Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs

And I said to the foreman, “Are these men skilled
Like the ones you’d use if you had to build?”
And he laughed and said, “Oh no, indeed,
The most common laborer is all I need,
For I can destroy in a day or two
What it takes a builder ten years to do.”

So I thought to myself as I went my way,
Which one of these roles am I willing to play?
Am I one who is tearing down,
As I carelessly make my way around?
Or am I one who builds with care
To make the world better because I was there?
~ Author Unknown.

Dear mother, I believe these words apply also apply to us as we build our homes and families. Proverbs 14:1 says: “Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.”

One of the names God gives to us as mothers is “builder.” Because He names us builders, He wants us to be professional builders. A common laborer can tear down a house, but it takes a professional to build a good home.

Let’s be those who build into our marriages and families each day.

Don’t let a day go by without building a little more into your marriage. Think of something lovely and kind to say to your husband today and each new day. Your greatest building weapons are the words that come out of your mouth.

Seek to do something each day to make your family life stronger. Remember, you are building into your children’s lives until the day you present your children “in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming” (1 Thessalonians 2:19).

Have a beautiful day with your family,

Nancy Campbell

You will not be afraid (Psalm 56:3, 4, 11; 91:2-10; 112:7, 8; and Isaiah 12:2).
You will not be ashamed (Psalm 25:2, 20; 31:1; and 71:1).
You will not be condemned (Psalm 34:22).
You will not be disgraced (Psalm 22:5).
You will not be shaken (Psalm 21:7 and 125:1
You will be blessed (Psalm 2:12; 34:8; 40:4; 84:12; and Jeremiah 17:7).
Your will be a fruitful tree even in drought (Jeremiah 17:8).
You will be happy (Proverbs 16:20).
You will rejoice and shout for joy (Psalm 5:11; 28:7; and 33:21).
You will be safe and secure (Proverbs 29:25).
God will know you and care for you (Nahum 1:7).
God will act on your behalf (Psalm 37:5).
God will be your buckler (Psalm 18:30).
God will cover (protect and shelter) you (Psalm 5:11 and 91:2, 4).
God will deliver you (Psalm 21:4, 5; 37:39, 40; 91:2, 3; and Jeremiah 39:17, 18).
God will help you (1 Chronicles 5:20; Psalm 28:7; 37:39, 40; and 115:9-11).
God will preserve you (Psalm 16:1).
God will save you from those who rise up against you (Psalm 17:7 and 86:2).
God will be your shield (Psalm 18:30; 115:9-11; Proverbs 30:5).
God will store up His goodness for you (Psalm 31:19).

Don’t these Scriptures cause you to say, “Thank you, Lord”?

Remember, trusting in the Lord is the opposite to fear. Please don’t succumb to all the fears the media are putting upon you. They are lies from the enemy. Did you know that Satan’s greatest weapon is fear? It immobilizes you. Paralyzes you. Traps you in its snare. Instead of living in triumph and victory, you live in despair.

Proverbs 29:25: “The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.”

Cast out fear and start confessing out loud and day by day your trust in God.

Wouldn’t you rather trust God than anyone or anything else?

Be blessed today.

Nancy Campbell

P.S. And if you are brave enough, you can look up the Scriptures of what God says when we trust in man rather than in Him: Psalm 78:17-22; Isaiah 30:1-3, 5, 7; 31:1, 3; and Jeremiah 17:5, 6.

Two more examples from the Bible today.

JEHOSHAPHAT

Jehoshaphat was one of the good kings of Judah. 2 Chronicles 17:3 says that “the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David.”

But at one stage, a great army came against him—the Moabites and the Ammonites, “a great multitude,” far bigger than his army. Jehoshaphat feared but he did the right thing. Immediately he turned his eyes toward the Lord and “set himself to seek the LORD.” He proclaimed a fast and gathered everyone to come together to seek the Lord—not just the men, but their wives, their children, and their little ones! As they all sought the Lord, God showed them what to do.

