Follow The Water Walkers

By Pastor SD Campbell

In The Water Walkers, S. D. Campbell weaves a golden staircase of steps that will start the readers on their ways to change.

Love for humanity caused the author to open her life in an effort to show that no matter where you started or where you are now, you can change.

By purchasing this book, you are taking the first step to becoming a water walker.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 21, 2024
• ISBN: 9798886851540

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Follow The Water Walkers

Pastor SD Campbell

ISBN 979-8-88685-153-3 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88685-154-0 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Pastor SD Campbell

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

The Water Walkers

Chapter 2

I Was No Accident

Chapter 3

God Will Work It Out

Chapter 4

God—the Master Chef

Chapter 5

Family Is Everything

Chapter 6

Dig Down Deeper

Chapter 7

Thankful through It All

Chapter 8

Memories of Grandmother

Chapter 9

Thrown Stones as Steps

Chapter 10

It's Only a Test

Chapter 11

Catching the Stone

Chapter 12

Special Ordered

Chapter 13

Practice Patience to Get Prayers Answered

Chapter 14

I am Enough

Chapter 15

Fearlessly Embracing Ourselves and Our Gifts

Chapter 16

Press toward the Prize

Chapter 17

Hold on to the Unchanging Hand of God

Chapter 18

God Is a Title Maker

Chapter 19

Mounting on Wings as Eagles

Chapter 20

God's Eye Stays on the Sparrow

Chapter 21

A Smile Speaks Volumes

Chapter 22

A Water Walker's Power

Chapter 23

Pay Attention to the Blessings

Chapter 24

The Price of Leadership

Chapter 25

Leaders Lead from the Front

Chapter 26

Rise above It and toward a Better Way

Chapter 27

God—the Provider of Our Heart's Desire

Chapter 28

It's Good to Do Good for Others

Chapter 29

What God Puts Together

Chapter 30

I Was What I Was Eating

Chapter 31

Prayer Power

Chapter 32

He Makes All Things New

Chapter 33

Doors that No Man Shut

Chapter 34

Iron Sharpens Iron

Chapter 35

Support Strong Leaders

Chapter 36

I Am Not a Product of My Environment

Chapter 37

Enduring the Storms of Life

Chapter 38

Live for God

Chapter 39

Raise Up a Child Well

Chapter 40

Blessings Overtake the Curse

Chapter 41

Growing in Grace and Knowledge

Chapter 42

Choose One Rabbit to Chase

Chapter 43

Encourage Yourself When Others Won't

Chapter 44

Write Your Own Story

Chapter 45

No Weapon Formed against Us Will Prosper

The Water Walkers Resources

About the Author

No power anymore. (1 Cor. 15:26)

All power is given. (Matt. 26:18–19)

Big Mama Rosa Lee Woods, the original water walker

Dedicated to my big mama Rosa Lee Woods, my family, friends, and all those before us that stepped out of the boat of fear and doubt and walked on water with the help of God.

Foreword

Remembering wise teachings, accepting God's wisdom and understanding.

—Proverb 3:1–6

My friend and colleague Pastor S. D. Campbell has kept these virtues in her heart; they have made her a winner and caused her name to find favor. I feel strongly this depicts her character very firmly.

As a young child, the Lord gave her dreams and visions of traveling the world and preaching the gospel. She has traveled extensively with her husband in the military as an assistant to the US military chaplain program and has since worked in ministry and community outreach.

Her desire is to preach, teach, sing, and provide this well-needed book.

I believe this book The Water Walkers will encourage the readers to know that there are no accidental meetings. We are chosen and commissioned to reproduce Christ's power and produce God's kingdom on Earth with an anointing so that people from all walks of life will come to know Christ Jesus. The proverbs encourage us to not forget God's teachings and keep His commandments in our hearts so they will prolong our lives and bring us prosperity.

Dr. S. D. Campbell has been called to teach the gospel with simplicity and understanding. This is what I have found in my interaction with her for over thirty years.

Thanks for supporting her by investing in this book. Prepare to be blessed!

—Elder Wardine Walton

Administrative Secretary of Base Chapel and Religious Educational Coordinator Andrews Air Force Base-Camp Springs, Maryland

Acknowledgments

Words are unable to articulate my love and appreciation, with a heart of deep gratitude, for who you are to me and for our covenant relationship Father God.

To my amazing children: David, Quiana, Tiffany, and Daniel Campbell, my gifts from God. You bring me great joy and strength. It has been an honor to pray for you and be your mother. You make me laugh, and your presence always reminds me of the valuable things to look forward to. I'm so proud and grateful for you all.

To my husband, David T. Campbell Jr., I admire and respect you. I am thankful for your desire and ability to nurture and care for me.

Nanny and Grandpa Tony Campbell Sr., Great-Aunt Annie Greenup, and my wonderful aunts and uncles whose love and support have been the foundation for the accomplishments I have achieved. Thanks.

To my family, I am grateful for who you are and the privilege to share life experiences with you. Thank you for helping me to take a deep breath in life. You have created memories that made the journey full of pleasure and profound love.

Wardine Walton, thanks for your sacrificial deposits of great love and value. You have empowered my life. Thank you, sister.

Marie Manigault, your humble spirit has served me and has paved the way to show others.

Lucille Davis, Momma K, Martha Harrell, Helen Butler, Della Golden, Dr. Jamie Brown, and Mother Betty, the dinners we shared have become a treasured place of wisdom, laughter, and pleasure with unforgettable memories.

God bless everyone mentioned and others dear to me. Thank you, Water Walkers!

Introduction

The Water Walkers is designed to assist, educate, and edify. This book is rich and alive with the miracles of daily life. It is a memoir full of my family's gumbo banquet for the soul.

