PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 274: God Loves Togethering, Part 4
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 274: God Loves Togethering, Part 4
A soldier cannot win a war on his own. He must be part of an army. We can't win our battles against Satan and evil on our own either. We need one another, and we need to be part of a prayer army.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.,
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! We are continuing our series, “God Loves Togethering.” Now, because God loves togethering, I hope you love togethering! If you’re not so sure about it, ask God to give you a love for it, because this is His heart.
We are now going to be looking at some of the Hebrew words, just seeing what they mean. I talked about yachad last time.
Psalm 34:3: “O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together.” The word in the Hebrew means “unity, together in one place, all together at one time, mutually with one another.”
The real meaning of that word is that God wants us to be all together in one place, magnifying and worshipping Him. It is wonderful, isn’t it, when you come together with a lot of people, and all the saints, to worship the Lord. Oh, you can worship the Lord on your own, but to worship with others brings such a greater joy and depth, doesn’t it?
Psalm 50:5: “Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
Psalm 55:14: “We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.” Back in those days, they were walking to the house of God. That’s a beautiful Scripture.
Psalm 102:22 talks about “When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.”
Psalm 122:1: “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.” God didn’t want all His people isolated around. He loved them coming together.
Psalms 147:2: “The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.”
ASAPH
Let’s look at another Hebrew word: asaph. This means “to gather together, to assemble for a purpose, put all together.” I love that meaning, “together for a purpose.” And, of course, we do this in our homes. As I was sharing in a previous podcast, everything starts in the home. It starts at our table in the home.
We gather our family to the table to eat together, fellowship together, and to hear the Word of the Lord, and pray together. The table is the place to feed our families, body, soul, and spirit.
The home is the first gathering place. It’s not much use being a gathering people at all the other functions if we’re not gathering as a family in the home. Even families can become fragmented and isolated, everyone doing their own thing. We, as mothers and wives, we have that responsibility to keep the family together, to keep those family appointments, to keep the appointments that God wants for our family of coming together every morning and every evening, to listen to His precious Word, to hear from Him, and to cry out to God in prayer.
He established a morning and evening principle. We have talked about that. Are you doing that in your home now? I do hope so. I do hope you’re seeking to establish these set times. I know, it’s not easy. Life is busy. Life is full of so many things happening. It won’t happen unless you make it happen.
Ask the Lord to help you, because this is so important. We start in our homes. We have a purpose and that’s why you do that. You can’t do it unless you have a purpose to do it. Of course, your purpose is that God has given us this revelation. We purposely, purposely make it happen.
YOU CAN’T WIN THE WAR ON YOUR OWN—YOU NEED A UNIFIED ARMY TO WIN THE WAR
Let’s look at some other Scriptures. Oh, yes, this word asaph is often used in the context of war. You see, you can’t go out to war on your own. One soldier cannot win a battle. It has to be an army. It’s the same with us. It’s the same in spiritual warfare. We cannot win a battle on our own. We need all the other soldiers. We’ve got to gather together if we’re going to win the war against the devil and all our enemies that we are facing at this time.
Judges 20:11: “So all the men of Israel were gathered,” (asaph, there’s the word. “against the city, knit together as one man.”
2 Samuel 12:29: “And David gathered,” asaph, “all the people together,” asaph. Already two times. “and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.” How did he take it? Because they all came together. They were out with all the soldiers as one man. David couldn’t have done it on his own.
1 Chronicles 19:17: “David gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.”
1 Chronicles 12:1: “Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, . . . the mighty men, helpers of the war.”
For a while, David established himself in the city of Ziklag. It was there that many, many men heard about David. They knew who he was. He was the one who killed Goliath. He was the one who fought the battles for King Saul. They began to come to him. They were called “the helpers of the war.”
You can read about these mighty men in 1 Chronicles 12. What were they like? Let me read you some of their descriptions:
“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; mighty men of valor,
ready armed for the war
men of valor for the war
men that hath understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do; expert in war, which could keep rank
they were not of double heart
ready for the battle
men of war.”
And so, it kept describing them throughout the chapter.
Now, of course, we are not going out to war in a physical way. We have our military who do that. I believe that men should be part of the military although there can be some places in the military for women. But not going out to war. No, it is the men who go out to war. It is the women who hold the fort at home.
