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 friend, I'm Marcy Farrell from Thankful Holmaker and I'm so glad to be with you today.

We are at the end of the year or the start of the new year

depending on when you're listening into this episode, but I know for most of us,

whether it's the end of December or early January, it is on our minds as believers what the next year looks like for us and

and how we're going to prioritize things that are really important to us as

believers like our time and the word,

deepening our prayer life and how we're going to engage and serve our church family.

Many of us may set goals or as I like to call them spiritual priorities and in these areas, many areas, but these

particularly is what we're going to talk about today. So the aim or the hope of our time today

is to really invigorate both you and me, ensuring that we will

fully leverage the means of grace that the Lord has gifted us to foster our spiritual

growth and deepen our connection with him.

So I mentioned spiritual priorities and I want to update my podcast on spiritual priorities.

I have an older one. I've had many requests from quite a

few of you to do that and it is so on my list so you know that. So thank you for

kind of just kind of giving me a boost to want to do that because I've wanted to do it

and I keep putting it aside but when I get those messages and those little

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