You’ll remember the story in 2 Chronicles chapter 20. He appointed singers to go before the army singing and praising the Lord. The moment they began to sing and praise the Lord caused their enemies to begin fighting among themselves and destroy one another. When they arrived on the scene, behold, there were all dead bodies!

THE THREE MEN IN BABYLON

You know the amazing story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who, although Jews, were officials in Babylon. King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold to which he commanded everyone to bow down, and if not, they would be thrown into the fiery furnace.

These three young men served the living God and would not bow down. When the king gave them a second chance they said: “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” (Daniel 3:16, 17).

BUT IF NOT! They trusted God no matter what the outcome, even if He would not deliver them! They trusted God even more than their deliverance! May God help us to trust Him the same way as these young men.

We know the amazing story of how king Nebuchadnezzar commanded the furnace to be heated seven times hotter and they were thrown in. But God delivered them miraculously and even the Son of God came and walked with them in the fire.

Nebuchadnezzar later confessed: “Blessed by the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants THAT TRUSTED IN HIM” (Daniel 3:28).

God is able to deliver us in any circumstance, but even if He doesn’t, will we continue to trust Him?

David, the great warrior, who fought armies and battles far bigger than his army, confessed: “But I TRUSTED in thee, O LORD: I said, THOU ART MY GOD” (Psalm 31;14). He confessed his trust in God.

Confessing your trust in God strengthens your trust. Confessing out loud the promises of God also strengthens your trust.

You may be doubting. You may be thinking negatively. Don’t speak it out. Only speak out the promises. Only speak out your trust in God..

Psalm 78:19-22 (NET): “They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite. They insulted God saying, ‘Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness? Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gush forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?’ When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel, because they did not have faith in God, and DID NOT TRUST HIS ABILITY TO DELIVER THEM.”

May we learn to trust Him more and more each day.

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

Did you watch the video below by the two doctors? If not, you missed out as it is now taken down. Dear ladies, we are losing our freedoms by the minute. We must wake up. This video was not a hype or a conspiracy. It was factual, up-to-date data by two doctors who have been testing big communities in California. It was quite mainstream. They believe in testing (whereas I don’t think it is necessary). They believe in vaccines (whereas I don’t—well, especially the one they are preparing for this current virus). But their video was taken down with a message from YouTube that it violates their guidelines. It was only the factual numbers of their testing but the powers that be didn’t like it because it exposes the lies of the media.

Dear ladies, we no longer live in “the land of the free.” There is no longer free speech. As people are waking up to the truth of what is happening and are beginning to expose the truth, the videos are being taken down.

“those behind the scenes” want to deceive us with their lies. It is now common knowledge with the current numbers and testing that there have been no more deaths with this particular corona virus than with the seasonal flu. In fact, the number of deaths for the virus are less than they were for the flu in the past two years.

They want you to believe this virus is deadly whereas most people who have tested positive hardly know they are sick. Those who have died are mostly those who have had one, two, or sometimes three existing conditions. Doctors are being commanded to list COVID-19 as the cause of death even if they patient died from something else.

Dear ladies, this whole scenario is not so much about a virus but the controlling of our lives. They have successfully shut down the world through fear! And they did it without hardly a murmur from anyone. Even God’s people! Even stopped them gathering together for church.

Government, governors of states, mayors, and police are violating the Frist Amendment. Let’s read it again:

“The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution PREVENTS (my capitals) the government from making laws which regulate an establishment of religion, prohibit the free exercise of religion, or abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.”

In some states people are being arrested for walking outside their home or in a park. They are not allowed to work. The world has believed their lies and submitted. What has happened to America, the land of the free? The land of strong men and women who stand up for what is right and their freedoms? Who do not cave into deception and lies?

It reveals the power of fear. Fear is not a reality. It is what we think might happen because of the noise of fear.