WE MUST COME TOGETHER TO FIGHT THE ENEMY
But there’s a spiritual battle also. And we are all facing a spiritual battle, dear ones. We’ve got to gather together to come against the enemy. Yes, we can pray personally, and that’s important. But to really head off the enemy, to come against this huge Goliath enemy that we are facing in our nation, this tyranny that they’re seeking to bring upon us, we need to gather together. We’ve got to come together to pray.
Yes, we can pray as a family. That’s important. That’s togetherness. But we need even more than that. I believe we need to be part of a prayer meeting as well. Praying morning and evening in our homes together as a family, but also, we need to praying with others.
Are you part of a prayer meeting? If not, you can even start one in your home. Gather some other friends and families. Say “Look, let’s come and pray for the nation.”
We have always had a prayer meeting in our home. It’s been part of our lives, just about the whole 60 years of our marriage. When we were facing all the issues in this plandemic, it was so concerning that we began to pray every night of the week. We were having a prayer meeting once a week until then. Then we began to pray every night of the week. Of course, that was difficult to keep up, so we didn’t keep it up forever. After a few months or so we came back to two nights.
Now we have two prayer meetings a week where we gather together. We have Monday nights here at our home and we have Wednesday nights over at Serene and Sam’s home. They are powerful meetings where we come together. We have worship, which is powerful, and then we pray. We’re praying against the evil, pushing back the evils of this nation.
Dear ones, it has to be more than just a few. If only every one of God’s people could become part of a gathering, to pray, what great things we could see happening. In fact, tonight, which will be before you hear this podcast, tonight we are having a SOLEMN ASSEMBLY. We are all fasting and praying today. We’re in tonight with our usual prayer meeting, but we’re calling in everyone. I hope everyone comes. I hope it’s not just the faithful few. We have the faithful few. Well, they’re not just a few, because our rooms are pretty packed out on prayer meeting nights.
INCLUDE THE CHILDREN
Another thing I must tell you, we don’t just have adults at our prayer meetings. There are the young people, and the children, and the little babies, even those nursing at the breast. That’s what we are calling for tonight, a solemn assembly, even as God called for a solemn assembly in Joel. Have you read that passage in Joel 2:12-17? Let me read a little bit for you. I believe it’s something we should all be involved in at this time.
“Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.” The word there is another Hebrew word, atsarah, meaning “assembly, a meeting.”
“Gather,” asaph, “the people, sanctify the congregation,” qahal, another Hebrew word, “assemble,” qâbats, another Hebrew word! Oh, God uses so many words for the gathering of His people!
“Assemble” that means to collect them together, gather them together. “Assemble the elders, gather the children.” Notice the children. God doesn’t want anyone left out. When you have a prayer meeting in your home, you don’t have to put the children to bed. “Oh well, we’ve got to get the children to bed because we’re having this prayer meeting tonight!” No! Just let the children be with you! If they go to sleep, that’s fine! Let them go to sleep when they’re ready. But let them begin in the prayer meeting with you. Let them be in the presence of God.
Often Colin will say at the beginning of the prayer meeting, “Now, children, who wants to pray now? You children pray because you might go to sleep later.”
“Gather the children and those that suck the breasts.” Even the little nursing babies because He doesn’t want the mothers to stay home. He wants them there too. If you’ve got a little baby, you don’t stay home. You bring that little baby with you.
When our children were growing, our children used to sleep on sheepskins. We are New Zealanders. Down in New Zealand, sheepskins were everywhere. But we had sheepskins that were especially for babies. After they were born, I’d put the sheepskin in their little cradle, then, their crib, then, as they got older, in their bed. Our children still slept on their sheepskin, right until they were older. They just loved them. In fact, if you get on the internet and see the benefits of wool, you’d want to go out and buy a sheepskin and sleep on it yourself! It is so amazing.
But another wonderful blessing was that, because they were so used to sleeping on sheepskins, I could just pick up the sheepskin and take it with me wherever I was going and lay it down. The baby thinks they’re in bed because they’ve got sheepskin, and they’re quite happy to go to sleep. You can take it to a prayer meeting, you can take it to church. Just lie the sheepskin on the floor. The baby is fine. The little toddler is fine. They can go to sleep when they’re ready on their sheepskin. God wants the babies. God wants the children.
