Since the Proverbs 31 Woman has an “enterprise perspective” she sets goals for herself. She also sets goals for her children to reach and helps them reach those goals. She teaches her children the benefits of a goal reached. She sees an earthly and a heavenly gain in this, since she fully understands how the physical and the spiritual are connected. She has trained up her children to help her and to take on worthy projects themselves that she watches over for their profit, just like her heavenly Father does for her.

She has put a lot of thought and course-plotting to the future of her children. It is pitiful to see young men and women today wasting away because they have no clue what life is all about or what they should be doing with their thoughts, their time, their talents, their strength and their money. They just live each day without a care for their future.

Parents make idols of their children when they give their children everything they scream and ask for. If we allow our children to be lazy and unproductive – we assist them in ruining their lives. As wise and productive mothers (and fathers) we should be the ones our children are taught by. We are wise to employ our own children under us in any way we can think of or they think of. It allows the parent to instill the principle value of sowing and reaping, as well as giving them a way to see what they can do.

Children will fall away from godliness if sent off too soon to learn and be accountable to someone else but you, and especially someone without faith in Jesus Christ. Putting your child in a place where God and His principles are not honored is the perfect way to destroy your child’s future. If that child has been offered to God and dedicated to Him then you are responsible for your child’s upbringing in the truth and training in righteousness. If you do not follow through then it puts God in a position He shouldn’t have to be in; that of doing what you should be doing for the children you dedicated to Him and that He has entrusted you with. Dedicating our children to the Lord makes us responsible for how they turn out.

As Christian parents most of us have dedicated our children to the Lord, but do we understand what that really means? Like most Christian parents, we had the pastor pray over each one of our children and over us as their parents. We should understand the responsibility we have to God on behalf of these children to care for them properly and to raise them up for His glory and Kingdom. The thing that so grieves God’s heart is that He sees so many parents (who have dedicated their children in this way) not following through. When times get tough, they fall away from the Lord, from their marriage, from being the parents their children need. God expects us to live up to our vows we’ve made to each other and to Him; that we be faithful. He will help us to be faithful if we will not give up and go our own selfish way. This teaches our children more in life than we realize.

We made mistakes as all parents do, but God trained us by those mistakes. It made us better counselors to our adult children when they began raising our grandchildren.

Many parents send their children off to Sunday school, to public school, on mission’s trips or into the military to learn what they should already have established in their character because of your input and prayers.

When you send your son (or daughter) off to do something good for other people they should be able and willing to give of themselves; to be of good (godly) use simply from the way you raised them at home. A troublemaker should be conquered at home. A child’s meanness is to be removed at home with the rod of learning on their seat of understanding or they will become a threat to society – as we see so much of today.

The ignorance in children is the responsibility of the parent primarily, and not the responsibility of schools, and not the church or government either. Ignorance is not the lack of worldly knowledge; ignorance is the void of God’s truth and love; the foundation that we then build upon.

Before you send your young adult off anywhere in the world ‘with your blessing’ you better be sure that your child will in fact be a blessing there, instead of a troublemaker. Our children represent our parenting skills; they represent the values we instill in them.

My husband and I have helped send young men (fresh out of high-school) to far-away places on “mission trips” only to hear that they caused trouble partying or slacking off – wasting their team leader’s time and the financing of their supporters. When you send your child or anyone off they are representing you – the sender. It is your responsibility to make sure they are ready and prepared for the work of the Lord there, no matter what job they do. If you are financially supporting someone for their ministry or work in an area you better know if that person is responsible or not before you back him up and send him/her off.

Whatever the Proverbs 31 Woman has that is of value she is not selfish with it. She finds a way to share her wealth and wisdom with others when the Lord has put some person, family, community or nation on her heart or in her path; whether they need Bibles, food, clothing, words of hope and encouragement, or even sending them her own trained and prepared children.

