Holly Elif says, don't be quick to assume God doesn't want you to have children.

I do think we're seeing a large number of Christian, committed Christian, couples who are saying we will not have children so that we can be more free to minister.

First of all, I would love to be able to sit down with them across the table

and do for them what someone did for us, which is simply to challenge us to pick up God's

word, putting aside what we know in our culture, but to simply get to the truth of God's

word and say, what does God say about this area?

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

It's Tuesday, July 8th.

Have you ever felt limited in the size of your family by the size of your budget or your ability to parent?

Today, Nancy will continue our conversation with the pastor's wife and mother of eight,

Holly Ella.

She's seeing God's faithful provision time and again.

Let's listen.

We've been talking this week with one of my very special friends, a dear prayer partner.

Her name is Holly Elif.

Holly is a pastor's wife.

She and Bill are the parents of eight children.

And we've been talking this week about a difficult and controversial subject, but we believe such an important

one, and that is this whole matter of childbearing. Holly, welcome back to revive our hearts.

Thanks. You've been telling us something of your story and how after the birth of your fourth

child, thinking that at that point your quiver was probably going to be full, how the Lord challenged

you to go to the word

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