Let me give you something you need to know.

The first half of your life, women, you make an investment, the dividends of which you will reap the second half. It flips over. This woman would raise her children, and when her children were old enough to be on their own, they would spend the rest of their life blessing the woman who gave her life to them. That's God's design.

Welcome to Grace to You with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Today's culture encourages women to aspire to leadership, perhaps in a business

setting or in the academic world, but what happens when pursuing goals like those

removes a wife and mother from where her giftedness is most needed and best used in the home?

Still, what if she has the energy to manage her home, care for her kids, and take an outside job?

Can a woman work outside the home and please God?

What if her outside work is ministry-oriented, maybe serving her local church?

Today, on Grace to you, John MacArthur, will give you principles for discovering God's design for a

successful woman. Get practical answers you need, and if you're a husband or a husband to be,

you need to hear John's message too. So follow along now in Proverbs 31.

To depreciate the role of a homemaker is pretty foolish.

The breadth of the role of homemaker is amazing.

To be able to be an economist, a steward of funds and resources,

to be able to analyze all the products available, to be strong enough and well-planned enough to make the right moves at the right time to acquire the right things,

to be fully a wife to your husband and a tender and loving mother to all of your children,

to apportion all the

responsibilities to everybody who was a part of the labor force, that takes some woman.

People say, well, you know, women have administrative skills.

Why should they get locked up in a house?

They don't understand.

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