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This golden crown was called “THE HOLY CROWN.” It speaks of keeping our minds pure and holy before the Lord. All evil comes through the mind. This is where we are first tempted. Therefore, it is most important to wear our holy crown each day. We don’t wear it physically, but by faith we put on our golden crown of HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

When evil and negative thoughts come to your mind, don’t accept them. When you wear your crown, they will hit the golden crown of holiness and bounce off. When grumbling, complaining, self-pitying, and unbelieving thoughts come to your mind, resist them in the name of Jesus. You have a protective golden crown on your forehead.

Not only did Aaron wear the crown continually, but it had to be saturated with the anointing oil, speaking of the HOLY Spirit. We cannot do this in the power of the flesh, but only by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Learn to wear your crown by faith each day. Teach your children this lesson and how to get into the habit of wearing it. Teach them to be proactive about keeping their minds pure. Teach them the truths from the following Scriptures. Encourage them to make them memory verses: Psalm 119:9 11; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 10:4, 5; Philippians 4:8; 1 Peter 13; and James 4:7.

I read Proverbs 4:15 this morning. It reminds us what to do about an evil thought or evil path:
AVOID IT
DON’T GO ON IT
TURN AWAY FROM IT
AND PASS ON!

Be blessed today,

Nancy Campbell

P.S. Read all about the golden crown: Exodus 28:36-38; 29:6, 7; 39:30, 31; and Leviticus 8:9-11.

And have you noticed the next verse? “He is ever lending generously and his children BECOME A BLESSING.” Yes, those children you thought you could not afford will become a blessing to YOU and to the WORLD!

Who do you trust most? Your finances or God?

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

Check out: http://tinyurl.com/CanGodProvideforBaby

The extreme socialists and humanists are no longer subtly changing society They are now bold and demanding.

It’s time for God’s people to stand up for truth. To be bold. To contend for our faith and our convictions.

We cannot be silent. We can no longer tolerate what God hates.

“Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? (Psalm 94:16).

To read more go to this link: https://www.lifesitenews.com/…/alberta-official-demands-ind…

~ Nancy Campbell

Mothers, we must be watchwomen, constantly on the alert for his crafty ways. 1 Peter 5:8, 9 says: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith.”

When you notice the devil putting his toe in your door, boot him out before he gets any further. Speak the name of Jesus out loud. Confess the Scriptures out loud. Don’t allow the enemy to become entrenched in your home. Raise up the stand of righteousness. Cast out all worldly practices and entertainment, and “the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:15-17). Deal strongly with negative and evil habits.

God spoke to His servant, David: “I have cut off all thine enemies OUT OF THY SIGHT” (1 Samuel 7:9). God reveals the way He wants us to also deal with Satan’s temptations. We cast them OUT OF OUR SIGHT! We don’t allow them to linger around. We don’t tolerate them. We send them kicking, OUT OF SIGHT AND OUT OF MIND.

James 4:7: “RESIST the devil, and he will flee from you.”

Blessings to you today from Nancy Campbell

(A good article written by my granddaughter, Meadow Hall).

Here is my opinion regarding the Kavenaugh/Ford case:

I believe men who rape and sexually assault women are a huge threat to society. I know women who have been victims of rape and sexual abuse and what they have had to endure is truly sickening. Rape is a serious and evil crime. However, the "Believe Women" mantra that is being used to support accusations against men is not at all the way we should be handling these situations . . . This movement is dangerous.

To "Believe Women" is the notion that women (an entire gender) don't lie. But someone has to be lying, so this would also have to imply that men "do" lie. Not only is this idea extremely sexist, and a huge insult to men, it is entirely false. Women have been lying for thousands of years. This is nothing new.

Genesis tells the story of Joseph who was a slave in Egypt for Potiphar. Potiphar's wife took notice of Joseph and tried to seduce him to sleep with her. But Joseph, being an honorable man, refused her. Potiphar's wife persisted another day and "caught him by his cloak and said, 'Come to bed with me!' But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house." When she saw that he had left his cloak with her, she schemed to make up a false accusation against him. " She called her household servants. 'Look,' she said to them, ' this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

After she lied to her husband about Joseph, Potiphar was so angered, that he sent Joseph into prison for a crime he didn't do.

