Be prepared. It's more than a motto. It's a necessity. Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

We may be in this country facing some even more difficult days than what our nation has experienced in our lifetime.

Are you thinking about how to prepare your children for suffering?

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee-Demoss.

It's Friday, March 2nd.

As winter fades, moms across the country are thinking, do my kids have enough clothes to wear

this spring and summer?

It's a surprisingly difficult job to get kids to the store to try things on, or to pull

boxes of hand-me-downs from the attic and organize them.

But when you do provide in this way, you're following a biblical model.

Today, Nancy will explain why a wise woman prepares her family for what's coming.

I know that as we've been looking at this portrait of the virtuous woman, the excellent woman, found in Proverbs 31,

and I know that all of us have felt challenged and at points convicted

and at points overwhelmed by how far we have to go. But I hope that you've also been encouraged

and are experiencing hope as we look at the grace of God that He gives us to become the women

God wants us to be.

So don't let this overwhelm you or go home and say, I'm going to be that woman if it kills me.

It will kill you if you're trying to do this in your own effort.

But by the grace of God, Christ living in us, living his life through us, all of us who are children

of God will one day look like this woman. This is a finished portrait. We're a portrait in the

making, but Proverbs 31 is the finished picture of what we will look like. So there's hope,

no matter where you are in that process. And remember that spiritual

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