Are you looking for some encouragement today? Maybe regarding topics like messes, the government,

and trusting God, well, look no further because that's what we're going to talk about today.

Welcome to the Sheepers Faithful Podcast, episode number 171, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered

lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Sheeproes Faithful

podcast. I'm so glad you're here. My name is Lauren, and maybe you made a resolution this year

to listen to more podcasts and mine popped up and I'm so grateful.

Welcome.

Maybe you've been here for a long time.

I'm also thankful.

So thank you for listening today.

I have kind of an all-a-cart encouragement over break.

I call it break.

You know, we were resting, celebrating being festive with Christmas and New Year's. And I just,

there was little spots of encouragement that I wanted to share with you. So that's what I'm going to

be doing today. Things that range from messy houses to government authorities, some things I

learned there, and even trusting God and His Word being our daily resort because Spurgeon.

We're going to read some Spurgeon today. He's just, he gets it right every time. I just am so

thankful. So we're going to visit that today. If you are a Patreon supporter who supports this

podcast, thank you so much. The new year always brings my yearly expenses, like kind of the big ones of my

website hosting platform, email renewals, all sorts of subscriptions that I use to things like to

make graphics for Instagram. It always comes the new year. And so I'm so grateful to have

your support so I can keep renewing it each year. And so thank you very much. And don't forget,

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