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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.
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Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and gives you part of the milk.Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both cows and sells you the milk.
Nazism: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
Bureaucracy: You have two cows. The government takes both of them, shoots one, milks the other, then pours the milk down the drain.
Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one of them and buy a bull who fathers many more.
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God looks for men who will stand out from the crowd--men who will not be crowd lovers, crowd blenders, crowd pleasers, or crowd followers, but men who will dare to be different (Numbers 14:24 and 2 Chronicles 16:9).
~ Colin Campbell
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Men, if we are going to be men of courage, we must speak up for what's right when the opportunity presents itself. If you have any truth in you, for goodness sake, SAY IT! Do not hide truth behind closed doors.Edmund Burke wrote, "All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing."
God is calling for all Christian men to use every opportunity possible to be light shiners and salt preservers. It is high time for us men to tell it the way it is, no matter who is listening. We may get persecuted for it. We may lose our job for it. Even our friends at church may despise us when we do not toe the party line. So what! It's time for men to "play the man" and get rid of all that is gutless.
No more time for powder puffs who hold their peace when the sword should be drawn.
~ Colin Campbell
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"Marriage is not about me. It's about us. The "me first" mentality is the main reason many marriages fail."~ Colin Campbell
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“A father and mother living together with their children, tender in their love, pure in their lives, strong in their convictions, simple and orderly in their habits, do infinitely more than presidents and governors, legislators, educators, and clergymen can do in making a strong nation. And that is a “more” that can be replaced by nothing else. True strength can come to a nation only as the genius of the home pervades the whole inner life of the people. The home nations are the most enduring nations . . .”~ From Quiet Talks on Home Ideals by S.D. Gordon and Mary Kilgore Gordon.
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The nation needs men with backbone--
Men with backbone in their commitment to Christ and His course!
Men who have stickability in the battle of life!
Men who will not bend and bow in the face of opposition!
Men who will not give up on their marriage and fatherhood!
Men who will not give in to the tyranny they are trying to force on this nation!
Men who will be bold like lions instead of acting like lambs.
Men who, no matter what the enemy hurls at them, will not quit.
~ Colin Campbell
Painting by Alfredo Rodriguez
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How do you come home to your family? Like a wet blanket with a frown and a gruff voice? Or do you bring joy and happiness the moment you arrive home?Why not come home with surprises sometimes? Some interesting things for the children or flowers for your wife.
Walk in the door with an encouraging word and a smile for everyone. What a difference you can make to your wife who has been home with the children all day! Let your wife and children anticipate your homecoming with joy and excitement.
~ Colin Campbell
Painting by Roger Wilkerson
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Matthew 18:18 states: “Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”Our prayer meetings should be more than a sweet, cozy, chitchat with pious platitudes that sound religious. OuR prayers must have teeth in them. They should have backbone, fervor, and faith.
If we do not pray it through, we will most likely not see it through. That means we will not see our enemies broken in the natural realm until we have first broken them in the spiritual realm through strong battle axe praying.
Psalm 81:10: “Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.” Ask big things from God and He will give big answers.
Our prayer meetings must trample down our enemies. Our prayer meetings must become war rooms. We saw this explained in The War Room movie.
A battle ground is the ground of earnest, prevailing prayer. It is the desperate cutting power of a righteous man when he chops down the towers of the enemy in prayer. It is the earnest, effectual, prayer of a righteous man that availeth much (James 5:16).
May God save us from blunt axe warfare with no zeal, no heart, and no fervor. James 5:16 says: “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
No standing on the promises equals no victory. Do we understand the importance of pleading His promises? It’s better to stand on the promises than sit on the premises!
Before we pray, we should examine our hearts as to whether we really mean business with God, whether we rally care that much if He hears and answers. Do we have a strong desire for what we are praying?
Battle axe prayer meetings should include biblical, imprecatory prayers, e.g. Psalm 69:22-28. David’s enemies are God’s enemies.
Our battle axe prayer meetings break the spiritual chains from off our leaders. When you pray next, ask the Lord to break the chains of darkness of evil doers.
Jesus calls us to pray for those who persecute us in Matthew 5:43-45. We can bless them with prayers for their repentance, but if they will not repent and for the sake of many innocent people being destroyed and tortured, we must pray that the wicked will be toppled off their thrones so that will not be able to continue their evil atrocities.
Whatever the means God uses to topple them off their thrones will lessen the judgment when they stand before God and give an account for their wicked deeds. This type of praying will in fact spare them from being accountable for crimes they would have committed if they were continuing their wicked ways. Our prayers to topple them off their thrones will lessen their evil deeds.
