You are the best teacher for your children. No one has them in their hearts more than you do.
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Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
Through the weekly and daily devotionals you can be constantly encouraged in your great role of parenting, the highest career in the nation. You can also stay updated on what's happening with the Above Rubies ministry.
Strengthening Families Across the World through the encouragement of women in their high calling from God as wives, mothers and homemakers.
There are so many Post Syndromes these days, aren’t there? Many of them very real to those experiencing them. Another very real post syndrome is PTLS (Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome).There are women have a tubal ligation and do not have any ramifications. Unfortunately, there are many who experience serious and unexplained side affects that they were never told they would experience. Doctors do not even understand these aftereffects. To name a few—severe depression, panic attacks, hormone loss, unexplained body pains, mood swings, and early menopause. And yes, we can’t forget loss of libido. Who wants to go through that?
What is a tubal ligation? It is a surgical procedure where they tie, clip, or burn the fallopian tubes to prevent the fertilization of an egg. It is sterilization which leads to another unexpected side effect—regret! Many women do not expect this.
I don’t believe we can tamper with the way God created our bodies and get away with it. God created us perfectly. When we try to change our bodies from the way He planned for us, we can expect negative things to happen. And we cannot expect to live in wholeness.
In fact, when Jesus healed people, the Bible often says that they were “made whole” from that moment. To be “made whole” is the Greek word “sozo” which means to be “saved, healed, preserved, delivered, and MADE WHOLE.” This word is also used when the Bible tells us that women will be preserved through embracing motherhood (1 Timothy 2:15).
God wants mothers to BE WHOLE! Sadly, a woman is no longer whole when she cuts off her fallopian tubes. Sadly, she is now mutilated, apart from the fact that she is also sterilized!
And I have a little thought. Men (through vasectomies) and women (through tubal ligations) both began changing the way God created them to stop having children. Now, mankind is going even further and seeking to change to the opposite sex! How further down the track will we go?
Dear lovely mother, if you have been contemplating a tubal ligation, I would encourage you to forget about it completely. Why set yourself up for future problems, both physically and emotionally? The healthiest and sanest thing you can do is to STAY WHOLE!
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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Always look for the joy and the positive rather than the negative and your day will be so much brighter.
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Mother as you embrace motherhood and managing your home, you are in the perfect will of God.
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We know the story of how Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow to the golden image. They were the only ones who refused to bow. It is amazing that everyone else in Babylon had become a victim and slave to do what they were told. They were indoctrinated and brainwashed that this was the right thing to do. It says that "all the people, the nations, and the languages fell down and worshipped the golden image" (v. 7).Although we are not forced to bow to images of false gods today, we still face the same challenges. We are educated and propagandized to bow down to the gods of humanism, feminism, and socialism— false gods that are opposite to the God of the Bible. Because they are educated by liberal teachers and college professors, many Christians bow to these false gods. The deceptions are so ingrained in their minds they think they are normal. Many caved into the tyranny of the plandemic during the last couple of years only to find they were being fed lies and deception.
May God save us from being deceived by false gods. May we as parents be watchful enough to save our children from being victimized by the deceptive gods of this society.
It’s time for us to arise with the courage of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to stand against the grain. Don’t you love their unwavering confession before the king? "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that WE WILL NOT serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up" (verses 17 and 18).
We know the story of how God delivered them from the fiery furnace, but more than that, their courage to not bow down "changed the king's word" (v. 28). They turned the heart of the king of the nation because they would not give in!
Do you bow to the status quo of this humanist and deceptive society? Or do you stand against the deceptions?
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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"A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year" (Deuteronomy 11:12).
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"The power of a mother's prayers with her children all kneeling around her is far greater than any public ministry."
Charles Spurgeon
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Are you excited about meeting with your fellow believers today? God commands
the "assembling" of His people "together!" He knows we need one another!
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To caress the world with warm affection you thought of a mother--Beautiful Design.
Serene Allison
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Yesterday I stated: The devil wants to keep everything about God in a little box. He does not want us to spread the truth and light of the gospel. He hates the truth. He hates the light, and he wants to keep people in darkness.
He also wants to keep us in the dark about the blessing of having children. Yes, he really hates this truth! To bring forth the godly seed is anathema to the devil.
We see how the enemy became very agitated when the children of Israel multiplied in Egypt. The new Pharaoh was shaking in his boots. He said to his people: "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; LEST THEY MULTIPLY." The devil is scared of God's people multiplying. He does everything in his power to "rob, kill, and destroy" to stop children coming into the world.
Will we give in to his strategy to hide the revelation of God in the earth? Or are we on God's side? We can be so assimilated and even mesmerized by our godless and humanistic society that we fail to recognize that when we oppose or deny life coming into the world that we are on the devil's side. It's a plain fact that the devil hates life but God loves life. Which side are we on?
