In Proverbs 31, we read about a woman who gives and gives and gives.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

This woman is a lover. She's a giver. She's a servant. That's her calling in life.

You say, I don't think I want that calling. Listen, you're never more like Jesus than when you're serving.

It's Tuesday, March 13th, and you're listening to Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Every woman has something to gain from studying Proverbs 31.

I've learned so much during Nancy's teaching through this chapter.

The series is called The Countercultural Woman, and if you've missed any of the programs so far, I hope you'll download the podcast or listen online. To do that,

just visit revive our hearts.com. Now, let's hear today's teaching segment from Proverbs 31.

We've been camping out in Proverbs 31, and particularly on verse 27 27 where we're told that the virtuous woman is a woman who watches over the ways of her household.

And let me say that we've talked about watching in practical ways to make sure that the needs of her family are met,

but there's another very important way that you watch over the ways of your household,

and that's in prayer.

In the New Testament, we often find watching and praying linked together.

Jesus said, watch and pray so that you don't fall into temptation.

So it's a protection for you to watch and pray over the ways of your household,

but it's also a wonderful means that you provide a protection for your husband. Your husbands,

if they're in almost any work environment that you can think of, are being faced with temptations

and with pressures and the enemy, Satan himself,

working to pull them down, especially if your husband is a believer and wanting to walk with God,

there are lots and lots and lots of opportunities for him to fail, spiritually, morally, in other ways.

And what a blessing it is for a man to know that back home there's a wife who's watching and praying

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