FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 131: NEVER COWER IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY

Which do you like to celebrate? Hanukkah or Christmas, or both? We are the “both” family. Join with me as I talk about what we do. This year is a strategic time to remember the Feast of Dedication, and the story of the brave Maccabees who defied Antiochus Epiphanes and led a revolt against the Seleucid armies. Their bravery inspires us to never cower in the face of tyranny!

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Wonderful to be with you. It's wintertime here in Tennessee, but, oh, we are having the most beautiful day today! We've had cold weather, but now it's like summer weather. We seem to be going from summer to winter. But we just love every day, love the warm days, and we love the cold days. We've had one snowfall so far, just a small one. And we hope we'll have some more.

This morning I was making my homemade bread again. I always love to make my bread. In fact, when I run out of bread, well, I just don't eat any bread at all until I make my own bread again. I use sourdough starter, so it's a sourdough bread. It's not a white fluffy bread.

We make it with . . . I use rye and spelt. Sometimes I use kamut, but I'm using spelt at the moment. So, it's quite a dense loaf, but it's so delicious, and so healthy.

Another thing I've been doing lately is making pancakes from my sourdough starter. I only recently found out I could do this. I'm so enjoying it. All I do is I use one egg and one cup of my sourdough starter and a little bit of salt. I just cook it in the pan, and then have it with whatever we like, berries, or whatever. It's so delicious!

So that's my breakfast at the moment. I find that I have seasons of breakfasts. Do you? You get onto one thing, and you enjoy that for a while, and then you change to another thing.

Recently I have also been having oat groats, not rolled oats, not even steel-cut oats, but the oat groats, right from the very grain. I soak, well I don't soak them, I just put them into the crockpot overnight. In the morning they are all soft and ready to eat. And so delicious!

It says that you should put one cup of oats to three cups of water, but I find that I need more than that. I usually use at least four cups, sometimes more. It seems to come to a lovely consistency. I don't usually like eating rolled oats for some reason, but I enjoy steel-cut. But now I enjoy the oat groats even better.

Another breakfast dish that I love, and that's using barley, too. Soaking barley . . . And Serene, she loves to soak it for about two or three nights in whey, or in kefir, or something like that. And then, cook it up, and it's so beautiful. So, these wonderful breakfast grains are so great in their real original state.

I have to confess that one thing that I do not have in my pantry and that is boxes of cereal. I NEVER ever buy them. I always think, “Well, you might as well eat the cardboard, as much as the cereal inside,” because it's so changed. It doesn't even resemble the original grain at all. And it has so many added things. I mean, most are filled with sugar, but you can get some healthy ones. But even then, those are not as healthy as having those original grains. That's what I love to start the day on!

Anyway, well, today is, what is the day? I can't even remember the date. But when you get this podcast, it will be the fifth day of Hanukkah. There are eight days in the Hanukkah celebration.

We in our family love to celebrate. So, we love to celebrate the feasts of the Lord. We love to celebrate Hanukkah. And we love to celebrate Christmas. We celebrate everything!

Hanukkah is one of my favorites. It's the time when we remember the story of the Maccabees. I'm sure you’ve heard about the Maccabee family and how God, I know it was God, who raised them up to save the Jewish nation.

It actually all happened when, one day, Antiochus Epiphanes, who was ruling over Israel at that time, he sent one of his men to this little town of Modin. This is where the Maccabee family lived.

Antiochus Epiphanes, he was seeking to totally annihilate Jewish life, and all their religious rites. He wanted to get rid of everything. He wanted to get rid of the Jewish people. He was trying to get them to renounce their way of life, and to practice pagan observances, and to live like the Greeks.

Anyway, so he came to this town of Modin, and his officials were trying to get Mattathias to influence the people of his town, because he was the priest in that town. So, they were trying to use him to get the people to turn away from God. But I love his reply. You can read it in the Apocrypha.

It's the books of the Maccabees in the Apocrypha. The Apocrypha was not chosen to be part of the canon of Scripture. However, it is good history, and especially the books of the Maccabees. Here we can read about their history and it's a very powerful history.

This was his answer: “Mattathias said in a loud voice, 'What do I care if everyone in the king's entire kingdom turns away from their own religion, and starts obeying his lords? My family and I will always keep the promises our ancestors made to God. WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP O UR FAITH, or disobey even one of God's laws. We will not obey Antiochus!'”

That's what he replied. Well, he was making this great reply, when one cowardly Jew stepped forward to obey the king and offer a sacrifice. Well, Mattathias, he was so furious, he rushed over, killed the man, destroyed the altar, and killed the official who ordered the sacrifice!

After that, he and his sons ran to the hills, leaving behind everything they owned, because they knew that they would be killed. But from that they began to start their revolts. They gradually gathered an army. They began to conduct continual battles against Antiochus Epiphanes and his army.

After many years, they eventually delivered Israel and Jerusalem, and God's Temple, which had been desecrated. This is what the story of the Hanukkah is all about. Actually, it's the story of the Maccabees, but it's the commemorating of them rededicating the Temple.

When they eventually were able to deliver Israel from the power of this evil man, they got the Temple back. They rededicated the Temple, because Hanukkah is the Hebrew word for “dedication.” In fact, the word, chanak, the verb for Hanukkah, is used in Proverbs 22:6, where it says: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will never turn from it.”

That word, “to train up a child,” is the word chanak, coming from Hanukkah, “dedication.” So, when you are training your children, you are actually dedicating them to the Lord. Wow! That's makes a wonderful difference, doesn't it, in understanding how we are to train our children.

We're not just training them as we think each day and teaching them to obey. Of course, those are all important things. But everything we do in the raising and the training of our children is always a vision of dedicating them to the service of the Lord.

We're raising them in a way that they will be set apart for God's service. We are training them to be ready, and prepared for God's service, and to be totally dedicated to Him. That makes a big difference to our parenting.

We're not content to allow our children to get taken up with the status quo of this world. Because we're dedicating them to God! We're not like the status quo families down the street, who, maybe they're very good families. But they don't have the same vision for their children that we have. Our vision is above the normal vision. It's to dedicate them to God Himself.

That is what Hanukkah is all about. And when they were dedicating the Temple, and getting it all back together, because most of it had all been desecrated, they went to light the lamps, because they started to get everything back.

The Maccabee families were priests, so they knew the ways and the laws of the priesthood, and how everything should be conducted in the Temple. Of course, they had to make the bread once a week, and put it on the Table, the Table of Showbread. They had to light the Menorah. They had to light the Altar of Incense.

I guess by this time, they had got the brazen altar for the sacrifices all going again. But when they came to light the Menorah, they only had found enough oil for one day. But the story, history, tells us that there was a miracle.

While they had to make the anointing oil for the Menorah, they could only use the oil according to God's specifications. They couldn't use just any old oil. It had to be the right recipe. So, the miracle took place, and the light just continued, even though they only could light it for one day, it continued to shine for eight days, until they had the oil ready to light the lamps again.

That's why Hanukkah is an eight-day celebration, remembering that miracle. Jesus Himself went up to Jerusalem to commemorate, and to join in the festivities of the Feast of Dedication, as it was called. It also had another name. It was called the Festival of Lights. You can read about how Jesus went up to Jerusalem for that in John, chapter 10, verse 22.

So, what we do on the eight days of Hanukkah? I have a list of Scriptures for every day, under different subjects about the Light, about God being the Source of Light, but Jesus being the Light of the world. Scriptures about us shining the Light of Jesus to the world, and so on. A different theme about Light for the eight days. We read these Scriptures in our morning and our evening devotions. We really enjoy that.

Then we usually take one night of Hanukkah to make it a dedication night, because that's what it's all about. It was the rededication of the Temple. But we don't have a Temple today. There's no Temple in Jerusalem. We are now the Temples of God, the Temples of the Holy Spirit.

We also need to keep rededicating our Temples (our bodies). So, it's a good thing, we find at least once a year, I think we should do it more, but at least during the time of Hanukkah, we'll take a night where we will each one around the table, we will dedicate our lives anew to the Lord. It's so meaningful.

So, we are enjoying Hanukkah at this time. Then it will soon be Christmas, and we will enjoy that too. We are not one of those families who say no, we won't celebrate Christmas. I know that there are many who feel that it's pagan, but we don't look upon it as a pagan festival. We don't get involved with all the pagan stuff. We just want to remember the birth of Jesus.

Now, it's most likely that Jesus was not born at this Christmas time. No one knows exactly when He was born. I guess the majority would think that he was born during the Feast of Tabernacles, during the time of the fall, which means that Jesus would have been conceived during this Christmas time.

What an amazing thing! The Incarnation, that God Himself comes to this earth, as a seed in a woman, and is conceived by the Holy Ghost. This is so powerful! It's so glorious to remember.

I feel sad, because I think if Christians don't celebrate this time, when do they rejoice and celebrate the birth? Or the Incarnation of Jesus?

We just love to sing the Christmas carols from Thanksgiving on. We love the play the carols, and have them playing in our homes, to sing them. Then on Christmas day, we love to meet as a family. To us, it's just a family time. We meet as a family. We have a lovely big Christmas dinner and gather together. We just love the gathering together in celebrating as a family.

So, our Christmas day is pretty much like Thanksgiving, really. It's just a great big dinner, festival celebration in the day, where we also will have speeches and toasts. And then we'll have another big celebration in the evening with our dessert, because we can never eat everything at once! We like to have our turkey and lamb and whatever we're cooking, and all these things in the day. Then, oh, when we're feeling a little more like it, we'll have our dessert in the evening.

