PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 206: THE LAND OF MOTHERHOOD, PT 17
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 206: THE LAND OF MOTHERHOOD, Part 17
The land of motherhood is a land of BLESSING. God promises that He will not only bless us in the land, but GREATLY BLESS us! He promises 16 different blessings to us when we are IN THE LAND. Come on in and check them out.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Good to be with you again. I wonder what is happening around your home this week. Well, lots of things are happening around here as usual. Life is always exciting and full on the Hilltop.
At the moment, I’m planting my garden. I’m a little bit late. I should have had it all in by now. But this year, my husband got a very bad and painful leg. He was on crutches. He couldn’t even walk without them. So, we didn’t know what we were going to do because usually he will rotary hoe the garden, and I’ll plant.
He was able to do nothing. But he kept believing, and praying, and walking through it. Well, he wasn’t able to walk, but he began to try as he could. God is so good! Although he still has pain, he’s walking without crutches, and he even rotary hoed my big garden. That is so amazing!
Now I have most of it planted. Still a few small things to plant, but I am so glad. It’s so wonderful to get a garden in. Maybe you have your garden in too, unless you live Down Under. You’ll be in a different season to us here in the States.
But even though it takes work to get in the garden, it’s worth being able to enjoy a wonderful harvest throughout the summer and the fall. To go out every day and pick fresh, beautiful food out of the garden. I just love it!
Now, what else has been happening? On the sixth of May, we had another family wedding. Pearl’s son Rocky, Rocklyn, but we call him “Rocky” for short. He’s actually named after my son Rocklyn. So, we have two “Rockys” in the family.
Rocky married Mary Beth, from down in Alabama. We all had to go down to Alabama for this wedding. Once again, my husband was so blessed to take the wedding ceremony. Mary Beth is such a beautiful girl. She was one of our Above Rubies helpers who came to us about three years ago. Rocky and Mary Beth fell in love, but it’s taken three years for them to come to this place of getting married. It was a very beautiful occasion.
Then last Sunday, we had Addie’s baby shower. Now I think you will know who Addie is, because she is married to Isaiah, one of Serene’s children. Isaiah and Addie are on the front cover of the current magazine. They are now expecting a little baby in June.
It was so joyous to put on their baby shower here on Sunday evening. Cherish was the one who was organizing the baby shower. One of the things we love to do at baby showers, we love “Pass the Parcel,” where you pass it around. When the music stops, whoever gets it, they have to do whatever it says on the parcel.
Cherish really did a great one. Some of the things we had to do, acting out Addie in labor, and acting out if Addie was crying, “What would Isaiah do?” Acting out this and that. They were all so hilarious. We were all just about rolling on the floor with laughter. That was fun.
Yes, we are so blessed with all these beautiful little grandbabies coming on. We have about six little babies all around us now. Little great grandbabies that have been born in the last few months. And now we’re waiting for four more great grandbabies to come! (IT’S ACTUALLY SIX THAT ARE ON THE WAY)! And then we also have three babies of families in our Hilltop fellowship having babies too. So that’s about another seven babies coming. (THE CORRECT NUMBER IS NINE)! We are surrounded with babies! Oh, we are so blessed! It is just so wonderful. God is so good.
On Tuesday night, Colin and I went to another movie, called THE MATTER OF LIFE. Well, you’d think that we were movie-goers! A couple of episodes ago I told you how we had been to see 2000 MULES. Now, we found out that this movie about life, exposing the horrors of abortion, was going to be in the theaters. We were able to go.
It was such a powerful movie! It was only in the theaters for a couple of nights, so you can’t go to see it there now, but you can get the DVD. I would encourage you to order it. I think you can download, actually, too. You can screen it. I would encourage you to do that. It’s called The Matter of Life. Very well done. So much in it. I will have to watch it again, maybe a couple of times, to really get everything that was in that movie. There was so much. Oh, you will be so blessed!
This is another movie you need to show in your own home. Gather people in to watch it with you. We did that with 2000 Mules. We did it once, and we didn’t think enough people came, so Monday night, we actually screened it again in our home on our big screen. We were able to see it again. That was our third time for 2000 Mules. Once again, we really didn’t get enough people coming to see it.
At the theater on Tuesday night for The Matter of Life, I could not believe it! I was so sad, because the theater was only about a third full. I couldn’t believe it. Just some stupid, crazy movie, and they can pack out a theater. When there is something that is so powerful, and giving the truth, and something that is a subject that is so important, people don’t bother to turn up.
