and all around them.

They were all in the fight together, but each one doing the task God intended for them!

Dear mother, you are part of a mighty army of women. Your place to fight against the enemy is in the home! You keep the home fires burning. You strengthen your home, your marriage, your family. You keep pushing back the enemy who wants to subtly come into your home with his deceptions and destruction. If you are not there to watch, the enemy will take over!

You support your husband in his work. You release him to do his career and you embrace your role of motherhood with all your heart.

You seek after truth and teach it to your children. You proclaim the good news of the Gospel and of your love for family wherever you go. You are a proclaimer of truths,

Oh, for a great army of women to understand the power of their homes, to come back to their homes and raise godly sons and daughters. Oh, for a great army of women to proclaim God’s truth in society instead of being deceived by the humanistic values of today which are opposite to God’s living Word.

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

Painting: Heart of the Home by John Sloane

Every Word of God is powerful, authoritative, and eternal. The devil knows its power and must obey.

That’s why we must know God’s Word. That’s why we must diligently teach our children God’s Word. They must have the Word ready to use against the devil. Jesus was ready to quote the Word. Are we and our children?

Homeschooling children need God’s Word every day. His life-giving Word should be the most important thing they learn each day.

If there are Christian parents who are still sending their children into the public-school system to be subtly brain-washed by humanism, socialism, liberalism, progressivism, and now the gay agenda and alternative lifestyles, they need to give their children TRIPLE DOSES of God’s Word each day. Or how will they survive the deceptions of the enemy?

There is only way to make our children strong against temptation. 1 John 2:14 says: “I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the WORD OF GOD ABIDES IN YOU, and ye have overcome the wicked one.”

Are you a Word-mother? Are your children Word-children? Does God’s Word richly abide in your children’s hearts?

Blessings to you from Nancy Campbell

Oh by the way, Pasto John MacArthur states that no one in his church of many thousands as contacted the virus.

IT PAYS TO STAND UP!

Over the weekend here in Tennessee one of County Mayors exposed the WELL BEING TASK FORCE plan which was passed by our Governor. Their plan was to check on every child in the state, from birth to age 18, to check whether they were facing stress or what was going on in the home. A Task Force were to be trained to do this, from 20 years and upwards. Can you imagine a 20-year-old coming into a home to check on children nearly their same age! Totally invasion of private property and parenting.

God did not give the authority of children to the state. He gave it to parents, right back in the beginning, in Genesis chapter one! And this was before government was ever invented. God put this authority in the hands of parents.

Well, there was on outrage from the parents of Tennessee and the Governor’s office received so much indignation with phone calls and emails against it that they scrapped the whole thing!

IT PAYS TO STAND UP!

By the way, keep your eyes and ears open that they are not trying to do this in your state.

Dear folks, we currently seem to be overpowered with tyranny. But even though it doesn’t look like it, we still live in free America. Let’s stand up for our freedoms. Let’s stand for truth. Use your voice. Use your pen.

Call your governor about whatever you are concerned about. Write to them. Did you know that it is the easiest thing in the world to write to your governor or even the president? Just Google, “Write to Governor” or “Contact the White House” and immediately a form will come up for you to fill in and write your concerns! Make the most of it. Your voice change things. We don’t have to become victims!

LET’S ALL STAND UP. LET’S FREE UP OUR COUNTRY AGAIN!

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

This is what church is all about. We know it’s not the building. It’s the people. It’s meeting together to share with one another, pray for one another, comfort one another, look out for one another, and bear one another’s burdens.

There were so many different ones in our fellowship who were facing obstacles, overwhelming challenges, needing guidance and so on. How can these needs be met in a zoom meeting? They can only be met as we gather around to lay hands on one another, pray for one another, bear their burdens with them, and minister our love to them. How can we discuss things and seek guidance and counsel in an on-line meeting? How can we even laugh together and have great discussions if we are not together?

No, God wants us to come together. We all know the Scriptures in Hebrews 10:24, 25: “And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.” And how do we do this? “Not forsaking the assembly of ourselves TOGETHER, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.”

Psalm 122:3 states: “Jerusalem is builded as a city that is COMPACT TOGETHER.” Jerusalem speaks of God’s house and relates to us as we meet together. The Knox transition says: “Jerusalem, built as a city should be built that is one in fellowship. There the tribes meet, the Lord’s own tribes, to give praise.”

The HCSB says: “Jerusalem, built as a city should be, solidly joined together . . .”

