Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and blessing to each other in 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 to be with you today. We are continuing on today

in our three-part series on Walking in Wisdom. We're on part two today, and we're going to be

talking about practical steps for everyday faith. So each episode can stand alone, so if you're just

joining in for this one, you are just fine. But obviously, I'd love you to go back and listen to

the first one and hopefully join us next week for the third

and final episode in this series. But in our last episode, we laid the foundation for what it means

to walk wisely in a world full of distractions. So we spent time in Ephesians 5, 15 to 16,

where the Apostle Paul was urging us to look carefully at how we walk, making the best use

of our time. And last time, we talked about what biblical wisdom is, how it's more than just knowledge,

but it's living in a way that honors God. And we saw that wisdom begins with a fear of the Lord,

referencing Proverbs 910 there, and that it's not about just making good choices, but about making

God honoring choices. And then we also touched on how easy it is, I'm raising my hand here,

to get caught up in busyness, and then we're measuring our worth by our productivity instead

of faithfulness. So today, excuse me, we're going to take that foundation and put it into

practice. It's one thing to understand wisdom in theory, but how do we live it out in the middle of

all the things we're dealing with as wives and moms and homemakers and just Christian women,

right, our responsibilities, our routines, our relationships,

how does wisdom shape the way that we prioritize our time or the way we respond to what we consider interruptions or just how do we seek the Lord in ordinary moments of our day? So one of the most

practical ways that wisdom shapes our lives is in how we use our time. Because when we're not intentional,

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