PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | Episode 59 – Motherhood is an Eternal Work
FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell
Podcast 59 - Motherhood is an Eternal Work
Rocky: Welcome to the podcast, FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy: Hello ladies. Well, we are now at last starting podcast number 59, and we are getting back on track after catching up on our series, HOW DO WE CHANGE THE WORLD? Now, I do want to mention before we go on today some thoughts of something, I was telling you last week. Remember, I was talking about how we are God's sheep, and if we are His sheep, we hear His voice, and we don't listen to the voice of the stranger?
I was thinking of another Scripture. I didn't share it with you last week and it's in the Old Testament. Hosea 8:12: “I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.”
Isn't that the saddest verse? To think that God has written to us great things. Now, that word “great” in the Hebrew means “multitude, abundance, excellent things,” and His whole Word is filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and the way He wants us to live. It's all there. Everything is there. No matter what need we have in our lives, no matter what question, we can find it answered in this Book.
Yet, isn't it amazing that even amongst Christian people, God's Word can be strange to them? I find this even with a lot of young people in the church today. They don't know the Word. I can't even hear them speaking about the Word. I hear them speaking about loads of other things but not very much about the Word. Shouldn't we be speaking about the Word if it's the most wonderful thing in the world?
I think of the Scripture in Isaiah 59:21 where God is speaking and He says: “As for me, this is my covenant with them saith the Lord. My spirit which is upon you and my Word which I have put in your mouth . . . ” Notice, He doesn't say “in your heart” He says “in your mouth.” “My Word which I have put in your mouth will not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your children, nor out of the mouth of your children's children, henceforth and forever, saith the Lord.”
Wow. This is God's mandate to us: that we will get the Word of God into our children’s hearts so that it's in their mouths, speaking it out, and it's not a strange thing to them or to us. May God save us from that. That word strange is the same word used in Psalm 144 when David was praying, and he prays and says twice in this one Psalm. He says: “Deliver me out of the waters from the hand of strange children.”
Again in verse 11: “Rid me and deliver me out of the hand of strange children whose mouth speak vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.” Who are these strange children? It's the same word, zoor, in the Hebrew that’s used in Hosea 8:12. It means “unrelated, foreign, hostile, profane, to turn aside, to deviate from and it's people who speak words that don't belong to God. They don't come from the Word of God. They don't come from God's heart. They come from another source, and the basic source is the Enemy himself, and he uses people to spread his lies and his deceptions, like we have in our nation today.
We have the fake news, but we have more than the fake news. We have a lot of fake stuff that we believe. Because we live in this world that is so filled with humanism and feminism and now socialism and all these isms, and somehow, they become part of us, and we think like that. We think feministically. We think humanistically instead of thinking God's thoughts. Here, David is saying, “Deliver me from all this fake news and this fake junk and these deceptions and lies and all these isms” because of this reason. Do you know the reason?
It's in verse 12: “That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters as cornerstones polished after the similitude of a palace.” If we want our children to grow up in the ways of God and have young men who, even in their youth, are like grown up, mature men because they have been brought up in the ways of God, and the Word of God is in their mouth and coming out of their mouths.
We have daughters who are living godly lives and know who they are and are not affected by the spirit of this world and feminism and humanism. We have to get rid of the fake. We have to get rid of the falsehood. We have to get rid of all that is hostile to God's Word.
Today, really, I think the most normal thing in the church today is that we are really caught up with more stuff than what God wants us to do. We are caught up with more lies from humanism and the isms than we are with the Word of God. I want to encourage us again today that this Scripture in Hosea 8:12 will not be our testimony, but it will be the opposite. Remember it says: “I've written to you great things in my law, but they were counted as strange to you.”
May God's Word not be strange to us. May it be familiar and powerful in our lives. I think of how it's a strange doctrine to many Christian families today to have more than one or two children. They think, “That's strange. That's weird. How can you afford more than a couple of children?” But really, they're talking the strange doctrine. That is not the doctrine of the Word of God because God's Word, as we read it, is about blessing us with children, and when He wants to do us good, what does He do? He blesses us. When He wants to have compassion on us, what does He do? He multiplies us and blesses us with children. This is the heart of God. We've got to get into the Word and see what it says and live by it.
