Nancy Damas Walgumu says we can reflect God's heart toward others.

God has a heart for the poor and the needy.

And if I have God's heart, then I will have a heart for the poor and the need.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Demas Welcomers, co-author of Lies Young Women Believe.

For July 24, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. If a woman spends all her time volunteering at the local homeless shelter, that's a good thing, right?

Well, maybe.

And maybe not.

As Nancy will explain today, we all have a mandate to help people who are hurting

and we have to weigh that mandate against other important priorities too.

Let's find the balance.

We're going to hear a message that's part of a longer series Nancy taught on Proverbs 31. Today we want to give you a sneak

peek of that series. You'll hear more of it in August. Now we've come to verse 19 but

let me just read it again because it flows with where we are in the passage.

She stretches out her hands to the distaff and her hand holds the spindle.

Some of us, without checking into it, would not even know what a distaff and a spindle are because these are things we don't use today.

This is in a culture before even the spinning wheel.

And some of us don't even know what a spinning wheel is or some of us don't know what a sewing machine

is. But we know what Target is.

But what we've seen is that this is a woman who develops whatever skills are necessary

in order to better meet the needs of her family, not just for self-enrichment.

It's not just because she has a hankering to be involved in handywork, though there's nothing wrong with that.

But her purpose for developing these skills is to meet the needs of her family.

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