Where are we? I wonder. I do believe that we are plagued with a spirit of apathy. I don’t think that most of us really realize where we are in this country, and the state of this nation. We all know that at the moment, the Supreme Court is working on giving their answer about Roe vs. Wade, whether they will continue it, or whether it will be wiped out.
Oh, we are praying so much! That God will move, and He will move upon the Supreme Court judges. That the fear of God will come into their hearts, and they will vote to completely annihilate this horrific bill that has caused the deaths of over 60 million babies in our nation. How do we cope with that? Do we just carry on as though nothing is happening?
Our God is the God of life. God is the authorof life. God loves life. If we are on God’s side, ladies, we will be on the side of life. If we belong to God’s kingdom, we belong to a kingdom of life. We will promote life. We will speak for life. We will stand up for life. We will fight for life.
I believe it’s important for us to see these movies, to be reminded again of the truth, to be reminded again of the horrors of abortion, where precious little babies, babies with all their faculties, are horrifically dismembered limb by limb. You could shoot someone. That’s terrible. But there’s nothing as horrific as dismembering someone, limb by limb.
If we were to see this happen to an adult, we would be in outrage. But it is happening to little babies in the womb! We cannot sit by and do nothing! We must be praying. We must be fighting. We must be calling our senators, our congressmen, our governors. We must be asking them, and pleading with them, to stand for life in whatever state that we live in. We must be a voice.
We have to do something. We can’t just say, “Well, I don’t believe in abortion,” and not do anything! Precious ladies, organize this movie, and get people to come into your home and watch it together. Then talk about it at the end. “Now, what can we do?” Encourage one another in calling up senators and congressmen and so on. Let’s just keep one another on our toes.
Or if we just pathetically, pathetically allow these things to go on, well, really, we’re not standing against it. What are we doing? We’re allowing to happen. That means we’re standing for it, if we’re allowing it to happen! I pray that you can do that.
Have you watched 2000 Mules yet? If you haven’t, don’t forget to watch that one, and bring people into your home to watch this one, too. Although, I’ve just heard that, by public request, 2000 Mules is now coming back into the theaters this weekend. Actually, that’s before you get this podcast, because I’m speaking Thursday. It should come in on the weekend, and you’ll get this podcast on Tuesday morning. But hopefully it will stay in the theaters for a little bit longer this time.
Anyway ladies, let’s be those who are not overtaken by an apathetic, and mediocre, and status quo, and tolerant attitude. Let’s be those who rise up for truth, rise up for life! Rise up for the saving of our nation! Amen? I hope you are saying “amen” with me.
All right. Well, ladies, let’s get on to our walking through the land of motherhood. It is such a wonderful journey! We’re up to point number 11.
No. 11. IT IS A LAND OF BLESSING
Deuteronomy 15:4: “The Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it.”
Notice in that Scripture, He doesn’t say: “The Lord will bless thee in the land.” No, he says, “The Lord will GREATLY bless thee in the land.” Notice also, it says: “IN THE LAND.” We have been reading so many Scriptures, haven’t we, about the phrase, “IN THE LAND.”
This is where God wants us, to bless us. There is where He wanted to bless His people, in the land that He chose for them. This is the way He wants to bless us, and where He wants to bless us, in the land, in the land of motherhood, which He chose for us.
We’re reminded again in this Scripture: “In the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” You see, God gave the land to His people. God gives the land of motherhood to us. We may not have chosen it, but God chose it for us. As we embrace this land, and walk through this land, and take hold of everything in this land, He says: “I will greatly bless you.”
In Deuteronomy 23:20, it says: “That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to, in the land whither thou goest to possess it.”
Deuteronomy 25:15: “That thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
Deuteronomy 28:8: “The Lord shall command the blessing upon thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto, and He shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
Do you notice the beginning of that Scripture? “The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee.” Command the blessing upon thee. “In thy storehouses,” yes! When we walk in obedience to His ways, which is verse one of Deuteronomy 28, he gets to verse 8, and He says: “The Lord will command the blessing of provision upon you.”
But then we go to Deuteronomy 28:21. This passage in Deuteronomy 28 is one of the curses. And here it says that one of the curses is that “until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.” Do you notice the opposite? All the blessings are in the land. But when God has to bring judgment because we walk in disobedience, the judgment is that He will take us off the land. The cursing is off the land. The blessing is in the land.