Anyway, ladies, today is a great day because we've got a special guest. I have got here, sitting right beside me, Erin Harrison. If you have ever listened to the TALK SHOW that I do with Erin, you'll already know her. If you haven't, we'll talk about how you can find it. First of all, say “Hi,” Erin.
Erin: Hello ladies, so good to meet all of you.
Nancy: Can you believe it? I called Erin just a few minutes ago and said, “Hey, Erin, Arden's coming. Can you be free in half an hour?” “Oh, maybe.” she said. “I'm just finishing off canning about seventy jars of tomatoes.” She's been out picking and canning, but she left it all. Well, she finished up; she's so quick, and here she is.
Erin: Yep!
Nancy: You were having a busy day.
Erin: I sure was, but it was fun, and your daughter, Evangeline, was out there helping me.
Nancy: How amazing.
Erin: On our last TALK SHOW that we did this last week, you were with us, you joined us, and I thought there was no way I could ever get Evangeline to bottle things up or can anything with me because she's like, “Oh nonsense, I don't have time for that.” She's always busy running here and there but then I said, “Well, why don't you ladies come and help.” We did this, and she got it in her blood now. She wants to keep on doing it now. She's so excited because she figures that she has so much she can give to her family now. This garden is miraculous though.
Nancy: Oh, Erin's garden! Now, I have to say, ladies, I love gardening, and I've always had a wonderful vegetable garden, and I'm getting things out of my garden this year, but it's not prolific. I'm feeling such a failure. I go to Erin's garden, and I've never seen anything more prolific in my whole life. It is amazing.
Erin: I think we've grown enough produce in there for about five families.
Nancy: At least. Anyway, Erin and I actually do a TALK SHOW every week. It's live.
Erin: Tuesdays at 2 pm central standard time on the Keeper of the Homestead blog Facebook page, but I also upload the video to YouTube as well. If you go to Keeper of the Homestead on YouTube, just search it up and you'll find all the ones that are recorded on there.
Nancy: Yes, and then last week, we were bottling. We don't say that word here in America.
Erin: We were, and we looked terrible, didn't we?
Nancy: Yes. Anyway, in New Zealand, we call putting all your stuff in your jars bottling. I think it's really what you are doing. You're putting stuff in bottles, so we're bottling them. Of course, you say canning here in America. We did do it the old New Zealand way which is pouring the tomato puree into the jars.
Erin: Well, it has to be boiling first with the hot jars and the hot lids, piping hot.
Nancy: Oh yes, sterilize the jars while the puree is boiling, and we sterilize the seals and the rings and everything.
Erin: Then we turn it upside down and it pops and seals.
Nancy: Exactly. Did you know what? I must have mentioned I was doing that, and someone piped back on my Facebook, “Oh goodness me, you're meant to do it in the canning thing.”
Erin: Oh, you've gotten a message from the canning police, have you?
Nancy: Yes.
Erin: Oh, I always get those because I never do it by the blue book. I call them the blue book canning police.
Nancy: Yes, well, most Americans do use, what do you call them?
Erin: Pressure cookers. I saw the comment.
Nancy: You did?
Erin: I did, and I started laughing. I thought, “The blue book canning police found me again.”
Nancy: Well, the funny thing is, in New Zealand, we don't own these canning things, so we've always done it this way, and the population of New Zealand is still alive.
Erin: Well, we're still alive. I've been bottling and canning now for about 17 or 18 years. I've done thousands and thousands of jars, and I can always tell if a jar is off.
Nancy: Well, of course. If it's sealed, it sucks under, doesn't it? It indents.
Erin: It does, and I always smell my jars before I use them, and I always boil them again because you're heating it all up anyway. I know I can't technically, by law, tell you how to do it that way, but you have to can at your own risk, and that's what we do.
Nancy: Well, I didn't even know there was a risk because it's the only way we did it in New Zealand.
Erin: I know. It's the only way the Amish did it too, so yeah.
Nancy: Anyway, it's such great fun.
Erin: It's so fun. We had the time of our lives, didn't we? We were laughing, and you were crawling around the floor.
Nancy: If you are going to watch it, it's pretty raw, especially with Evangeline on it, but I will have to make a disclaimer now because we got on to talking about all kinds of subjects. Well, what happened is I got there because we were going to do this bottling or canning, whatever you want to call it, and Erin says, “I'm going to film this. This will save us doing a talk show. This will be our talk show.”
