A mother once heard a thud on the floor after putting her son to bed.

Sharon Janes picks up the story.

And he said, I don't know, I guess I stayed too close to where I got in.

And I read that, I thought, you know what, that happens with a lot of Christians sometimes.

We stay too close to where we get in.

And there's so much more than just a promise of heaven. I mean,

we can have such a full life here on earth.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Friday, July 1st.

Here's Nancy to introduce today's guest.

If you've been listening to Revive Our Hearts for any length of time, you know that our goal is to call women to experience freedom and fullness and fruitfulness in Christ.

And that is a part of that mission, we're challenging women to understand what the scripture

teaches about our calling and our mission as women and to embrace the biblical teaching on what it

means to be a woman. Well, maybe you've discovered, as I have,

if you're committed to a biblical view of womanhood, you start to wonder sometimes, am I the

only one who really is committed to this way of thinking? Is this so old-fashioned that nobody

believes this anymore? Well, I am always really grateful to meet women

and to come across ministries that share our commitment to the biblical teaching of what it

means to be a woman and to live as a woman of God. And one of those ministries that I've discovered

over the years has been Proverbs 31 Ministries,

which is headed up by two women, Lisa Turkursed and Sharon James.

And this week we're delighted to welcome to revive our hearts, Sharon, who is the vice president of Proverbs 31 ministries.

Sharon, thank you so much for being a kindred spirit and for helping me feel like I'm not the only woman on the planet who believes some of these things that we talk about and revive our hearts. Thank you, Nancy. Thank you for being a kindred spirit. It's nice to know you're out there too, fighting the same battle with us. Now, when we say Proverbs 31 ministries, I don't want to assume that all of our listeners know what Proverbs 31 is. Tell us a little bit about the ministry and how you got the name and what the name refers to.

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