My gender, my womanhood is not a biological accident.

This is Nancy Lee DeMoss.

The fact that you are a woman is not a matter of chance.

God was intentional when he made you a woman.

God was intentional when he made me a woman.

He did it for a purpose.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Thursday. when he made me a woman. He did it for a purpose.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Thursday, January 24th.

Does it feel like conflicting messages are always coming at you about what it means to be a woman? Nancy Leigh-Demaz wants to help by looking to the Bible.

We talk about biblical womanhood all the time, but today Nancy begins a new series that explains the basics. It's called A Vision for Biblical Womanhood.

One of the things I love about this ministry is the chance to read many of the emails that are sent to us from listeners

and sharing their story, sharing their heart, and telling us how we can pray for them,

sharing what God is doing in their life.

But many of those emails come from women, wives, who once upon a time,

walked to an altar, said, I do.

And at that moment, they had stars in their eyes.

They had all kinds of dreams, all kinds of hopes, all kinds of expectations.

But by the time they write to us, they're finding themselves in a world of hurt, a world of tension, a world of frustration, and they write to share with us how those romantic dreams they had as younger women have turned to unfulfilled expectations, bitter disappointment, anger, conflict,

and many of these women are truly desperate housewives. Let me read to you an illustration. One woman wrote and said,

I'm at the end of myself. My husband has fallen asleep in front of the TV for three years,

and I am downright bitter and hateful because he doesn't love me or hold me as a husband should.

I'm feeling weary and hateful, which I know is wrong.

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