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 friends, I'm Marcy Farrell from thankful homemaker.com and I'm so glad to be here with you today. Thank you for spending part of your day with me.

We are continuing on in a series on the podcast on the spiritual disciplines and I'm utilizing Donald Whitney's book

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian life and David Mathis's book

Habits of Grace enjoying Jesus through the spiritual disciplines. So in episode 52

we were introduced to the spiritual disciplines and why they're important in our

lives as believers.

In episode 53, we talked about the importance of daily Bible reading.

In the last episode, number 54,

we talked about meditating on God's word and scripture memory.

And today, in episode 55, we're digging into the importance of studying God's word. Jerry Bridges says in regard to God's word he says reading

gives us breath but study gives us depth. So in 2 Timothy 413, the Apostle Paul asks Timothy, when you come bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Trois, also the books and above all the parchments. So the Apostle Paul here is in

prison, he's facing impending death, and he is still a continual student of God's

word. I want to give us one more opening quote here from

R.C. Sprawl. He says here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in

our duty to study God's word, not so much because it is difficult to understand,

not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work.

Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of

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