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Here's author and longtime pastor's wife, Janie Ortland.

What you are doing may not seem to be effective or fruitful in God's grand scheme.

But God is always at work.

And he uses even our meager essence.

This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgham.

Author of Adorned.

For October 7th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Well, as we've been mentioning all this week, this is pastor's appreciation work.

And here at Revive our hearts, we want to do whatever we can to help you put into practice

what we read in Hebrews chapter 13.

It says, remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the Word of God.

Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their

faith. Now, one of the leaders in your church who can easily be forgotten is your pastor's wife,

or maybe you have multiple pastors in your church. And I want to just remind you that these women

need encouragement too.

One of the ways we can encourage them is by giving the gift of empathy. Try to put yourself in

their shoes. Think about some of the unique pressures that they might experience simply by

virtue of being a pastor's wife.

At our recent True Woman 22 conference in Indianapolis, one of the breakout sessions was led by a longtime dear friend of mine, Janie Orland.

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