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 today's episode is reminding us that God appoints our portion.

We're going to be working through together the doctrine of God's Providence.

And again, this is not an exhaustive podcast podcast and I'm going to have lots of

links in the show notes for you to dig deeper into this doctrine on your own time

so God's Providence at work on my life should be one of my greatest

securities, knowing that there's nothing by chance or fate, but that all is being worked in and through my life through a good God who knows me

better than I know myself and he is continually working out all things for my good and his glory with the end purpose always being to mold me more

and more into the image of Jesus. Many times I forget about God's Providence at

work in my life.

I see what I would consider interruptions

as an inconvenience, and really, these aren't interruptions,

but they're what the Lord has appointed for me in that moment.

And my heart isn't always ready to respond with that sort of thinking in mind

and it reveals my heart needs some pruning continually.

So we're going to chat about some, you know, about the big things that we deal with with God's providence in our life,

but for most days they can be simple things like

a phone conversation that comes at a really inconvenient moment or an unexpected visitor or a child who just really needs our time and

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