It's just a beautiful day of family celebration. So that's what we're doing. I guess you'll all be doing different things in your home. Everybody has their different traditions and their different ways. But the main thing is to celebrate with family, isn't it?

But I'm also getting back to Hanukkah, I'm really feeling this year, oh, that it's such a powerful remembrance. Because these Maccabees, the father and his five brave, amazing, courageous sons, they rose up against incredible tyranny that they were facing.

I mean, this Antiochus Epiphanes, he wanted to completely take away their whole lifestyle, and change it. Now, we're not facing exactly what the Maccabees faced back then, or what the Jewish people were facing then.

But we're beginning to face it, because it's coming if we continue to give in, because already we have tyranny happening in our beautiful free nation of America. Could you have imagined at the beginning of the year, that here we are, all these months later, and we are looking out upon a whole nation of masked people? Now that is beyond what we could ever have thought up in our brains!

And why is that happening? I trust that you understand that it's not because of this plandemic. This has been used for tyranny, to get us to be submissive, to come under their leftist liberal ideologies, because their plan is a global reset. It is globalism.

They are wanting to bring in a new economic world order. This is all the precursor. All the lockdowns, and all the social distancing, all this is just a precursor, and preparing us for the tyranny that is coming. For when this new economic world order comes, and we pray that it is going to be pushed back, and will not come as soon as they want to get it in.

Because well, there's only one person, and those who are standing with him, who are stopping this. This is why our President Trump is hated, not only hated in this country, but hated around the world, of those who are planning this new world order. He is a wrench in the spokes of what they are trying to do, because he does not believe in it. He believes in being a patriot and keeping this nation free. I think we have to come to understand this because there is this whole elite who are bringing in this tyranny.

What about churches? There are some churches that are still not back together. There are others who are still not singing in church. How come they have obeyed and submissively given in to this tyranny? Because this is tyranny. This is nothing else but that.

Can you imagine the Maccabees giving in? Goodness me, wow! I mean, they would have not given in to such things. These were men who were brave and courageous, and they would not give up anything of the lifestyle that God had given to them. These Maccabees, they teach us that we are NEVER TO COWER IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY. I think it's a great thing to remember at this time.

I was reading the other day in Revelation, Revelation chapter 21:8. It gives a list of those who will be thrown into the lake of fire. At the top of the list is “the fearful.” Now, OK, we've been told that's OK, because we all fear things. Fear can be a good thing if it's protecting us from something that's going to happen.

But the real meaning of the word is “the cowards.” Most translations translate it “the coward.” The Amplified is very powerful. It says: “But as for the coward, and the ignoble, and the contemptible, and the cravenly lacking in courage, and the cowardly submissive.” And then it goes on to mention the whoremongers and the sorcerers and the adulterers and so on.

I'm amazed that “cowardly” is put alongside those other evil things! In fact, it's at the TOP OF THE LIST! I believe, dear ladies, we need to get the spirit of the Maccabees in this hour, and rise up against tyranny, and claim our freedoms. Our freedom that is given to us by the Constitution, our freedoms that are given to us by God.

Oh, by the way, that's another thing I must tell you about. We have some other Christmas traditions. Actually, this week, we will be having one, no, two of our book parties. Because we also have Christmas book parties.

It started years ago when our children were raising their children. We'd come together for Christmas, and it would be such a racket with all the little children, you know. I thought, “Oh, these mums and dads just need one night when they can come and have a beautiful restful evening.”

So, I decided we'd have a book party. It would be just the couples. We'd come together, and we'd have a beautiful meal together. Then we'd have this book party. Well, we play the white elephant game, but none of us want junk, or stuff, or anything extra in our homes. We're trying to eliminate junk, not get it!

But we all love to read, so we just buy books. We wrap them up, and we put them in the middle of the floor. And then we have the numbers, and when it comes to a number, you choose.

We like to play it really radically. We encourage each other to get books that everyone will just die for, and they'll fight for! So, when it's their turn, instead of just, “Oh, going and unwrapping another book,” they'll be fighting for a book that someone else has! It usually turns into a real fight, and a real . . . It gets really exciting. But we just love it, for the fun of it.

So, we do that, but then we got too big, and then all the young, the new generation of young couples began to come. Now there's so many of them that we can't all fit together! We'd be going until midnight. So, we have a separate one for the young couples, and actually even the young girls, the singles. They actually have their own book party, because they all love reading too. So, we all love to do that too.

But why I was saying that, is that this year, I've already ordered my books for the book parties, because we'll be involved in two of them. Colin and I love to host the young couples one, as well as the older couples.

I have purchased, this year, all books about the Revolutionary War, because I've been thinking much back to that time, of when the people of this nation had to rise up against the tyranny of Britain. They were rising up against the greatest army in the world at that time.

Here they were, just farmers, and this and that, never been trained in war. Yet, because they so desired freedom, they could not take all their lockdowns, and all their tyranny that was put upon them. So, they rose up, and against all odds, they won! They won, because it was so strong in them to have their freedom.

So, I think we need to get back to a bit of this spirit, don't we? There were so many who lost their lives. They lost their lives for the freedom of this country! And now we're allowing our freedoms to be given away! How come? How can we do that?

We need to perhaps read about the Maccabees again and read some more about the Revolutionary War. Or perhaps get some good DVDs on it, and remind ourselves of the sacrifices that took place for our freedoms in this country that we will NOT give them away! Amen?

Oh well. That was my little introduction, because I'm planning to speak today, and will have to go on to next time, about 20different words of what God wants us to do about evil. I mentioned a few of these in a podcast a few weeks ago. I just got started and didn't have time to finish, and then I got on to different other podcasts. But I feel I do need to give it to you fully. So, I'll start again, so you can get back with me, of where we're going.

I found as I said, 20 different words, verbs, doing words, because, dear ladies, the Bible is a doing Book. It's a verbing Book. It's an action Book. It's the Hebrew word asah Book, which means “to do, to take action.”

Everything God writes in this Book, He doesn't write it for us to just enjoy reading it. “Oh, that is so lovely . . .” NO! He gives it to us for us to DO! Oh, just read through Deuteronomy, and read how over and over and over and over again that Moses speaks, God speaking through him: “I want you to keep and DO these words that I am giving you. I want you to keep and DO these statutes I am giving you.” And so it's all do, do, do, asah, asah, asah, which is the Hebrew word.

I was reading that in Deuteronomy and just seeing the power there. So then I thought, and I got onto the points about evil, because I thought, “Well, what does God want us to do about evil?” I found 20, can you believe it, of these. God doesn't just mention things, does he? He really gives them to us.

So, let’s look at them.

Number one: DEPART FROM EVIL

Psalm 34:14: “Depart from evil, and do good.”

Proverbs 3:7: “Fear the Lord, and depart from evil.”

Proverbs 14:16: “A wise son feareth and departs from evil.”

Proverbs 16:6: “By the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil.” This word, it means “to turn aside from, to shun, to rebel from it, revolt from it, remove.”

But it's not only translated “depart.” This is the amazing thing. When you read a word, you're reading “depart from evil.” If you go back and check the Hebrew word, and then you look up all the other places where that Hebrew word is used, you find so many different words! It's amazing.

I'm not going to give you all of them today, but here's a couple. This same Hebrew word for “depart” is also translated “beheaded.” Wow! In 2 Samuel 4:6-7, it talks about two guys who beheaded Ishbosheth. That was one of Jonathan's sons. And they took it to David.

They thought David would be pleased because Saul, his enemy was now dead. But, oh, was David pleased? No! He was absolutely indignant that they should do such a thing and should cut off a man's head in peace while he's lying on his bed. Not even in war? So, he then turned around and ordered that these two men should be killed.

But “beheaded.” Well, that really sort of gives it to us, doesn't it? And shows us what a powerful word it is. So, when we depart from evil, we are actually going to behead that evil. “That's it, I'm beheading it! I'm finished with it! It's gone, completely gone!” So, just remember that, that's a good word, “beheaded.” That's what you are doing about evil.

With all these words that we're going to talk about, we can relate them to what is happening now in our nation. The evil that is happening, and even the evil of our current election, where there has been so much fraud, just cheating, and stealing. This is what they plan to do, to steal this election. It is evil. Therefore, we should depart from it, shouldn't we?

Oh, here's another word, “eschew.” Have you ever heard that word before? Well, I don't blame you if you haven't, because it's an old word. It's found in the King James Bible. I don't think it will be in many other translations.

But it's the same word we're talking about, the same Hebrew word,” to depart from evil, to behead it.” But here, in Job, they translate it “eschew.” Isn't it interesting, how they use different words in different places, and it's exactly the same Hebrew word?

But let’s look at the one in Job 1:1: “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” In other words, he departed from evil, he shunned it, he rebelled against it.

We go down to verse 8. This is where Satan and the Lord are conferring together. “The Lord said unto Satan, 'Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil?'” Or rebels against it.

And one more time it uses it. Yes, it's in Job 2:3 where God speaks again and says, there's no one like Job: “one that feareth God  and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity.” So, there it is.

I'm sorry, ladies, here we've come to the end of this session, and I'm only given you the first point! Anyway, we've got lots of interesting ones to come. So don't forget to check in for the next session.

I won't be giving you a Christmas podcast. I'll be talking about ways to come against evil. I hope you don't mind, but I think it's important, because there's so much about it in the Word. OK, so come back next week.

