Children learn many things simply by watching.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Moms, you will never be able to govern your children effectively

if you can't govern your own passions.

And you won't be able to teach your children

sobriety and temperance and self-control

if you're not a model of sobriety and temperance and self-control.

It's Tuesday, February 13th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Isn't it shocking to hear some negative thing come out of your child's mouth?

And then you realize they learned those things from you?

Since kids pick up so much so quickly, we'd better learn how to set a good example.

Nancy's showing us how in a series called The Countercultural Woman.

What are the very most important things that you want your children to remember?

When they're grown, when they're gone from your home, what do you want them to remember?

What do you want to be a part of their lifestyle as an adult man or woman?

We're looking at Proverbs chapter 31 this week. And today we're still in the very first paragraph.

We're reading about the instruction that a mother gave to her son. Her son was going to be the king,

King Lemuel, and when he became an adult, he would go on to teach others the things that his mother had taught him when he was still a young prince. We think that perhaps this king was King

Solomon, and if so, then his mother would have been Bathsheba. And she had learned some

things the hard way. As a result of her illicit relationship with King David, Solomon's father,

there were some things she was very concerned to pass onto her son, the young prince,

to prepare him to be a good king.

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