The woman described in Proverbs 31 understands commitment in marriage. Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

You know, it doesn't say she does him good and not evil as long as he does her good, as long as he's kind to her, as long as he remembers her birthdays and anniversaries, as long as he meets her needs, she does him good and not evil all the days for life.

Why?

Because she's a covenant-keeping woman.

It's Monday, February 19th, and you're listening to revive our hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss. Last week, Nancy brought us insight from Proverbs 31.

I've read it before, but got so much new information out of Nancy's teaching.

Today, she'll pick back up with that series called The Countercultural Woman.

She'll show us how the Proverbs 31 Woman approaches marriage.

I enjoy sometimes studying or reading about the lives of the wives of great men.

And it's amazing how often behind those great men of God, it's really

true that there is a wife who had a heart for God and was encouraging and supporting her husband

in his work, being a helper to him. One of the women I've been reading about recently is

Catherine von Bora. Now that name may not be

familiar to you, but the name Martin Luther probably is familiar to you. And Catherine,

affectionately known by Dr. Martin Luther as his faithful Kate, he called her. She was the wife of

Dr. Martin Luther. Martin Luther was a man who, because of his

understanding of the heart of God and the word and the ways of God, was generally cheerful in his

disposition, but he did have some bouts with depression and a lot of physical ailments that

probably contributed to that over the years. Extremely busy man, and for various reasons, not the least of which is probably all the

pressure that he was under as he was an object of attack and ridiculed during the birthing

of the Reformation.

So there were times when he really did struggle with physical and emotional depression. And God gave him just the right

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