Like Joseph, there have been many innocent men who have become victims of a woman such a Potiphar's wife.

Just like rape has devastating affects on the life of the victim, so does being falsely accused of rape. The man could lose his reputation, his career, his marriage . . . and spend the rest of his life in prison. So just like a rapist is a threat to society, a woman who falsely accuses men of rape is a threat to society. Just like there should be severe consequences for a rapist, there should be severe consequences for someone who falsely accuses someone of rape.

It is very disheartening to see so many movements and causes such as "power to women,” "rights for women,” and "believe women." Society needs to stop caring only about women and start caring about "people.”

Women are not always the victims. Sometimes men are too. This isn't just about fighting for a culture that is a safe place for our daughters to grow up, it's also about making it a safe place for our SONS. Mothers should be just as concerned that there are evil women out there who could try to ruin her son's life out of the blue, without any evidence.

If we truly care about equality and the rights of "all" people, we should all be just as angered by a man who is falsely accused of rape as we would when a woman is raped.

Don't just "Believe Women". Believe truth. And believe evidence.

MEADOW HALL
Facebook: Meadow Hall
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He also cried out: “It is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves” (Matthew 21:13).

Your home is also God’s house if you have dedicated it to the Lord, which I am sure you have. Therefore, we should have the same zeal Jesus had to protect our homes and families. We are faithful watchwomen who drive evil out of our home. Even if we upset everyone! I’m sure we won’t be tipping over tables and throwing money everywhere, but we’ll be strong enough to take a stand against any evil that seeks to bring darkness into our homes.

We passionately keep our homes holy.

We have the zeal of the Lord about making our home a House of Prayer! In fact, if our homes are not homes of prayer, can we call them God’s homes? We plan our schedules around our daily prayer times with our family. We don’t hope it fits in. We make it fit in to our schedule. Or better still, we make our schedule fit around our highest priority, our daily family times of prayer and Bible reading.

Jesus Christ redeemed us to be “zealous of good works” (Titus 2:14). Building your home and family for God is a good work. Do it with zeal. Don’t do it half-heartedly, allowing other things to consume your mind and time. Embrace the great commission God has given to you and pour your heart into it.

Recently I have watched mothers, who have been wonderful mothers, become zealously involved in a specific interest outside their home. It consumes them. Now, instead of continuing to build their marriage and children’s lives, they pour their life into this vain emptiness that is temporary and has no eternal value. Their home lies destitute. They are building empty castles in the air instead of building their family.

May the blessings of God fall upon you, dear anointed, zealous, passionate mother.

~ Nancy Campbell

You also have lovely dresses of love, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). You have delightful garments of tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering, forbearance, and forgiveness (Colossians 3:12-17).

Don’t leave them hanging in your wardrobe. God gives them to you to wear! Read Ephesians 4: 22-24 and Colossians 3:10. The strange thing is that although we have this expensive wardrobe, we don’t always bother to wear the clothes. We are so used to our old shabby clothes of the flesh. We feel more comfortable in them. They feel familiar, so we stick with them instead of wearing our new clothes. But they belong to you! They are yours!

The J. B. Phillip’s translation says: “Fling off the dirty clothes of the old way of living … And put on the clean fresh clothes of the new life.

You can even change garments as you need them throughout the day. Are the children driving you crazy? Your anger is rising. Quick! Change into your garment of long-suffering or patience. Put it on by faith. Thank the Lord for His patience which is in you because He lives in you.

Are you starting to shout and yell because everything is getting on top of you? Put on the garment of gentleness. Thank the Lord for His gentle Spirit which lives in you.

Wear your beautiful clothes.

Blessings to you,

Nancy Campbell

I am challenged by Proverbs 9:10: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is Understanding.”

One of the greatest responsibilities we have as parents is to make sure these twins are intimate friends of our children (Proverbs 7:4). We want them to grow up with godly wisdom and understanding. But how do the get it? By getting to know another set of twins—the Fear of the Lord and the Knowledge of the Holy.

We should have two huge priorities in our lives:

1. To walk in the ear of the Lord and to teach our children to walk in the fear of the Lord. We want them to keep from the evil of this world. The Bible tells us that the fear of the Lord will keep them from evil (Proverbs 3:7, 14:16; 16:5; and Jeremiah 32:40). We must pray this prayer over them daily. We must seek the anointing of the Holy Spirit to keep them walking in the fear of the Lord.

