Better to present truth in her native plainness than to hang her ears with counterfeit pearls,

Thomas Brooks.

Today we're going to look at the prophet Jeremiah, judgment, and faithful plotting as we look to the Lord.

Welcome to the Sheeper's Faithful podcast, episode number 172, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day.

I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the podcast today. My name is Lauren, and I'm really grateful that you are listening. A big thank you to all my new Patreon supporters out there that have joined recently. I'm so grateful for your generosity. Thank you for supporting this podcast. And just a reminder and a thank you to all Patreon supporters that if you haven't reached out to me about a Christmas gift yet, I still have subscriptions

to the Dwell Bible Listening app, a great time to get some more of the word in right now.

And then also I have a couple books left. So you can find more information at patreon.com

slash sheepers faithful. Today's life hack is about the instant pot. I really like the instant pot. I've had one

for many years. And then this year I upgraded to the air fryer lid. Pretty cool. It just attaches on.

And I made chicken thighs in minutes. I don't know if it was really. It was probably like 15 minutes.

And they were delicious. I was really impressed. It probably like 15 minutes. And they were delicious. I was

really impressed. It almost, it was almost like they were grilled. So I'm really enjoying that.

But that's not what this is about. It is about the instant pot, but not about the air fryer.

Have you, do you have one? Do you have an instant pot? Do you use it? Well, sometimes when you do the release valve, there's this little release valve if you want to release the pressure and it steams and water and steam go everywhere. Like, it's hisses and spits.

It's just, maybe it's how we all feel right now. The pressure valve is about to go up and we're all

hissing and spit. No, please, please don't do that. This is what you can do to avoid hissing and spitting.

Put a towel over your mouth.

That's, that's my life hack.

Put a towel over the instant pot.

And not, just like a little dish towel, I don't know where I heard this, but I do it.

And the little presser release valve, when you release it and it starts, all the steam

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