PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 213: THE LAND OF MOTHERHOOD, PT 24
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 213: THE LAND OF MOTHERHOOD, Part 24
Can you believe it? This is our sixth podcast about JOYFUL MOTHERING. Today we talk about the ways that God wants us to rejoice. Does He want us to rejoice a little bit, only when everything is going great, and when we feel in the mood? No, He explicitly tells us to rejoice greatly, exceedingly, and with all our hearts. And more! Find out how we can do this. And even though I haven't yet shared everything about joy, I promise we'll begin a new subject next week!
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Well, that is mothers and babies. Some of you may have your babies with you as you’re listening. You may even be nursing your baby. And children, I know there’s lots of children who listen, too. Hello, children! I love you, and I’m so glad you are listening to me! Oh, I am so happy about that! And teens, and grandmothers, and well, maybe even some men. Welcome to you all.
Now since our last podcast, we have all been rejoicing over the wonderful, amazing, miraculous overruling of Roe vs Wade. Well, I trust you have been rejoicing. I know you will have. But I wonder how much you rejoiced. I believe when God does something great like this, we really do need to rejoice.
That day I was preparing for our Shabbat meal. Then some of our grandsons called me, and they said, “Nana, can we have a barbeque tonight? And a celebration over this overruling of Roe vs Wade. I thought, “Wow! I can’t say no! Of course, we can!” So, we had a barbeque, and the families came and whoever wanted to come. We had a great barbeque together.
Then we came inside, and we worshipped and praised the Lord for this wonderful answer. I know some of our teens and young twenties, back when they were young, I can still remember in our services, these young children, anything from five, six, seven, eight, nine. When my husband said, “OK, it’s time to pray! Come on children! You come and pray too,” because we always loved to welcome the children and young people to pray, they would come up. They would run up. They would line up in front and take the mike, one by one. They were so concerned about little precious babies being killed in the womb. Sometimes they would even get down on their knees and cry out, “God, save the babies! God, please, bring down abortion!”
I know God heard their cry. They have waited a long time. They were so rejoicing. They’re grown now, but they so wanted to celebrate and rejoice at the answer to their prayers. Of course, the answer to the prayers of so many intercessors across this nation who have prayed and fasted and interceded and fought to get rid of this Roe vs Wade which has been the result of over 60 million babies being murdered in the womb.
We pray that now there will be a whole new awareness of life in our nation. Before Roe vs Wade, you most probably were aware that abortion was illegal in 30 states in our nation. Now, we’ve got to get back to that, and to more, so that the majority of the states in our nation will be abortion-free. Oh, wouldn’t that be so wonderful?
I think this is a date we have to remember. The 24th of June 2022. I think it’s a date we will remember, like we remember the date when Israel became a nation, which is a date that every one of us should know, and all our children should know. I’m sure you all do. 14th of May 1948. That was also a historic day, the fulfillment of Bible prophecy.
I think that now we’ve had that victory, it’s an encouragement to us to continue praying for many, many more victories, because we need many more victories. There’s so much evil in this nation.
I think of the Obergefell vs Hodges bill, where the Supreme Court of our land, I simply can’t believe it. I could not ever get over that day, when they ruled that same-sex marriages would have the same legality as the marriage of a man and a woman. How could that be passed by the Supreme Court of our land?
That is an absolute abomination in the eyes of God. It is totally against His plan. It is totally opposite to the way God created mankind, male and female. We can never, ever accept this ruling. We cannot accept it, because it’s against the Bible. It’s against God. It’s against the way He created us.
We need to keep praying. We need to keep pushing and fighting against that also. That could also be overruled. What does the Bible say? That “When righteousness is in the nation, the people rejoice. And righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Let’s not give up in prayer. God answers prayer. Let’s keep praying. Let’s keep pushing against evil. Amen?
Well, dear precious ladies, I trust that you enjoyed the last three podcasts with my daughters, Pearl, and Serene, and Evangeline. They were all wonderful podcasts! That means we have now done five podcasts on this point, that MOTHERHOOD IS A JOYFLAND LAND.
To tell you the truth, I still have so many Scriptures. I think I’m going to do one more podcast on this point about joyful mothering. I know I won’t even get through them all in this session, but I promise you I’ll stop at this session, OK?
After having so many sessions talking about joyful mothering, I’m sure that you are now joyfully mothering in your home. If you’re not, maybe you need one more session! And if you are, of course, you will love to hear more about rejoicing in our homes, and rejoicing in motherhood, and rejoicing in our daily lives.