Many of David’s prayers contained battle axe ingredients. We must pray against principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world through imprecatory praying (Ephesians 6:11-20).
Keep your battle axe sharp!
Ecclesiastes 10:10 TLB says: “A DULL AXE REQUIRES GREAT STRENGTH; BE WISE AND SHARPEN THE BLADE.”
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
P.S.
A list of imprecatory psalms: Psalm 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 25, 28, 31, 35, 37, 40, 41, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 63, 68, 69, 70, 71, 74, 79, 83, 94, 109, 129, 137, 139, 104, and 143.
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The US Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court THIS COMING MONDAY, APRIL 4. Senate Leader Chuck Schumer wants the full Senate to vote on her confirmation.We haven’t got much time left. Can you please call the US senators in your state and plead with them to vote NO to her nomination. We cannot have a woman on the Supreme Court of this nation who despises the Constitution, who has a liberal agenda, and who does not even know the meaning of the word “woman.”
Go to the Internet and ask for the Senators in your State and their information will pop up. Give them a call immediately. You will get a secretary and just ask them to VOTE NO. You can also email.
Pass this on to every contact you have.
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Our God is a man of war. Exodus 15:6 states: “The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.”
He called His people an army. Exodus 6:26 tells us how Aaron and Moses brought the children of Israel out from the land of Egypt “according to their armies.”
The Bible talks about many different weapons of war. These weapons can also be used spiritually in the place of prayer.
Jeremiah 51:20 states: “Thou art my BATTLE AXE and WEAPONS OF WAR.”
The battle axe in this passage describes the people He chose to go to war against Babylon, one of the greatest empires of the ancient world who had taken Israel captive and brutally mistreated them.
The battle axe is an instrument to break IN pieces all the enemy’s strongholds. Let’s look further in verses 20-24 where we see 10 things God will break in pieces through the battle axe:
1. “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee” (that's YOU fighting), “will I break in pieces the nations.” (That's GOD fighting). The overcoming church will be given power over the nations. Revelation 2:26, 27 says: “He that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers even as I received of my Father.”
2.“And with thee” (YOU are fighting) “will I destroy kingdoms” (GOD is fighting);
3.“And with thee” (YOU are fighting) “I will break in pieces the horse and his rider” (GOD is fighting);
4.“And with thee” (YOU are fighting) “will I break in pieces the chariots and his rider;” (That's GOD fighting)
5.“With thee also (YOU are fighting) will I break in pieces man and woman; (GOD fighting)
6.“And with thee (YOU fighting) will I break in pieces old and young;” (GOD fighting)
7.“And with thee (YOU fighting) will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;” (GOD fighting)
8.“I will also break in pieces (GOD fighting) with thee (YOU fighting) the shepherd and his flock;”
9.“And with thee (YOU fighting) will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen;” (GOD fighting)
10. “And with thee (YOU fighting) will I break in pieces captains and rulers. And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion IN your sight, saith the LORD.” (GOD fighting).
Here are some similar Scriptures to check out:
Deuteronomy 7:2, 16: “When the Lord thy God shall deliver them before you” (that's GOD fighting), thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver you.” (That’s the children of Israel fighting).
Deuteronomy 7:24: “He shall deliver their kings into thine hand” (that's GOD fighting) and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven.” (That's YOU fighting).
Deuteronomy 9:3: “The Lord thy God, which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire, He shall destroy them and He shall bring them down before thy face.” (That’s GOD fighting). Then it goes on to say: “So shalt thou drive them out and destroy them, as the Lord thy God hath said to thee.” (That's YOU fighting,)
In 1 Chronicles 14:15-16 we read a strategy that God gave to Israel for one of their battles: “When thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle.” (That's YOU fighting). “For God is gone forth before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.” (That's GOD fighting). “David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon, even to Gazer.”
Are you getting the picture? God does His part BUT He also wants us to fight.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
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I am sure that you must be so concerned, as I am, that they want to indoctrinate the children and young people of our nation with this deceptive Critical Race Theory.BANNED
Praise God, the following states have banned it:
Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Florida.
INRODUCED LEGISLATION TO BAN
The following state have introduced legislation to ban it. If you live in any of these states, please call, email, and write to your Governor, federal and state Senators, local commissioners, and school boards and urge them to say No to this deceptive brainwashing in the schools of your state.