Well, let me give you a list of all the different blessings that I found. All these blessings are written of what God will do for us in the land, 16 different blessings. Now, I won’t read you all the references, ladies, because you may be washing dishes, on a walk, doing laundry, sitting nursing your baby, whatever. But I will put them in the transcript for you. So, if you get to read the transcript, or you want to check out the references, you’ll be able to go to the transcript. (I’ll list the Scriptures at the end of the transcript).
All right, number one: blessings of fruitfulness.
Blessings of the breasts and of the womb. Notice that is plural. Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Blessings of weddings and celebrations.
Blessings of the provision of bread and water, the most basic food requirement.
Blessings of God’s watchful care.
Blessings of peace.
Blessings upon all that we do.
Blessings of health. Deuteronomy 7:15 says: “the Lord will take away from thee all sicknesses.” What a wonderful blessing!
Blessings on our children.
Blessings if we live in the city, or in the country.
Blessings on our cattle and our produce.
Blessings on our daily walk.
Blessings of reigning instead of servitude.
Blessings of lending to others instead of having to borrow.
Blessings on our land and our garden.
Blessings on all the work of our hands.
How about that for 16 amazing blessings? All the blessings that are in the land. Isn’t that so wonderful? God is so good.
You know, sometimes women think, “Oh, to have more babies is not a blessing. Oh, it will be a negative to my body. I want to keep my figure perfect. I don’t want having babies to interfere with my life, or my figure, or my plans for what I want to do.”
The actual opposite is the case. Many women get on the birth control pill. That often causes them to put on weight. It has many, many physical negatives, even decreased libido, which is not a blessing at all! Every contraception has its negatives and is not a blessing at all to our bodies.
There are women who want to avoid pregnancy, lactation, and all these beautiful things that God has given to us as women. They think, “Oh, no, I don’t want that, thank you! I’ve got more to do with my life.”
Instead, they miss out on the blessings of all the hormones that God gives to a pregnant mother and a lactating mother. These beautiful hormones of oxytocin and prolactin. They are blessings that we, as women, are blessed to receive. Yet, many women reject them because they don’t understand that what God has given is a blessing. Let’s embrace our land, dear ladies, so we can enjoy all the blessings God want to give us.
The next point.
No. 12. IT IS A HOLY LAND
Now, I want to read you this Scripture here. Zechariah 2:12: “And the Lord shall inherit Judah, His portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.” Here God describes the land as the Holy Land. God calls His land a holy land.
We go over to the New Testament where we read in 1 Timothy 2:14-15. We read about motherhood. “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety (or self-control).
This Scripture is talking about how Eve was first deceived but how she can still be saved. That word “saved” in the Greek is sozo. It not only means to be saved from sin and receive salvation. It’s used for that, but it’s used more often, to be healed. This word means “saved, healed, delivered, preserved, made whole,” Many times, when Jesus healed someone, the Bible then says: “And they were made whole from that moment.” It's the word sozo.
Now here in this passage, it’s in the context of Eve being deceived, but “she shall be saved” from deception if she embraces motherhood. It says “childbearing” here. That doesn’t literally mean “childbirth,” the actual giving of birth, although there are some folks who take this Scripture and say that you can be saved from pain and have a painless childbirth.
Well, I think there are some people who do experience that. I didn’t ever experience that, even though my births were my most wonderful experiences. Because birth is intense, and its labor. Many times, painful labor can still be a most glorious experience.
But this word means more than that. It means not only giving birth, but the embracing of all our childbearing, child-raising, child-training career. It’s the embracing of the whole of motherhood. This Scripture says that as she embraces this, she will be saved from deception, she will be made whole in her body, she will be preserved, and she will be delivered. It’s an amazing word.
But here it says that she must also walk in faith, love, and holiness. So, here we read this word “holiness” again, in the context of motherhood. I notice in the Word of God, that the Bible talks about holy marriage, it talks about holy motherhood, and it talks about our holy homes. Let’s have a look at them, shall we?
YOUR HOLY MARRIAGE
Well, it starts out, well, no, it doesn’t start on their wedding day. It actually starts before our wedding day, doesn’t it? It is important that we teach our daughters to walk a holy lifestyle. That they keep their bodies pure. That they come to the wedding day as a virgin. That is God’s plan.
God talks in His Word about the virgin marrying the young man. It’s a virgin, a virgin. A virgin young woman and a virgin young man, coming together in holy matrimony. We must constantly talk to our sons and our daughters about keeping pure and walking in holiness. A holy marriage begins before marriage. It begins in walking in holiness, even before we are married, so we are kept pure for our marriage. We come as a pure vessel.