“Dear Father, we thank You for this beautiful time of being near. Lord, I pray that You will save all these lovely, darling wives and mothers from rushing about too much, Lord, and just making life hectic for themselves. But Lord, they will rest, and bask in the beautiful, Lord, just remembering of Your birth, and Your Incarnation. And, Lord, lifting You up, Lord.

“For those who are celebrating Hanukkah, I pray that You will bless them too, Lord, as they just remember, Lord, how You are the Light of the world, how You want us to shine Your Light in this world. We do pray that You will help us to be shining lights, Lord, not flickering lights, but shining lights in this dark world.

“I pray for Your peace, Your rest, and Your blessing, to be on every family listening. In the precious Name of Jesus, Amen.”

Blessings from Nancy Campbell * www.aboverubies.org

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FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 130: IF GOD FIGHTS FOR US, SHOULDN’T WE FIGHT FOR OTHERS?

We have many promises that God fights for us to save us against our enemies. However, we learn two principles today.

1. If God fights for us, shouldn't we fight for those in need, for the unborn, who cannot speak for themselves, for those who suffer persecution, for those who need healing and deliverance, for the downtrodden, and for those being unjustly entreated?

2.  Although God fights for us, we can't sit back and do nothing. God wants us to get in the battle and do our part to fight, too.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Today we are going to finish our third podcast about God being A MAN OF WAR. It is been so amazing to see how much is written in the Scriptures about God, who fights for us, and how He wants us to fight, too.

OK. Now today, we are up to the sixth Hebrew word. Remember, I found 10 different Hebrew words, I think it was 10, that I found. Yes, let me have a look and see. No, I found 12! Goodness me! I found 12 Hebrew words about battles and fighting. Most of these words all relate to God, as well as to us.

LACHAM

So number 6 is lacham. We find this in Exodus 14:14 where it says: “The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”

Deuteronomy 20:4: “For the Lord Your God is He that goeth with you, TO FIGHT AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

Now, there are many, many other Scriptures where it talks about God fighting for us. In fact, when I do the transcripts of this podcast, I will put all those other Scriptures in for you, so you can look them up if you are interested.

The word fight is lacham, as I said. It means “to battle, to prevail, to fight, fighting, war.” It is translated “fight” or “fought” 149 times in the Bible. You notice how these words are used over and over again. God is a God of rest, but He is also a fighting God. That fighting spirit that comes over you when you want to rise up, and fight against evil, and fight against wickedness, that comes from God. Because He fights against wickedness.

Now, we talked about this in the first series, on these subjects, how that God created us, as women, to be nurturers. We have this anointing from God to nurture, and we have that beautiful anointing upon us, to be gently nourishing and caring for our children.

IF GOD FIGHTS FOR US, SHOULDN’T WE FIGHT FOR OTHERS?

But we also have a spirit of fighting to protect our children, and to push back the enemy from coming into our homes. But I was thinking about this, and thinking that if God fights for us, shouldn't we fight for others, just as Jesus intercedes at the right hand of the Father, continually? We also should intercede for others.

So I believe that we also should have that fighting spirit. We should be fighting for the unborn, because they cannot fight for themselves. I think of Proverbs 31:8, 9, where it says: “Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying. Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and the needy.”

The unborn baby in the womb, it cannot speak for itself. It cannot rise up for itself. It cannot have justice for itself. So we need to fight for the unborn in whatever way we can.

I love to sign petitions, don't you? Any petition that is for caring and for protecting the unborn, I will sign it. Of course, the biggest thing we can do is pray, and also be a voice, always speaking up for the unborn, always speaking up for life.

When we were in Australia, we used to go and stand outside an abortion clinic every week. That was a very powerful thing to do. We're no longer doing that now, but we have one of our families on the hilltop who go every second week down into Nashville. They take lots of our young people with them.

They stand there as a voice for the unborn. They go there to pray, and to be available to speak to anyone they can. They have lots of wonderful opportunities to speak to those who have been going in, and have even been able to save some mothers from going into that wicked place.

So we fight. We have to stand up, and fight against that which is evil. I believe we have to fight the fight of faith for those who need healing and deliverance. We all know those who are going through difficult times physically. Sometimes it's life and death. We can stand in prayer for them, and with them, fighting the prayer of faith.

When someone is in very dire circumstances, you know, we can do more than just say, “OK, I'll pray for you.” Sometimes we can meet with them and pray with them regularly.

Right now, we have a precious couple in our hilltop families who are in great need of prayer. So we meet nightly to pray over them, because there's something about that consistent prayer. Remember that word: “Because of his importunity, he got what he wanted.” That means he did not give up. He kept coming and coming, and not giving up in prayer. God wants us to have that tenacity in prayer, that fight of faith in prayer. (Read Luke 11:8 and Luke 18:1-8).

We fight in prayer for our precious saints who are suffering persecution. Oh my, there are so many in the world today who are suffering persecution. We often forget about them, don't we? Because here, we who live in America, everything is wonderful . . . although it's not becoming quite so wonderful at the moment as we face all this dominion over our lives with masks and lockdowns. Many leftist states are facing tyranny, even over this Thanksgiving period. Some states have said they can't even have anyone else in their homes to share Thanksgiving. Now that is absolute tyranny! That is unbelievable in our free country of America!

And yet, we're still not suffering the persecution that many of our fellow believers are, who have been thrown into prison, who are suffering torment in their bodies . . . the things they have done to their bodies! I'm always challenged by Hebrews 13:3. In the New Living Translation it says: “Remember those in prison, as if you were there yourselves. Remember also those mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own bodies.”

Often, it's hard to feel that, because maybe we're not feeling pain. We can't even. . . we wonder, how can we really feel what they are going through? But God wants us to do that, as much as possible.

I remember last year, I think it was last year. Serene, my daughter, she was up on their second story of their home, which is still being built. It's pretty high. There was a ladder going up. She was coming down the ladder with a long skirt on. It got caught. She and the ladder went flying down, and she landed hard on her back. She was immediately in, oh, most terrible pain!

She said to me, “Oh Mum,” she said, “I was in such pain. I remembered immediately the persecuted church, how we are to feel their pain in our bodies. For the first time, I could really cry out to God for them! And I was crying out, and praying for them, because I was feeling pain in my own body.”

I thought, “My, I was quite challenged by her doing that.” And anyway, she was fine in the end.

But we have to fight for these different areas. We need to fight for the downtrodden, and those who are unjustly treated. We should always be fighting on the side of justice. We should be fighting against the horrific sex trafficking that is even going on in our nation.

We should be constantly standing up against these evils and praying through for them. Because I believe, although we do everything we can, we speak out, we stand up, we do what we can, but always our greatest fight is in prayer, isn't it?

I believe we should be fighting, at this time, for our President. I mean, we are, at the moment, facing a fraudulent election. I guess all of you are aware of so many different things that have come to light, showing the fraud of this last election.

We've also heard lately of course, about the Dominion voting system, which has interference from overseas, and foreign and international interference that is tied to Venezuela, and Cuba, and China. Even as Sidney Powell, who is one of the lawyers who is working on these things, she said that these Dominion voting systems that were used in so many states across this nation have always been used across the world to defy the will of the people, and those who want freedom.

Of course, the left deny all this. If you were to go to the internet, and look this up, you will find that it says, “fact checking,” to say that this is false. Have you noticed that fact checking has become quite ridiculous? Any article that is speaking truth, it's just, immediately, there's a fact check. “This is false!”

I remember posting, or trying to post one day, an article that I found about a guy who had been working in the election. He showed, before our very eyes, someone who had voted, and it showed his vote. Then it showed that he actually died in 1984! And there it was, in front of your eyes. He showed it clearly.

But then, up came the fact checker! Immediately! “This is false!” They are bringing out this over every little bit of truth that people are seeking to get out. Someone was saying the other day that they posted a picture of the American flag. Immediately, up came fact checking! “This is false!” So, it's getting a little bit ludicrous. We can't really trust the fact checkers at all these days. It's all simply crazy.

But I do believe that we should be praying for our President, praying for a honest election, and that this will not be decided until it is proven to be honest. Whatever happens, after an honest election, we must accept with all our hearts. But it must be honest! It has to be true!

What does the Bible say about these things? Proverbs 11:1: “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight.” Now, that's really just the same spirit of fraudulent elections, when they're seeking to cheat with votes.

Proverbs 19:36 in the New Living Translation, it says: “Your scales and weights must be accurate.” Voting systems, voting machines, voting papers, whatever they're using, must be accurate!

Micah 6:11 says, “Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?” God hates any deceit, cheating, anything that is unjust.

Deuteronomy 25, I'll just give you one more Scripture about that, although there are many. Deuteronomy 25:15, 16, “But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”

Isn't that amazing? We have the promise that God will lengthen our days if we are children who obey their parents. Children who obey their parents have that beautiful promise, that they will live a long life.

Now here comes this similar promise: “Your days will be lengthened if you have a perfect and just measure.” When you do things accurately, you do not cheat. It goes on say: “For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.”

This election, in the sight of God, is an abomination, because there has been so much fraud. Dear precious ladies, let's keep praying for God to come through, for everything to be exposed.

We are fighting a huge, huge machine. It is very powerful. It is a Goliath. Every little bit of truth that comes forth, they stamp on it immediately. It's denied, it's called false, the fact checkers come out and they just stamp “FALSE” all over it. It is just so difficult to even get the truth out. I believe it can only happen as we pray. So let's keep praying and fighting the battle! Amen? Fighting the battle against wickedness, against evil.