Did you know that fear has sound waves? Job 15:21 says: “The sound of fear is in his ears.” It’s not a reality but the sound is in his ears. We have been hearing the “sound of fears” from the media and governments. Satan knows that fear is his greatest weapon.

Isaiah 24:18: (HCSB): “Whoever flees at the sound of panic will fall into a pit.” We must not listen to the deceptive lies of fear. We must not panic. And we must not flee. We do not have to hide in our houses and do all the other crazy things that they are wanting to make the “new norm” of our society! We are a free people

Did you know that unless you are a dentist, or a doctor or nurse caring for sick and infectious patients, wearing a mask will not do much for you. You are only breathing in your own carbon dioxide and it’s not truly effective. I’d rather breathe in the beautiful fresh air and also maybe pick up some immunity to the virus. By doing this I will have a stronger immune system. Hiding away weakens your immune system.

Psalm 53:5: “There they were in great fear, where no fear was.” This is the picture of the world right now. "There they are in GREAT FEAR, where there is no fear!” Except what we are brainwashed to think. The margin of my Bible says: “They feared a fear.” Why do we fear a fear? Why do we fear lies and deceptions? Why do we give up our freedoms and succumb to those who want to rule our lives?

Shouldn’t we fear God rather than man?

And did you know that the hospitals are half empty? Doctors are only working half days. Many doctors are laid off or working only part time as there are so few patients. Everything is the opposite of what you are told.

I will post some more videos which I believe everyone should see. They are certainly not so mainstream as the one taken down, but the facts can all be confirmed. Watch them before they are taken down. Watch them for the sake of your future and the future of your children.

Dear mothers, I write this to you because we have a great responsibility. We are not only mothering for today but for the coming generations—for our grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and posterity to come. Do you care about them? Do you care about the world they will live in. I shudder to think of what they will face unless we stand up now and take back our freedoms. I don’t want them to live in fear and servitude. I want them to LIVE.

We must understand that the whole purpose of this “panic” is to rule over us and take our freedoms.

My prayer is that we will be like the children of Issachar who “had understanding of the times, to KNOW what Israel ought to do” (1 Chronicles 12:32). May we understand what is really going on and know what we should do.

In His love,

Nancy Campbell

JOB

Job was a very blessed man with 10 children and lived a blessed life (Proverbs 29). He also owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 oxen, and 500 asses and in one day he lost the lot! Yes, every one of his precious children. How would we survive such heartache? But what was his confession?

Job 13:15: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”

We reveal how much we trust God we wonder how we can trust Him. It reminds me of the lines . . .

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.

HEZEKIAH

Read this story about Hezekiah in 2 Kings, chapters 18 and 19. 2 Kings 18:5, 6 says that Hezekiah “TRUSTED in the LORD God of Israel . . . he cleaved to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments.”

However, although Hezekiah was faithful to God and trusted Him, he faced a big challenge. Sennacherib, King of Assyria planned to take Jerusalem. Firslty, he sent his Chief of Staff to taunt the people and to put doubt and fear in them about trusting in their God. Then he sent a personal message to Hezekiah: “Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered in the hand of the king of Assyria . . . ” (2 Kings 19:10-19).

What did Hezekiah do? He spread the letter before the Lord and prayed earnestly. When the king of Assyria came to conquer Jerusalem, the night before the angel of the Lord smote 185,000 of the enemy soldiers in the camp. In the morning, they were all dead corpses (2 Kings 19:35). God delivered Hezekiah because he trusted in Him.

We all trust in something. The question is: who do we trust? Do we trust God, no matter what? Or would we rather trust in man’s solutions. Man-made predictions. Media-hype fear mongering. I am amazed how many people would rather trust a corrupt government than God, the mighty Creator of the universe, the God of signs and wonders and miracles, the God who is our Savior and Deliverer!

