Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker Podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and blessing

to each other and the role God has called us to as women.

I'm so thankful you stopped by, so grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit

as we talk about how God's Word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women.

Hello friend, I'm Marcy Farrell from thankfulhomemaker.com and I'm so glad as always to get a few moments of your day.

My episode today is titled 10 Simple Steps for Beginning Homemakers and I recently been a guest

on a couple podcasts. One was our Women's Hope, which I so love and the other was the Abide Podcast

and this topic of building up our homes and being keepers of our homes has been the topic of

discussion. So it's pretty heavy on my mind or lately and I do want to share some important

thoughts before I move forward with this fairly practical episode today. These are some thoughts

that I recently shared with Natalie and Katie from the Abide Podcast, which I highly recommend

you ladies listen to and subscribe to because you will be so encouraged and edified with these two

godly women. I will link to the episode I did with them. It was called Wise Builders and Rucking

Paul's part three. I love, I love their titles. They're pretty creative. Me not so much but so but

the question that they started off asking was why is a woman building up the home important?

Why is that important? And I kind of stated there when I talked on that Proverbs 141 which is kind

of what they were working through on their series but that's where our minds seemed to go.

When we hear that question and Proverbs 141 states, the wisest of women builds her house but with

folly with her own hands tears it down. So the answer I shared with them was quite simple.

It's because the honor of God's name is at stake because when we look at Proverbs 141 it tells us

that wisdom builds. So a godly wise woman she's going to consider how to make her home better.

She's going to look after the home and she's going to build it and our Christian homes are to

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