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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.
The vision for Meat for Men — UNCOMPROMISING MANHOOD blog is to encourage husbands, fathers and single men in Biblical manhood.
Please forgive me. It has been some time since I wrote my last post to you. I have had so many things in and around our home that needed urgent attention and I have been giving myself to them rather than sitting down and writing.I am naturally more of a “hands-on” man and enjoy doing practical things rather than applying myself to pen and paper. This requires discipline for me. I still preach regularly at our Hilltop Fellowship as well as speaking to families at Above Rubies conferences. With my wife’s encouragement I try hard to stay active and healthy. I am coming up 82 years young this coming spring.
Having given my apologies, I want to get back to writing. I have so much on my heart to share with you and I must discipline myself to get it to you. I want to finish our series on the different battle weapons God calls His people. Completing that,
I have another series on my heart ready to begin.
It is my earnest heart’s desire to keep fighting on, especially in this strategic hour when God is calling us to our battle stations. I believe the battle between light and darkness has never been more serious and intense than what we as God’s people are facing right now.
This is not the time to allow lukewarmness, indifference, and casualness to creep in and rob us of the victories God will give to those who do not faint in the day of battle.
Proverbs 24:10: “If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.”
Galatians 6:9: “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
1 Corinthians 15:58: “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in The work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”
Because of the intense battle that is going on in our western countries, we are continuing, no matter what the cost, to hold three prayer meetings each week here on the Hilltop, plus in our morning and evening prayer times at our Family Devotions.
We have a Prayer Meeting at our home on Monday evenings, on Wednesday evenings at Sam and Serene’s home, and each Sunday morning for 30 minutes for all those who have a heart to pray for this nation and the world. As we continue to pray, I notice a greater intensity of heart and fire coming upon the prayer warriors.
At this time, our hearts are going out to the people in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and certain European countries. Some of these countries are facing massive lockdowns, restrictions, and police tyranny. Liberties are vehemently applied through physical force. Attendance at church is stifled in communist style, bullying tactics. The governments of these countries have surrendered to extreme socialist, anti-Christ, anti-democratic, anti-freedom, anti-liberty, and new world order demands.
The number is growing of good people wanting to escape by seeking asylum in the USA or other countries. Our hearts ache for all these people. Because of vaccination requirements many cannot leave even though they want to.
To those who say that these vaccinations are okay because they follow the science, “the proof is in the pudding,” as multitudes are dying, or their immune systems compromised similar to AIDS victims.
Blood clotting, respiratory problems, and a host of life-threatening abnormalities are happening every day. I was just reading last night of over 50,000 deaths caused by this vaccination in the USA alone, let alone worldwide.
Is this subject divisive? You bet it is. Should we stop speaking about it? No, never! We must take a strong stand against this murderous weapon of death and destruction.
Bill Gates proclaimed it boldly on YouTube in this declaration to the leaders of the most powerful nations that in order to reduce the overgrowth of the world population, vaccinations are the answer. Satan is definitely driving this whole thing.
The answer is to stand up for truth, speak up, and pray up.
We are our “brother’s keeper” (Genesis 4:9).
We are all called to be watchmen and sound a warning to our neighbors and friends. If we love one another, we will speak the truth in love, even if it pains us to do so.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
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Fathers, make sure you are covering your homes and families with earnest prayer.
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"Fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your homes" (Nehemiah 4:14).
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How much are you and your family praying for this nation and the countries of the world? God waits for the prayers of His people.
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Ccontinue lifting up the powerful name of Jesus, the name that has power over all the works of the enemy.
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Recently I talked to a young man who is attending college. He shared how his professors advocate delaying marriage and childbearing until they establish themselves and their career. This is how all young people are educated today. Girls are urged to make sure they get settled in a career so that they will have a means of support "in case their marriage fails."Talking to another young lady who attends college she said, "Don't you know that we can now freeze our eggs so we can enjoy our career and have babies later in life when we are ready?"
"Yes," I replied. "I have read about this." In fact, Facebook and Apple now offer female employees a health benefit in order to freeze their eggs so they can focus on their career. However, although this young lady thinks it is “the norm” I am appalled. A generation of young women are being deceived and denied the glory that God intends for them.
It is dangerous to send a young person to college if they are not cemented in godly convictions and a biblical worldview. If they don't know what they believe and are rooted in God's eternal truths, they will soon be indoctrinated with lies from Satan.
The ideology of humanism and feminism looks "wise" to those who do not know the truth. This is Satan's trick. He coats his lies with a semblance of wisdom. They sound a good idea to the natural mind. This is how he first tempted Eve in the garden? How could you tempt someone who walked and talked with God every day? Only by making things "seem" good and wise (Genesis 3:6).
1 Corinthians 1:20, 25 says: "Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? . . . Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men." Isaiah 44:25 says that He "Turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolishness."