And it goes on to say: “Let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.” Wow! This sure was a solemn assembly, wasn’t it? Well, actually, did I ever tell you this story? This actually happened to Colin and me when we got married.
Colin went full-time for the Lord when we were engaged. We were involved in a wonderful ministry in New Zealand called “Tell New Zealand Crusade.” He, along with other members of the team, were taking a gospel of John personally to the door of every home in the nation. They completed that task and then later we went out to the Philippine Islands to do the same thing, taking the gospel of John to the people out there.
The date was planned the day after our wedding (for three days of prayer and fasting). I don’t know how that happened. The whole team was coming together for three days of prayer and fasting. Of course, we never even dreamed of going. Colin never dreamed of going to that. We had our glorious wedding. It was actually like a conference.
I can remember at the end of our wedding, Colin’s brother, who was the best man . . . This was not at the service. The service was amazing. This was at the reception where we had all these speeches. At the end, Brownie, his brother, was standing up on his chair, leading everyone in that great anthem hymn, “To God be the glory, great things He hath done.” Then Campbell McAlpine, who was the man of God who was the instigator of “Tell New Zealand Crusade,” and later, “Tell the Nations Crusade,” who we were with, he got up and prayed for revival.
We all went home after the wedding for a cup of tea. People came to visit and see the presents and so on just like normal protocol. But unbeknown to me, Campbell McAlpine came to Colin. He gave him a Scripture.
Well, eventually that evening we were driving away on our honeymoon after they had done all the tricks on the car, as they used to in those days, we were driving away, and in fact, we weren’t going that far. Ooh! All of a sudden, we heard this siren! Oh, help! Now, what have we done? It didn’t look as though we were going over the speed limit.
But here’s the cop pulling us over. We pulled over to the side of the road. Then we found it wasn’t a cop at all, but it was one of our friends from the wedding who could make a sound just like a siren! He was pulling us over once again, to trick us on our way out, on our honeymoon.
Then Colin got to tell me about this Scripture, and guess what? It was this Scripture: “Let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. And let them fast and pray and seek the Lord.” Colin said to me, “What are we going to do?” I said, “I guess there’s nothing else we can do but obey.”
So, we had our first night together, and the next day, the three days of prayer and fasting were beginning. Colin went off to be with the men for three days prayer and fasting. I went and stayed with Joy and Jim Dawson, who later were with Youth With a Mission, an incredible man and woman of God. I stayed in their prophet’s chamber for three days’ prayer and fasting. That’s how we started our married life together.
Let’s go on. Joel 2:17: “Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare Thy people, O LORD, and give Thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?”
Dear ladies, we’re living in this hour when the heathen are ruling over us. Are you aware of that? The heathen are ruling over us. They are seeking to take tyranny over our lives.
Have you heard that Biden is now mandating again, and saying, that in the fall, there will be another virus? Well, how do they know, except they’re planning it? Of course, another plandemic, as the previous one was a plandemic, or a spamdemic, whichever you prefer to call it. They are mandating and planning another plandemic and saying they will be mandating masks and vaccinations and social distancing again.
Well, what are we going to do this time? So many people gave in last time. I pray that people have woken up to their tyranny, to their lies, to their deception, and will say “No,” and will not comply. Because if everybody does not comply, they cannot do anything. They cannot put the whole nation in jail. Let’s not comply. We dare not give in to their tyranny.
But this is one of the reasons we are having a solemn assembly tonight, to pray against this overreaching. This government is not our ruler. What does it say here, in this passage, where we’re called to fast and pray, that the heathen should rule over us. Our government, none of our government mandates, none of Congress, none of our senators are to rule over us. They are our servants. We pay them. We pay our tax dollars to them to serve us, to be our servants. They are the servants of the people.
Instead, they have become our tyrannical rulers and think they can rule over us. When last time it happened, there were so many Christians who said, “Oh, but we must obey them! Romans 13! We must obey them!” But they didn’t even read Romans 13 properly. In that passage in Romans 13, it’s talking about how the government is to protect us from those wicked people and those who are doing bad things. That if we walk in righteousness, they won’t even have to touch us.
