We minister in such incredibly challenging times. Nancy DeMoss Wacklemouth asks,

How can we help these people, these women who have such baggage, such issues, they're coming out

of such difficult, dysfunctional backgrounds, they're in such tough marriages. They've been abused,

they've been wounded, they've been bruised. How can we help them? How shall we ever move the world?

Later in the program, we'll hear from Jean. She knows what it's like to be one of those women

with such heavy baggage. So if you were pregnant and he wanted an abortion, he called me.

I called my guy and we arranged the abortion. Abortion was not legal at the time. So it had to be

done behind closed doors and in very unsanitary conditions, and you never knew whether you were

going to lose your right to have children in the future. That was a gamble that you took. Didn't

seem like such a big gamble to me. I wasn't going to have this kid.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, May 12, 2016.

All week, Nancy's been showing us how to more effectively minister to other women,

not by trying harder, not by building more strength than ourselves, but by being filled with the Holy Spirit.

If you missed any of her earlier points this week, you can hear the messages at Revive Our Hearts.com.

She delivered this message at Revive15, the conference Revive Our Heart sponsored for women's ministry leaders.

Let's join Nancy, as she helps us know how we can invest in other women for such a time as this.

Number seven, you want to have an anointed lips and ministry.

Confront the will. Confront the will. What do I mean by

that? I think a lot of times we lay content on people, but we don't take it home. We don't say,

so what does God want you to do about what you just heard? When we first started, Revive Our Hearts,

our program was a quarter hour, a little bit less than that, which means I had about

12 and a half minutes. And I was used to doing conference messages, an hour, an hour and a quarter,

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