Psalm 18:31: “For who is God save the LORD? Or who is a rock save our God? Is there anyone or anything that is more worthy to be trusted than God?

Let’s be the people of God who truly trust Him.

Nancy Campbell

God was furious with them “because they believed not in God, and TRUSTED NOT in his salvation.” (v. 22).

I think it is good to get into the habit of trusting God in the little things we face each day. Then we find it easier to trust Him in the big things. We can trust Him for what is happening in the nation right now, although I believe the fear that has entered so many people, and sad to say, even Christians, is worse than the virus itself.

TURN OUR EYES TO THE LORD

How do we trust God? David cried to the Lord in Psalm 141:8: “MINE EYES ARE UNTO THEE, O God the Lord: IN THEE IS MY TRUST; leave not my soul destitute.” When we trust God, we have our eyes upon Him—not the difficulties, not the trauma, not the challenges. We get into the habit of our lifting our eyes to God and confessing, “I trust You, God. You are bigger than this challenge I face. I thank you that I can put all my weight upon you.”

Dear ladies this is the most wonderful thing. When we put our weight upon God, He does not cave. He will never fail us. He is our Rock and our Fortress. When we put our weight and our trust in man, man will usually fail us.

Isaiah 26:3 has always been God’s challenge to me every day as I raised my children and as I face daily life: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose MIND IS STAYED ON THEE: because he trusteth in thee.”

If our minds constantly regurgitate on our problems, we are not trusting God. We’re trusting in ourselves. When we lift our eyes to the Lord and confess our reliance and trust in Him, perfect peace fills our hearts.

Constantly keep your eyes in the right place!

To trust God is so much BETTER than to trust man. Psalm 118:6-9 says: “The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? . . . It is BETTER to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is BETTER to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.”

When we trust in the Lord, we don’t have to hide. We don’t have to flee. David confesses in Psalm 11:1 (NLT): “I TRUST IN THE LORD FOR PROTECTION. So why do you say to me, ‘Fly like a bird to the mountains for safety!”

Be blessed today,

Nancy Campbell

Psalm 9:10 says: “And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.” Read also Psalm 20:7; 33;21; 124:8; Isaiah 50:10; and Zephaniah 3:12. We know that the name of the Lord is powerful. His Name is Savior, Defender, Deliverer, and Healer among so many other names.

If He is our Healer, why don’t we look to Him for healing? If He is our Deliverer, why don’t we look to Him for deliverance rather than to a vaccine which cannot be trusted, which cannot be full-proof, which needs sufficient time for testing—and by the time it is fully tested there will be a different strain of flu!), and which will only imbed foreign materials into our bodies which we don’t need!

Remember when the swine flue outbreak came in 1976? They rushed to a vaccination program and incumbent president, Gerald Ford, urged every American to get vaccinated. In fear, thousands of Americans rushed to get their vaccination. Unfortunately, the vaccine triggered a disease which caused weakness in the limbs and even killed 33 people.

I’d rather trust God any day than trust man, wouldn’t you? We must ask ourselves the question: “For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?” (Psalm 18:31). Why would we trust in man when we can trust in God? It seems such a ridiculous question, doesn’t it?

I’ve always been challenged by Isaiah 2:22: 21: “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of?”

In 2 Kings 18:21 (NLT) Sennacherib, king of Assyria taunts King Hezekiah for relying on the support of Egypt (which in the Bible always speaks of the flesh and relying upon man): “On Egypt? If you lean on Egypt, it will be like a reed that splinters beneath your weight and pierces your hand.”

“In God we trust.” Do we truly trust Him?

Be blessed today,

Nancy Campbell

P.S. Read these powerful Scriptures about trusting in man: Proverbs 3:5, 6; Isaiah 30:1-3; 31:1-3; Jeremiah 13:25; and 17:5-10.
Scriptures about rusting in the shelter of His wings: Ruth 2:12; Psalm 36:7; 57:1; 61:4; and 91:4.