In 1 Samuel 25: 28, it tells us that David fights the battles of the Lord. What battles was David fighting? Were they his own battles? When he went out to fight the enemy, were they his battles? No, the Bible calls them the Lord's battles. God ordained the battles. God is in the battle.

In 1 John 3:8 it says that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Now Jesus dwells in our hearts, and He still want to destroy the works of the devil. So we keep on doing that. We have to keep on fighting. We'll always be fighting while there is evil around. Amen?

GOD FIGHTS AND WE FIGHT

Yes. I've written here, God fights for us. But He wants us to fight too. There is an amazing principle in the Word of God. I want to show it to you now. I want you to get hold of this principle. It's the principle that although God comes and fights for us, He doesn't do it all. He wants us to be part of the fighting. It's us working together. God works, and we work. God fights, and we fight.

OK. Let me take you to these Scriptures. We'll have a look at a few examples.

Deuteronomy 7:2, 16, “When the Lord thy God shall deliver them before you,” (that's God fighting. OK, God is delivering them. He's delivering the enemy)“Thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver you.” (you fighting). And so we see here, God delivers the enemy into our hands, and then we have to destroy the enemy. You're both working together.

Deuteronomy 7:24: “He shall deliver their kings into thine hand.” That's God fighting. “And thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven.” That's you fighting!

Deuteronomy 9:3: “The Lord thy God, which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire, He shall destroy them” (talking about the enemy) “and He shall bring them down before thy face.” This is God fighting for us. Then it goes on to say: “So shalt thou drive them out and destroy them, as the Lord thy God hath said to thee.” That's you fighting! Are you getting the picture?

God does His part, and then He wants us to do our part. We can't just stand there and say “OK, God, fight my battles for me!” Yes, God does come, and He fights for us. But He wants us to also take up that mantle of coming against the enemy and destroying the enemy.

1 Chronicles 14:15, 16. This was a strategy that God gave in one of the battles for Israel: “When thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle.” That's you fighting. “For God is gone forth before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.” That's God fighting. “David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon, even to Gazer.”

So right there, we see God was fighting. He smote the Philistines, but that wasn't the end. They had to also go out and smite the Philistines.

OK, I'll give you one more. Jeremiah 51:20, 4. This is God prophetically speaking through Jeremiah to Israel. “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee,” that's you fighting, “will I break in pieces the nations.” That's God fighting. “And with thee,” you fighting, “will I destroy kingdoms,” God fighting. “And with thee,” you fighting, “I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.” God is fighting. “And with thee,” you fighting, “will I break in pieces the chariots and his rider.” That's God fighting!.

So do you get that picture, ladies? That's a wonderful principle to remember as you face battles. God is fighting for you, but you've got to do your part. You also have to fight and smite the enemy.

QRAB (kerab)

All right. Number seven: qerab. We find this in Zechariah 14:3: “Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle.” This word means “hostile encounter, battles, war,”  and it's used nine times in the Bible. But here we see it's used of God, God going forth to fight.

Then we read in Psalm 144:1, David said: “Blessed be the Lord my Strength, which teacheth my hands to war,” (that's qerab) “and my fingers to fight.” God is the One Who teaches us to fight.

NASHAQ

Number eight: that is nashaq, and it means, “armed men.” Yes, 1 Chronicles 12:2. OK, here it talks about the helpers of the war who came to help David. “They were armed,” (that's the word there, nashaq) “with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow.”

CHALATS

All right, the next one, number nine, is chalats or qalats. If you get the transcript for this podcast, which we do transcripts, they usually come a couple of weeks or so afterwards, you'll get the correct spelling of the Hebrew words, and so on.

OK, we find this one in Numbers 31:3, 4: “And Moses spake to all the people, armed,” (that's the word chalats) “armed men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites, and execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian. You must send to the battle a thousand men from every tribe, from all the tribes of Israel.”

MA-ARAKAH

All right, number ten: I wonder how I meant to say this: maharawkaw. And that's a Hebrew word that means “military array, army, fight, set in order for the war, rank.” When David was preparing to fight Goliath, he mockingly asked the giant, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies, (ma-arakah) the armies of the Lord God?” (1 Samuel 17:26).

And then, when he faced Goliath, he confessed, with boldness, his trust in the Lord: “Thou comest to me with a sword, and a shield: but I come to thee in the Name of the Lord of Hosts” (1 Samuel 17:45) Remember, ladies, that's another Name of God, another war-Name of God. “The Lord of Hosts” is the Hebrew word tsaba, and it means the “God of the armies of heaven, the God of the armies of Israel, the God, our Warrior, Who fights for us.” And David came to Goliath “in the Name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies, (ma-harakah) of Israel, whom thou hast defied.”

“And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose. and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army (ma-arakah) to meet the Philistine.” (1 Samuel 17:47) So that is that word.

S’OWN

Number 11, s’own. This is a word meaning “military boot,” or “battle.”

SA’AN

And number 12, sa’an. It means “a soldier shod with a shoe, a warrior.” Also found in Isaiah 9:5.

So that completes the 12 different Hebrew words I found for battle and fighting and war. They are used over and over again in the Word of God.

Here's a couple of interesting Scriptures. Here's a Scripture that describes David when he was a young man, even before he was king. In this Scripture, there are three different Hebrew words for battle and war.

In 1 Samuel 16:18, it says: “Behold I have seen a son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing (We all know he was the beautiful, sweet psalmist of Israel) and a mighty” (that's the word gibbor, that’s the first word we talked about) valiant man (chayil, so he was a mighty, valiant man, it’s two Hebrew words there, gibbor and chayil). And a man of war (milchamah) and prudent in matters, and a comely person.” That word actually means “beautiful.” David was obviously beautiful. There's another passage that talks about his eyes, and that he had very amazing and beautiful eyes.

Yes, the Bible talks about this. Isn't it amazing how the Bible talks about little things that we wouldn't even think about? I have read other things about David, and where it talks about his eyes. Some writer believed that he had green eyes. I don't know where he got that, but the Bible does say that he had very beautiful eyes.

Then it finishes, “and the Lord is with him.” Of all the beautiful descriptions of David in that one Scripture, there were three words relating to war.

Now here's another Scripture, 1 Chronicles 7:11. In this Scripture, there are four, just a little Scripture, and yet, four different Hebrew words relating to war:

“All these, the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty (gibbor) men of valor (chayil), were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers fit to go out for war (tsaba) and battle (milchamah).” Four strong, powerful Hebrew words about battles.

We can't get away from it, lovely ladies. We are in a battle because we belong to the Kingdom of God. It is antipathy to the kingdom of darkness. We are at war with the kingdom of darkness. We have it all around us. We have evil.  In this hour, the darkness is, I believe, getting darker.

It's like it says in Isaiah chapter 60:2: “And gross darkness is covering the earth.” There seems to be more and more evil and deception. But in the midst of this darkness, what does God tell us to do? To just sink into our homes and into our despair, and say, “Poor me!”

NO! It says to arise! And shine! This is what we have to do in this hour. We have to take up our armor as it talks about in Ephesians chapter 6. And we've got to put it on. We've got to fight. We have to fight the battles we face daily, fight the evil that is around us, and shine with the love of Christ. And shine with His truth. And shine brightly as the Scripture says.

Now one little thing more I want to say to you about being in the battle. That is, it is so hard to be in the battle on your own. But do you know, lovely ladies, God doesn't want you to be in the battle on your own. He wants others to come along and be with you. And He wants you to get alongside other, and be with them.

Because, although we are soldiers, because that's what we are called, the Word of God says that we are to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 2;3, 4). But a soldier is not really a soldier on his own. Yes, he can be a soldier, but he's not in the battle until he gets together with all the other soldiers.

When there's a battle, they're all called. They have to get together. They've all been trained, and they know what to do. Now they come together to go and fight the enemy. We do have to come together to fight the enemy.

I was reading a while back and noticed this principle in the Word. I'm going to give you just two or three Scriptures. It's over and over again that we see it.

Judges 7:23: “And all the men of Israel gathered themselves together and pursued after the Midianites.” They just didn't go out, one person trying to fight the Midianites. They couldn't do it without an army. They had to come together as an army.

We see over in Judges 20:11: “So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.”

2 Samuel 12:29: “And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it.” Do you get the picture? We can really only destroy the enemy when we gather together. There is power in corporate prayer. God wants us to be a people who unite together to pray, because then it is more powerful.

Yes, you can pray on your own. It is important to pray on our own. But, of course, we can pray as families. That's gathering together. That is powerful. The more you have in your family, the greater gathering that you have.

We love to do that in our home. Every morning, every evening, we gather, whoever is in our home and pray together. But then we can go even beyond that, and pray with others, even outside the home. Even in this hour in which we are facing this election, which has not yet fully been decided, we need to be praying. It's something that can only really be handled in real intercession and fighting in prayer.

So why don't you ask another family over to your home to pray with you? Or some other families? We gather families every night here and pray together over this election.

Let me just close with one Scripture, Leviticus 26. And this here, it's talking about war and chasing your enemies. In verses 7 and 8, it says: “And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. And five of you shall chase an hundred.”

You know, even five, mom and dad and three children, that's five, you can chase 100 enemies in prayer! Because that's the greatest weapon in war. But then it goes on to say: “And an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.”

The more you gather together to pray, to fight in prayer, the more enemies you will destroy. So be encouraged. Pray, but gather your family to pray. Then gather others to pray too. Amen?

