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 stop 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 thankful homemaker.com and I'm so glad you're here with me today.

We're getting ready to turn the calendar and on most of our lists or maybe if we make resolutions or set goals

is to start a daily Bible reading habit if it's something we're not in the habit of already.

And this is a really good thing. What better discipline to develop as a believer than to desire to sit at the feet of Jesus daily and hear from him through

his word and for us to speak to him through prayer.

So I'm going to work through in our time together today why it's helpful to utilize a Bible

reading plan and to why it's good to make the time to read God's word to meditate

on it to apply it and to pray through it and then we're going to walk

through an example of what daily time with the Lord might look like and I need you

to note here you we cannot get this confused with Bible study we are just going over today reading meditating and applying the word I do have a podcast episode on studying the Bible.

It was part of the Spiritual Discipline Series,

and I hope to do more on that in the future,

but I'm just getting us motivated here

to be daily reading and meditating and praying in our daily Bible time.

And stick with me because I have a freebie for you to share with at the end that I hope

might be a help in your daily time with the Lord.

So there are so many options out there of various Bible reading plans.

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