What makes your husband qualified to lead your family? Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

It's not a matter of how much your husband knows compared to how much you know about the Bible.

The issue is, are you willing to let him take spiritual leadership in the home under God's authority?

And do you make it easy or hard for your husband

to lead your family? Merry Christmas. This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Do you trust God with your future?

Hear an example of a woman who trusted God as Nancy continues in the series Mary of Nazareth. Have you ever had the experience of learning something from the Word of God, getting what you thought was a great spiritual insight, or perhaps something you thought God wanted your

family to do, and then you went and shared it with your husband and found out that he just didn't

get it, that it didn't mean to him what it meant to you. Now, how do you find yourself feeling

in a situation like that? And more important than how you feel, how do you respond in a situation like that?

We're looking at the life of Mary of Nazareth, Mary the mother of Jesus.

And I want us to see an instance in her life when God showed her an incredible spiritual insight, if you will, but her husband

to be just didn't get it. And how she responded in this situation, I think, gives us as women

insight about how we need to respond when those that we love may not see things just as we do.

We're looking at qualities in Mary's life,

qualities of a woman who's used by God. And as I look at Mary in Matthew chapter 1, beginning

in verse 18, I see that she is a trusting woman. This is her response to the kind of situation

we just described. Let me read, beginning in

Matthew chapter 1, verse 18. This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. His mother, Mary,

was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child

through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph,

her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he

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