Dear Father, we thank You that, Lord, You don't leave us in the dark. You show us that we're in a battle, Lord God. And we thank You that, as we have been going through Your Word, we see, Father, that You also are the God of battle.

Lord, You fight battles. You fight battles with us, Lord, and You want us to come alongside You and fight Your battles against all evil and wickedness and that which is an abomination to you, Lord God.

Oh, Father, help us to be faithful. Help us to be strong in the fight, Lord God. Help us, Lord, to not give up, as we continue, because You have said, Lord, that as we fight, we will destroy the enemy.

I pray, Father, that You will encourage each one listening today, encourage them in their faith, Lord God. Those who are feeling, Lord, down, and just helpless, I pray that You will lift them up, and You will strengthen them to fight the fight of faith, Lord.

We think of Paul, who at the end of his life, he was able to say, “I have fought a good fight.” Help us, Lord, to be continually fighting the good fight. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

Transcribed by Darlene Norris

GOD FIGHTS FOR YOU SCRIPTURES TO LOOK UP:

Deuteronomy 1:30; Joshua 10:14, 42; 23:3, 10; Nehemiah 4:20; 2 Chronicles 20:17; and Zechariah 14:3.

FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 129: THE LORD, MIGHTY IN BATTLE

We continue discovering more of the twelve Hebrew words about God as a warrior. Every new generation must learn how to conquer and fight the enemy.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Here I am again and continuing our study of how God is a man of war. Last time, we spoke about the first word, gibbor. Today, we'll go on to the second. Remember, I said I had found 10 different words. It's quite amazing how much God speaks about this subject in His Word.

MILCHAMAH

The second one is milchamah. It's found in many places, but here it's found in Psalm 24, verse 8. It's describing God again. I love descriptions of God, don't you? “Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.”

The word there is milchamah. This word, it means “fighting, engagement in battle, warfare, a warrior.” It's found 315 times in the Bible. It's translated “battle,” 151 times, “war,” 158 times, and “fight,” six  times, apart from a few other words as well.

It's interesting, you know. I wonder whether you have found this. When you look up a Hebrew word . . . you're reading our English Bible and you look it up in the Hebrew, you usually find that this word is not translated as the same English word throughout the Bible. Often, they use many different words to translate this same Hebrew word. That's why it's so great to go back to the Hebrew and find out all the different words that are used for that one Hebrew word.

Another description of God: Deuteronomy 4:34. This is how God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. “Hath God assayed to go and take Him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?” And so, God used war to help deliver the children of Israel.

Isaiah 42:13: “The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man.” That's the Hebrew word gibbor. “He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war (milcamah”). There's that same phrase that was in Exodus 15:3. God is a man of war. “He shall cry, yea, roar; He shall prevail against His enemies.” This is our God, dear ladies.

Exodus 17, verse 16 says:“ Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amelek from generation to generation.” Now in the Bible, Amelek always relates to the flesh, to that which is evil, and to wickedness. This Scripture tells us that God fights against this in every generation. It will be every generation until He comes, because until He comes and rises up as a man of war, we will have evil and wickedness until God brings it into subjection.

Of course, in every generation, we have to learn how to fight wickedness, too. The Bible also tells us that our battles are God's battles. God's battles are our battles, and our battles are His battles. They are all mixed up together. When we're fighting a battle, God comes with us. When He's fighting a battle, He wants us to be in that war with Him.

So remember that. In fact, in Judges 3, verses 1-3, you can look it up later, God tells them how He allows some of their enemies to be there, so that each new generation will learn the art of war. Because unless they have opportunity to fight, they're not going to learn the art of war. So God allowed them to have battles so they could learn warfare.

We also have to do that. We, as you know, we all fight battles. We all have different things in our lives that we're fighting. We have situations where we know the enemy is coming in and we've got to fight.

We've got to learn how to fight. It will never go away. We'll always have to be fighting evil, and fighting principalities and powers, and fighting demonic forces, because we are in a fight in this world. It's a fight between the kingdom of darkness, and the Kingdom of God.

In Numbers 32, verses 20, 21, 29, it says: “.. . . if ye will go armed before the Lord to war, and will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord, every man armed to battle before the Lord . . . ” It's talking there about the two tribes and the half who were going to stay on this side of Jordan, before they crossed over.

God was saying to them, “You will have to go armed for war with the rest of your tribes to help them conquer the land. Then you can come back and possess this land.”

But I want to bring to you that little phrase, “before the Lord.” What does that mean? The word “before” is the Hebrew word panim. Panim means the Face of God. It's the word “face.” It 's usually plural, “faces.” So what it's really saying here is that God said, “I want you to go out armed for war with My Face upon you, in the Presence of the Lord.”

Now isn't that amazing? Sometimes we think of going out to war and facing a battle, “Well, that's just something we have to do ourselves.” No! We do it in the Presence of the Lord, with His Face watching over us. Isn't that beautiful? Take that, “armed before the Lord.”

The God's Word translation, it actually translates it perfectly. Did I write that down to tell you? I'm not sure whether I did. But anyway, it says that we are to go in the Presence of the Lord. It actually translates it that way.

IZZUZ

All right. So, number three, izzuz, in Hebrew. I just look up Hebrew words. This word means “forcible, an army, power.” It's used in Psalm 24, verse 8. Again, another description of God. “Who is this king of glory? The Lord strong (izzuz) and mighty.”

TSABA

Number four, which is tsaba. This is another very familiar word for “war” in the Bible. It's used 482 times. Wow! Yes, war is spoken about a lot in the Bible. It's actually used 261 times to describe God as “the Lord of Hosts.”

The Lord of Hosts. You've read that in the Bible so many times, but remember now, as you're reading it, whenever you read that phrase, it means “the Lord of the armies of heaven.” The Lord, Who is our warrior! The Lord, Who is the One Who commands the heavenly armies. He is the One Who fights for us! Yes! This is Who our God is, He is the Lord of Hosts.

We see this in verse 10 of Psalm 24: “Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.” Yes, He's the mighty warrior, the One Who fight for you, the One Who commands the heavenly armies.

Every time you read that phrase, read on to see what it's saying, because it's very important. The mighty warrior is speaking. But although this word is used about God, it's also used about us. It's used about men who are going out to battle many times, but it's also used of us women. Yes!

In Psalm 68, there's a couple of Scriptures here that tell a beautiful story. Verses 11 and 12: “The Lord gave the Word: great was the company of those that published it. Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoils.”

These Scriptures are talking about two armies. They're talking about the army of men who went out to fight the battle and to push back the enemyto protect their city and their land.

But it's also talking about the army in the home, the army of women in the home. You notice in verse 12: “she that tarried at home (she that dwelt in the home) divided the spoil.” When they came back in victory from fighting the enemy, the soldiers didn't say, “Well, here you go, you can have this because you stayed at home looking after the stuff and holding the fort while we were away.”

No! They realized the power of what they were doing, protecting the home, and caring for the children, holding down the fort, and doing everything that had to be done, even in the absence of the men. And they said, “Here it is, ladies! Here is the spoil! Take it! You divide it out. Divide it out among the families. Divide it out among the poor. We trust you to divide it out.”

They had complete control. But in verse 11, it says: “Great was the company.” That word “company” is this very word we're speaking about here, tsaba. The same word that is used to describe God, to describe Him as this great and mighty One Who goes out to war. It's the same word.

“Great is the company of those who published it.” It's in the feminine. Most translations will say: “Great was the army of women who published it.” So we see there the two armies, the one that goes out to fight the enemy, and the one who is fighting the enemy on the home front, right there in the home.

That's you, dear mother! You dwell in the home. But there may be enemies out there. There are enemies that seek to come to your home. There are enemies that want to get at your children. You have to be a warrior! You have to be a fighter. You've got to be one who is watching to protect your home. Amen?

Yes. And it's not just one or two. God wants a huge army of women in the home. You see, the word, this word, tsaba, it actually means “a mass of persons organized for an army, a multitude of warriors who go out to battle, a multitude of soldiers ready for warfare.”

The sad thing is, today, so many women have gone AWOL. They're not in their homes. They've left their station where God intends them to be—in  the home, watching over the home, fighting for their home, fighting for their children, fighting against the enemy so that they will not be taken over. No!

We need mothers in the home, fighting to protect their homes. Not just a few. God wants an army of mothers. Oh, may this revival come of an army of mothers returning to the home. Amen?

CHAYIL

OK, the next word, number five, chayil. This is another very common word for war and battle in the Bible. It means “an army, wealth, valor, virtue, strength, soldiers, war.” All those different words are used.

David called God this name in 2 Samuel 22:33, and verse 40. “God is my strength and power,” (my chayil). “For thou hast girded me with strength (chayil)to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.”

So, this word is used of God, and this word is used of valiant soldiers. Take time to read 1 Chronicles, chapter 7, and 1 Chronicles chapter 12. You'll read about all the mighty men of valor, all the chayil men. Oh, goodness me! You will love reading about them! I do love 1 Chronicles 12. Let me just perhaps go, and just read you one Scripture from it. You can read it all on your own.  You will love it. It's inspiring.

Verse 8 of chapter 12: “And of the Gaddites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains.”

Wow! What an amazing description. Do you notice in only one Scripture, it uses three different Hebrew words for war and battle? It uses “might” and “war” and “battle.” So there we go.

Now  here's a beautiful Scripture that uses this word, chayil. Psalm 110, verse 3: “Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power.” That's chayil. “In the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth.”