We all need this encouragement, don’t we? I need it myself. The greatest way we can get this encouragement is from the Scriptures. It’s the Word, as Jesus said in Matthew 4:4: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Every word, every word, every word of God. And God has His Word for every situation, and everything we face in life. We can live our lives by His Word.
As we get into the Scriptures, then they become part of us, and we can live them. This is how we’re meant to live. If we’re not living what God says, we’re living what our humanist society says. We’re either living one way or the other. That’s why we need the reminding of the Scriptures into our lives.
I’d like to look at few Scriptures today about HOW do we rejoice? We’ve been talking about being filled with joy and rejoicing, but how does God want us to rejoice? I have here just seven points.
Number one: He wants us to GREATLY REJOICE
Do you notice this, ladies? So many times, I talk to you about how our Christian life is not a normal life. This life that we live in the kingdom of God is not normal. It’s not average. It’s not status quo. It is above the normal, beyond the status quo. It’s a whole new realm of living!
It’s amazing how we are born into the kingdom of God. Jesus said, “Except ye be born again,” we cannot enter into His kingdom. We’re born again into His kingdom, and most of the time, we still live our old life. Yes, we’re born again. We’re cleansed by the blood of Jesus. We know that we have eternal life. But how do we live now? We’ve got to live by the Scriptures and what God says. Here, even in rejoicing, God says, “I don’t want you just to rejoice. I want you to GREATLY rejoice!”
In Psalm 21:1, David, the great psalmist, the sweet psalmist of Israel, he confessed: “In Thy salvation, how greatly shall he rejoice?” That’s talking about himself.
Psalm 28:7: “The Lord is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped. Therefore, my heart greatly rejoiceth. With my song will I praise Him.” Do you notice, it’s not only just rejoicing, but greatly rejoicing? It’s always going beyond the normal.
So, darling ladies, the kingdom of God language is not the normal, “Oh, well, you know, I’m feeling pretty happy today.” No! It’s “greatly rejoicing”! Now, you may not even be able to rejoice in your circumstances at the moment. Maybe everything’s going wrong. It’s tough. It’s difficult.
But you see, your rejoicing is not in your circumstances. Your rejoicing is in the Lord. In the Lord. It’s in Him you are rejoicing. As you rejoice in Him, you will be amazed at how you can live in victory over your circumstances, because it’s not our circumstances that rule us. No, it is the Word of God. This is a whole new level of living to come into, living by what the Word says, rather than how we feel, or rather than our circumstances, or even whatever everyone else is saying or doing.
This word here, ladies, “greatly rejoiceth,” that word in the Hebrew is alaz. A-L-A-Z. And it’s another one of those words meaning “jump for joy”! Oh, my! The language of the Bible is so beyond the normal. Now, come on, jump for joy, the Bible says!
Well, how often do we do that? Now, I’m speaking to you, but I’m challenged myself, ladies. I’m not just speaking to you. I’m speaking to me. And how much do I jump for joy? I can rejoice in the Lord, but how much am I jumping for joy? Whoo! We’ve got a long way to get into real Bible living and real kingdom living, haven’t we?
Do you know that that word that’s in the Scripture here, “rejoiceth,” alaz, “jumping for joy”? It’s the same word that is used in Habakkuk 3:17, 18. Oh, these words always challenge me.
“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.”
Here this servant of God is confessing that even when there’s nothing left, there’s nothing! He’s still rejoicing, jumping for joy in the Lord! Wow! My.
And it’s the same word in Psalm 5:11: “Let them also that love Thy Name be joyful in Thee.” Jumping for joy! And many other Scriptures.
Let’s look at Psalm 71:23: “My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto Thee, and my soul, which Thou hast redeemed.”
Isaiah 61:10: “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my God, for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.” Now, the word in this Scripture, “My soul shall be joyful,” this is the Hebrew word giyl. What does it mean? It means “to spin around, under the influence of any violent emotion.” Here we get another Hebrew word, which affects our whole body. Spinning around. Wow, I wonder if any of us have ever got to that yet? But that’s what it means. That word is used many times in the Bible.
We’ve got these words. Often, we don’t see the fullness of their meaning until we go to the Hebrew. The meaning is “jumping for joy, spinning around.”
