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 am so glad to be here with you today.

We are in the final episode this week on a series we've been in on the spiritual disciplines

and today's episode is on fasting.

So fasting is a discipline that I feel very weak in

and I was really thankful to spend time studying and learning more about fasting as Donald

Whitney would call it for the purpose of godliness. The reality is most of us

live with full bellies.

We don't go without much.

For the most part, we really do have everything we need

and even as I'm saying that and things that we want.

So we don't really know in our country,

at least I'm speaking, I'm in America,

what it is to go without.

I know there are many of you in different parts of the world that listen in and you probably

know what it is to go without but in America here we really don't. So fasting is a way to

remind us that everything that we truly need is found in Christ and in him alone.

fasting is mentioned in the scriptures more than baptism and more than many other things but it's obviously an important

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