If you never ate anything, you'd be really weak.

It would be hard to serve other people in that condition.

That's true in a spiritual sense, too.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

If you're not getting spiritual food on a consistent daily basis from the Word of God,

then you will not have the resources, the ability, the insight, the wisdom,

the strength, the desire, the motivation to meet your family's physical and temporal needs.

It's Monday, February 26th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Music And this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee-Demoss. A couple of weeks ago, I said you would grow to appreciate the Proverbs 31 woman, even if you've been kind of intimidated by her before.

After a couple of weeks in our series, the

countercultural woman, I hope you've discovered that to be the case. Just like I introduced

this woman a couple of weeks ago, would you do the same thing to your friends? If you visit

Revivearhearts.com, you'll read about ways to share Nancy's messages. For example, you can email a copy of today's

transcript or send a fun Revive Our Hearts e-card. Why don't you do that right after listening to

Nancy? Continuing in her series called The Countercultural Woman. Well, some of you are wondering

about this point if we're ever going to get through

Proverbs 31. And we are, but I just have to tell you, this passage is being ignited in my heart.

Now, let me pick up as we move on, we're going to go into verse 16 today, but let me pick up at

verse 10 and just read through verse 16 so we can track where we've been

and see the context for the verse we're going to look at today.

We're hearing the words of a king telling us what it was that his mother taught him when he was a young prince,

teaching him what qualities to look for in a wife. And so he's talking about what it means

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