Utah, Arizona, South Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maine, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
ALLOWING IT IN SCHOOLS
The following states are allowing it to happen in their schools. If you live in any of these states, please do something. Please call your governor, all your state and federal senators and congressmen, local commissioners, and school boards. And urge everyone else you know to do the same to tell them to please put forward legislation for this to stopped in the schools of your state.
Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
You will find all their phone numbers and emails by going online.
This nation belongs to WE THE PEOPLE. Let’s be the voice.
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The truckers have become God’s battering ram in Ottawa, Canada. However, we need battering ram prayer meetings to back them up and support their effort.The Scriptures in Ezekiel 4:2, 21, 22 specifically speak of the ancient weapon called the battering ram.
Unfortunately, in these Scriptures the battering rams were used by the enemy, Babylon, to smash down the gates and walls of Jerusalem.
Battering rams were made of strong tree trunks tipped at one end with iron. Evenly spaced along the trunk they made holes through the trunk to pass bars of wood or iron through the holes that become cross bars. This enabled 15 – 20 men each side of the trunk to pick it up in unison, and after backing up a few steps, to charge forward and ram the steel end of the tree trunk into the enemy’s gates and walls. This made the breeches in the walls for the armies to enter the city. They were very effective.
Battering rams are an excellent illustration of how effective unity and agreement are when it comes to charging the strong barred gates of those ancient cities. One man could not possibly lift up that heavy tree trunk, let alone charge it headlong into the walls and gates. It took maybe 15 – 20 each side, all in unison, all running together, all sharing the heavy load.
Matthew 16:16-18: “And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.”
Peter’s statement of confession that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God was the iron tipped battering ram. However, it required more than one picking up the weight of that confession and charging the gates of hell with it.
Jesus said in Matthew 18:19: “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
“Two or three” is the minimum requirement for picking up a spiritual battering ram. Yet how much more effective is a larger number.
The truckers and other protestors in Canada and across the world need our churches and families to continually pick up the cause of bringing down the one world tyrannical vaccine mandates as well as all the other tyrannical, heavy, bulldozing of their leftist, socialist agenda.
We must pray that all protesters will stand their ground and not give in to all the fear tactics of these leftist dictators, presidents, prime ministers, governors, mayors, and all their cohorts who are trying to steal and rob the free West of all its hard-earned freedoms.
These truckers and other protestors are doing it hard as week by week they brave the freezing weather, harassed by police with threats to their families, stealing their gas, revoking their licenses, and now threats to freeze their bank accounts.
We must turn our homes and churches into battering ram prayer meetings. This battle is more than flesh and blood for we are indeed coming up against the very gates of hell.
Praise be to God, the gates of hell, no matter how strong they may be, are no match against the battering ram prayers that are made in the powerful name of Jesus Christ who is the victorious Son of God, who because of His death, burial, and resurrection has overcome His enemies.
God is using these ordinary working people to challenge the so-called intelligencia of the upper class who think that they and they alone have the right to bulldoze everyone else into their one world government that will own everything and everyone else will be under their control. And lookout if we dare protest or question their self-usurping, self-assuring authority.
The enemy of our liberty and freedoms may try to do their best to fool us into believing that they care for us and want to protect us while all the time they are robbing us of ownership of everything we presently own so that they will be the one ones who have all the say and the right to do as they please.
Behind all this global warming, carbon footprint deception they are trying their best to reduce the world’s population and vaccinations are part of their plan. It does not matter to them how many people must die in order for them to achieve their goals.
Through our battering ram prayer meetings our prayer answering God is raising up the people of low degree to resist and defeat the wisdom of this world.
1 Corinthians 1:27: “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”
This is our time to call on the Lord like never before.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
CALL THE CANADIAN EMBASSY
P.S. Freedom-loving Canadians are calling out to other nations to help them. They are asking that EVERYONE CALL THEIR CANADIAN EMBASSIES to register their horror at Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act against the peaceful and mainly Christian protests in Ottawa and across Canada. This Emergencies Acts has never been used before and now it being used on peaceful protestors to forcefully stop their protesting and not listen to their pleas for freedom and their livelihood.
We are in a war. It is freedom or tyranny. Please call. The Canadian Embassy number in USA is
1 844 880 6519. You can also email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Do it today.
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We are not fighting against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers. We must keep pushing back the enemy. Pushing back in the spirit of prayer against the tyranny. The fight continues in Ottawa. Pray for a great breakthrough for freedom. It's not by might, not by power but by God's Spirit (Zechariah 4:6).
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Pray this Scripture. Pray that the godly authority of the righteous will be raised up in the land and all evil put down.
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How much time do you give to building into the lives of your children?
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