Let me give it to you from the New English Translation. “Your people willingly follow you when you go into battle. On the holy hills at sunrise, the dew of your youth belongs to you.” The Bible commentary on the New English Translation explains that this refers to the king's army of strong youthful warriors.

It's talking about youthful warriors. David himself was a young man at this time. So many young men came to help him. They weren't old men. They were young men. The message of the Scripture is that they were willing warriors. They came to help willingly.

The God's Word Translation says: “Your people will volunteer when you call up your army.” The Holman Translation says, “Your people will volunteer on your day of battle.” The Passion Translation, I think, is most correct when it translates: “Your people will be your love offering.”

And that is absolutely correct, because the word willing, “thy people will be willing,” is the Hebrew word that means “spontaneous abundant, free-will offering.” It's exactly the same word that was used for the free-will offerings that the Israelites offered on the altar to God.

There were offerings that they were commanded to do, but there were offerings that were free-will offerings, that they did out of the willingness of their heart, because they just wanted to offer to the Lord. It's the same word that is used for those free-will offerings.

So these young warriors, they freely offered themselves to the Lord. When there was a battle, wow, they ran to the battle! Makes me think of that beautiful story of David himself, when he was facing Goliath. We all know the story so well.

But I notice in the story, did you notice before, when you were reading it in 1 Samuel 17? That's a chapter worth reading again. We all know the story, but my, it's great to read it again. When Goliath of Gath would come out and begin to roar at the people, and say, “Who can I fight? I want someone who will come and fight for me.”

And in, let's see, what verse was it? Yes, verse 24! It says, “The Israelites (and this was their army, these were the guys who were soldiers that were trained for fighting) they all fled from him and they were sore afraid.”

But what could young David do? He was only young. Some commentaries say he would have been about 17 years of age. Some make him a little older, 20 or 22. But I think perhaps 17 would be more correct, because they were not allowed to go into the army until they were 20 years of age and over.

David was not in the war. He went down to just visit his brothers, who would have been 20 years of age. Three of his brothers were there in the battle. So he was only young, whatever age he was.

But the Bible says that when the giant came near to him, “he hasted.” That means he hurried and ran! He ran headlong toward that army to meet the Philistines. Isn't that amazing? What a difference! These Israelites, who were supposed to be there fighting the Philistines, they all ran from the giant! But David, a young man, he runs to the giant! He runs right into the battle!

Oh, I just would love to think that we could have an army of young people, well, not only young people. Middle-aged people, and older people, everyone, of course, running into the battle. Oh, I know there are many, many young people today who are doing this. They're running into the battle.

How do they run into the battle? Well, of course, the biggest way we fight, dear ladies, is in prayer. And so, they're going to run to the prayer meetings. In fact, ”My people will be willing, in the day of battle.” We are in such a battle at this time in our nation. We are in a great battle that the whole world is facing. It's all at this time.

We are facing an election that has not yet been decided, an election that will go one way or the other, an election that will take us down a road of extreme socialism and communism. It will take us down a road of more and more babies being murdered, because this democratic party believes in abortion up til the day of birth, and afterwards, if the baby had been designated for abortion, and survived.

We will go down a path of more and more transgender. We will go down a path of darkness and lockdowns. This is what this party wants. They want lockdowns. They want the stopping of churches. They want our whole nation to lock down. They don't want singing in churches. They want us to be a masked people with social distancing. This is not how God intends us to live!

Or we have a party who believes in freedom, and believes in this nation, and wants to stop it being a socialist nation, and going down this New World Order. But it's a battle, and the battle is only won in prayer.

I believe this is an hour where every one of us, old, middle-age, young, no matter what age, should be running into the battle, running to prayer meetings. I'd love to think of our young people running to prayer meetings, being like David, running in to face the giant, running in to pray, and coming against the forces of evil. Because this is the greatest way that we are in the battle, in that place of prayer. Of course, we stand up against deception, we stand against all evil. We speak it out with our mouths, and we stand for our convictions.

We don't cave in. So many are caving in today. Even across the church, they're caving in to not going to church. They're caving into social distancing in church. They're caving in to not singing in church.

This is ridiculous! This is giving up! This is such wimpiness, because we have the freedom, we have the right with our Constitution. We have it by God! We have it in the Word of God!

We should not be bowing to these tyrannical things that they are putting upon us. It's worse than communism, just about, already. Help! If this democratic party gets in, where will we go?

But God says: “Thy people shall be willing in the day of battle.” They will be free-will offerings to run into the battle. To run to the prayer meetings. To run to stand up against all evil. Oh, my, this is a time like no other, to be in the battle. Amen?

Well, this word, although it's used for God, although it's used for valiant soldiers, this word is also used for us women! Yes! I wonder if you know where that is found? Of course you do. It's Proverbs 31, verse 10. “Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.” The word “virtuous” is chayil!

It's exactly the same word that is used to describe these men of valor! It's amazing how the translators of the Bible, they used the words “valor, valiant, mighty, strength,” and all those great words to describe these men of courage and men of battle.

But then, when it came to the woman, and it's the same Hebrew word, they thought, “Oh, we'd better use a different word here.” And they used “virtuous.” Well, that's a wonderful word, but ladies, it does mean that we also are to have strength for the battle, because that's the word.

Once again, as I shared with you in our last week's podcast, how that we, God has chosen us, as mothers, to reveal His beautiful, gentle, and tender, and nurturing mother-like anointing. But He also wants us to be fighters. He wants us to be women of strength who will be strong for the battle!

Because as we raise our families, we face battles. I know you know that. I know many of you are facing this, in all different ways. We all face our battles in different ways.

But we do have to be strong for the battle. We also need to be strong in our faith, and in purity. Strong in embracing who God created us to be as women, to be the mothers of this nation. Strong in our convictions, and strong in holding to God's truth. We will not be deceived, and we will not cave in!

We will be strong to pray, and strong to fight the enemy, and every demonic force that comes against us and comes against our children. Amen?

I think of that wonderful word that Nehemiah gave to his helpers as they were building, rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, because that's what you're doing mothers, you are building. YOU ARE BUILDERS. “Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands” (Proverbs 14:1).

You are a builder! But as you're building your family, you will also have the attacks of the enemy along the way, as the builders did in Nehemiah's time. So they builded with one hand, and they held a weapon in their other hand. That's what we have to do. We build on one hand, and on the other hand, we pray and fight the enemy.

Nehemiah said in chapter four, verse 14, I'm reading now from the New Living Translation. “Don't be afraid of the enemy. Remember the Lord, Who is great and glorious, and fight. Fight for your brothers. Fight for your sons. Fight for your daughters. Fight  for your wives. And fight for your homes and your families.” We are in a fight, dear ladies. We can't get out of it. The enemy is around.

What does it say in 1 Peter 5, verse 8? “Be sober, be vigilant, because your enemy, as a roaring lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour.” That's what he's doing. He goes about. He's not the lion. Oh, no, no! We have the Lion of the tribe of Judah!

But he tries to be a lion. He just goes about as a lion. Sometimes he convinces us he is, but no, he's not the Lion. He just makes out he is. But he seeks to devour us.

The next verse goes on to say, “Whom we resist, steadfast in the faith.” We resist him. We will not allow him to take hold in any area in our family, in our home, in any one of our children. When we even begin to see anything, we will get into the battle in prayer, and we will get alone with our husband. We will say, “Come on, darling. We've got to pray about this together!” And you'll pray together and come against the enemy. Because we have to fight this battle.

I will close now with that Scripture in Daniel. Daniel 11, verse 32. This Scripture is in the context of persecution and deception. It says there, “BUT (it starts with a “but.” All this is going on around) “but the people who do know their God shall be strong and do exploits.” That is the King James version.

But if you go to the Hebrew, you find the word “exploits” is not there. It literally says: “But the people who do know their God shall be strong and DO.” It ends with DO. Of course, it really just means they will take action.

Most translations say: “and will TAKE ACTION.”

Some other translations say: “The people who do know their God will be strong and RESIST.”

Another translation says: “And the people who do know their God will be strong and FIGHT BACK.” Whatever one you want to take, they're all good.

But this is the hour not to cave in, not to be wimps, but to be who God wants us to be, fighters in God's battle. Because this is the battle. It's God's battle. We're fighting against wickedness, and fighting in spiritual places, and fighting principalities and powers.

So we will hold on, and we'll be in the fight, knowing that God is with us, because He's with us in the fight. We fight the battles of the Lord, and He fights our battles with us. Amen?

OK, and we haven't finished all these words yet! Isn't that amazing? God has so much to say. And I'm only just giving you just two or three Scriptures on each Hebrew word, when there are literally hundreds of Scriptures on each word! This is the Bible, ladies! OK? So let's pray.

Dearest Father, we come into Your Presence, and Lord, we thank You, that, even when we have to go to battle, and we have to go war against the enemy, that Lord, we go in Your Presence. We go in the Presence of the Lord. We don't fight on our own. You come, and You fight our battles with us, for the battle is the Lord's.

Oh, how we thank You, Father. I pray for every precious one listening today. Lord, I know that so many are facing battles in all different ways. Some, Lord, are facing battles in their bodies, and need healing, Lord. Just help them, as they fight the battle of faith, Father! Oh, God, strengthen them in their battle of faith, as they fight this good fight of faith.

