Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

God has a heart for the poor and the needy.

And if I have God's heart, then I will have a heart for the poor and the needy.

It's Thursday, March 1st, and you're listening to Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Thank you. revive our hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss. If a woman spends all her time volunteering at the local homeless shelter, that's a good thing,

right? Well, maybe, and maybe not. As Nancy will explain today, we all have a mandate

to help people who are hurting, and we have to weigh that mandate against other important priorities,

too. Let's find the balance. As Nancy continues in a series on Proverbs 31, it's called the countercultural woman.

Now we've come to verse 19, and actually we already commented on this verse,

when we talked about the woman working with her hands.

But let me just read it again because it flows with where we are in the passage.

She stretches at her hands to the distaff and her hand holds

the spindle. Some of us, without checking into it, would not even know what a distaff and a spindle

are because these are things we don't use today. This is in a culture before even the spinning wheel.

And some of us don't even know what a spinning wheel is or some of us don't know what a sewing

machine is. But we know what Target is wheel is or some of us don't know what a sewing machine is.

But we know what Target is. But what we've seen is that this is a woman who develops whatever skills are necessary in order to better meet the needs of her family. Not just for self-enrichment,

but her purpose for developing these skills is to meet the

needs of her family. And whatever your family's needs are in this season of life, ask God to help you

develop the skills that will help to minister to those needs. And as I've said before, some of you

younger women who did not have a model, did not

learn some of the skills that were needed. In fact, there's an older woman here who told me recently,

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