The truly fulfilled woman has the confidence, energy and initiative to start and carry on with projects till finished. Even undertakings that are risky and somewhat dangerous she will take on as long as it lines up with God’s will for her and her family. We are denying God and lying to ourselves if we are applying this confidence, energy and initiative outside our marriage and family so that it has little to no benefit to our husband and children.  As wives and mothers our husband and children come first and God will hold us responsible for this remaining our top priority. They deserve more than left-overs and crumbs that fall off the table. They deserve all our attention, energy and affection.

The woman who trusts in God has a readiness to take a risk with her enterprise perspective. She sees it as an adventure with God who would have something extremely beneficial for her and her family. She’s not afraid of failing either; for it only helps her narrow in her perspective to do things in the most excellent way; the most effective way.

The reason there are countries of people going without food is because of wicked leaders. The reason our neighbor or relative is going without food is because – those who have more than enough – simply don’t care. “For the fool speaks folly, his mind is busy with evil: He practices ungodliness and spreads error concerning the Lord; the hungry he leaves empty and from the thirsty he withholds water.” (Isaiah 32:6)

The woman of virtue pulls together what others (especially her husband and children) are in need of and figures a way to get it – knowing full well that when she asks, she gets; when she seeks, she finds; when she knocks, the door is opened to her. This is who ‘her’ Father God is. Our Father God doesn’t expect us to do more than we can with more than we have; just that we do something within our own means and abilities, and watch how He can bless it all the more.

If we are not moved by our faith in what we see happening around us we will do nothing, or we will do things that aren’t going to really help in a right way. Our enterprise perspective should have God’s heart in it if we expect Him to bless it so that it benefits our family and community, and so that what we do will be rewarded one day by our Lord God.

God gets emotional when He sees people being deprived of food and water, but God’s emotions do not result in the same way the emotions of worldly people do. It is not God’s will that people starve to death, but they do. It’s not God’s fault when He has generously given us everything we need to take care of the world and that He put mankind in charge of. We have left far too much in the hands of corrupt leaders and greedy governments. But in countries where there is a devil-like man in control over the people – we should not forget that God is still God of the impossible; God of all wonders just waiting to work though His children of faith, hope and love.

Any nation that is rich in resources and supplies, and not rich in humanitarian efforts could become an impoverished nation overnight. God has put more than enough resources in the earth; it only takes people with the right enterprise perspective to discovery it and put it to GOOD use.

Any government that deprives its people of the fruit of their own labors could quickly become a depleted government. It is happening here in America with government growing bigger and bigger, raising taxes and making more laws with unfair and unnecessary regulations to discourage free enterprise.

Definition of Free Enterprise: “Freedom of private business to organize and operate for profit in a competitive system without interference by government beyond regulation necessary to protect public interest and keep the national economy in balance.” Not all government leaders honor and uphold this God-given right. They want ‘slavery’ where the people work for them and their greedy/selfish/wicked agendas. Oh Lord, deliver us from evil!

As a woman of God it is not enough to care only for feeding my own children. I must take in consideration the whole world of God’s children, for anything less than that would not be compatible with the heart of God and His unlimited storehouse. But God does not expect me to do more than what He’s enabled me to do with how He has blessed me. We can fear not having enough for ourselves if we take care of someone else, but how can we out-give the Lord? We can’t. God has enabled me to serve Him without any fear! Just be wise in what you feel you should do for others. Human sympathy won’t get the results that godly compassion gets.

Whatever the harvest you want, plowing is how you begin. Plow with prayer to the God who defends and blesses the enterprise perspective of His children.

A wife and mother’s enterprise perspective takes in consideration how her work will affect her family and home-life. My get-up-and-go needs to have the right motive in it, or it can cause your husband to get-up-and-go to another woman. My get-up-and-go can run right over my children too, and crush their potential.

Children are naturally inclined to think only of themselves and they must be taught and held accountable to the needs of those around them, beginning at home. They need to be taught that God will make sure that they will have all that they need just as long as they are doing a good work that pleases God. This is the right foundation for an enterprise perspective; that it pleases our Father God.

