We are coming up on two years of the SPF Podcast and today we are talking about four ways we can prove faithful as Christian women and I share a little bit about how the SPF podcast started way back with my emails in High School. Show Notes: sheprovesfaithful.com/podcast/episode72 Instagram: @sheprovesfaithful Become a Supporter: patreon.com/sheprovesfaithful  This Podcast is Made Possible by People like You! THANK YOU to all the women who sacrificially give each month to help this podcast keep going. It is a huge blessing to me as I can continue teaching and encouraging women with the Gospel over the airwaves. Have you been encouraged by the podcast? Consider being part of the SPF team with gift of $5 a month! patreon.com/sheprovesfaithful Life Hack: Phone + Focus This life hack is brought to you by SPF listener, Fallon. "I recommend turning off all your post notifications on your social handles. By doing this you aren’t constantly being notified when someone “hearts, likes or comments” on your post. It helps you not checking your social handles 24/7 and makes you more aware of your surroundings. Plus it’s like a little prize later when u pull it up and see all your notifications." I agree and have been doing this for a while and it's given me better focus and presence during my day! Thank you Fallon! Four Ways to Prove Faithful No 1: Proving faithful with the Gospel message "This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.  Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful." 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 If we are believers we are entrusted with the mystery of God and need to be found faithful stewards of it. The mystery of God is Christ - in the fullest sense, it’s God’s plan of salvation through His Son. We would have never been able to understand the way to eternal life without Jesus, His death and resurrection.  “My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Colossians 2:2-3 If we are believers, God has unveiled to us the very great and wonderful mystery of salvation! We are now stewards of this message. "Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf:as “Be reconciled to God.” He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."  1 Corinthians 5:20-21 No 2: Prove faithful in our roles and responsibilities as women, wives, mothers We have purpose on earth - God gives us roles and responsibilities as women, wives, and mothers. Some of these roles and responsibilities are in Genesis 1-3 and we see a feminine charge throughout Scripture including in Titus 2, and general callings such as making disciples of Christ in Matthew 28. No 3: Prove faithful by pursuing holiness Jesus return is a reality and as Kevin DeYoung puts it from his book Taking God at His Word: “And when Jesus comes again we will all realize, even if it is too late for some, that ungodly living is inconsistent with the glory of Christ.” Holiness is the calling of all believers and it’s different from legalism.  Legalism is a pursuit of righteousness to earn salvation from God. Holiness is a pursuit of obedience because of Christ’s righteousness given to us. "The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness," 2 Peter 3:9,11 Pastor R.C. Sproul writes this about pursuing holiness: "At the same time, we do not know who all the elect are, nor do we know when they shall all be gathered in. Therefore, we should not be complacent when we hear