But the opposite is happening. They have become the evil people who are going against the Word of the Lord. Therefore, we cannot obey that, for we are to obey God, rather than man. But those words, “that the heathen should rule over us,” it makes me think of one of the saddest questions that I’ve ever read in the Bible. I read it years ago. I still can’t get over it.
It was in Judges 15:11, the story of where Samson had gone down to his wife to find that his father-in-law had given his wife to his best man! Help! That didn’t go very well with Samson. So, he went out and killed a whole band, a lot of the Philistines. That wasn’t enough. He decided to catch these foxes, and he tied their tails together with torches and set a light to the torches. He let them free amongst all their grain and their vineyards and everything. All the harvest of the Philistines was completely destroyed and burnt up.
Well, you can imagine. The Philistines were mad. So, they come to the people of Judah, and they say, “We want Samson! We want Samson!” They go down to the cave where Samson’s living, and these people of Judah come to Samson, and they say to him . . . listen to what they say. “Samson, know ye not that the Philistines are rulers over us?” Can you believe it? Here were these people of Judah saying, “Don’t you know the Philistines rule over us?”
And yet God had given them this land, by divine decree, for an everlasting possession. It belonged to them. It did not belong to the Philistines, but because of their sin, of course, God had allowed the Philistines to overtake them. Now they were servants to them.
But that wasn’t the whole truth. They were living a lie! Because they were not living in righteousness, and they were letting, they were letting the heathen rule over them! But it’s just about the same today. Even Christians are sitting back, putting their heads in the sand, allowing these people to rule over us. That is not God’s plan. It’s time we got to prayer, to push back the enemy.
We think of Nehemiah’s time. They were also suffering then.
Nehemiah 9:36-37: “Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that Thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it: And it yielded much increase unto the kings whom Thou hast set over us because of our sins: also, they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.”
We dare not let this stolen government (this government is a stolen government, a corrupt government) take over our bodies again. There were so many people who were taken to hospital with the C who died. They did not die of the C. I don’t even want to say the word. They died by them being remdesivir which completely destroyed their kidneys. They died of kidney failure. People weren’t even allowed to go in and be with their loved ones. They were killing people off. They had dominion over our bodies.
In fact, ladies, please keep watching and listening for the next two or three weeks. I’m going to be having with me on my podcast two precious ladies with very powerful testimonies. One is the lady, a physician’s wife, whose husband was actually slowly murdered in the hospital, because he stood against the vaccinations. They got rid of him. You’ll hear the story, how it happened.
I’m also going to be interviewing another woman, the wife of Paul Vaughn, who currently has a court issue against him for trying to save babies. They want to put him in prison for 11 years for trying to save babies. We’re going to hear about this story.
Our nation is no longer for the righteous, no longer for the Christian. It is for the transgender, and for the homosexual, and for all those who are anti-God and anti-family, who do not even believe in saying the word “woman.” There are so many now who will not even use that word. They have devised all different words to use instead of the word “woman.”
We are living in such a deceived society. Dear ladies, does this do anything to you? How can we keep going, just as though nothing’s happening? We must pray. We need to come together for the war. Yes, to pray together. We can’t do it on our own. We’ve got to be praying together, to push back the enemy.
Talking about taking control over us, the other night we watched the documentary “Into the Light.” It was a sequel to “Out of the Shadows.” I would encourage you to see these documentaries, especially “Into the Light” that we saw the other night. I think we’re going to play it again so we can all see it again, because you can’t really get it all in one showing.
But on this documentary, I watched with my eyes and heard with my ears, Yuval Harari, do you know who he is? Yuval Harari is an Israeli, but he is the lead advisor for Klaus Schwab who is the inventor of the Great Reset and the World Economic Forum, which is seeking to take over the world.
On this “Into the Light,” Harari talked about how no longer will people have a free will because he said this phrase, help! “Humans are hackable animals and free will is over.” They believe that with all their computer technology, they will be able to gradually overtake the free will of people through artificial intelligence and so on. Oh goodness me! I was listening to that, and I said, “Help!” Who does he think he is? He’s talking from the pit of hell. That’s the devil’s language because God has given to us a free will.