2. To seek to know more and more of our Holy God and to teach our children of Him. The knowledge of the Holy is the greatest knowledge our children can receive. Have we got things in balance in our family life? Do our children receive more time in the day receiving the knowledge of God than they do secular stuff? Even Christian families can become very imbalanced.

One of the greatest ways we can ensure that our children receive fresh knowledge of the Lord each day is at our family Bible times where we gather our children every morning and evening to read the Word and pray together.

Don’t let go your highest priorities. “Hold the fast which thou hast, that no man takes thy crown” (Revelation 3:11).

Be blessed today,

Nancy Campbell

Two answers for you: Firstly, the word “habitation” is a Hebrew word that is used for God’s house and for houses of people. So, that means your house too.

Secondly. God no longer lives in a temple in Jerusalem. He now dwells in all who receive Him into their lives and who are born again by the Spirit of God. Our bodies are now the “Holy of Holies” of God (1 Corinthians 6;19). This is where He delights to dwell. And He loves to dwell in our homes. Therefore, your home is a habitation of God.

If God is the habitation of your home, don’t you love to be there? To be with God? We must get our thinking straight. We must think and speak the right words. Start your day acknowledging the truth. “Thank You, God, that You dwell in my home. I am living in Your habitation. I am Your habitation.”

Or confess: “I delight to be in my home today because God is here. Every mundane task is sacred because God is with me. No challenge is too big because God is with me. I LOVE being in my home with my children.”

David also confessed that he was “SATISFIED with the GOODNESS of God’s house” (Psalm 65:4). It’s good to be in God’s House. But that means, dear mother, it’s good to be in your home because your home is God’s home! Learn to be satisfied with the goodness of your home because God dwells in your home.

But there’s more. I love the way the Bible is filled with adjectives. The Bible not only talks about God’s goodness, but His GREAT GOODNESS (Nehemiah 9:25, 35; Psalm 145:7; Isaiah 63:7 and Zechariah 9:17). Goodness cannot fully describe the goodness of God. It needs more words. The adjective “great” means “abundant, exceedingly, mighty, plenteous, abounding, multitude.”

This is the kind of goodness God wants you to enjoy in your home, in your kitchen, with your children.

Be blessed in your home today.

Love from Nancy Campbell

Every woman is created to be a mother, whether she has many children, is barren, or single. God put within every female an innate desire and anointing to nurture. Even those who spurn motherhood, because of the brainwashing of our humanist society, can't get away from it. If they don't want to nurture babies, they will nurture a pet. They have to have something on which to pour out their God-given mothering instinct.

Some of the greatest mothers who have lived were not married women and never gave birth to children. Of course, we immediately think of Mother Theresa, who although a single woman, poured out her life in sacrificial love to the poor and the needy. In doing so, she was a great mother and a totally fulfilled woman. A single woman or a woman who is not able to conceive is still a mother.

There is a drought of mothering in our needy and hurting society today. Mothers are the greatest need in society, whether married or single. There are hurting children, disturbed young people, and lonely and needy elderly who are all desperate for the loving touch of an anointed and nurturing woman, whether married or single.

Single women should ask God in what direction He wants them to pour out His loving nurture He has innately put within them. God will lead them to many broken and messed up lives. Often the barren woman ends up with more children than the married. Isaiah 54:1: "Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord."

The most important thing is for each one of us, married and single, to generously embrace the lifestyle of mothering God intends for us. Mothers with children, embrace your wonderful high calling of motherhood. Don't hanker for another lifestyle; you are in the perfect will of God.

Single women or precious mothers who cannot conceive at this time, embrace the mothering anointing that God has given you and open your heart to mother all whom God brings into your life. There are so many waiting for you.

Love from Nancy Campbell

Painting by Cecile Veilhan

This is the attitude God wants us to have as wives. Then why do we get so prickly, irritated, and impatient with our husbands?

Ask God to take away your prickliness. Ask Him to fill you with His amiableness. Get into the habit of reacting with an amiable spirit rather than an impatient spirit.

The psalmist rejoiced in Psalm 84:1: "How amiable are thy tabernacles (dwelling places), O LORD of hosts." Fill your home with an amiable spirit. Toward your husband and your children.