It reminds me of Ephesians 4:15, 16 which speaks about the body of Christ. “Speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ; From whom the whole body fitly JOINED TOGETHER and COMPACTED by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of EVERY PART, making increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”

Wow, that Scripture is a mouth full, isn’t it? We read the word COMPACTED in the Old Testament and in the New. It’s the opposite to social distancing, isn’t it?
But the truth of this Scripture only works as we come together, every joint ministering God’s love and truth and comfort to one another.

May we as families seek to make this happen in our church life.

Be blessed and encouraged.

Nancy Campbell

Money’s tight and clothes don’t fit,
More to sew and mend and knit,
Oh thank You God! A baby!

Baby stuff is everywhere,
And I just sit here in my chair.
Oh thank You God! A baby!

Daddy declares, “We’re going out to eat!”
“Then ties my shoes, I can’t reach my feet.”
Oh thank You God! A baby!

Waiting and waiting, and pains at last,
Only false labor and due date past,
Oh thank You God! A baby!

Out in public, huge and humble,
“Is this your first?” “My sixth,” I mumble.
Oh thank You God! A baby!

Strangers’ advice, looks and sneers,
Taking comments, jokes, and jeers,
Oh thank You God! A baby!

Five children in tow, one on the way,
Out shopping my nerves begin to fray,
Oh thank You God! A baby!

Aches and pains and heavy with child,
Can’t wait to put Baby down awhile.
Oh thank You God! A baby!

The pains begin, they’re good and strong,
Pray and labor all night long.
Oh thank You God! A baby!

Labor and sweat and bear the pain,
Husband works to share the strain,
Oh thank You God! A baby!

The babe is born, oh sweet reward.
What a blessed gift from the Lord.
Oh thank You God! A Baby!

I am desperate for revival? Are you? I guess we should first ask, what is revival? It is turning back to the original, the beginning! We need revival when we get away from the first things.

In Scripture the “law of the first mention” is very important. When God says something the first time in the Scriptures, we must take note. The first mention is the foundation. It must never be discounted. When we get away from the first mention, we must be revived to come back! Back to God’s plan. Back to the first commandments He gave us. Back to His heart. Back to His first words.

We need to forever be coming back to our first love, don’t we? With all the distractions in our lives it’s so easy to get away from our first love for Jesus. There’s nothing more important than being in love with Jesus. This is the hub from which everything else in our life flows out. When we are in love with Jesus, we will love our husbands and children and everyone around us.

Jesus spoke to the church at Ephesus in Revelation 2:4, 5: “Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.”

We must also turn back to the first statutes God gave is in His Word. We must come back to the very first words God spoke to the man and woman He created. Genesis 1:28: “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.” God has never rescinded these words. They stand forever. If we discard them because we think we know better, we disobey God’s powerful and living Word. We certainly need a revival in the church to come back to these words, don’t we?

We must come back to marriage oneness. God’s eternal plan for marriage is that we are to be one. God’s first description of marriage is in Genesis 2:24: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.” We are not two people living in the same house but living our separate lives. We are joined in flesh, spirit, and vision to work together to build a strong marriage and family. It’s time to come back!

It’s time to come back to God’s heart for children. Malachi 4:4-6: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

This is one of the greatest revivals needed in the church today. Most of the church has no understanding of God’s plan for children. They limit the number of children in their family as much as the secular world. They have as little regard for the blessing of children as the world does. It is time for a revival of fathers and mothers embracing their hearts towards children, to have the same heart that God has toward children.

Are we coming back to the God of the Bible? Many believe in a false God. They believe in a god who is only able to provide for one or two children. Any more would be too much for their god. This is not the God of the Bible.

Are we coming back?

Be blessed today,

Nancy Campbell

Painting: Alfredo Rodriguez * American

“If I could encourage you in your homeschooling/parenting journey in one way, it would be this: read Scripture to your children every single day. At least a verse. Maybe a passage. Eventually a whole chapter or even an entire book. Get a “morning and evening” style devotional of Scripture verses if that helps. We use the DAILY LIGHT ON THE DAILY PATH (available at www.aboverubies.org). Or you may like to read a daily Proverb or Psalm together.

“Saturate your children’s minds with Scripture. Memorize verses together. Quote Scripture to them when they need a reminder to be truthful, to forgive, to share. Fill their minds and hearts with truth every single day so that as they grow, they will easily be able to recognize the many false teachings and lies they encounter on their way. Impart the truth to them so well that any deviation will be quickly evident as counterfeit.

“There is no education greater than the Word and wisdom of God. Deuteronomy 6:6, 7 (ESV): “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

“We also love singing psalms set to music (especially by David Erb in their authentic Hebraic rhythms and tunes). We gather as a family and sing together the rich, Scripture-infused verses of the great hymns of the faith.

