PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 236: What Does God Want Us to Do in the Land, part 11
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 236: What Does God Want Us to Do in the Land, part 11
How big is your trust in God? How do we trust God for pregnancy, for birth, and for the provision of our needs? Is God big enough?
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello to you today! We’re continuing our series, “What Does God Want us to so in our Land of Motherhood?” No. 6 today: WE MUST TRUST THE LORD IN TH IS LAND.
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Whatever way, we want to get this message out into the nations. This is God’s message. This is the message of truth. We want to get truth out, to overcome the lies and deception that are all around. In fact, in this hour of living in a world of lies, I believe the greatest thing that we can do is to live by the truth, to be those who are not deceived by the lies, even though they are so prevalent all around us, but to continually be in the Word, to search God’s truth, and to live by the truth, which means to live a radical life. Because the truth is radical.
What is “radical?” Well, “radical” means “to get to the root.” That’s the real meaning of “radical.” We have to get to the root, to the truth of what God says. What God says is usually pretty opposite to what the world is saying. We are living a life that is counterculture. But that is the greatest antidote to lies, to live a life of truth.
TRUTH LIVING FAMILIES
Oh, precious ladies, let’s be truth-living mothers! Let’s be truth-speaking mothers! Truth-heralding mothers, truth-imparting mothers! Let’s get the truth into our children, that they will grow up, being truthful, understanding children, knowing the truth, not being deceived by the lies.
We need to be truth-living families! That means we’ll be living differently to the rest of the world, maybe the rest of the church. But no, we’re going to live by the truth! Amen? I hope you’ll say “amen” out loud as you are listening.
All right. God wants us to trust Him in the land.
Psalm 37:3: “Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.”
Isaiah 57:13: “He that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land.” We see a foundation of living in the blessing of the land is to trust God. It just seems such a cliché to say, “Trust God,” doesn’t it?
I love those beautiful lines that say,
Trust Him when dark days assail thee,
Trust Him when thy faith is small,
Trust him when to simply trust Him
Is the hardest thing of all.
Yes, it’s easy to trust God when everything’s going great, when we’ve got everything we need, when we’re surviving OK. Oh, but it’s a different thing to trust the Lord when we don’t know where the next meal is coming from, when we don’t know how we’re going to pay this bill, when we don’t know how we’re going to pay our house payment.
Oh goodness me, there are so many areas of “where, what, with, if, wherefore.” But that’s when we really have to trust God, isn’t it? We trust Him when we don’t know where else to look. We trust Him when the hardest thing to do is to trust Him. In this land of motherhood, it is a land of trusting God and trusting Him for His provision.
In this land of motherhood, as we were talking about last week, and coming back to our homes, being married to the home, living a Beulah life, which is to be married to our home and the land of motherhood, to be delighting in it. When we do that, well, help! Here we are! We’re in the home! We’re relying on our husband’s income!
Well, we’re relying on more than that. We’re trusting God. Oh, dear lovely ladies, if I just had to trust on my husband’s income all throughout our lives, I don’t know how we would have survived. But you see, there’s another level, when we trust God even beyond our provision. We have proved that over the years.
Of course, we’re beyond raising our children now. We are now to the stage of having great-grandchildren. But all through the years of raising our children we were living from hand to mouth. We went through tough times, hard times. But even in those times, I couldn’t even think of leaving my home and children to go out and earn some money. I used to say, “I’d rather live in a tent than to leave my children!” I couldn’t do it!
And yet, God was faithful. We didn’t always have everything we wanted, but my, we had everything we needed. God is so faithful. I want to encourage you, dear lovely ladies, to lift your trust above what you can see, even above your husband’s income. God is able to provide in other ways, in miraculous ways. Somehow, you survive even when you don’t even know how you’re surviving, but you are! Because God does it! It’s amazing.
I love hearing the testimonies of many women who write to me and share with me. They say, “Oh, we had this next baby. It was number five, or number six. We didn’t know how we were going to do it, but my husband got a raise! In fact, every time we have another baby, my husband gets a raise!” I often hear that testimony.
They will say, “And God provided us with this bigger van! Wow! We couldn’t even fit all our children in the vehicle we had, but God did it, miraculously!” And God does these miraculous things. He provides food beyond what you can even buy. He can land a box of groceries on your doorstep. He can provide in amazing ways as you trust Him, trust Him.
We have to learn to trust Him. It’s not an easy thing, because we haven’t got our faith in what we can see. It’s beyond what we can see. But the more we trust Him, the more we find He is faithful, and therefore, we can trust Him more.