Think of ways to be good-natured, friendly, and affectionate to your husband. That means taking time to stop what you are doing and look at him, smile at him, touch him, hug him, and kiss him.

Can anyone say Amen?

Have a wonderful day,

Nancy Campbell

Picture: My granddaughter, Meadow, with her husband, Kendall Hall and their baby, Warren.

"Okay, children, come for your surprise!" Although it is only simple, a little surprise and a little food in their stomachs will make a huge difference.

2. CHILDREN LOVE STORIES

"Come children, let's read a story." Gather the children all around you, cuddle them up tight, and read some nursery rhymes or stories to them. I found story time never failed to calm my children. Can you guess that we had story time quite frequently throughout the day? Have you purchased “Nanny’s Nursery Rhymes”? You’ll love to read these to your children: http://tinyurl.com/NannysNurseryRhymes

3. CHILDREN LOVE TO GET OUTSIDE

"Children, let's go outside for a little walk." Take them out to look at the birds, the butterflies, or any insects, lizards, or salamanders you can find. Ten to fifteen minutes or more outside enables them to let off steam, changes their behavior, and they'll come inside with refreshed spirits.

4. CHILDREN NEED SLEEP

Sometimes when a child, or all the children, are bouncing off the walls, we forget that they may be tired and no longer know how to control themselves. Perhaps they just need a nap!

With most of these little alternatives, you have to stop what you are doing! That's the secret. Children become more difficult to handle when you are engrossed in what you are doing. Stop and spend a little time with them. It makes all the difference.

Have a great day.

Nancy Campbell

It's not enough to diligently teach and train our children. We must live our God-fearing, God-loving, daily God-experiencing lives before them. More than anything else, they will emulate our lifestyle.

Why did God choose Timothy to be a vessel to impact many lives? Of course, we know that Paul chose him, but God was behind that choice. We find the reason in 2 Timothy 1:5, 6 (ESV) when Paul writes to Timothy: "I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that DWELT first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well."

Timothy grew up seeing faith first hand. Yes, his mother and grandmother taught him the Holy Scriptures from the time he was a babe (2 Timothy 3:14, 15), but he also saw it revealed in their lives. It wasn't a faith that was only in their head. It DWELT in them and therefore affected every word and deed of their lives.

The New Living Translation says: "The faith that first FILLED your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice." He couldn't help but notice it filling their lives. Do your children see your faith FILLING you and overflowing into everything you say and do? This is what will impact their lives more than anything else. And think of how many lives were reached for Christ through Timothy.

Are you raising children ready for God to use? God cannot use everyone. Only those who are trained and ready! What a God-anointed task we have as mothers.

Blessings to you today as you fulfill your divine mission,

Nancy Campbell

Painting: Moeder en dochter, Léon Augustin Lhermitte.

Arthur W. Pink comments on God's creation of man: "Not both males or both females, but one male and one female; and to make the design of this unmistakably plain God says, "Be fruitful and multiply." For this reason marriage is called "matrimony," which signifies motherage because it results in virgins becoming mothers."

We cannot deviate from God's plan except to our detriment and destruction (Romans 1:20-32)..

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

Painting: The Homecoming by Jennie Brownscombe, American 1850-1936.

"Did you sleep well last night?
Incorrect: "Yes."
Correct: "Yes, thank you, Mommy." (It is important to teach your children to address the person's name.)

At the table. "Would you like some more dessert?"
Incorrect: "Yes."
Correct: "Yes, thank you, Mommy." Or, "Yes, thank you, Mrs. Smith."
Correct: "No thank you, Mrs. Smith. I am well satisfied." Or: "No thank you, Mommy. But it was very delicious."

When introducing yourself to someone.
Incorrect: "Hi."
Correct: "Hello. My name is Caleb Rogers. It's very nice to meet you." And shake hands firmly.

To answer with one syllable and not address the person who is asking the question, is very rude. Nor does it show respect to the person asking the question. And yet I find that not only children, but many older young people answer this way. They have never been taught basic etiquette.

Do some practice runs with your children each day so that it becomes the habit of their lives.

Bless you today.

Nancy Campbell

Picture from Mrs. McVeigh’s Manners