Lord, there are others, who are facing the inroads of the enemy coming into their homes, touching their children. Oh, God, I pray that You will help them to rise up, Lord, in indignation, and they will take authority, for Lord, we read in 1 John that You came to destroy the works of the enemy. You now dwell in us, to destroy his works. We pray, I pray, Lord, that You will give them courage, and boldness, and You will help them in the fight against the enemy, in the name of Jesus,

I pray that You will help us all, Lord God, as we have this fight in our nation, at this moment, Lord. It's a spiritual fight. It's not a fight against flesh and blood and personalities. It's a spiritual fight between two kingdoms, the kingdom of God, and the kingdom of darkness.

And Lord God, we just cry out to You again today, Oh God, that righteousness will win, and Lord, that all evil will be exposed, and, Lord God, that You will save this nation from going down a road of extreme socialism.

Lord God, we ask this, and we pray, Lord, that there will be a whole new willingness to pray and enter the battle. And that people will be running to prayer meetings and organizing prayer meetings. And Lord God, we will fight this battle in prayer, in the Name of Jesus! Amen.

And I just want to encourage you, dear ladies, if you are in a battle, don't try and fight it on your own. Yes, God is with you, but you also need others. Just gather others to pray with you in the battle that you face.

We, at the moment, we have a precious family who are facing their . . . she is pregnant, but the diagnosis from the medical profession is not good. But we not taking that. We are gathering as a body each night to pray over this dear mother and her baby.

And this is what we have to do, ladies. We have to gather together and fight these battles together. If you have a situation in your life, gather some others to pray with you, even praying for this nation at the moment. Gather some others to pray with you. There is power in corporate prayer.

We only become an army as we join together. A soldier in an army is not a soldier on his own, until they all meet together, and go out and fight. Then they are an army. We have got to gather together to be a mighty army.

The Lord bless you.

Love from nancy Campbell

Transcribed by Darlene Norris

FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 128: 

Who Are You As A Mother?

We have two powerful anointings as mothers. We are gentle and caring as we reveal our nurturing and mothering anointing. But we are also roaring mama bears as we protect our familiesand stand guard against the enemy. I talk about these anointings, and then we move on to discover the Scriptures about God as a “a man of war,” and the “mighty warrior.”

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Always lovely to be with you again. Today I'd like to talk to you about two aspects of motherhood. First thing, let me take you to John's description of Jesus in Revelation.

In Revelation, chapter 5, John is looking into the heavenly realm. Let's read verse two. “And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, 'Who is worthy to open the Book, and to loose the seals thereof?' And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the Book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the Book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, 'Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the Book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.' And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb...” A Lamb. “. . . a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.”

Now this is an amazing description, because when they proclaimed: “We found the One who can open the Book,” what did they say He was? “The Lion of the tribe of Judah.” But when John looked, he didn't see a Lion. What did he see? He saw a Lamb. “A Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”

It is so true. Jesus is both the Lion and the Lamb. He is the Lamb Who came into this world to take away our sins. John the Baptist proclaimed that: “Behold, the Lamb of God, Which takes away the sins of the world!”

But Jesus is also the Lion. He is the One Who roars. There will come a time when Jesus Christ, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, will arrive. In this time of grace, He has such longsuffering and patience as He waits for all men to come to repentance—for  that is God's heart, that all will come to repentance.

But there comes a time in history when He can wait no longer. And He rises up as a man of war. He rises up as a Lion, and He begins to roar. And He begins to go to battle, and to bring all into subjection unto Him.

But as we look at this, and as we see in Christ both the Lion and the Lamb, we see that also in our role as mothers. Because God inherently created us, as women, to have a nurturing anointing. Every one of us who are created female, we have from God, divinely from God, this nurturing anointing. We love to mother. It's just who we are as females. Not one female can get away from it.

Oh yes, there are so many in this society who have turned from motherhood. We have such a big feminist movement in our society today who have turned from motherhood, and that beautiful nurturing anointing. They think they don't have it. They think they've thrown it away.

But no, they can't get away from it. You look at those who refuse to have anything to do with children, who don't even want their own children. You will find that they will be mothering some kind of pet. They'll have a little dog. They'll have a little cat. They will have something they can mother. They may refuse to mother children from their womb, but they have to mother, because it's in them instinctively. It is in every female. This is the most beautiful anointing that is upon us, as women, this nurturing anointing.

It's not just something that we have, “Oh yes, this is us.” No, it's God-like. It comes from God Himself, because God is the Nurturer, and He's the One Who created the female to reveal to the world this aspect of Who He is.

We see this in one of the Names of God. God has many names and every name reveals another aspect of His character. One name is not enough to reveal all Who God is.

One of the beautiful salvation Names of God is El Shaddai. El meaning, “might and power and omnipotence.” Shaddai. This is a beautiful word that reveals a picture of God Himself as a nursing mother, one who wants to gather us in His arms, to comfort to us, to minister to us, and to nurture us.

This is Who God is. It's one of the aspects of His character that is to be revealed, for we are the image of God. Male and female are the image of God. God created male to reveal God in different ways, but He gave us this privilege, this beautiful privilege, to reveal the mother anointing of God.

It is such a beautiful thing to embrace, dear lovely wives and mothers. You may be in the thick of your mothering, and oh, just trying to care for all your children. Sometimes you just do it, because suddenly, not suddenly, but one by one, all these little ones have been added. And here you are with them.

But have you ever embraced who you are? Have you embraced this mother anointing? Because this is who you are. Every one of us have gifts from God. We can do different things. We have different gifts, different abilities. But mothering is actually who we are, who we were created to be.

If we just get rid of all societal programming and educational programming in our brains, if all that is taken away, well then, we get back to bedrock. And we know who we are. We have this nurturing anointing. It is beautiful. It is tender. It is mother-like. It is God-like. As we embrace it, we enter into the fullness of all we are meant to be as females.

I encourage you today, don't just do your mothering, Don't just get through every day. But embrace who you are, because you will find that when you embrace it, you walk in the joy of it, the fullness of it, all that God wants you to walk in.

I think, I always think this thought, “How sad to go through life, and not fulfill what you were born for.” Whatever you do in life, you were born to mother.

Maybe you are listening and you are not even married. Or perhaps you haven't been able to give birth to children. You are no less a mother! You have this nurturing anointing within you! Embrace it, and begin to reach out and nurture needy and lost souls and whoever God puts upon your heart. For whatever aspect you are in, whatever your situation, you are a mother.

Now, if you have children all around you, wow! You are really in the midst of it! But you won't even come into the fullness of it until you embrace it.

EVERY MOTHER LOVES HER CHILDREN BUT NOT EVERY MOTHER LOVES MOTHERHOOD

I often say to mothers, “Every mother loves her children, but not every mother loves motherhood.” This is the secret. I know you love your children. But there's something more. It's loving and embracing motherhood. For when you do that, you come into a whole new realm.

MOTHERHOOD TAKES COURAGE AND STRENGTH

Now, OK, we are, we have this beautiful, gentle, nurturing anointing. But, ladies, we do also have a lion-like anointing within us. Yes, God has put that in women too. We are not just little wimps! No, we are not! In fact, I often say, motherhood is not for wimps! It takes courage. It takes strength. It takes everything you've got to be a mother.

But you know, we see this, this other anointing, just as we see it in Christ, the Lamb, Who submitted Himself to the cross—but also the Lion, Who is the King. And so, we also see that in mothering.

We see it, even in the beautiful anointing of breastfeeding. When a mother is nursing her baby, she has these hormones. God is so incredible. Every breastfeeding mother has hormones that God gives to her, to help her in her mothering.

She has oxytocin. Oh, how I love that hormone! It's called the calming hormone, the bliss hormone, the love hormone. It has so many adjectives, because it's that glorious hormone that just brings such a calming to us.

God gives that to the nursing mother. When she puts the baby to the breast, the milk lets down, and oxytocin begins to work. Oh, and she's just feels that, ohhh, that sort of calming come all over her. That's why sometimes when you're nursing, you just drop off to sleep! You get sleepy! It's oxytocin and it's God refreshing you, even for those few minutes when you're nursing, so you can get up again and face the fray! It is so beautiful.

God also gives prolactin to the nursing mother. That is such a powerful hormone. It's a love hormone, too, but it's a very, very, strong hormone. It makes a mother become very, very protective. She can even become ferocious in protecting her child. It's a very protecting hormone.

They've done studies on animals in the wild who are nursing their young. They've found, while they're nursing their young, if any other animal comes near them, or maybe even comes to attack them, they will go into attack mode to save their little one. Because it's that protecting hormone.

I noticed this once when we had a little cat. It was just a wild cat. Out here in the country, it's kind of good to have a cat, because as it gets colder, the mice start to come in. It's great if you have a micer.

Well, we don't usually have one, unfortunately, because my husband doesn't really like cats around. He doesn't like them inside, because they scratch the furniture. Actually recently, I did pray upon him, and we did get another little kitten. Sadly, it didn't last long and got run over.

But back a few years, well many years ago, we had this little kitten. This little kitten, it had kittens. So my husband said, “OK we can't have all these kittens around. You'll have to get rid of them.”

Back in those days, you could go and stand outside Walmart, and hold your little kittens, and people would take them. So I did that, but I kept one. This kitten, she was really still not much of a cat. She was just a wiry, skinny little thing. But she was nursing this kitten, the last one that she had, because the others were given away.

Anyway, she just kept nursing this kitten. The weeks went by and I didn't stop her. She just kept on, and this little kitten of hers began to grow sleek and fat. I was just amazed at how beautifully this little kitten grew.

One day Pearl came by. Her children were little then, and she said, “Mum, we're going away. Can you look after our dog?”  I said, “Yes, no problem.” So they bring the dog in, and off they go. We wave good-bye.

