Sharon Janes had some good advice for a group of women who had just been on a meaningful spiritual retreat.

You go home and if you want to serve God today, if you want to walk out everything you've learned this weekend, you go home and love your husband.

Because our marriages are set up to be living examples of Christ in the church.

And when you love your husbands, you're loving Christ.

Happy Independence Day.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Here's Nancy.

We're talking this week with Sharon James, who's the vice president of Proverbs 31 ministries.

Sharon is a kindred spirit, and I love the burden that God has put on her heart for women to live out biblical principles of what it looks like to be a woman of God. Sharon, welcome back to revive our hearts. Thank you, Nancy. It's great to be here. Sharon, you've written a number of books, a book called Being a Great Mom, Raising Great Kids, and I know a lot of our listeners will be interested in knowing more about that. But you also, you're a speaker, a conference speaker.

You have a daily radio program, and the Lord is using you in such significant ways to get

this message out.

I'm so grateful for that.

We've been talking about seven principles that you've drawn out of Proverbs chapter 31, that great Old Testament

passage on what a virtuous wife looks like, and you've reduced it kind of to seven principles

which form the basis for your entire Proverbs 31 ministries. In our last conversation, we looked

at the first principle, which is so foundational, it has to do with having a personal

relationship with Jesus Christ.

Now, tell us what the second principle is.

The second principle is that the Proverbs 31 woman loves, honors, and respects her husband

as leader of the home.

So we move from our relationship with Christ, which is so important, so foundational, the starting place.

And then the next place as we look at Proverbs 31, we move is to the relationship of marriage.

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