Actually, there’s a lovely old hymn about that. My husband is here again today. He’s in the kitchen preparing one of his messages, so I’m going to get him, and tell him to come and sing it, because, as I told you last week, you wouldn’t want to listen to me singing! Goodness me!
I remember when my husband and I were courting, one day he said, “Sing to me.” So, I sang to him, and he actually just laughed! He couldn’t believe how terrible it sounded! [laughter] And he couldn’t believe that I wasn’t even singing in tune!
Oh, goodness me. Anyway, hey darling! Woohoo! Come, can you come? I need you. Come, I want you to sing for me. Actually, I love him singing to me. He loves to sing. Often, when he’s preaching, he will come out with a song, an old hymn, or a worship song, or something. He’s always singing.
“You remember that lovely old hymn, ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus’”?
Colin: Oh, yes. Sure do.
Nancy: OK, sing it to us!
Colin:
'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to take Him at His word;
Just to rest upon His promise,
And to know, "Thus saith the Lord."
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
How I've proved Him o'er and o'er!
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
O for grace to trust Him more!
I’m so glad I learned to trust Him,
Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend,
And I know that Thou art with me,
Will be with me ‘til the end.
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
How I've proved Him o'er and o'er!
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
O for grace to trust Him more!
Nancy: Amen! That’s one of my favorite hymns. Isn’t it true? I love to sing it. “O for grace to trust Him more!” Do you love to sing the hymns? Well, here on the Hilltop and at our church, we sing the current worship songs. Our young people love to sing the worship songs. Many of them are so anointed, and so wonderful. The music is so glorious. It takes you into heights of worship. We love to do that.
But at our family devotions in the morning and in the evening, then we will sing the hymns, because I think it’s so great to have both. I do believe that we have seasons of different kinds of music. As there is a new season of music coming, we need to embrace it, especially that which is truly anointed of the Lord. We always seek that which is anointed of the Lord. But in embracing the new, we do not discard the old.
I feel sad to know that so many young people today don’t even know one hymn! They’re missing out on so much, because the hymns may not have the same glorious music, but my, they have doctrine. They have truth. And it’s so wonderful to get that into our children.
I love that Scripture in Matthew 13:52. I quote it often. Jesus is speaking. He's giving a parable here. He says: “Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things NEW AND OLD.”
I love that, because I believe that in God’s treasure house, there are things both new and old. There is so much of the old that is so important, so foundational, so good, that we must not discard. We must keep it and hold onto it. Then there is the new. God is always bringing forth that which is new and fresh because our God is never stale. He is always bringing that which is new. We embrace the new also. We delight in the treasures of both new and old.
Now, there are some who only know the current worship songs. There are some who still only know the hymns. I have friends who actually still only sing the Psalms. In fact, I remember once, we were speaking over in Ireland, in the UK.
We went to this meeting and there was a certain group of people who came who were so back in the dim, dark ages that they did not even believe in hymns! The hymns were far too modern for them. They came into this meeting, and we were singing hymns, actually, at this meeting. But they would not even open their mouths and sing one of the hymns! Isn’t that amazing? But\ I think we should be open to the new and the old.
Let’s get back to talking about trusting the Lord. One of the things, of course, that we do have to trust the Lord for in our land of motherhood is for the provision of food, the provision of our needs. Let me give you a few Scriptures. The Word of God is filled with His word and His promises to watch over us and to provide for us. But let me give you just a few to encourage you again today.
I do believe that the more we are in the Word, ladies, the more the Word of God fills us up, the more we trust God. Because when you read His Word, you take hold of it, you believe it, you stand on it. Well, then, that’s trusting Him. “I’m going to trust His Word! I’ll stand on His Word, no matter what!” That’s where we learn to trust Him.
Let’s look at a few. I won’t give you them all. We’d be here all day, wouldn’t we? Let’s go to Deuteronomy 7:12-15. God is speaking here to the people. The whole of Deuteronomy is Moses speaking to the children of Israel as they’re preparing to go in and take the land.
It’s a wonderful book to read. I love to read it over and over again. I’ll come back to it and read it through again. Although I basically read the King James version, I love to pick up another translation, so sometimes I'll read it in a different translation. It’s so great, because every word here is preparation for possessing the land. That’s what we’re doing in the land of motherhood. We’re possessing the land.
Here he says: “Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which He sware unto thy fathers: And He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee.” Isn’t that interesting? Do you notice those words, dear ladies? “He will love thee and bless thee.” Oh, we so long for those words. We want to feel God’s love. We want to live in His blessings.