Don’t be concerned that you think differently to our culture? You’re not meant to think like our humanistic culture today. Your thinking should be transformed! We are meant to think like God thinks, not like the world thinks (Isaiah 55:8, 9).

Jesus went on to explain to His disciples the meaning of the parable of the sower where people hear “the word of the kingdom.” Verses 20, 21 say: “But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has not root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises BECAUSE OF THE WORD (the truths of the kingdom of God which are opposite to the thinking of the natural man), immediately he stumbles.”

If we believe and receive God’s Word from beginning to end. If we obey the words of His kingdom, we will receive reaction from family and people around us. We may face ridicule. Be scoffed at. We may even face persecution.

The question is: will we be offended? Will we turn away because kingdom truths are opposite to man’s ideas? Or will we stick fast?

We belong to a kingdom that is not of this world. It is an everlasting kingdom. A kingdom that will never be shaken. A kingdom that will one day rule every other kingdom. Because our kingdom is not of this world, the natural man cannot understand it.

In a society where marriages are breaking up, build and strengthen your marriage. You are sticking to your sacred vows.

In a culture where people do not understand the value of children, joyfully embrace the children God gives you.

When you receive pressure to leave your children and get out of the home, stand your ground. You will not give the children God has given you to someone else to raise. You know who God created you to be. You embrace motherhood, home, and family. You are out of step with culture, but you are in step with God.

People can’t understand you, but you are coming to understand the “mysteries of the kingdom.” You know they are God’s eternal truths. They are God’s blueprint. They bring peace, joy, and rest.

“Blessed are your eyes, for they SEE: and your ears, for they HEAR” (Matthew 13:16).

Be blessed today.

Nancy Campbell

How ridiculous to try and be someone you are not! To miss out on your purpose for life!

There were women who rejected their femaleness back in Roman times too. Romans 1:26 tells us that “God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women (a word which means a suckling mother) did change the natural function into that which is against nature.”

But we need to get back to the Scriptures and see what God says. He says it more powerfully than I can say.

1 Corinthians 6:19: “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN? For ye are brought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Isaiah 29:16 (ESV): “YOU TURN THINGS UPSIDE DOWN! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, ‘He did not make me’: or the thing formed say of him who formed it, ‘He has no understanding’?”

Isaiah 45:9 (ESV): “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

Isaiah 64:8: “But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”

Jeremiah 18:6: “O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? Saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.”

Romans 9:20 (CJB): “Who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me this way?’”

Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”

Romans 14:7: “For none of us liveth to himself.”

Our Creator knows what He is doing.

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

Check out these Scriptures of our God marvelously creating us: Genesis 1:26, 27, 31; Deuteronomy 32:4; 2 Samuel 22;31; Psalm 11:1-6; 18:30; 139:14; and Revelation 15:3.

But we need more than healing for our land. We need healing and forgiveness from the sin which fills our land. Abortion, murdering precious life in the womb, continues. The Abortion Clock states that up today there have already been 261, 950 babies murdered. The COVID-19 is insignificant compared to this number, and yet most people are oblivious to it.

This is only the beginning of the sin that fills this nation. Let’s take hold of 2 Chronicles 7:14 which says that IF we . . .
Humble ourselves
Pray
Seek God’s face, and
Turn from our wicked ways . . .
THEN He will hear from Heaven, and forgive our sin, and heal our land.

God is faithful. He will heal us and heal our land too if we do our part.

Could we increase our prayers to three times a day? This was the habit of David’s life and yet he was a great king and with many responsibilities (Psalm 55:17). It was the habit of Daniels’s life and yet He was high up in the Babylonian kingdom with many responsibilities. (Daniel 6:5). e also have lots of things to do but we can do it too.

I guess it depends how much we want God to heal our land.

Love to you today from Nancy Campbell
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Paul longed to come and see the believers in Spain, but he told them he couldn’t come until he FINISHED his current task which was to take contributions from the church to the poor believers in Jerusalem (Romans 15:28).

