Our future lifestyle will in many ways be affected by our choices today.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

So many women today and so many times in our own lives, we're holding on to our lives,

my rights, my time, my privacy, my peace of mind, my space.

If we live selfish lives now, we will reap the fruit of our own hands.

It's Monday, March 19th, and you're listening to revive our hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Music Over the last few weeks, Nancy's been teaching us about the Proverbs 31 woman.

This woman is thrifty, smart, a wise businesswoman who works out of her home and focuses her energy on her family.

Here's Nancy in a series called The Countercultural Woman.

Aren't you glad that God has given us in the scripture a pattern?

Some of you sew.

And you know, now I know there's some people who can sell without a pattern,

but for those of us who don't have that kind of ability or experience, it really helps to have

a pattern, something to follow, something to look at, something to trace, something to measure your

progress by. And in Proverbs 31, we have a pattern for the kind of women that God created us to be.

And we've said over and over again through this series that it's not all the domestic

abilities and things that this woman can do that are what make her great.

It's the fact that she's a woman who has a love for God and a love for people.

We're really seeing here a portrait of the Lord Jesus and ultimately called to be like him.

Now, I want to tell you this, if you're a child of God, this is where you're headed.

What we've been studying, the woman we've been seeing, the woman who

fears the Lord and the outworking of that relationship with God in her very practical everyday life,

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