OK, Zechariah 9:9: “Rejoice greatly, oh daughter of Zion. Shout, oh daughter of Jerusalem.”
Go to the New Testament. 1 Peter 1:6: “Wherein we greatly rejoice.” It’s talking about this place of temptation and difficulties. But it says: “wherein we greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.”
All right, number two: EXCEEDINGLY
Psalm 68:3: “Let the righteous be glad, let them rejoice before God. Yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.” Another Hebrew word. A different word again. This is alatz. And once again, it means “jumping for joy.”
Zephaniah 3:14: “Sing, oh daughter of Zion, shout, oh Israel. Be glad and rejoice.” There’s the same word, jumping for joy again. It says, “With all your heart.” Yes, with all your heart. That’s another point, actually.
Number four: WITH ALL YOUR HEART
Yes, in Psalm 28:7, it says: “with my heart” and here in Zephaniah 3:14: “with all my heart.” We are to rejoice. It’s not just what’s going on, our feelings, but it’s with our heart that we rejoice.
Number five: WITH SINGING
Psalm 68:4: “Sing unto God. Sing praises to His Name. Exalt Him that rideth upon the heavens by His Name Yah, and rejoice before Him.” That’s jumping for joy again.
Psalm 149:5: “Let the saints be joyful in glory. Let them sing aloud upon their beds.”
James 5:13: “Is any merry? Let him sing psalms.”
Psalm 71:23: “My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto Thee.”
Zechariah 2:10: “Sing and rejoice, oh daughter of Zion, for lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.”
Number six: WITH SHOUTING
Ever do any shouting? Well, sometimes you might be shouting at your children. You’re getting a little bit frustrated, and you’ll be letting out a few shouts. It’s not actually talking about that here. It’s talking about shouting for joy!
Lovely ladies, we don’t go around shouting in our homes with anger. We shout for joy!
Psalm 5:11: “Let all those who put their trust in Thee rejoice. Let them ever shout for joy because Thou defendest them.”
Psalm 32:11: “Be glad in the Lord and rejoice (spin around) ye righteous and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.”
Psalm 47:1: “Oh clap your hands, all ye people. Shout unto God with the voice of triumph!” Yes, ladies, the Bible does give us an excuse to shout but to shout with joy. How often do we do that? I think many of us would feel a little bit embarrassed to be shouting out with joy but it’s Bible language. Can you imagine what it would be like in our homes if we were all greatly rejoicing, exceedingly rejoicing, singing and shouting with joy?
Go to Ezra 3:11. This is when they had laid the foundation of the temple, which had been destroyed. When this happened, it says: “And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.”
Back to the Psalms. Psalm 132:9: “Let Thy saints shout for joy.”
In same psalm, verse 16: “I will also clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.”
Isaiah 12:6: “Cry and shout.” The word in the Hebrew is ranan, and it means “shout for joy.” “Shout for joy, thou inhabitants of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.”
Wow, ladies. I’m not spouting this out. I’m reading the Scriptures. Wow. It’s time we got into what the Scriptures say, isn’t it? This is how God wants us to rejoice.
Now we go to the next one. Number seven: with JOY UNSPEAKABLE
1 Peter 1:8: “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”
Well, we’ve been reading a lot of Old Testament Scriptures, but this is New Testament, so whether it’s Old Testament or New Testament it’s all talking about an excessive rejoicing. Here it’s “joy unspeakable and full of glory.”
Number eight. The last one: MORE THAN IN THE TIME OF GREAT HARVEST
In Psalm 4:7 it says: “Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.” I want to go to this psalm and look at it a little more here because I remember that this psalm, when David was writing this psalm, he was going through some difficult times. Let’s go to it here.
Psalm 4:1: “Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.” We see that he starts off having been in distress. But now, we go down, and as he continues to praise the Lord. We go down to Psalm 4:7, and he confesses: “Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.”
He continues: “And I will both lay me down in peace and sleep, for Thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.” Even though David had been in distress, he’s been facing his enemies, he rejoices in the Lord. His rejoicing is not, once again, just an average kind of rejoicing. No, it’s more than, more than how they rejoice in the time of harvest.
In a time of great harvest, the Israelites would really rejoice. They would get out, the women would be out dancing and singing with their tambourines and rejoicing. Everyone would be rejoicing. He’s rejoicing even more than that. I think God wants us to get into that place of not being just average and boring, but that more than, more than.