Paul asks the Galatians believers in Galatians 3:3 who were trying to gain their salvation by doing the works of the law? “Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?”

We have to watch this too, don’t we? We can begin a project in the power of the Holy Spirit and gravitate to doing it by our own human effort. God wants us to finish in the anointing of the Holy Spirit too.

It was Paul’s habit to complete and finish his missions. He states in Acts 20:24: “But none of these things move me (the fact they he was going to face prison and afflictions), neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might FINISH my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus.”

Toward the close of his life he confesses in 2 Timothy 4:7: “I have fought the good fight, I have FINISHED the race, I have kept the faith.”

JESUS also finished the work God gave Him to do.

John 4:34: “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to FINISH His work.”
John 17:4: “I have FINISHED the work which thou gavest me to do.”
John 19:30: “Jesus said, It is FINISHED: and he bowed his and gave up the ghost.”

May we also be task finishers.

Blessings to you today,

Nancy Campbell

Peter encourages the believers to keep on adding godly attributes to their faith so they will have an ABUNDANT entrance into the everlasting kingdom (2 Peter 1:11). How do you want to go into the eternal kingdom? Abundantly? Triumphantly? Grandly? A flourishing finish? That’s what I want, don’t you?

Of course this will only happen as we CONTINUE on in the faith. Life on this earth is not always easy. We face challenges and difficulties. But we don’t give up. We continue plodding on because we look for a heavenly city. We live this life in preparation for the eternal kingdom which is the REAL world.

Proverbs 4:18; “The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth MORE AND MORE unto the perfect day.”

Philippians 1:6 is not only a wonderful promise for yourself, but you can pray it over your husband and your children too.

Be encouraged and blessed, today,

Nancy Campbell

You don’t have to live in the doldrums. Why live below par when you have the resurrected Christ living in you? Jesus Christ now sits at the right hand of the Father in the heavenly realm. And Ephesians 2:6 tells us that He has also “raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”

Therefore we live above our problems, not below them. We live by faith, not fear. We live with hope, not despair. We confess healing, not sickness. We are joyful in our tribulations.

Paul penned the truth: “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). Because He lived these words he was imprisoned, tortured, persecuted, beaten, stoned, and suffered hunger. And yet what was his confession: “As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things” (2 Corinthians 6:10).

Are you facing financial hardship? I love the translation that says: “Penniless, we own the world.”

Live in resurrection power today,

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransomed ones of God
Be saved, to sin no more.

E’er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

Dear folks, please forgive me asking all these questions. I am asking them myself today as I pace the floor? I have been asking them for days and am now voicing them to you. Please forgive me if I tread on toes. I’m just asking.

Yes, I just have to ask. Why does the media intentionally fill the nation with fear? Why has a whole nation, the greatest and freest nation on earth bowed to a lockdown of life? This is far scarier to me than this virus. It shows the nation is ruled by fear.

I love to imagine that the churches did not bow to silence and instead gathered, not for normal services perhaps, but to pray and intercede and storm the gates of Heaven for this virus to halt. Can you imagine millions of Christians praying in groups together (Matthew 18:18-20)? This would be far more powerful than hiding ourselves away.

Imagine the sick coming to God’s people to be healed!

There is power in corporate prayer, Instead, we are isolated. Instead many are locked down with fear. It’s hard to believe how fearful people have become. I know many families are praying in their homes, but I know that there are many who are not. Sadly, it is not the usual habit for even Christian families to all pray together every day. I pray they have begun to do this since this lockdown, but are they? Is their less prayer because we are not meeting together?

Could I humbly ask this question? Did you gather your family to pray together for this nation this morning? And will you be doing it again this evening with your family?

Oh I know some would say that we would be a threat to others by passing on the virus, but I believe in the power of God. I believe that when God’s interceding saints get together to come against a virus, that the virus could not touch them! God is much bigger.