Well, it wasn't long, and all of a sudden, there was barking and meowing and hissing and wow! What is happening? This dog and cat were fighting! I thought, “My, what has happened?” Anyway, we managed to separate them, tie the dog up, and things went back to normal. So we had to keep this dog tied up.

Next day, Serene walked over for a little visit. She had with her a little puppy. Well! It was hardly a few moments, and fighting began again! Barking and hissing and meowing and screaming, and whoo, I thought, “This cat has got rabies! What's happened to it?”

Oh my, it was just terrible! So we eventually separated this cat and dog. Serene went home with her dog, and things went back to normal again.

Oh, I was wondering about this kitten! What happened? Well, the next day, Serene came over again, minus her dog. We were sitting outside, having a cup of tea, and I looked over and there was this kitten, just so calmly nursing her little kitten,

Suddenly I realized, “Of course! No wonder she is fighting every dog that comes near! She's got prolactin! She is fighting to protect her little kitten. And look out, any other animal that comes near!” It was so powerfully expressed in this situation.

Anyway, time went on. Of course, she weaned this other kitten and when prolactin was gone, every dog in the neighborhood would turn up, as they do out here in the country, and she never even sort of hardly lifted her eye. It was only when she had the prolactin.

That's rather amazing, isn't it? But God has, not only while we are breastfeeding, no. We also have this protective anointing that we will rise up and fight against anyone, or anything, that would hurt our children, in the physical, and in the spiritual. ecause, if we are walking with God, dear mothers, we will also be watching in the spiritual realm. We'll be watching things that can come into our homeor that can begin to affect our children. We will rise up to fight against the enemy.

Often, it's not flesh and blood we're fighting, but we're fighting principalities and powers. We have to fight in prayer. Dear mother, we have these two things as mothers. I want you to know today that you have both of them, and embrace both of them.

Yes, you have this tender, nurturing, God-like, mother anointing. But you also have this lion-like anointing within you to protect your children, physically and perhaps even more, spiritually. God has given both of these to us.

As I've been thinking about this, I've been thinking about who God is like. You know, I mentioned before, that God has many, many names, because one name is not enough to describe Who He is. Every character of God, He has it one hundred percent.

Sometimes, we find it difficult to know how to work this out in our lives. How do we show mercy? And yet, how do we show justice at the same time? Do we have 50% of each? How do we work it out?

Sometimes it's difficult, in our experience, to work this out. But God is complete in every area. He is completely a God of love, completely and wholly and totally a God of mercy and compassion.

But He is also completely a God Who is a man of war. Dear ladies, I beg your pardon. Did I actually say, “A man of war”? Yes. That is what the Scripture tells us. We go back to Exodus, chapter 15, verse 3. In fact, Exodus 15 is the beautiful song, the Song of Moses that they sang. Remember how Miriam led the whole of Israel with her tambourine? And they danced, and they sang. Read this psalm over again. Well it is a psalm, but it's actually Exodus 15. It's so glorious.

In verse three, it says: “The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is His Name.” As He delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt, He had to rise up as a man of war. He could not deliver them if He just perhaps lived in his rest, which He is. He's a God of rest, God of love, the God of love. He came down as a God of mercy. He came down to the people of Israel in their time of such servitude, and all they were going through.

But he rose as a man of war against the Egyptians. Let's just read a little more of what God did there. “Pharaoh's chariots and his host has He cast into the sea:” Now this is not saying that Moses did this. No, they didn't do it. They had no way. They were stuck! They had no way out! But God did it. Yes. “His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them; they sank into the bottom as a stone. Thy right hand, O Lord, has become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.”

That's God. Oh, wow! Does that sound like God? Yes? We have to understand, lovely ladies, Who our God is. We cannot put God in a box, and say, “This is the God that I believe in. I believe in this God of love, this God of tolerance, Who, you know, He loves everybody, and He doesn't mind if they sin a little bit.”

No! That's not the God of the Bible. We have to read His Word to know Who He is. He's also a God of war. And here he dashes in pieces the enemy. “And in the greatness of Thine excellency Thou hast overthrown them who rose up against thee: Thou sentest forth Thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of Thy nostrils, the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.” And so it goes on and on.

This word, “The Lord is a man of war” is the Hebrew word gibbor. Of course, it's used many, many other times in the Bible. In Jeremiah 32:18 is another description of God: “The Great, the Mighty God.” “The mighty,” yes, that's gibbor as well. “The Mighty God, the Lord of Hosts is His Name.”

I have actually, dear ladies, found 12 different Hebrew words that relate to war and fighting. Almost of these words are all used, also, to describe God. Now, can you believe it? I think we'll have a little look at them. I think it is good to understand the whole counsel of God, not to just see one aspect of truth, or one aspect of God. We have to understand it all.

Before I move on to another one, I love this Scripture in Psalm 89, verse 19, it says here: “I have laid help upon one that is mighty;” There's that word again, gibbor. Now this time, it's not used of God, but it's used of a man. We find, in all these words that I am going to show you, they are used to describe God, but they're also used to describe us.

I'm always amazed about this in the Bible. There are so many words that are used for God but that He also uses for us! Have you noticed that? It's amazing. So . . . “The Great, the Mighty God,” I told you about that word.

We're up to Psalm 89:19: “I have laid help upon one that is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out of the people.” Who is this person? It goes on to say, “I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him.”

This is speaking about David, but it is also a Messianic prophecy, speaking of Christ. David was a type of Christ. So here He says that He has laid His hand, He's laid help upon this mighty one.

When God was looking for a leader, for a king for the children of Israel, He looked for a warrior. He didn't look for someone, “Now let Me find someone who, oh, yes, he will be very plausible. You know, he'll be able to speak to the people nicely, and he'll be tolerant, so everybody will be happy.”

No! God looked for a warrior. In fact, most translations say: “I raised a warrior.” Why does God raise up a warrior? Because He needed a man who would be able to conquer all the enemies that were surrounding Israel. Because there was coming a time when God wanted a reign of peace.

He would raise up David's son, Solomon, to build the Temple, the sanctuary where God would dwell. God needed a time of peace to build that sanctuary. In fact, it was actually David's, it was his vision to build this Temple for God. Oh, how he dreamed of it! Night and day, it was his passion.

But God came to Him one night, well maybe it was the day, through the prophet, and said, “The Lord is telling you, David, that you are not going to build this Temple. You have been a man of war. You've been a man who has shed blood. I am going to raise up a man of peace. I'm going to raise up your son to build the Temple.”

But God goes on to say something very beautiful. I love this. “And God said to David, 'But David, it is good that it is in your heart.'” God saw his heart. God saw David as though he actually built the Temple himself, because he saw the vision in his heart.

Dear ladies, there may be some of you today, you have a vision to do something for God, and that maybe you've held onto it for years. It's still hasn't come to pass. Well, maybe it will. But maybe the vision is for someone else. But God sees your heart. And God says, “It's good that it's in your heart.” And so, be encouraged by that. When you have a passion in your heart, God sees it as though you've actually done it, even if the way doesn't open for you to do it.

But as we think of how God raised a warrior, He needed a warrior, a conqueror, and David was the man of war who went out. He was an amazing, incredible soldier. Oh goodness, I remember one time reading, I haven't got the reference here today, but the Philistines came against him. It was David and only one other. All of David's army fled, and it was only David and one other standing there in that field, and they took on the Philistine army on their own and pushed them back. He was just such an amazing warrior!

But I actually think of how we're facing a little bit of that situation today, when we have a President that God gave to us in 2016. There have been so many people, sadly, even Christians, who are... They don't really like him.

They think, “Oh dear, oh dear, he's, you know, he's just too much of a warrior!” Yes, because he is a warrior. He knows how to fight. “He just says things that he shouldn't say. He should be more tolerant. And he should be more presidential,” and so on.

But you know, dear precious ladies, we didn't need someone like that. We needed a warrior. There's only one man who can, because God  has raised him up. I believe God  raised him up to stand against this whole world, one-world take-over, and this whole push to extreme socialism and communism. That is, if the new... The democratic party got in, if they do.

Although they're saying that he is the President-Elect, it is far from true. They are still counting in this election, and we all know that more and more and more fraudulent voting is coming to light every day. It is unbelievable! It is just beyond anything that's ever happened in the history of our nation. It is huge. I don't know how much you have read, but oh my, there's even more behind the scenes that hasn't even yet come out of how fraudulent this election has been.

But nothing is in stone yet. We need to  be praying with all our hearts, because if these people get in, we go down a road that takes us toward toward communism. There will be no more freedom in this nation. We have one man who is standing against that. He is a warrior. I believe God raised him up, and I believe we should be praying for him.

Anyway, perhaps I will end this session, before I start on our new word. Next session, we will look at some more words that are related to God and even to us, about war and fighting.

Yes, here we are, mothers, and we're going to talk about war and fighting. But it is part of God's character, and as we have learned today, it's also part of us. We also have to rise up to be fighters, fighters in the spiritual realm, for our families.

Dear Father, We thank You so much for Your Word. For without Your Word, we would be in our own little world, and what we think is best. And Lord God, we wouldn't even know what You are like. For Your Word opens up our whole understanding, to know Who You truly are.

We thank You, that You've created us to be tender, nurturing mothers. But we thank You, that You've also put a fighting spirit within us, to protect our children, and our families. We pray that You will teach us how to do this, Father. We ask it in the Lovely Name of Jesus. Amen.

Transcribed by Darlene Norris.