I had arrived in my oldest clothes with my dirty apron with stains on because I knew that we were going to be getting dirty. We look pretty raw and terrible. Anyway, that's why I love doing podcasts. Did you know that, ladies? I love it because I don't have to get dressed up. I can talk to you here, in my home, in my working clothes and never put on a little bit of makeup, which I never do at home. Only if ever I have to go out.
Erin: For my talk show, she always puts beautiful make up on, she combs her hair, and she puts a beautiful necklace on and beautiful tops. She always looks so glorious.
Nancy: Yes but it always takes time to do that, so this is the fun about podcasts. You can imagine what I'm like. Oh no, don't imagine. Anyway, we got talking about all these things and we got on to talking about...
Erin: Debates with the family.
Nancy: Yes. Our family, because we were saying how it's good to do this kind of thing together. Evangeline was saying how she had been reading how one of the most wonderful things for the brain is for people to be discussing and talking and dialoguing together. Togetherness is very important. I was sharing how this is how we grew up and how we raised our children, and I'm sure you do this too. How you gather your children around the table, and you talk, and you fellowship.
What I love to do is bring a subject to the table for discussion because I do find that often if we leave the conversation to go anywhere, it goes nowhere, and nobody says anything much. It's a great idea to bring something, an idea, a question, a subject for people to talk about.
Evangeline was saying what amazing times we used to have, and her memory was embellished because she was thinking of the wonderful amazing times we had together, and she got way out on her embellishing of these great memories. She said, “Yes, I can remember how Mom and Dad would get up and stand on the table.”
“I beg your pardon!” I said to Evangeline, “I've never done that in my life.” Anyway, if you hear her say that, you'll know it's just her memory being embellished.
Erin: It's so fun, isn't it?
Nancy: Oh yes, it's all fun but the table actually to me is very sacred. In fact, if children even put their knees up at my table, I'll be telling them to put their knees down because that is not the place to do that. I like to teach our children etiquette at the table.
Erin: What about putting your elbows on the table?
Nancy: We try not to do that because I must admit sometimes, I do that myself, but it's not the right thing to do. It's not as bad as sticking your knees up. I've had young people come to my table and put their knees up on my table. I cannot believe it. I think, what do their parents teach them?
Erin: Would you believe it? I used to be a knee table sitter. I was. I used to always have my knees up, and I'd put my plate between my knees and my chest, and I would balance it there, and I would eat, shovel the food right in my mouth . . . when I was a young child growing up, all the way through my teen years. And when Mark met me, his mother was very proper. She would not have it. She was so gracious to teach me. Then I started to sit like a normal person at the table. I couldn't imagine doing it now.
Nancy: It is just training, isn't it? I mean, we do have to train our children correctly.
Erin: But there's hope, if I could. Now, I have these glorious, beautiful tables, and I am so prim and proper at the table. You would have never thought I was like that, would you?
Nancy: Oh, never. You might have seen some of my pictures on Instagram because I usually will put one if we've been down to Erin's for a special meal. We always call her table a “Gloriana meal” because it's so beautiful.
Anyway, that was my disclaimer. I will have to confess our table with our children was loud because they really debated. I can remember Rocky getting up on a chair to get his point across but never the table. My husband is very proper at the table, and he would never allow such a thing in his wildest dreams, let alone do it himself.
In fact, my husband always comes to the table, usually in a suit or dressed very proper. He has never ever come to the table in my married life of 56 years ever in just causal working clothes. There's something special about the table. He feels its right to come and come dressed appropriately.
In fact, I remember reading the book Faith of our Fathers by John McCain. I have to say that I wasn't in any way a fan of his beliefs, even though he was a Republican, I think he was a RINO. I do have to admit that his book was a wonderful book as he wrote about his very patriotic grandfather and his patriotic father. It was wonderful to read about them. Also, of his time in prison in Vietnam. It was a very good book, but he says in that book that his parents would come to the table each night, his father dressed in a suit and his mother in an evening gown.
Erin: That is beautiful.
Nancy: That was the emphasis they put on the supper table. Isn't that interesting?
Erin: That's what I want to do every night, but I dress in my dresses every day. I must confess, even in the garden this morning, I was wearing a dress. I can't help myself. I always feel like a queen though.