And does not Christ dwell in us? His powerful healing life that dwells in us is greater than any virus. As one of my daughters says, “I do not fear. Because Christ lives in me, any virus just falls off me.”

Romans 8:11 (ESV): “If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.”

I believe that God’s people should be available for the sick to come to us to pray for their healing. My grandson who loves to pray for people was sharing how he was convicted of Jesus’ words, “Go, cleanse the lepers” (Matthew 10:8). He reminded us how Jesus didn’t hide from the lepers. He touched them and healed them. He was likening the lepers to this virus. But although he goes looking every day, he hasn’t found any yet. He’s ready to pray for anyone. But one good thing, he said that although he hasn’t found any corona victims to pray for, that people are about 40 percent more open to hear the gospel.

My dearest readers, I don’t write this casually. According to the statistics, my husband and I are in the most “vulnerable category” according to our ages, but we do not fear. How can we fear, when our trust is in God?

Isaiah 8:11-13 states: “For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people: ‘Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread. The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded’” (Isaiah 8:11-13 BSB).

I think back to when the government took prayer and then the Bible out of schools What did the Christians do then? Nothing. Imagine if every Christian family had taken their children our of our public schools? They would soon have put prayer back again!

Last question: Why don’t we the people of God stand up for what we really believe?

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

I personally heard of two cases that did not die of corona, but the following day their death certificates were changed to corona virus being the cause of death. Why?

A couple of other examples. They found the corona virus in the blood of a man who had a serious accident and therefore attributed his death to corona, not his accident. They found traces of corona virus in a baby who was suffocated by the mother and instead of suffocation the cause of death was noted as corona. Why?

Interesting information is also coming from Italy where they have had the most deaths. Professor Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health writes: “On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three.”

But there are other factors that may have contributed to Italy’s fatality rates, experts say. This includes a high rate of smoking and pollution - the majority of deaths have been in the northern region Lombardy region, which is notorious for poor air quality.

Another study says: “Rome-based institute has examined medical records of about 18% of the country’s coronavirus fatalities, finding that just three victims, or 0.8% of the total, had no previous pathology. Almost half of the victims suffered from at least three prior illnesses and about a fourth had either one or two previous conditions. More than 75% had high blood pressure, about 35% had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.

Yes, we know there is suffering and death and our hearts grieve. But at the same time, we want to know the truth, don’t we?

~ Nancy Campbell

O let us rejoice in the Lord evermore,
Though all things around us be trying,
Though floods of affliction like sea billows roar,
It’s better to sing than be sighing.

Then rejoice evermore, rejoice evermore,
It is better to sing than be sighing:
It is better to live than be dying;
So let us rejoice evermore.

O let us rejoice in the Lord evermore,
When the darts of the tempter are flying,
For Satan still dreads, as he oft did of yore,
Our singing much more than our sighing.

O let us rejoice in the Lord evermore,
When sickness upon us is stealing,
No cordial like gladness our strength can restore,
For joy is the fountain of healing.

Have a joy-filled day. Get your entire family singing.

~ Nancy Campbell

We are also saved from the judgment of our sins when we acknowledge the blood of Jesus upon our lives. 1 Corinthians 5:7 says: “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.” Jesus Christ is our Passover. What a glorious and wonderful redemption we have.

I love this picture which a dear friend of mine sent to me. She flies her red scarf at her doorway representing the power of the blood of Jesus as she remembers this Passover time. She also flies it to acknowledge the protection and power of God over her home as we face this “c” virus.

We do not have to fear any plague as we abide under the Shadow of the Almighty and plead our protection through the power of the blood of Jesus Christ.

Many blessings,

Nancy Campbell

It teaches your children how to work. We all want our children to have a good work ethic. Let’s show them how. They learn more by our “showing” than our telling them what to do.

Have a great smiling day,

Nancy Campbell