MORE AND MORE
I think one of my favorite Scriptures in the Bible is Proverbs 4:18: “But the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” That’s what we’re meant to do. We’re meant to be always doing that which is more.
More rejoicing. Just rejoicing in the little things that happen in our lives each day. Rejoicing with our husbands. Rejoicing with our children. Rejoicing in every little thing that happens. Not just taking all God’s blessings for granted but rejoicing in them. Thanking Him. Our lives should be filled with thankfulness, gratefulness, rejoicing.
Of course, the greatest rejoicing that we can ever have is rejoicing in God’s great salvation. Even as David said: “I rejoice in Thy salvation.” I try to make it a habit of mine that each day, at our family devotions, when we all pray together, that I thank the Lord for His great salvation, His great redemption. It’s beyond what we could ever fathom. We can never take it for granted. We can never forget about it. I believe we need to constantly thank Him AND praise Him, for His great salvation and rejoice in it. Rejoice. Rejoice that our names are written in heaven.
Maybe you are going through difficult times, challenging times. You feel the weight of the world upon you. But dear one, I want you to look up. Look up to Jesus. He has promised to carry your weight. “Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you,” the Bible says. Trust Him, look to Him and thank Him. Thank Him that He is taking your burden. Thank Him that He has got everything all planned out, even though you can’t see a way out. God has got it all in His hands. He’s working everything out.
Above all, thank Him that your name is written in heaven. This life is just a vapor. We have an eternal realm waiting. How we need to be thanking and rejoicing. Don’t let the days go by without doing this, will you?
REJOICING HOMES
I want to mention, we’ve been talking about rejoicing in our personal lives. But God not only talks about our personally rejoicing but having rejoicing homes. Did you know that God wants us to have homes of rejoicing?
Let’s go to Psalm 46:4. The Jerusalem Bible says: “There is a river, the streams of which make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the tents of the Most High.” It’s talking about the homes.
At that time, many of them were living in tents. But it says: “homes of the Most High.” The city of God consists of many homes. It consists of God’s people. And to have a joyful city, what do we have to do? We have to have joyful homes. We can’t have a joyful city without joyful homes.
Isn’t it sad that there are so many sad homes today? So many sad things happening. So many marriages that are sad. They’re not getting on. They’ve even broken up. Once that happens, what sadness comes to the family? What sadness comes to the children?
Oh, children can never come out unscathed from a divorce. It’s impossible, because God intends for children to have their father and their mother. Even after a divorce, they still have their father and their mother, but they’re not together. They have to go from one home to the other. It causes such heartache in children.
Of course, there are so many sad things going on, even in Christian homes, let alone the secular homes of this world. Oh, but God’s plan is for us to have joyful homes. Joyful homes make a joyful city! Then, when we have joyful cities, we will have a joyful nation!
But it all starts in the homes. How do we get that joy? Well, it comes from the river. There is a river that flows from God. It’s streams. The Bible says: “Make glad the homes of God’s people. The streams of the river, the river of the Holy Spirit.” God wants the river of the Holy Spirit to flow into each one of our homes. He wants to flow, cause His streams of joy and gladness to flow.
His streams of love, and forgiveness, and sweetness, and healing, and encouragement, and compassion, and kindness, and tender-heartedness, and humility, and meekness, and longsuffering, and patience, and peace-making. These are all streams that flow from the river, the river of God, which flows through the Holy Spirit, bringing all these different streams to fill our homes with love and joy and peace.
Sometimes we need a bigger stream of one of these beautiful attributes than the other, but the Holy Spirit will bring whatever we are needing.
GOD WANTS US TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF JOY
We go over to Isaiah 32:13. In that Scripture it talks about the “houses of joy.” That’s what God calls them. His homes, He wants them to be called the “houses of joy.” Joy is the atmosphere in which He wants us to raise our children.
Then over in Isaiah 51:3, it gives us another description of the homes of Zion. “For the Lord shall comfort Zion. Joy and gladness shall be found therein. Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.” Now, do you notice something there? We’ve got some twins. There’s lots of twins in the Bible. God puts two things together because they fit together. Here we see “joy and gladness.” They’re twins. They run round together. God wants them in our homes. Joy and gladness, jumping around for joy in our home.
The next twins, “thanksgiving and the voice of melody.” Thanksgiving and singing, we could call those twins. In fact, in another translation, “Joy and gladness shall abound in her.” Not a little bit of joy but abounding with joy and gladness. Abounding with thanksgiving and singing.