Each new baby is a fresh revelation of the image of God on earth. Let's not hold back the revelation of God. Let's not hold back the children God wants to bring into this world.
I am so glad you are a testimony of God's truth and that you are shining His light in the midst of the darkness. Keep spreading the truth. Never be silent.
Blessings to you today from Nancy Campbell
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The devil wants to keep everything about God in a little box. He does not want us to spread the truth and light of the gospel. He hates the truth. He hates the light, and he wants to keep people in darkness.Do you remember when Peter and John prayed for the man who was lame from his mother’s womb, and he was immediately healed? He began walking, leaping, and praising God. All the people saw it and began to praise God. In fact, about 5,000 people believed on Jesus. This was too much for the devil.
The priests and Sadducees put Peter and John in custody until the next day when they met together to make their decision. Their verdict? “’We can’t deny that they have performed a miraculous sign, and everybody in Jerusalem knows about it. But to keep them from SPREADING THEIR PROPAGANDA ANY FURTHER, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in Jesus’ name again.’ So they called the apostles back in and commanded them never again to speak or teach in the name of Jesus” (Acts 4:16-18 NLT).
Do you notice that they called the truth PROPAGANDA? A visible miracle was performed for all to see but to the enemies of Christ it was propaganda. That is what’s happening today. Anyone who stands up against the tyranny in our nation is called a conspiracist. Unless you fall in completely with the liberal agenda, your beliefs are propaganda. I mentioned yesterday about 87,000 IRS agents our liberal government want to bring in. It’s common knowledge but comments disowned it. Scroll down and you’ll see their plans in their own words, including “carrying firearms and willing to use deadly force.”
Did Peter and John become victims to their verdict? No. They answered: “Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:19, 20).
The devil wants to close our mouths. He does not want the gospel to be proclaimed. He does not want the truth to get out. He propagates lies and deception and fake news.
As mothers, we must be courageous for truth. If we are wishy-washy, stay silent, and cave into the droning fake news, what will happen to our children? We must know the truth to tell them the truth. We must be bold for the truth and teach them to stand up boldly for truth. If we allow this next generation to be deceived by the current socialist agenda, there is no hope for this nation.
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Why are the evils of worldliness, feminism, socialism, progressivism, abortion, homosexuality, and now transgenderism encroaching on our nation? I believe it is because God's people are not fighting against these powers of darkness.Fighting the enemy in prayer is part of our Christian walk. It should be part of our daily home life. And of course, it should be part of church life.
I am always challenged by the words in Jeremiah 10:25: “Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, AND upon the families that call not on thy name.” In other words, God’s families who do not bother to call upon His name and stand in the gap may as well be heathen!
Are you praying against the tyranny that is happening in our nation? Were you outraged that the FBI raided Trump’s personal home? Are you concerned that Biden is recruiting 87,000 IRS agents who are being trained to come against the citizens the citizens of this nation, “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary . . . to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments.” Since the invasion into Trump’s home I know personally of innocent citizens who have also had their passports removed and are under investigation.
Are you wrestling against the devil and his evil works? Ephesians 6:12 says that we are to wrestle against the rulers of the darkness of this world. We have evil and deception all around us. What are we doing about it? Are we acquiescing or fighting? To wrestle means to fight hard to win.
We cannot be neutral. We cannot be tolerant towards evil. We must stand against it. We must fight and wrestle. If we don’t, we eventually succumb to the evil itself.
Ephesians 6:13-14: “Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore.” “Withstand” means more than stand. It means to “stand against, to oppose, to resist.”
Let’s battle in prayer. Stand up and speak out at every opportunity. Pray together daily as families, morning and evening. Include the children. Be part of a weekly prayer meeting in your home, community, or church. Fight these principalities and powers in prayer. If we don’t, the next generation will be assimilated more and more into the ways of the enemy.
Never give up,
Nancy Campbell
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Mankind has always faced distractions because distractions are mainly in our hearts and minds. However, I am sure we would admit that there has never been a time when there is so much to distract our minds and attention. This electronic age is a temptation to us and to our children. I notice young people who can hardly focus on looking you in the eye and talking to you because they are constantly looking down at their iPhone to check messages.
How are we relating? We are either disciplined or distracted. We are either focused or fragmented. Firstly in our relationship with the Lord. I am inherently a disciplined person, but I have to confess that I can also tempted. It is convenient to have God's Word on our iPads or iPhone, but it can be a distraction. There are times when I may think, "I'll just check my messages before I read the Word" and lo and behold I have wasted valuable time when I could have been doing the most important--listening to God speak to me through His living and powerful Word. I find it less tempting to use my Bible!
