Let's be honest, serving others is costly.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

At the end of the day, what are we going to get out of this investment?

Do you ever wonder, is it worth all the time, the effort, the energy, the tears, the trials, the disappointments?

The people whose lives have been touched and transformed

as we have given them the gospel, given them our lives, those people are our reward.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgmouth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For July 27, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh.

Do you ever get discouraged serving others? Today, Nancy will remind you why you're serving in the first place.

She presented this message to a group of ministry leaders, and that includes all of us. We're all

called to invest in others in some way. Let's listen to Part 2 of this message.

Now, as you labor and toil, don't lose sight of the

goal. Why are you doing what you're doing? The goal is not to run a program. The goal is not to

entertain women. The goal is not to fill their notebooks or to give them a social outlet. Some of those

things may happen in the process,

but the goal is to proclaim the gospel of God. That's what he says in verse 9. To see women

reconcile to God, to see them transformed into the image of Christ, to see them become faithful, fruitful followers of Christ,

who are living and serving in community with other faithful, fruitful followers of Christ,

and who themselves begin to proclaim the gospel to others, building spiritual reproducers, holy devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

That's the whole concept of proclaiming the gospel. It transforms lives. It makes people new people.

It gives them a new vocation. It gives them a new calling. It gives them a whole heart transplant.

And that's what the goal is. That's why we work. That's why we labor.

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