So, how does He show us His love? How does He bless us? Well, the next phrase is, “and multiply thee.” That’s how God loves us. That’s how He blesses us. You see, ladies, this is Bible language. Many, even Christians, don’t understand this. They think, “Oh, if God was to give me another baby, how would I survive? How would we provide? Oh, help!”
But this is God’s plan. This is how He blesses us. Of course, He will provide. He goes on to say, “He will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which He sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.”
What is it saying here? He says, “I will bless the fruit of your womb.” But God does not stop there. He says, “When I bless the fruit of your womb, I will then bless your cattle, and I will bless your land, and your corn, and your wine, and everything that you’re doing to provide for the fruit of your womb.”
You see, those things come after the blessing of the fruit of the womb. There’s no need for them if you don’t have the fruit of the womb. What are you providing for? We provide for the children God gives us. When He gives us a blessing from the womb, then He multiplies the blessings so that we can provide for the blessings of the womb.
Let’s go over to Deuteronomy 28. That’s the blessing chapter. You need to read the whole chapter. Well, actually, verses 1-14 are the blessings and then verses 15-68 are the cursings. Oh, wow! Sadly, there are more cursings than blessings. I have to confess I usually like to read the blessings. The blessings come, as verse one says, if we “hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments.”
Then He says in verses 3-5: “Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body,” or thy womb. And then, after that, “and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.”
Once again, we see that when God blesses the fruit of the womb, He has then promised to bless the fruit of the ground, and the fruit of our store, and everything that we do to provide for the fruit of the womb.
Go over here, in verse 11: “And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.” When God blesses the fruit of the womb, He then gives the blessings of provision to provide. Amen?
Let’s look at Nehemiah 9:21: “Yea, forty years didst Thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.” I’m always amazed at that Scripture. He said that “In the wilderness, they lacked nothing.”
Well, it’s true. God always provided their food. They never lacked. Every single day, except the seventh day of the week, God sent them manna, the provision of food. He provided miraculously all their needs, even in the wilderness.
Well, they didn’t have everything they wanted. They didn’t have a corner store where they could pop down, get a carton of milk if they ran out, buy a loaf of bread, get what they wanted. They didn’t have any modern conveniences like we have today. They didn’t have washing machines and dryers and dishwashers and all the things that we have.
But God said, “They lacked nothing.” If we have food, and clothing, and a roof over our heads, we lack nothing. Maybe we wish our home was bigger or better. Maybe we wish we had a better this and a better that, and I do have to confess that sometimes I complain about my fridge. Oh, goodness me! The fridges in my house are always failing, and the things are breaking, and I can hardly fit anything in them. Oh, but you know what? At least I have a fridge. We must be careful about all our complaining, mustn’t we? Because God miraculously provides.
Oh, my. I think back when Colin and I (coming this March we’ll have been married 60 years) how God has provided. All the way along. We just had to trust Him. And He has been faithful. We have lacked nothing. Well, we may have perhaps wanted things, but we didn’t need them. No! In fact, our things we have we don’t even need. It’s amazing how little you can live with, isn’t it? Oh, goodness me!
Let’s go to Psalm 37:25. Here David is speaking. “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging bread.” God has promised to bless the righteous.
What does it say in Psalm 112? I love these Scriptures. I think one of the greatest blessings of life is to have a godly and righteous husband. God has promised to bless the man that fears the Lord.
Psalm 112:1-3: “Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. His children shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth forever.” When our husband fears the Lord, God has promised that He will provide, and He will be faithful.
Psalm 78:18-20, talking about the children of Israel: “And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, He smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can He give bread also? Can He provide flesh for His people?”
Oh, they were filled with doubt and unbelief. They didn’t trust Him. They said, “Can God?” Oh, we’re so prone to doing that ourselves, aren’t we? “Can God?” Oh, can God provide for another baby?
Oh. I remember talking to someone, and they were telling me, “We stopped at three children because that was all that we could provide for. We knew we couldn’t provide for any more than that.” I said to them, “So, is the God in whom you believe a God Who is only capable of providing for three children?”
And, literally, that is what we are saying when we say, “Can God? Can God provide for another baby?” We are not believing in the God of the Bible. We are believing in a God of our own imagination! Some god that we have made up in our own brain. Because our God is bigger. Our God will provide for every baby that He sends because He is the One Who sends it. He is able. He is bigger. He is the God of the Bible! Amen!