And what about the most important career God has given to us of motherhood? Satan is a pro at keeping us distracted from our highest calling. There are so many things we can get involved in outside the home even as a stay-at-home mother. We have the Internet, organizations, and people pulling at us from every direction. And most of these things that compete for our time are good or we wouldn't even contemplate them. But they distract us from the most important.
Another thing we must watch is being caught up with the present
circumstances rather than keeping our eyes on the long-term goal. Oh yes, as a mother we have to attend to interruptions that continually happen throughout the day, but we must watch that we don't allow something that looms up in front of us to take us away from our calling.
Keep your eyes on the goal. Keep your eyes on eternity (2 Corinthians 4:18 and Philippians 3:13, 14).
Which are you? Distracted or disciplined? Fragmented or focused?
May you have a productive day in your home,
Nancy Campbell
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1 Timothy 2:15 tells us that we will be "saved in childbearing." Does this mean that we will be saved from having a painless childbirth experience? Some women experience this, but the Scripture actually means the complete embracing of motherhood-birthing and then nurturing and raising children.
The word "saved" is "sozo" and has a wonderful rich meaning. It comes from a root word, "saos" which means "safe." That's nice, isn't it? But it also means "to be healed, preserved, protected, delivered, and made whole." On a number of occasions when Jesus healed people He said: "Thy faith hath made thee WHOLE." The word "whole" is "sozo," the same word used for mothers in 1Timothy 2:15.
How blessed we are that when we embrace the plan God has for us as women. We will be saved from deception (as that is the context of this passage) but we will also be preserved and protected physically. Science is now catching up with God's truth and more and more studies reveal that the more babies a mother births and nurses at her breast, the more physical blessing she receives. She is also protected from the epidemic of female cancers.
Thank you, Lord for your protection and care and for the perfect plan you have for your female creation.
Be blessed today as you embrace God's wonderful plan of mothering and child-rearing.
Have a wonderful day in your home today,
Nancy Campbell
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Who is your marriage all about? Is it all about you? Many couples live together but are not bound together or even enjoy life together. They start off with great love, enjoyment, and enthusiasm but often their relationship grows boring and cold.
Why? I believe it's the "all about me" syndrome. What is my husband doing for me? How is my husband serving me? I have a right to be who I am and do my own thing. Soon the couple are living their own separate lives instead of being cemented together.
The very first marriage principle that God gave is oneness. Genesis 2:24 states that the married couple are to be "one flesh." We are not separate entities. We are one. We should think oneness. We should be yielded to one another to be "one flesh" as much as possible. We should be yielded to one another in one spirit, mind, and purpose to build our marriage and family.
We haven't got time to be pursuing our own life. Forget selfishness. It's self-destructive. God has given us a mandate to build a family and establish His kingdom on earth TOGETHER! It's a TOGETHER TASK!
The more we become one, the stronger we become. The more fragmented we become, the weaker we become.
Think of some ways to connect together today.
Be blessed,
Nancy Campbell
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God speaks to us individually, but did you know that He also wants to speak to us as families? God is vitally interested in our individual lives, but He also sees us collectively as families. This is the way He planned for us to live, as families.
Jeremiah 2:4 states: "Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and ALL THE FAMILIES of the house of Israel."
God wants not only you and your husband, but also your children to hear His words. This is why it is paramount to come together as families, evening and morning, and listen to God speak to us as a family as we read His Word.
We discuss together what He is saying to us a family. We learn together as a family. We press on in the ways of God together as a family. We pray together as a family.
We do not leave our children behind.
As you hear God speaking to you as a family, you will be cemented strongly together as a family.
Be blessed,
Nancy Campbell
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God's kingdom is based on obedience, starting with the Godhead. Jesus Himself, the Son of God, was obedient, obedient to the death of the cross—and we are commanded to have this same attitude (John 14:15, 21, 23; Philippians 2:5-8; and 1 John 5:3).Every blessing hinges on obedience. God told His people in Isaiah 1:19: "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." And yet why do we resist obeying? We are so prone toward the flesh, aren't we? We want to do it out way, and yet it never brings blessing.
We cannot run our homeland unless it is based on obedience. Titus 2:5 commands us wives to be obedient to our husband. We set the example for our children who are to be obedient to us. When obedience is established in the home, the home runs smoothly.
When a wife resists her husband, there is no peace. When children are not trained to obey, there is chaos! No mother can enjoy mothering disobedient children. No wonder many mothers don't like mothering. They have children who are out of control.
Establish obedience in your home and the blessing of God will come down.
Provers 29:17 says: “Correct thy son, and he shall give thee REST; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.”
Love from Nancy Campbell
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