Nancy: Yes, well, that's the thing, and we are going to talk together in our next podcast about being queens, but before we get on to that, I have some questions here. I'm sorry, ladies, I keep forgetting to answer your questions. I have so many things I want to tell you, but we'll do a couple of questions today. Don't forget, you are welcome to ask any questions. Write into my email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and you can send them in.
Erin: I have a question.
Nancy: Oh, you have one! Yes?
Erin: I keep meaning to answer this question. One of the ladies who watches our talk show had this special question that I keep telling her I'm going to talk to you about or ask you. The question is, “What do I do if I have a guest over at my meal table, and they have a potty mouth?” They say bad words, cussing words, in her home. It could be someone they're trying to minister to. Does she correct them?
Nancy: It's not something we ever want to have in our home, but if we are really reaching out to the real gutter-most perhaps, and we have done this over the years . . . in fact, I can remember in Australia how my husband and I had one of these real bad gangs. We had a guy who came to the Lord and he kind of knew them and brought them around and brought them to our church. Then, he asked them to come to our place for lunch, and we said yes, we'd love them to come for lunch.
Well, they arrived up in their Harley's in our neighborhood. I guess the neighborhood wondered what they struck. Back in New Zealand and Australia, the most times the people who ride Harley's are gang members. That's not true in America. You have wonderful, fine people who just love Harley's. Down under, it's sort of different. It's usually the gang members.
One was called Snake, one was called Dapper Dan. We were really reaching out to the real raw. We've had all kinds of people into our home. When you're inviting guests for fellowship, it's going to be different than if you're really ministering to people. If you are doing that, well then, you're going to have to accept the fact that they're going to say anything because they are not yet converted.
Erin: Exactly. That's the truth.
Nancy: Of course, if they're using the name of Jesus in vain, you could say, “My, do you love that name? You use it a lot, don't you? That name is so precious to me.” God can usually give you something to say about that.
Erin: That's beautiful. That's great.
Nancy: Anyway, this precious lady listens to my podcasts. She says, “I listen to the podcast all the way from Port Orchard, Washington, and it is the highlight of my week. Every Tuesday, I think to myself, 'Yay! It's Tuesday, a new podcast.' It gives me a spring in my step.”
She has a question which she wrote in and asked if we could discuss it on the podcast. “My husband and I are in our early parenting days. We only have a six-month-old boy. We have a lot of debt from our young, dumb single years, and he works 70-80 hours a week just to barely break even. I do everything I can to cut costs, but I feel useless staying at home with a six-month old. I feel like I have a load of extra time that I should help out financially. On top of that, we believe in letting God decide the number of children that we have, but it scares me to death of how we will afford more mouths to feed and more bodies to clothe if we are barely making it with one baby. Does God want us to be irresponsible and take on more babies than we can afford?”
Well, I think that's a very good question because so many of you could be asking those very same questions. What are your thoughts?
Erin: For one, little ones don't cost very much to care for. It's when they get to be teenagers that it gets more costly. When they are little like that, my goodness, they don't really eat any extra food. I mean, you're worried about finances, there's so many ways to save money. When you go to the grocery store, you can buy basic ingredients instead of packaged goods which cost a lot less. You can buy big bags of rice really cheap. When turkeys or chickens are on sale, you can buy them when they are only 90 cents a pound.
There are certain times of the year, stock up. Stock up on things. Buy big sacks of flour or wheat berries to grind, and you make a lot of your meals from scratch. That way you can save quite a bit of money. You can do cloth diapers. I've done all of this because we were very, very poor. I never went to work when my children were little. My husband had a job that only paid minimum wage for many years. He worked at a junk yard and was always coming home burned. We made it work because we believed that we were doing God's will for our lives to raise these children. We even grew some of our own food. That's how I got into the whole homesteading thing because of necessity. “Necessity is the mother of invention” is the old saying.
Nancy: Yes. I do think that we can live a lot less expensively than most people do. In fact, I notice that we are a throw away generation. We have so much. Do you know that we don't even need a quarter of what we have in our homes? Look, we could get rid of maybe 90 percent and still live basic good lives.
Erin: You could sell it on eBay.
Nancy: Oh yes.
Erin: Your grandson, Arrow does all sorts of sales on eBay, and he makes quite a bit of money. You can make a little money on the side selling things that you don't need.
Nancy: Well, that is true. A lot of people do that. They even go around buying things that are cheap and then selling them for more. Actually, you were saying, lovely friend, that you have your darling little baby, six months.