Then, there’s another set of twins that God loves us to have in our homes.
Psalm 118:15: “The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles, the homes of the righteous. The right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.” Some translations say: “The voice of joy and victory are in the homes of the righteous.” So, there’s another set of twins, “joy and victory” which also want to jump around and be glad in our homes.
Lovely ladies, I trust that you’ve really got this message now, of joyful living, joyful mothering. As we joyfully mother in our homes, we have the power to bring joy and gladness into our homes, to our husbands, to our children. Are we raising children with joy? Are we raising children who know how to rejoice?
Or are we raising children who are always grumbling and complaining? So many homes are filled with grumbling and complaining, always concerned about this and that. There’s no joy or victory.
But God wants our homes to have joy and victory. Dear mothers, it comes back to us. We’re the ones who set the tone for the home. We’re the ones who establish the atmosphere in the home, according to what we are doing. If we are constantly rejoicing, well, our children are also going to learn the habit of rejoicing.
May the Lord richly bless you. I promise next session we’re starting on a new point. We’re still traveling through this land of motherhood. But we’re coming to the end. It’s such a wonderful, vast land. I trust that you’re getting a little glimpse of the glory of this land.
Let me pray:
“Dear Father, we thank You so much again for all Your goodness to us, all Your faithfulness to us. We thank You again for this victory of the overturning of Roe vs Wade. We give You thanks. Lord, it is Your doing. You have answered the faithful prayers of Your people. We thank You, Lord God.
“We thank You that we can trust You. We thank You that You are bigger than all our circumstances. We thank You that You are bigger than how we feel, because our feelings are so deceiving. We thank You that in You we have victory. In You we have our joy. In You we have all that we need. So, we give You thanks today.
“I pray Your blessing on everyone listening. Lord, bless them. Pour out Your anointing of joy upon them. I pray that, Lord, Your joy will rise up from within them and bubble up, Lord God, and they will be rejoicing mothers. And Lord, that You will give them that anointing to establish rejoicing homes. I ask it in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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EXTRA:
Here are some extra Scriptures for you to look up, meditate upon, and enjoy. I didn’t get time to talk about them in the last six podcasts about joy.
WHAT DO WE REJOICE IN?
GOD’S SALVATION
Psalm 9:14: “I will rejoice in thy salvation.”
Psalm 35:9: “My soul shall be joyful (giyl) in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.”
Isaiah 12:3: “Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.”
Also read Isaiah 25:9; 61:10; Romans 5:11.
GOD’S PRESENCE
Psalm 16:11: “Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.”
Psalm 21:6: “Thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.”
Acts 2:28: “Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me FULL OF JOY WITH THY COUNTENANCE.” (From Psalm 16:11).
GOD’S WORD
Psalm 19:8: “The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart.”
Psalm 119:14: “I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.”
Psalm 119:162: “I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.”
Psalm 19:7-11 tells us that God’s Word restores the soul, makes wise the simple, rejoices the heart, enlightens the eyes, gives us warning, and “in keeping of them there is great reward.”
The psalmist proclaims in Psalm 119:111 that God’s words are “the rejoicing of my heart.” Do you rejoice in the truth? Even when it challenges you? Even when it hurts? Also read Psalm 119:14, 162, Psalm 19:8; and 1 Corinthians 13:6.
GOING TO CHURCH AND MEETING WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD
Psalm 122:1: “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.” The word “glad” is sameach meaning “to brighten up, cheer up, make joyful, make merry, rejoice.” Is this your attitude as you meet with the people of God each week? Or more than once a week.
Isaiah 56:7: “Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer . . . for mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.”
GOD’S JUSTICE
Psalm 97:8: “The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments (mishpat, justice) O LORD.”
GOD’S HOLINESS
Psalm 97:12: “Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.”
WHO LIVES IN JOY?
THOSE WHO LOVE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATE EVIL
Psalm 45:7: “Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” Repeated again in Hebrews 1:8,9
Psalm 68:3: “Let the righteous be glad, let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.”
THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM
Psalm 64:10: “The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.”
THE UPRIGHT
Psalm 97:11: “Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright I heart.”
THE MEEK
Isaiah 29:19: “The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD.”
THOSE WHO SEEK THE LORD
2 Chronicles 15:12-15: At that time Asa and all the people “entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire: and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about” (2 Chronicles 15:12-15).
Be blessed. Love from Nancy.