And when God heard them say these things: “Therefore the Lord heard this, and was angry: so, a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel: Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation.”
Oh, lovely ladies, let’s be those who trust Him! Amen?
Let’s go to the New Testament. Philippians 4:11-13: “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Paul was confessing there that he’d known times of abundance, but also times of want and hunger. We do go through different seasons in our lives. Sometimes the seasons of difficulty and we barely get through, but we get through. Even in the difficult times, God gets us through. He will never ever, ever, ever, ever fail us. Keep in His Word. Keep in His promises, dear lovely ladies, because the more you stand on His Word, the more you will be able to trust Him, because you will know that He is faithful.
SAVED, PRESERVED, PROTECTED, HEALED, AND MADE WHOLE
I love the words in 1 Timothy 2:15. This is talking about motherhood here, how that mothers will be saved in childbearing. The King James says: “Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”
I like the New American Standard Bible: “But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity, with self-restraint.”
The passage in Timothy is in the context of deception, and how Eve was first deceived but she will be saved, or preserved, in childbearing. Now, this is not just the act of childbirth. Some people preach that, but that is not true. The meaning is the whole understanding of motherhood, of childbearing, of the bearing and raising and nurturing of children, embracing motherhood.
As she embraces motherhood, she will be saved from the deception that so many women are getting into today, because when we move out of the home, when we move away from our land of motherhood, when we separate motherhood from the home, we then become very vulnerable to the deception of the enemy. Many women are so deceived that they don’t even know they are deceived.
But God has promised that we will be preserved. We’ll be preserved, not only from deception, but we will be preserved in our bodies, and in our souls, and in our spirits, as we embrace motherhood. It is an amazing Scripture.
That word “saved” is the word sozo. That word sozo literally means “saved, protected, healed, preserved, and made whole.” That’s the full meaning of the word. That word is used about motherhood. Isn’t that wonderful, ladies? When you embrace motherhood, embrace the children God wants for you and your family, embrace the raising and nurturing of your children in the home, you will be PRESERVED, SAVED, PROTECTED, HEALED, AND MADE WHOLE!
That word is used often when Jesus was healing someone. It says: “And at that moment, they were made whole.” It’s the same word, sozo. That same word is used of mothers. Childbearing has the power to make your whole, to heal you. In fact, many women, even with problems that they have physically, often when they are pregnant, they go into remission. Many women are healed of many ailments through pregnancy because it has the power to heal.
The whole embracing of the lifestyle of motherhood is healing. It makes us whole—body, soul, and spirit. Yes, your body, too. Many women are afraid to trust God for another pregnancy, to have another baby. But the Word of God comes that we are preserved in childbearing and child rearing.
In this land of motherhood, yes, we do have to learn to trust God.
I know that there are many of you who faced some pretty challenging situations, even physically, emotionally, mentally. We don’t live in a perfect world. Today our bodies are not always perfect or functioning as they should. Some women do have many challenges in pregnancy, in childbirth. But you can trust God. Dear ladies, God is able to bring you through. He is with you. He is an amazing God.
Even if you had a difficult pregnancy, or even if you had quite a traumatic birth, it doesn’t mean that you will have traumatic birth the next time. Even if you had a c-section. Some people, many doctors will say, “Oh, you can’t have another c-section!” Well, yes, you can. I know women who have had 10, 12, and even up to 15 c-sections.
When we maybe have a cut or something happens to our body, outwardly, our body heals. God has created the body to heal but the body also heals on the inside. You’ve had something happen to you inwardly. You are going to heal. Give your body time to heal. God heals. He is a healer. He will heal you. Trust Him. You can trust God.
Let’s pray.
“Dear Father, we pray that You will help us to trust You more. Oh, Lord Jesus, precious Jesus, oh, for grace to trust You more. We thank You, Lord, that as we do trust you, we find You to be so faithful. The more we trust You, the more we learn of Your faithfulness. Please teach us how to trust You more. We ask in the Name of Jesus. Amen.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOUR FAMILY!
A WINTER RETREAT IN THE SUN IN FLORIDA!
COMING VERY SOON! January 4 -11.
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Join us for our first ever WINTER family retreat. Register ASAP!
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Gather your friends, old and new, and join us for this exciting week of fellowship together! We can’t wait to be with you! We will offer small groups, family activities, volleyball and basketball, fun on the beach, prayer, worship, teaching, and wonderful fellowship with kindreds spirits.
Organized by Daniel and Allison Hartman and team.
Speakers: Colin and Nancy Campbell