Erin: You are not useless. It bothers me because she is not useless. That is a huge undertaking, to care for a little six-month-old baby. They need you, and she's doing such a great work.
Nancy: Absolutely. There's nothing more powerful. You could try out and get an extra job, but really, you're doing something lesser, something that's going to fade away.
Erin: That doesn't matter in eternity.
Nancy: No, it does not. Really, this is the amazing thing about motherhood, ladies. It is an eternal career. Everything that you pour into your children, into your baby, into your children, it's all working for eternity. You see, God has given you the privilege of training and nurturing eternal souls. Yes, you're preparing them for this life but more than that, for eternity. Every moment counts. You may think, “I'm not actually out there earning money.”
No but God sees. God sees. You are earning. God sees that time. It's all going down and building up for eternity. I was reading the other day where Jesus said: “If you will give a cup of cold water in my name, you will not lose your reward.” I've often read that and thought, goodness me, a cup of water. What's that? It isn't anything, but Jesus is saying, even if we do it as unto the Lord and in His name, we are not going to lose our reward.
I thought to myself, wow, if someone will not lose a reward for just a cup of water, what about us mothers who prepare not just a cup of water for our children but meals. Breakfast, lunch, supper . . . breakfast, lunch supper. Day after day, month after month, year after year.
Erin: Or nursing a six-month-old baby.
Nancy: Oh yes, that's more than a cup of water.
Erin: There's so many nutrients in breast milk. That's huge. God created your body to pour that forth. You have to take a little inventory, look at your spending., do a little budget planning and maybe you and your husband could cut a few corners here and there. Because having children and having a little brother or sister for your little six-month one day will be such a blessing to your little one. They'll have each other for the rest of their lives. You would never regret having a child, but you will regret if you don't have children because when you're old and you only have one or no children, then you look back on your life, all the work you did, all the money you earned doesn't show for anything. All that you show for are the people gathered together around you at the end of your days. That's what matters the most, isn't it?
Nancy: Yes, that's so true,
Erin: When somebody is on their death bed, what do they want? Do they want money? No, they want to be gathered around with their children and their grandchildren to see them off and bless them before they take their last breath.
Nancy: Exactly. That is absolutely true. I'm thinking because this lovely mother says that how on earth, as you were saying, how would we manage, would we be irresponsible if we are barely making it with one baby? Dear mother, this is the thing. You think you're barely making it now, but you are making it. You're not on the streets. You've got a house over your head.
Erin: Thank God; He's providing for you. Thank the Lord.
Nancy: You have meals, I'm sure, every day. Goodness, the Bible says, if you have just food and clothing therewith be content (1 Timothy 6:8). Often, we want more all the time. We have to get back to this being content. I was saying before, we are a throw away generation. Now, I'll have to get on to one of my pet peeves. Actually, the other morning, we had a lovely ladies' morning tea, didn't we?
Evangeline said, “Ok, let's go around,” because we always love to think of something we can talk about, “and let's talk about our pet peeves.” Someone said, “Oh no, that's too negative,” so we didn't. We talked about what thrills us most. That was so wonderful. Sometimes, I do like to talk about my pet peeves.
Erin: I like to talk about my pet peeves too.
Nancy: I do. Maybe we'll have to have a podcast about it one day. Anyway, one of them is people taking so much on their plate and then throwing half of it in the trash can at the end.
Erin: There's nothing worse.
Nancy: I cannot stand it. Of course, I am a little older. I grew up in the days when you don't waste food. When we grew up as children, if we didn't eat what was on our plates, it waited for the next meal, and we ate that at the next meal, and we learned to eat what was given us. We didn't ever have stuff left over on our plates and throw it in the trash can.
The other night, I had about fourteen around our table, and we're cleaning the table and some folks are helping and getting the stuff and throwing it into the trash. It wasn’t anything on someone's plate, it was a serving dish, and there was a little bit left, but if there is anything left from a serving dish, I will put it in a container, put in the fridge, and it's leftovers for the next day.
This person was just throwing it in the trash. I said, “Oh, just a minute, that hasn't touched anyone's plate. I'm going to save it.” She said, “Oh, I'm just use to throwing everything away.” I thought to myself, “I can't believe it.” We say that we don't have much or don't have enough, yet we throw away more than we need. I think we should train our children not to be part of this throw away generation.
Erin: Teach them to portion control.