Well, I do concede that people who will not listen to the truth, who do not know the truth, who do not live in the Word of God, and are listening to every crazy junk that is coming out in the media, and all the diabolical deceptions that they are filling people with today, if their minds are filled with them, maybe gradually they will succumb to that. Their “free will” will become very dormant.
I believe in this hour, ladies, that we need to be filled with the Word of God. The Word of God is truth, and it is the antidote to deception! We must know it. We must have it in our hearts, and our children have got to get it. Look, if you were just teaching your children to memorize the Word, that is the greatest thing you can do. It wouldn’t even matter if they didn’t learn everything they’re meant to do in their curriculums you’re teaching them.
What about public schools? Help! Do you know what they are trying to do today? They are trying to totally make your children humanists. No true believer in the Word of God can let their children stay in this public school system today. You’ve got to get them out. We can’t let our children be infiltrated by the enemy.
Harari was saying these things on this documentary. This morning I thought, “I’d better check it out. I’d like to get the quote. Maybe it’s in print.” I was checking the internet. I found a few other quotes by Harari. I’ll read these to you. He says, “If by free will, you mean the freedom to do what you desire, then yes, humans have free will. But if by free will, you mean the freedom to choose what to desire, then no, humans have no free will.”
Again, he says, “Governments and corporations will soon know you better than you know yourself. Belief in the idea of free will is dangerous.” Then, you couldn’t believe it. Before you could read those quotes, and many, many others, at the top, always at the top, if you go to the top on the internet checking out a subject, guess what’s at the top? Do you know? The fact checkers. Oh yeah, they’re always at the top.
And guess what the fact checkers said? They said, they stated, they could not find anywhere where he said or wrote these things. But underneath the fact checkers are the quotes!
He also says, “Humans invented God, and humans invented heaven and hell, and humans invented free will. There is no more truth to free will than there is to heaven and hell.”
Quotes from Harari, and you can actually even see him saying that if you go to FrankSpeech. Bring up “There is no such thing as free will,” and “Humans have invented God,” and you’ll hear and watch him saying it.
And who is this man? As I said, he’s the lead advisor for Klaus Schwab. Oh help. Do you know who he really is? He has a husband. Yes, not a wife. He has a husband. Yes, and back when President Trump wanted to defund the World Health Organization, it says, I read about this. Harari, and Itzik Yahav, his husband, can you believe it, made this statement: “Luckily, there are more than seven billion of us humans on this earth, and we can do better.” They pledged $1 million to the World Health Organization.
We have these people who are the ones who can be in all those big conferences in Davos and Switzerland. All these people are flying on their jets to these conferences, the ones who are trying to overtake the world. But we can overcome in prayer, dear ladies. Pray together with your families, morning and evening, and gather with others. If you can’t find others, well, start a prayer meeting in your home. Begin to pray for this nation.
Leviticus 26:7-8 talks about chasing our enemies. The greatest way we can chase our enemies (we’re not going to do it physically), we’re going to do it in prayer. It says: “And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.”
Take those words into prayer. Even a little family with three children, praying. That’s five. Five can put one hundred to flight. What about a family with nine, ten, eleven, twelve children? You’ve got a bigger prayer meeting than some churches! What about when you gather some families together and you pray? You can put ten thousand to flight.
Oh, let’s get a vision for coming together, for war, for battle! To come against the enemy in the spiritual realm and to pray and to intercede. Amen?
“Dear Father, help us to see the power of coming together. Oh, Father, help us to see that when we come together to pray, that You love to see it as a family thing, Lord. You love everyone in the family to come, the young people, the children, the nursing babies, the moms, the dads, everyone. Oh, Lord God, we pray that You will give us such a vision for prayer and pushing back the enemy in the power of the Name of Jesus. For Lord, You have given us this privilege, for us to pray, and to determine the courses of nations as we pray.
“I ask that You will bless every precious family listening today and pour out Your Spirit upon them. Lord God, take away from all of us every spirit of apathy and normality, and help us, Lord, to become passionate people of You. In the Name of Jesus, amen.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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