That’s why I believe we must constantly keep watch over our daughters and what they are wearing. Too many girls today put themselves in such a vulnerable place. Even the clothes they wear turn young guys on. Then that can end in all kinds of things.
OK, girls can wear shorts out playing and doing sports. But how short are those shorts? Goodness me! I just see young girls today, young people, their shorts just barely cover their bottoms, barely! I beg your pardon? That’s not holy clothing.
Make sure their shorts are longer than that, please. So that’s out there, playing sports, on the beach, and so forth, but what about going out? Make sure your daughters are clothed. If they’re wearing a dress, make sure it’s to the knee. They don’t have to wear a long dress, but make sure it’s to the knee.
And make sure that they’re not showing cleavage. This is just so prevalent today. It’s just everywhere. In fact, young brides come to the wedding day in their strapless wedding dresses. I can hear you say, “Goodness, what are you going on about? It’s so normal.” Yes, just about every wedding dress is a strapless wedding dress. Sometimes they will cover amply. Half the time, they don’t even cover the breasts amply.
This young bride, who’s meant to be a virgin, comes to her husband half-clad and showing, not just to her husband, but to all of the guests, much of her private parts. I go to weddings, and sometimes I don’t know where to look. The bride is in her strapless wedding dress, and all the bridesmaids are in their strapless dresses. Half of them are just about falling off. Some have bigger boobs, and they don’t fit properly. Some have littler ones, and they’re just about falling off. Oh, they all look ridiculous!
Why can’t a bride come to the altar, the wedding altar, dressed and covered? Surely that’s how God means it to be. Not coming, showing everything. And the wedding dresses are getting less and less and less and showing more and more. If we are walking God’s way, we’ll want to cover.
That doesn’t mean to say you will not have the most beautiful wedding dress. In fact, some of those that have covered dresses are beautiful and tasteful. It’s so much more beautiful. Oh, I know it’s harder to find them because you go to the bridal shop, and there they are. They’re all strapless. Oh, sometimes you’ve got to find it online, or have it made, or whatever. But please come dressed appropriately.
If you own the name of Christ, let’s be a testimony to who we are. We come to the wedding altar clothed. We come in holiness, not trying to show off our body. Then we come to this beautiful state of holy marriage. And what does it say?
The Wedding Minister, officiating begins with the words: “Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here, and in the sight of God, and in the face of this company, to join together this man and this woman, in HOLY MATRIMONY.”
Have you noticed those words? “Holy matrimony.” How can you come to this altar to be married in holy matrimony, and you stand in a wedding dress that is exposing half the breasts? It doesn’t add up.
“Therefore, it is not to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly, but reverently, discreetly, soberly, and in the fear of God. Into this Holy Estate (Did you notice that again? “Holy estate”) these two persons present now come to be joined”.
It’s a holy young virgin and a holy young man who are coming together to be married.
Then we read about marriage in Hebrews 13:4: “Marriage must be honored among all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled. For God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.”
That word “undefiled,” in the Greek, because it’s the New Testament, is actually the same word that talks about Jesus who was undefiled. It says He was undefiled. He was pure and holy. That is actually the same word, holiness. It’s the word hagios, and it means “to be set apart, to be sacred.” So, marriage is to be holy. The marriage bed is to be holy and kept holy.
Another thing about marriage too, is that I believe in the EXCLUSIVITY OF MARRIAGE, where it is for you and your husband alone. Alone. You can read about that also in Proverbs 5. It speaks again about how the marriage is to be very personal. It’s between you and your husband. We do not allow other people to come in and take that place.
Another part of the wedding vows, I love these too, where they are actually reciting the vows: “I take you to be my lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, and FORSAKING ALL OTHERS, keep myself only unto you as long as we both shall live.”
That’s an important part of a holy marriage also. There are some couples who think, “Oh, wow! Yes, I used to know that guy before I was married. We were great friends. OK, I think we’ll go out and have a cup of coffee together.” No. You are now married. You don’t do that. You don’t go out on your own without your husband with another man. There are many couples who think they can do that, and that it’s quite OK, but it does not work. Nor is it what God intends.
Of course, you can have loads of wonderful friends who are guys, with your husband. You can have single guys into your home, if you are showing hospitality with your husband. Of course, you’ll have many friends who are couples, and you will enjoy life together with them.
But you will do it together, as husband and wife. You will never ever go out alone with another man when you are married. That’s it. You are now in a whole different dimension than when you were single.
Sometimes men, and even wives, can have sinful thoughts, even in marriage. Sinful thoughts about another person. We have to deal very, very strongly with those. We cannot stop a crazy thought, or even a sinful thought, coming into our mind, because that’s what the devil tries to do. He’s always trying to bring thoughts into our minds.
