Here's Nancy Damas Walgamuth.

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 Damas Walgemuth,

author of biblical portrait of womanhood.

For August 16, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch.

The last couple of days,

the last couple of days, Nancy's been helping us as women devote our hands to the Lord.

She's been teaching us out of Proverbs 31 and we've been looking at using our hands for diligent work to serve God and others.

We're going to stay on the theme of work, but this time, rather than focusing on our hands,

Nancy's going to help us examine our hearts. Are we working with pure heart attitudes?

Here's Nancy picking up in Proverbs 31.

First 18, this virtuous excellent woman perceives that her merchandise is good.

The NIV says she sees that her trading is profitable. She sees that the work of her hands, the things she's been investing

her time and her effort in, she sees that it has produced a good fruit for her labor. She's

quality conscious. She wants to make sure that the work she's doing is a good work.

So she's not going through life as a wife, as a mom, as a woman, as a homemaker, in whatever

her season of life. She's not doing things in a sloppy way or a haphazard way. Quality matters to this

woman and she's able to stand back and look and see that the work of her hands has been

good. And now this last phrase, some of you live by this verse

and some of you don't like this verse at all.

Her lamp does not go out by night or at night.

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