Nancy: Yes, that's what I believe.
Erin: Even here on Sundays, I see certain children that come and load up their plate, and it's heaping full, and it sits there, and it's full, and it makes me want to cry because there's children that are starving in the world.
Nancy: Maybe we will have to get our bucket and cry into it.
Erin: We should. We could see how many tears we could collect, how many cups. The thing is that a mother should train her children to take a little of this and a little of that, a spoonful of each thing. If you don't like it, then it's not throwing away so much.
Nancy: Exactly. That's what I always say to the children. I say, “Look, take a little bit and then you can come back for as much as you want.”
Erin: You can always come back for more. It's actually more fun. You teach them it's like a little taste testing plate. Then you know what you like the best, you taste it all, you take a teaspoonful for each thing. See what you like. Come back and load it up with what you like the most.
Nancy: We have a big crowd. Our family when we get together is pretty large. At Christmastime and Thanksgiving, we will have up to a hundred people for a sit-down meal. Always at the beginning of our big meal, we have the food put out and it's so much food because everybody brings something. I will do my little lecture, “Now children, all listening to Nana. Remember, just take what you can eat and then you're welcome to come back for more. But I don't want to see any food left on any plates.”
Well, I give this lecture every year but every year, I go around and there's big pieces of chicken and turkey and lamb left on plates. I want to cry.
Erin: Want to know what the Amish do?
Nancy: What?
Erin: Well, it's really interesting. I'll quickly explain it. They have this big, long spread of food. They have a lot of carbs; there are quite a lot of carbs. Noodles, they call it nootlan. They have pies and cakes and cookies and puddings and this jello and all this stuff but then they'll have a little bit of meat. Well, they go through, and they have always the women with the baby children, the littlest ones, then after, that is the men. The men go next and the young folks (they call the teenager boys that are working age all the way up till they're maybe 25) if they are not married. Then the young folk girls. Then the ladies go last. You know what they do? It's a little trick. I learned it. When they go in line with their little ones, they pile a lot of food on their plates, with their little ones because they clean up their little one’s food after that. They never put any of it to waste. They know so many people going through the line, that they might not get anything. That's their little trick. Isn't that a fun trick?
Nancy: Yes, it is.
Erin: They never let anything go to waste.
Nancy: No. We have to teach our children this. I wanted to give you this Scripture. It's in the blessing chapter of Deuteronomy 28, and it says here that God will bless us if we walk in His ways and His commandments. The first blessing is verse 4: “Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb.” That's the first blessing but then God adds other blessings. “And the fruit of your ground. The fruit of your cattle, the increase of your kind, and the flocks of your sheep. Blessed shall be your basket and your store.” I
It's talking about abundant provision. Now ladies, that provision, when it comes, it doesn't come before you have that baby, or number two baby, or three baby or four baby or number 10 baby. It comes after! You see, blessed shall be the fruit of your womb. When God blesses your womb, then he will add those extra blessings to enable you to feed the blessing that comes from your womb. This is the wonderful thing. No matter how many children God gives you, whether it's two or it's 10, God will provide.
I have received so many testimonies from mothers who share, “When we had our sixth baby, we didn't know how we were going to cope but God is amazing, my husband got a raise.” That happened so many times. Another one will write, “God provided miraculously this big van so that we could fit all our children in it.” All these little blessings come along the way to provide for this new baby that comes into the home.
Dear precious mothers, don't worry, you don't have to think of the future. Trust God and He will provide. All our lives, we've been married 56 years, we have lived from hand to mouth, trusting God from day to day. Here we are, 56 years plus down the road married, and we are still alive, and we still have everything we need. We don't have everything we want but who cares about that? We have all we need. We have a home over our heads, and we have food to eat. We have clothes to wear. What more do we need? God is so good. He is a God who can be trusted but we need to close.
“Lord God, we thank You so much for Your wonderful goodness and faithfulness and provision. We thank You that You are the God of provision, and You have stated in Your Word, which cannot lie, that when You bless the fruit of the womb, that You will then bless our store and our basket and all that we need to provide for the children You give us. We thank You.
“Lord, I pray for all these listening who have worries about finance and will they be able to provide, and can they do this or that? But I pray that You will lift their eyes up to see who You are. That You are a God who can be trusted. I pray that You will help them trust You more and more in the name of Jesus. Amen.”
Erin: Amen.
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