It’s what we do with it. We can dwell on it, ponder it, think about it, hide it in our heart. Or we can RESIST it, in the Name of Jesus! We, as God’s people, must BELONG TO THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT. The moment the enemy comes to our minds with a sinful thought, a wrong thought, or in marriage a thought about another man, ooh! What do you do?
You immediately resist it in the Name of Jesus!
You cast it out in the Name of Jesus!
You take authority over it in the Name of Jesus!
You deal strongly with it.
We’ve got to stop being so apathetic about our thoughts, and just letting them take control. No, we don’t. We must be in power over our thoughts.
2 Corinthians 10:3-6. Oh, you know this Scripture, don’t you? But can we read it again? All right. Actually, it’s a long sentence, a long sentence that takes one, two, three, four verses to get to the end of the sentence, before we get a full stop. Oh, and I see I’m getting to the end of this session. But let’s just read it.
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down (casting down, casting down) “imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.” Full stop. Period. Wow! That was a long sentence, wasn’t it? Powerful Scripture.
Let me read it to you in the Passion Translation. My husband was speaking on this very passage on Sunday. Wow! It was a powerful, amazing message. Anyway, in the Passion Translation it says: “For although we live in the natural realm, we don’t wage a military campaign employing human weapons. Instead, our spiritual weapons are energized with divine power to effectively dismantle the defenses behind which people hide.
“We can demolish,” get that word. “Demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God and break through every arrogant attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God. We capture, like prisoners of war, every thought and insist that it bow in obedience,” Whooo, did you get that? “Insist that it bow in obedience to the Anointed One. Since we are armed with such dynamic weaponry, we stand ready to punish any trace of rebellion, as soon as you choose complete obedience.”
That’s a powerful phrase there at the end. God says that we will have authority and power over the enemy in big things, and even things in the nation, to take them down in the realm of prayer. But first of all, we must overcome, and take authority, and cast out anything in our own personal lives that is disobedient to the Lord. Did you get it?
Back to King James. “And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.” We’ve first got to have victory in our personal lives. Then we have power and authority over the enemy in other people’s lives in attacking evil, even in the nation. We first have to have the victory in our personal lives and in our thought life. Amen?
Oh, yes, well, time has gone. These sessions go too quickly. But let’s pray, shall we?
“Dear Father, we thank You that You have brought us into the land of motherhood. You chose it for us. Lord God, we embrace it with all our hearts. We thank You that You have told us it’s a land of blessing. Oh, You give us so many blessings.
Lord, You’ve told us that it’s a holy land, a land of holiness. Help us, Lord, to be holy women, holy in our thought life, holy in what we say, holy in what we wear, holy in how we act. We pray, Lord, that Your holiness will be part of us. We thank You, Lord, for teaching us and showing us the way. I pray for Your blessing upon every woman, old, young, listening today. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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SCRIPTURES FOR THE BLESSINGS IN THE LAND
1. Blessings of fruitfulness (Genesis 1:28; 22:17; 28:3; Deuteronomy 7:13-14; Psalm 107:38; and 115:14).
2. Blessings of the breasts and of the womb (Genesis 49:25).
3. Blessings of weddings and celebrations (Jeremiah 33:10-11, cf. Jeremiah 7:34; 16:9; and 25:10).
4. Blessings of bread and water (Exodus 23:25).
5. Blessings of God’s watchful care (Numbers 6:24-25).
6. Blessings of peace (Numbers 6:26 and Psalm 29:11).
7. Blessings upon all that we do (Deuteronomy 2:7; 14:29; 15:10, 18; 16:15; 23:20; 24:19; and 28:8, 2).
8. Blessings of health (Deuteronomy 7:15)
9. Blessings on our children (Psalm 115:14; 147:13b; and Isaiah 44:3).
10. Blessings if we live in the city or the country (Deuteronomy 28:3).
11. Blessings on our cattle and produce (Deuteronomy 28:4-5, 11; Psalm 132:15; and 107:36-38).
12. Blessings on our daily walk (Deuteronomy 28:6).
13. Blessings of reigning instead of servitude (Deuteronomy 15:16; and 28:13).
14. Blessings of lending to others instead of borrowing (Deuteronomy 15:16 and 28:12).
15. Blessings on our land and gardens (Deuteronomy 30:16 and Psalm 107:37).
16. Blessings on all the work of our hands (Deuteronomy 23:20 and 28:12).