Taking the time to arrange your personal finances now is a gift to your family for the future.

Here's Lisa Hagenauer.

That stewardship portion and that taking care of your family and that family unit and preserving that relationship,

those are the two paramount things that you're really trying to do.

And that's why it's such a gift to do it.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of True Woman 201,

for August 23rd, 2018.

All this week, Nancy has been addressing why you should be a wise steward of the resources God has entrusted to you.

Not only will your family reap the benefits, but it's also a way to honor the Lord in all you do.

If you missed a previous program in the series, you can go to Revive Our Hearts.com to listen to the audio or read the transcript.

Now, Nancy's here to continue the conversation, along with her friend Karen Melby.

Well, I'm so thankful for this discussion that we've been having this week with my longtime friend Karen Melby, who's been widowed within the last couple of years and is carrying on without her precious Scott, who, by the way, was a member of the advisory board of Revive Our Hearts.

And Karen, I can remember us, the three of us sitting on the back porch at

your home at Maranatha Conference Center, talking about the ministry. You guys loved Revive Our

Hearts. You were such encouragers to me. And you guys would always ask great questions about how

my own soul was doing, how the ministry was going, how you could encourage us.

And even as we're sitting here, I can just picture Scott in those board meetings with us and being such a gift and an encourager.

And in the Lord's providence, we can't figure it out.

We don't know why.

But the Lord took him after a long, hard battle with leukemia, age 56, you were 53,

and yet God has graced you in amazing ways during that journey and since to carry on. And not just collapsing in a heap of futility and overwhelm goodness, if that's a word,

but with grace, leading your family, you've got two kids getting married,

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