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He goes on to say that after we have taught our children all that is necessary to carry on the duties of everyday life and business affairs, we should then decide that “they shall learn nothing that cannot really be pressed into the service of God, and used for the salvation of souls.”

Psalm 1:1, 2: “ Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, not sits in the seat of the scornful, But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”

Does this picture the education of your children?

Have a great day,

Nancy Campbell

Get this truth. Your mothering does not hinge on one bad day. You have another day tomorrow. Give your problems to God instead of stewing on them yourself and thank God that He is with you as you mother your children with all the accompanying frustrations and challenges.

Believe God for a great day tomorrow. Confess you are going to have a great day. And even when things go wrong, laugh instead of getting upset! Your little problem is not the end of the world. It’s just a little hiccup and we all have loads of them every day. They don’t have to be a problem at all if we trust God with them.

Even more than tomorrow. Think of the future. Dear mother, you are mothering for the years when you will no longer be here. Your mothing impacts future generations.

Get a vision beyond today—beyond the next few years to generations ahead. You are influencing generations to come, for better or for worse!

I was reading the other day about Achan who disobeyed God and took silver and gold and Babylonian garments which God told them they were not to touch. I find it challenging to read that when the Bible pinpoints Achan as the culprit that it doesn’t only mention his name, but his father, grandfather, and even his great-grandfather (Joshua chapter 7). His great-grandfather’s name was marred because of his great-grandson’s sin!

Conversely, we read in Zephaniah 1:1 about Zephaniah who was a prophet to the nation. As it introduces him, it cites the names of his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and his great-great-grandfather! Wouldn’t you love to know that your great-great-grandson was a prophet of God to the nation?

How we need to pray for future generations. Do you do that? When Colin and I pray for our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, we also like to pray for future generations beyond that. We want our progeny to keep walking with God down the generations “FROM NOW AND FOREVER” as it says in Isaiah 59:21.

I was just reading this morning: “I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them and of THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM” (Jeremiah 32:39).

Look beyond today, dear mother. You are doing a great work.

Love from Nancy Campbell

Picture from Claudia Tremblay Studio.

Aren’t these amazing words? Dear mother, this word tells you that you are going to judge the world and angels! But don’t wait until them. You must also judge the things that pertain to this life. Even the SMALLEST matters. This gets right down to the nitty gritty of mothering in your home. Every day you judge matters with your children. In fact, you are a court judge!

Motherhood is a powerful career. It is not easy to be a judge. We need wisdom from God for every matter, even the smallest matters. We often judge wrongly and make wrong decisions. But as you seek God daily for His wisdom, He will give it to you liberally (James 1:5-8).

In Jeremiah 9:24 God says: “I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment (justice), and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.” God is fully all lovingkindness, all justice, and all righteousness. Sometimes we find it hard to exercise these attributes together. Either we are too merciful or too judgmental. But as we seek God, He will help us. As we cry out to Him, He will pour out His Spirit upon us and teach us how to judge correctly.

God says of Abraham in Genesis 18:19: “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment.” Our children will not learn to walk in justice and judgment unless we teach them the way of justice and righteousness. This means teaching and training them daily in even the smallest matters of their lives. Small matters eventually become big matters.

We cannot teach them unless we judge between right and wrong, the clean and the unclean, righteousness and evil, truth and lies. Mother, please do not underestimate your high calling to judge your children.

Cry out to god for wisdom daily. Ask God for wisdom in judging even the SMALLEST matters. In this way, you will not only train your children in righteousness, but you will be practicing for the future when you will judge the world and angels. Wow!

Practice daily.

Love from Nancy Campbell

With the world in such a state of uncertainty, I am reminded of the importance of homemaking. Whenever I fill out paperwork which requires my occupation, it burdens me to just write homemaking. Not because it is an insignificant occupation, but because I feel that it is so much more significant than that simple word denotes.

I want to write: “The most wonderful, effective, important job I could possibly do, requiring multiple tasks and skills that demand growth and development. I have worked hard at this and I love it! I don’t just sit at home and watch TV because I’m not capable of doing anything else. I chose this! It’s hard and its wonderful!”

But that statement doesn’t fit in the little two-inch blank provided, so I remind myself that God sees what I do. He called me to this wonderful career and constantly shows me grace and gives me wisdom as I figure out the ever-changing dynamics of my job.

At this unusual time in history when people are being encouraged to stay home more and don’t have the schooling and daycare options they usually have, people are being forced to do things differently. I have noticed different responses to this. There are a lot of ads for curbside pick-up for food or “no touch” pizza delivery. Things like puzzles and bicycles are selling out. Craft supplies and educational websites are marketed toward the parent who is home with their child and isn’t sure what to do with them.

I have also heard of a rise in domestic violence and parents going crazy because circumstances force them to be with their children more than they are comfortable with. It makes me smile to think that even the movie stars must step back from the spotlight and turn their attention to their children.