Let’s be very careful where we send our children to be taught. Surely we want them to walk in truth and wisdom.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
Painting by Sheri Dinardi
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Do you gather your family morning and evening to pray and read God's word together?
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In the midst of mandates and tyranny, we continue lifting up the powerful name of Jesus, the name that has power over all the works of the enemy.
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The following is a great poem about the value of hard work.The Mortgage and the Man
By Edgar A. Guest
This is the tale of a mortgage and a dead man and his son,
A father who left to his only child a duty that must be done.
And the neighbors said as they gathered round in the
neighbor’s curious way:
“Too bad, too bad that he left his boy so heavy a debt to pay.”
Day by day through the years that came, the mortgage held him fast-
Straight and true to his task he went, and he paid the debt at last;
And his arm grew strong, and his eye kept bright and although
he never knew,
The thing that fashioned a man of him was the task he had to do.
Honor and fortune crowned his brow till the day he came to die,
But he said: “My boy shall never work against such odds as I.
I have planned his year, I have made them safe, I have paid
his journey through.”
And the boy looked out on a world wherein there was
nothing for him to do.
His hands grew soft, and his eyes went dull, and his cheeks turned ashy pale,
For strength which isn’t employed by day, with idleness grows stale.
“He is not that man that his father was,” the neighbors often said,
“And better for him had he been left to work for his meat and bread.”
Oh, the race dies out and the clan departs, and feeble grows the son,
When they come at last to the dreadful day when all of the work is done.
For manhood dies on the roads of ease where the skies are ever blue,
And each of us needs, if we shall grow strong, some difficult thing to do.
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STOP LISTENING. GOD HAS BETTER THINGS TO TELL YOU.
A BOY AND HIS DADby Edgar A. Guest
A boy and his dad on a fishing-trip—
There is a glorious fellowship!
Father and son and the open sky
And the white clouds lazily drifting by,
And the laughing stream as it runs along
With the clicking reel like a martial song,
And the father teaching the youngster gay
How to land a fish in the sportsman's way.
I fancy I hear them talking there
In an open boat, and the speech is fair.
And the boy is learning the ways of men
From the finest man in his youthful ken.
Kings, to the youngster, cannot compare
With the gentle father who's with him there.
And the greatest mind of the human race
Not for one minute could take his place.
Which is happier, man or boy?
The soul of the father is steeped in joy,
For he's finding out, to his heart's delight,
That his son is fit for the future fight.
He is learning the glorious depths of him,
And the thoughts he thinks and his every whim;
And he shall discover, when night comes on,
How close he has grown to his little son.
A boy and his dad on a fishing-trip—
Builders of life's companionship!
Oh, I envy them, as I see them there
Under the sky in the open air,
For out of the old, old long-ago
Come the summer days that I used to know,
When I learned life's truths from my father's lips
As I shared the joy of his fishing-trips.
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Be more than his dad,
Be a chum to the lad;
Be a part of his life
Every hour of the day;
Find time to talk with him,
Take time to walk with him,
Share in his studies
And share in his play;
Take him to places,
To ball games and races.
Teach him the things
That you want him to know;
Don’t live apart from him,
Don’t keep your heart from him,
Be his best comrade,
He needs you so!
Never neglect him,
Though you, still respect him,
Hear his opinions
With patience and pride;
Show him his error,
But be not a terror,
Grim-visaged and fearful,
When he’s at your side.
Know what his thoughts are,
Know what his sports are,
Know all his playmates,
It’s easy to learn to;
Be such a father
That when troubles gather
You’ll be the first one
For counsel, he’ll turn to.
You can inspire him
With courage, and fire him
Hot with ambition
For deeds that are good;
He’ll not betray you
Nor illy repay you,
If you have taught him
The things that you should.
Father and son
Must in all things be one –
Partners in trouble
And comrades in joy.
More than a dad
Was the best pal you had;
Be such a chum
As you knew, to your boy.
By Edgar A. Guest
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The Above Rubies Ladies retreat is right on us. All Oregon and Washington lades and anyone else from anywhere are welcome.This will be our last Oregon retreat unless some other ladies decide to take up the vision. Charity, Sonia, and Julia and their families are all moving out of Oregon to other states. They will be saying goodbye to you at this retreat. It will be a special time of fellowship together.
Still time to register. Here is the information:
17 - 19 SEPTEMBER, OREGON
LADIES RETREAT AT THE CHRISTIAN RENEWAL CENTER
22444 N Fork Rd SE, Silverton, OR 97381
Questions to:
Charity Jenkins * Ph: 503 871 9535
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Or Sonia Ramsay * Ph: 503 428 7345
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Or Julia Hughes * Ph: 503-421-1669
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Hope you can make it!
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by the Scottish poet, Charles MackayYou have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You've hit no traitor on the hip,
You've dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You've never turned the wrong to right,
You've been a coward in the fight.
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Even after God gave you what you prayed for.