I was checking the transcript for Podcast, No. 40 FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS. I think it is more powerful to listen to the podcast than to read it. However, some have asked for transcripts so we make them available for you. You can pick both up on the webpage, www.aboverubies.org.
As I was reading it through, I was arrested again by something Serene said. I was so blessed to have my daughter, Serene, talk with me on this podcast. You all know Serene and Pearl of Trim Healthy Mama.
We were talking about how God knows each child even before He forms them in the womb. He knows them from eternity. He is Omniscient and has each child in His heart from before the foundation of the world.
I often think of how Hebrews 7:9, 10 tells us how Levi paid tithes to Melchisedec while he “was yet in the loins” of Abraham who was his great-grandfather! He wouldn’t have even been a twinkle in Abraham’s eyes, and yet God knew him before he was conceived. The Bible states that he literally paid tithes when Abraham paid tithes! Wow, God’s understanding is far beyond ours, isn’t it?
Anyway, as we were talking, Serene talked about her little one-year-old, Solly, sitting on her knee, and said, “Oh my goodness, if I didn't have her! It's just too incredible and too amazing. And look at her personality! God had a vision of her. Imagine if I had said, ‘No, God, I don't want her, I don't care for Your desire to have her in eternity with You.”
What a powerful revelation. This is something to think about. When we say No to a child that God has planned before the foundation of the world to spend eternity with Him, we deprive that child of life. Not only of life in this world, but of the opportunity to enjoy the glories of the eternal world forever. Glories that are beyond the scope of our human minds to comprehend! How grieving to deprive someone of this glory.
Our minds are so puny. I constantly need to ask God to open my mind to think His thoughts. To understand His ways. May God save us from putting Him in a box, bringing Him down to the level of our puny thinking, of making ourselves our own god, instead of allowing Him to be God!
Be blessed today, Nancy Campbell
Photo: Serene with Solly as a newborn.
Scriptures about how God knew us before we were born:
Judges 13:5; 16:17; Psalm 139:16; Isaiah 49:1, 5; Jeremiah 1:5; Luke 1:15, 16, 41; and Galatians 1:15, 16.
It’s time to come back to the truth! God’s original plan is the GOOD way. Read Jeremiah 6:16. It’s the way of rest and joy and blessing. Satan’s lies lead to destruction. God’s ways lead to life and joy. 
When Erin Harrison and I were doing the TEA AND TALK SHOW this week, Erin got a great revelation. We were talking about the way to make our marriages, our homes, and our families prosper. To do this we need to get back to God’s way. It’s God’s ways that work. When we fill our lives and our children’s lives RICHLY with God’s Word, we will be filled with wisdom and knowledge of the right way to do things. Instead of following the world, we follow the Word.
Does your home need a little lift? Put a candle or a vase of flowers on the table! Little things make the difference.
I don't think there is anything more beautiful than a mother looking with adoration at her baby. Even a plain mother is beautiful when she looks lovingly at her child. Jean Millet writes: "Beauty does not lie in the face. . . . Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother, I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child." 
A man who was lame from birth sat at the temple gate to beg. When he saw Peter and John going into the temple for the 3.00 p.m. prayer meeting, he asked for money. Peter answered, “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6).
What does it mean to be faithful? The Hebrew word is "aman" which means “to stand firm, to endure, long continuance, reliable, trusty.” I like the word, “trusty” don’t you?
“Every woman is the heart of the family, since no man can ever really love in the same way as a woman. So that by trying to become somebody else, women lose something, and because of that loss, the world is what it is today. 
God is Father. He loves to father. He is the source of all parenting.
Ashley O’Brien sent in a poem. Here it is for you to enjoy.
When you think about yourself all the time, you will be miserable. Pour out your life for others and you'll live a life of joy.
To be a wife is to serve. To be a mother is to serve. To be a woman is to serve. So why do we grumble and complain? Let’s serve with joy and extravagant love. This is the example of the Son of God, the glory of Heaven. He didn’t come to be served, but to serve and lay down his life. 
You will stay in bondage, ,misery, and bitterness until you forgive. Forgiveness sets you free.
Are you wilting in your home today? Perhaps you are barely making it through. You are just surviving.
God says: “Ye are the children of the Lord your God” (Deuteronomy 14:1). What does this mean? I am a redeemed, blood-bought child of the King of the universe. Not any king, but the King of kings.
What can we Do? Dear ladies, we can trust our God. He is always faithful. Never failing. No matter what circumstance you are going through in your life right now, you can trust Him.
We are reminded in Ephesians 4:32 to: “Be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another.” Did you know that this means to your husband and children first? And, it’s even more than what we say; it’s HOW we say it. An unknown writer encourages us . . .
When Eve woke up to life, she was in her garden home. God had the home ready for her. This was to be her life. This is where she would bring life into the world and raise children to influence the world. This is where she would work and find fulfillment in all the gifts God had given her. It was not a place of restriction, but joy, freedom, and productivity.
God’s purpose for us is to be conformed to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29 and 2 Corinthians 3:18). That is also His purpose for our children.
Such a good reminder for moms in the home. Each day as we mother and nurture our children and face