The homeschooling family with a stay-at-home mom doesn’t feel quite the same jolt as the average family. Cooking, teaching their children, coming up with valuable activities, and dealing with relationship issues are all part of the job of homemaking. It has made me realize all the more how vital homemaking is.

It is my chosen profession. Years ago I got a vision for a family that lived and learned together and found a consistent, safe, loving refuge in their own home, where there would always be love. We are far from perfect, but God’s grace is evident in our lives and our homelife is a lighthouse for His love.

Besides the foundational values of a homelife, the actual homemaking skills have proven to be so useful. Many go through life never learning to scrape together a meal with whatever is on hand. Or how to get by for a few days without disposable diapers. Or learning that you can teach a child to read yourself. There are endless skills that are acquired when a mom stays home with her children, devoted to working through all the challenges of raising a family, while continually seeking God for new direction. God is a creative God and there is joy in allowing Him to use you to love and teach your family.

I have a feeling that in these times people will turn to families with these priorities for comfort and direction. Outside the home, things are ever changing, unstable and uncertain. But a well-established home, focused on God’s Word, and His call to bring up children in His way is a safe haven, not only for your own family, but for those around who feel overwhelmed by uncertainties.

I believe that more than ever, homemakers need to be strong and focused on their families but to also be aware of the importance of their position in society. They are a lighthouse and need to be ready to share their vision with others.

For those who haven’t tried the homemaking lifestyle, it’s not too late! Pray for a vision, share your thoughts with your husband, and seek out those who are already doing it. I’m sure they will be happy to share what God had taught them at home.

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Picture: Gabe and Autumn with their nine children and grandmother, Dixie who lives with them: Eliza (20), Peter (18), Wesley (15), Annabelle (13), Jack (11), Ava (9), Bonnie (7), Matthias (5), and Philip (3).

PRAY FOR THE SHENK FAMILY:
Autumn’s update: “My husband was the guest speaker at the church where the picture was taken. We are so thankful we had the opportunity to meet the little church and its town. The town (including the parsonage and I believe the church) was destroyed by fire this past weekend. We have now had to evacuate our home too. The fire which is covering over 170,000 acres is five miles away from our house. The firefighters need prayer. It is still 0% contained.”

We love to see our children growing, don’t we? Right from birth we are excited to see each new development. It is so rewarding to see our daughters grow up to be graceful women of God and our sons to be strong young men who really know how to be men! All my sons are over six feet, my oldest son is 6’ 8.”. And now we have a grandson who is also 6’ 8” and all the grown ones are over 6.”

However, we don’t only want to see them grow in physical stature, but in spiritual stature. This is our greatest vision and longing, isn’t it?

I was reading about Samuel this morning and noticed how the Bible records the PROGRESSION of his growth. God does not want our children to become stagnant, but continually growing in the Lord.

1. HE GREW

1 Samuel 2:21 says: “And the child Samuel GREW before the Lord.” The phrase “before the LORD” in the King James Version means “in the presence of the Lord.” The HCSB and ESV and other versions translate it: “The boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.” Don’t’ those words really get to you? They certainly challenge me. It is not enough for our children to grow up in our presence. They should grow up in the presence of the Lord.

I love the Young’s Literal translation which states: “And the youth Samuel groweth up with Jehovah.” He grew up with God. Isn’t that amazing? Isn’t this what we want for our children?

Motherhood is far more than feeding and clothing our children. It is creating an atmosphere where the presence of God reigns in our home. Our children should feel and be aware of the presence of the Lord. It’s in this atmosphere that they “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 3:18).

2. HE GREW ON

2 Samuel 2:26 says: “And the child Samuel GREW ON and was in favor both with the LORD, and with men.” Isn’t this a wonderful testimony? We certainly want this for our children, don’t we?

3. HE GREW AND THE LORD WAS WITH HIM

1 Samuel 3:19: “And Samuel GREW, AND THE LORD WAS WITH HIM, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.” Oh, that our children will grow up knowing the power and presence of the Lord with them in every aspect of their lives. This is the ultimate vision for our parenting.

Of course, you know the story of how God came to Samuel and spoke to him in the night (1 Samuel 3:1-21). The historian Josephus says that Samuel would have been about twelve years old when God called him and spoke to him about Eli and his sons. It’s interesting that Jesus was also twelve years old when his parents found him “in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers” (Luke 2:46, 47).

Are we raising our children for maturity? Are they familiar with hearing the voice of God? Are they able to discuss the truths and doctrines of the Word? As we notice their physical growth, we should also see their spiritual growth. I am amazed that so many adult Christians don’t even know God’s Word. How will their children know if they don’t know?

How will our children become used to hearing the voice of God through His Word if we don’t read it to them daily in our family devotions time? If we don’t encourage them to also read it personally every day and listen for God to speak to them?

Let’s raise children who are not only growing up physically, but growing up spiritually—growing up in God, growing up in the presence of God, growing up hearing His voice, growing up familiar with His Word and familiar with prayer.

Amen! (With an exclamation mark)!

Love to you today,

Nancy Campbell

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