Seeds of Victory

The following is from our book, The Diamond in Your Household of Faith , as featured in the Believer’s Voice of Victory magazine and available on our website: davidweeter.org   Unfortunately, the vast majority of the body of Christ has no idea what God’s description of a wife really is. They even read Proverbs 31 all the time and still have no clue. There are books and messages galore about the Proverbs 31 woman, but as we dive into the subject of a “virtuous women,” you may be shocked by what it actually means. The majority of these teachings are vastly incomplete at best and blatantly incorrect at worst.  If you ask the average member of any church what the characteristics of a virtuous woman are, most of the time you will hear words such as “chaste, timid, quiet, meek, godly, pious, soft-spoken.” But what does virtuous really mean? In Hebrew, which is the language used to write the book of Proverbs, virtuous means: “a force, whether of men, means or other resources; ...

On a special March evening, I spoke over my son and his bride a short message God had directed me to share. I thought the message the Lord had given me was specifically for the wedding reception, but little did I know how God was going to develop and use it. As I held my wife’s hand that evening, feeling the diamond ring on her finger, I knew God had been preparing us through decades of our own marriage to impart something special into our son and his bride, Tessa—his diamond. Diamonds are beautiful and strong. They are highly sought after and increasingly valuable. To the world, diamonds could almost become cliché when it comes to marriage. But God is never cliché. He created diamonds as marvelous examples of extreme beauty combined with extreme strength.  To this day, diamonds are the most valuable, precious gems of all of the gemstones. And what does the Bible have to say about gems? Proverbs 31:10 says, “Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.” ...