Life is not a playground but instead a battlefield. It is not a project but a processing plant. Are you ready? The physical side of life is the experiential side, the things that have caused you to feel bad about yourself. Hurtful things, or even good experiences, can shape or form how we react to life. But spiritual insight is different. The right conditions can edify or hinder you. But faith assists and trumps the physical.

According to Hebrews 11:1–2, faith is the substance of things hoped for. And for me, the evidence of a godly imagination of a better me with someone that cared and created me.

I have learned that faith pulled what I wanted in the spiritual world to the physical world.

In other words, hope changed my inner little girl's life. The prayer was, I want to be better. I didn't realize I received my better right then. Faith is immediate!

I believe this book, The Water Walkers, will encourage the readers to know that there are no accidental meetings. We are chosen and commissioned to reproduce Christ's power and produce God's kingdom on Earth as it is in heaven.

I am a living witness that Jesus is very patient with people who have gotten distracted by the winds, storms, and the waves of life. He can make one who was wounded into a healer. How is that done? By understanding that the natural human (the one that was born alive physically but dead spiritually) cannot receive or understand the spiritual things of God because they are spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:4).

All things take time. For example, after getting saved at eight years old, I was still in the processing plant called a carnal person or Christian—best described as a young Christian still under fleshly, earthly, and worldly emotional control. At age eight, I experienced God's salvation but didn't understand His sovereignty yet (1 Peter 2:2).

I was still a baby, and babies are easily offended and get hurt at the slightest things or discomforts. Baby Christians lack judgment, stay in strife and division, and are impatient with themselves and others. That's how I was with my biological father, Eric. We were stuck there before I began to pray, study, and fast more (1 Corinthians 3:3).

The Bible now calls me a spiritual person (1 Corinthians 2:15–16). Spiritual people can judge or understand better the why, the reason it was done. We have the mind of Christ. We are growing in the things of God and bringing forth good fruit or results. As we grow, we experience Christ Jesus's love and become desirous to share with others. We have discernment; we make the right decisions more often. We understand the scriptures better and live in God's perfect will of service and submission (Philippians 2:5–8).

Some call spiritual people the wounded healer by faith through hope. Christ Jesus will lift you out of your waters and waves and walk you back into everlasting life (Matthew 14:22). And give you mental clarity for life. Are you ready?

My daddy confessed his sins, and God was faithful in forgiving him and me. Don't let the world write your story because faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen yet.

God will and can pull the spiritual things you want into the physical world for you. In Romans 8:6, I have found a godly hope, and this hope was linked to my imagination. I wanted to forgive. The substance I hoped for is real. It is the answer to my questions and a better relationship with my dad. And now God has given me peace, and I pray that this book will encourage you and bring insight, understanding, wisdom, hope, and peace.

Remember, life is a gumbo banquet filled with a little this and a little that. Life is not a project; it is a processing plant. As a young girl, I believed God had something better for me, and that hope gave birth to faith, and it manifested itself in my life. Here is the evidence. I was watching my newborn grandson when he was about three months old while he was hiccupping. Every time he hiccupped, he would pout and then cry. He didn't understand what that was only that it was uncomfortable. When he looked at me, I smiled. I said, It's okay. It's alright. It's just a hiccup. Sweetheart, it is temporary.

I have come to tell you I believe that God treats most of us the same way and encourages us. In a still small voice He still says, It is just a test. You are making A's. I'm here with you. It's going to be okay. It will work for your good. I am your God. I am on your side. God bless you. I have found peace. Now I am a water walker.

Chapter 1

The Water Walkers

One of the first questions I can remember asking when I was a child was why daddy left me. Why didn't he love me? The first question was Why, then the next question was How could you leave your baby girl? Then I answered the question. Because I was not good enough. I answered the question because I felt I was not good enough. Maybe I was ugly. Maybe I cried too much. Maybe this, maybe that. There was one thing in my mind: I was not enough. I have learned when we ask questions, and there is no answer, as humans we will fill in the blanks. And the blanks will probably be wrong or worse than the real answer or situation.

Most of the younger years of my life were stolen by emotional trauma, spent crying sorrowfully, hurt with the hurt turning to anger. But God said, through the mouth of my babysitter, Miss Eva Chambers, whom I affectionately refer to as Aunt Eva, some powerful revelation. She said, I know what God has told me about you, and I believe Him. I will say it again and again. I see the greatness of God all over you, little girl, my dear sweet one. I know that God Almighty has a great plan for you, and He has already answered your questions. (Philippians 4:8).

I realize now, He sent the answers through five great families. The first one was my great-grandmother Merlin Jones and Grandmother Rosa Lee Greenup Woods Williams.

In Spanish culture, we repeat at least four generations of names that were represented in the history of the generations that came before. I chose to represent my great-grandmother's last name and to show respect to all my great-cousins, some of whom are over one hundred years old, like Cousins Johnny Jones and Alma Bowes.

Our family includes my great-uncles who survived World War II. Others included Uncle Lawrence, an aunt Zenobia who welcomed me and my aunt Pat every summer to stay for weeks at a time to enjoy the love and hospitality down in New Orleans. My grandmother's sisters and brothers and their amazing children: Fred, Gwendolyn, and Fred Greenup Jr., Brenda Gail Woods, Bill and Michelle Madison, Rodney, Ladell and Rory Greenup. Carolynn and Melanie Greenup. My mother and my uncles and aunts and their beautiful, amazing children.

My mother has one child, me, S. D. Sainten Campbell.

My family also includes all my wonderful cousins: Leroy, Lionel, John, Mathew, and Linda Eby White.

Linda Faye Eby expresses her gifts of giving through her work in real estate.

Cousin Tony Patterson, a world-class chef, kept our grandmother's legacy alive by