Our attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 2:1-5) We each should look not only to our own interests and how to take care of ourselves, but also to the genuine needs and godly interests of those God puts in our lives – as important as our own. God sees our humility or pride or greed in “humanitarian efforts.” We can fool people, but not the Lord.

There will always be the ignorant who will misunderstand when a true leader sets out with a genuine interest and bold work for the good welfare of his nation; a nation that has been taken advantage of for so long. It happened to Jesus when He saw what was happening in Jerusalem’s Temple with wicked leaders taking advantage of God’s people, and it is happening to our nation and to our world where evil rules over the people. But when God’s people humble themselves, repent of their own wicked ways and pray to Him about it, God will turn things around.

We are living in a day of great turmoil and Christian persecution, but also in a time of great opportunity from God! Father God, help us to see what we need to see, know what we need to know, in order to do what we need to do.

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop, or so it’s been said by wise mothers of the past. When we aren’t doing the right things with our hands and our time you can be sure that what we are otherwise doing are non-important things and even wicked things in the eyes of God. You won’t find women wasting their skills and strength if they know the truth as to how God made them and what their life on earth is all about as a daughter of His.

When I was a teenage girl I preferred hanging out and partying with my girlfriends of like-mind. I was living out that cliché: “Girls just want to have fun.” Recreational activities are very important for enjoying and bonding with family and friends, but much of what people call fun today is just plain immoral, degrading and destructive to societies.

We are wrong in thinking that our children need to have fun in non-constructive and non-productive ways, or to be active doing things that have nothing to do with who they really are. Children today have the wrong idea about work and fun, and so do most adults. Skill and excellence is hard to find in our society today. Those who do work for excellence in their skills are few and far between. Business owners are looking for skilled and confident workers that they can count on, and they are willing to pay a high price for a rare find.

Children need to grasp early in life that there is greatness in them; that they have been given talents and abilities from God to be developed so they can prosper in life, and so that God can use them in many ways. It fulfills me to be of use to God. It blesses Him when His children work to please their Father God.

When the creative juices of true femininity and true masculinity are hindered in girls and boys during their developing years they will find false fulfillment in this world and waste their time and talents that God has given them. They may rise to the top of worldly standards, but in God’s eternal kingdom they will not be known or even remembered. If we fail to keep and teach the reality of Christ’s kingdom we and our children will miss the life that is truly life.

If all you know how to do is go to a store and buy what you need or want, then you will be one of the needy people when life as you’ve known it – changes dramatically; when you can’t go to a store and buy a thing. And yes, this day is coming for those who refuse to take the “mark of the beast.” We see this “mark” progressing with “micro-implants” in pets and employees, and now with babies. The devil has his own agenda in this progressivism; for he wants nothing more than to hurt and kill the children of God; to make them look like fools so their message about Christ and His cross of redemption will be trampled on. God’s people need to learn how to depend on God and how to be ready and prepared in practical ways.

Government was never designed ‘by God’ to control our lives and do for us what we are to do for each other; serve one another in love by using our talents and abilities that God gave us. We need to return to what God gave us our hands and common sense for!

Government hand-outs is not God’s way; it’s the devil’s way of making people dependent on man with their worldly systems instead of on God and what He’s given us to prosper with and help others with.

Man has wonderfully come up with the way to use wind and solar power, and what he gets out of the ground and mountains, and out of the depths of the sea. Man comes up with the “industry,” but initially he needs that which God created. This is God’s desire for mankind. God’s creation is sustained by God Himself so that we need NOT fear running out. Man needs to learn how to properly use God’s created “things.”

I believe God thoroughly enjoyed His six days of Creation. I believe the work He did, that He called “good,” was exciting to see throughout its day by day production. I believe our Father desires the same for us; that we would also enjoy the work of our hands, and enjoy the fruit of our labor. I believe He wants us to take one day a week off to appreciate how we have been so blessed by God.

“For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation.” Leviticus 23:3

The Lord says, “My chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands.” Isaiah 65:22

What the Proverbs 31 woman makes and sells is needed in any generation of God’s people who are preparing for His kingdom.