Karen Melby knows what it's like to feel vulnerable and alone, but she also knows where to find hope.

If you are a widow or you're about to become a widow, if you cry out to the Lord, he will come,

and he will take up his defense for you and help you. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss

Walgamoo, co-author of True Woman 201 for August 22, 2018. Well, we're talking about something today that can be a little uncomfortable or overwhelming or anxiety-inducing, but it doesn't need to be any of that.

Because scripture talks a lot about our money, our resources, the gifts God

is entrusted to us, and how we can honor him with them. So it's important to think about

these things sooner than later, and I'm so thankful to be sitting at a table here at the

studios of our Daily Bread Ministries, talking with

my friend Karen Melby, a fairly recent widow. And we go back a long ways. We walk through a lot

of journey together, and she's sharing out of that journey with us. And then Lisa Hagenauer,

who's an estate planning and probate attorney, and that's a mouthful,

but it's something we need to be familiar with.

And thank you, Lisa.

And then Andrea Carston, he's a financial advisor.

And, Andrea, you were just telling me about how the Lord had used kingdom advisors in your life.

It's a ministry.

My husband has been connected with for some years as well. They have an annual

conference for financial advisors. And Ron Blue is the one who had the heart for starting that ministry.

Others are now leading it. But I love how they talk about God owns it all. And what a responsibility we have to care for what God is entrusted to do

us and how we're going to give a count to him. So this is not just like making sure that we have

enough to live on forever, because we're not going to be here forever, but it's about how do we

honor God with this worldly, physical, tangible stuff he's entrusted to us?

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