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've 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 Thankful Homemaker, and I'm so glad you're here with me today. We are on episode 184, and it's

titled Putting Off the Old and Putting on the New. And last episode, we talked

about killing the sin of selfishness. And today, I want to slow down and look at how that change

happens in our hearts. And I apologize. My voice sounds a little raspy, and I've been getting

over a cold, but I've been waiting two weeks to record this, so I'm just going to plow through with this, and hopefully you can tolerate my little bit of raspiness.

So do you ever feel like you're really trying to change, but you find yourself back in that same sinful pattern again?

Maybe I'm going to throw things that I know I do with.

Maybe it's impatience or frustration or pride sneaking in. But God's word gives us such a

hopeful pattern for real lasting change. And I want you to know I'm walking in this right

alongside you because I forget this pattern of putting off and renewing and putting on

so often. And most of the time, I only think of it after the fact because I can slip into trying

to change in my own strength. And we all know that doesn't go very well. So this episode isn't just something I'm sharing

with you. It's something my own heart needs to. I'm learning and growing right here with you.

So scripture gives us a simple, beautiful pattern for daily growth in Christ.

Walking through Ephesian chapter 4 versus 22 to 24, always I'm reading from the ESV.

It states, put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life, and is corrupt

through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self

created after the likeness of God and true righteousness and holiness. So it's the Spirit's work of

sanctification, and it's him helping us to turn from sin to renew our minds with truth,

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