HOLLY BENNINGTON * This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Sadly, this is not the picture of God’s people today. The leftist and anti-God socialists are ruling over God’s people. They control us with what we do and how we live our lives, EVEN IN OUR OWN HOMES! They mandate masks to silence us and keep us distanced and suspicious of one another.

Massachusetts rules today that if your home or backyard has more than 10 people in it, including a guest, everyone over the age of two years old MUST wear a mask! This is intrusion into private property!

They give out edicts (against the Constitution of our country) that people can only go back to church in limited numbers. They are not allowed to sing. They are curbed and put down while the pubs and liquor stores are open to as many who want to come. Rioters and protestors can freely destroy and burn down buildings while good people succumb to servitude.

This is the devil’s plan, not God’s plan. Listen to God’s promise to His people when they obey His commandments and walk in holiness: “The LORD shall establish thee a HOLY people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. And all the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and THEY SHALL BE AFRAID OF THEE” (Deuteronomy 28:9, 10).

Isn’t it sad, that instead of the heathen, anti-God socialists being afraid of God’s people, it is the other way around? Many pastors are still afraid to open their churches. Many people are still afraid to go back to church. They are afraid to live in their God-given freedoms but willingly bow down to ungodly mandates. Those who are against God should be afraid of the people of God, not the other way around.

I think it comes back to holiness. It’s time for us to be a holy people. A set apart people. Repenting of sin. Turning back to God. Crying out to God to save our nation. No more half-heartedness. No more worldliness.

And then “the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be ABOVE ONLY and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God . . . to observe and to do them.”

Be blessed,

Nancy Campbell

WHAT ELSE DOES GOD SAY ABOUT YOU?
Exodus 19:5, 6; Deuteronomy 4:20; 7:5, 6; 14:2; 26: 18, 19; 28:9-14; Psalm 135:4; Malachi 3:17; 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 1:6; and 5;10.

It grieves my heart that there are still people willingly listening to the mandates of extreme leftist and socialist mayors and governors who want the demise of this nation. Of course, the devil always comes as an angel of light. He doesn’t make his ways look evil. He makes them look good and wise neighborly, just as he did when he first tempted Eve in the Garden (Genesis 3:6)..

They command us to wear masks “for our protection and to look after our neighbor.” But that’s a big laugh. The pore size of cloth face coverings range from 20 – 100 microns. However, the virus is 200 – 1000 times smaller than that, only 0.1 microns. Masks do not protect you, plus they are most unhealthy as you constantly breathe in your own carbon dioxide.

But far more seriously, what is happening in our nation, and the nations of the world, is totally antipathy to how God intends us to live. Of course, Satan loves to promote everything that is opposite to God’s ways.

God created us for communication with one another, not isolation. It is a healthy society that communicates with one another. Social distancing and masking promotes loneliness and loneliness begets depression. No wonder the Director or the CDC has now announced that there are far more deaths from suicides than the COVID-19.

It is also prepares the way for people to become suspicious of one another and therefore to more freely pimp and report on one another which governors in some of our liberals states are already encouraging their constituents to do. What a sad society.

Let’s wake up people. This is not how God wants us to live. We must break free. We still live in the “land of the free and the home of the brave” although not many are now acting free or brave. But why not?

We should be able to go to the supermarket and communicate and smile at people. To have a little chat. To pray for someone who is in need.

The First Amendment still gives us the rights to “the freedom of speech . . . and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Are you writing to your governors, senators, and congressmen?

The Bible reminds us how God wants us to live. In Romans 1:12, 13 Paul told the Romans Christians of his longing to come and see them “that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the MUTUAL FAITH both of YOU AND ME.

The Christian faith is not only a “me” faith. It’s not all about me. It ‘s a “you and me” faith. Everywhere else in the New Testament, the words “mutual faith” are translated either “one another, one to another, one toward another, one with another, one of another, or one for another, etc.” It’s a “one another” faith.

I love the Passion translation: “I yearn to come and be FACE TO FACE with you and get to know you (you can’t do that unless you are face to face). For I long to impart some spiritual gift that will empower you to stand strong in your faith. Now this means that when we COME TOGETHER SIDE BY SIDE something wonderful will be released. We can expect to be encouraged and comforted by each other’s faith.”

Our faith is a FACE TO FACE and SIDE BY SIDE faith. We grow in our faith as we come together and build one another up. It’s like the coals glowing brightly in the fire. Take one of the coals out and leave it on its own and it soon goes cold. Put it back into the fire and it’s not long before it glows again along with the other coals.

The Holy Spirit is the Comfortor, the parakletos, the one who “comes along side of us to comfort and encourage us.” The Holy Spirit in us wants us to do this to one another.

Let’s live the way God wants us to live.

Love from Nancy Campbell

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