Episode 101: Let’s Talk about Diligence
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Welcome to this episode, where we will talk about the importance of diligence in our daily lives as Christian women. We all want to serve the Lord, but sometimes it may seem hard to find time for prayer and study. That is why we need to find small and big ways to apply these things in our daily lives, and to encourage you to always find time for them, we will talk a little bit about diligence.
Diligent woman is not something we achieve, but it is something we work towards becoming. There are over 90 scriptures dealing with diligence, and we will focus on three of them to give you some encouragement. The first one is Deuteronomy 6:4-7, which talks about walking with God and including Him in all the little things we do every day. We need to teach our children about God’s word, talk about Him when we sit in our house, walk by the way, lie down, and rise up. That’s what diligence is all about.
Proverbs 21:5 says that the plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty. This proverb can be applied to many areas of our lives, not just money. We need to be intentional about the way we go about things and make sure that we have time for prayer. We need to talk to God about everything, whether we are in the car, cooking dinner, or struggling with something. We need to be diligent and plan, and look at our day as intentional.
Finally, 1 Timothy 5:9-10 talks about the worthy widow, who is described as well reported for good works. She diligently followed every good work, and that is what we should strive for as Christian women. We need to be diligent about every good work that God has given us to do, whether it’s towards someone else or just living by His word. We need to be defined by these characteristics and grow in them every day.
In conclusion, diligence is not a one and done. It is a way of life that requires us to be intentional and plan, and to include God in all the little things we do every day. We encourage you to take these three scriptures and think about what God is saying in them. Write them out and post them where you can see them to remind you to be diligent every day. Remember, we grow in diligence every day, and we can fit Bible study and prayer into our daily lives as Christian women.
Deuteronomy 6:4-7
Proverbs 21:5
1 Timothy 5:9-10
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Transcript
Let’s Talk about Diligence
[00:00:00] Welcome to the Diligent Woman Podcast, where Christian women let go of their guilt and step out in confidence by bringing God into every part of the day, learning about examples in scripture, applying simple principles, and trusting the Lord with it all. I am Angela Legg of TheDiligentWoman.com, and I welcome you to growing grace and truth one step at a time.
Let’s get started.
Welcome to the Diligent Woman podcast. This is where we’re going to talk about all things diligence. Hello, welcome to the diligent woman podcast. I am Angela Legg, the Diligent Woman from thediligentwoman.com. And I am here today to share with you some just simple tips, encouragement to help
[00:01:00] you as you walk in confidence every day with the Lord. As Christian women, our lives are busy and we want to serve the Lord. We want to include prayer and study in our days, but sometimes it’s just really hard to do. So my goal is to help you to do that a little more. Find small ways, big ways, simple ways that you can apply these things.
However, you find the time in your day, but to encourage you to always find the time today I just wanted to talk a little bit about diligence. Diligent woman is not what I’ve achieved That is something that I, I use that phrase as something that I’m working towards becoming. And so I wanted to encourage you today to also be working towards that.
And there’s a few scriptures on diligence. There’s so many and on the diligent woman. com, we actually have three different scripture writing plans, all about diligence with that’s
[00:02:00] three months. each one of those with 31 days. It’s 31 scriptures for each one of those. That’s over 90 scriptures dealing with diligence.
So it’s prevalent in the Bible, but I wanted to focus on these three to give you some encouragement. The first one is Deuteronomy six, Four through seven this one is about how you set your day How you look at your day with God walking with you and it says here Oh Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your strength and these words Which I command you today shall be in your heart You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house when you walk by the way When you lie down and when you rise up That’s, at the base of it, that’s what diligence is, is you walking with God and in all those little things that you do every day, you include Him in
[00:03:00] them.
You show your children God in all the things that you do, whether it’s making breakfast, going to the store, cleaning the house as you praise Him and thank Him for the blessings that you have praying with your children, teaching them to do that, teaching them about God’s word all through your day.
That’s where it starts and those are important. Don’t demean those precious few minutes that you may take all throughout your day. Because God says that’s the way you do it. You teach it and that’s diligence. This concept of diligence that I love so much. It’s a sharpening, like a sharpening of a knife.
It’s like keeping a knife on a whetstone. It’s that you’re keeping yourself sharp that you’ll come, you’ll become dull if you don’t do these things. Diligence is what keeps you always ready. But it’s something we have to work at all the time. Another verse to go and look at. We’re going to jump over to Proverbs.
Proverbs 21 in verse
[00:04:00] 5 says, The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty. And this proverb can be applied to many areas of your life. It’s not just about money. Whenever it talks about plenty and poverty, your spiritual life will be benefited. If you are diligent and intentional about the way you go about it, those little things, making sure that you have time for prayer.
Talk to God about those things. When you’re in the car, talk to Him about keeping you safe and watching out for those around you and keeping His protection on you and whoever’s riding with you. Pray to Him when you’re at home and you’re having to struggle and you need to take those deeper things to Him where you need to go close the door and pray about it.
Those things when you’re cooking dinner, pray over while you’re cooking. Tell your children out loud, let’s pray for, to God and thank Him for our food. Thank Him for the money that allowed us to buy this food. Thank you for the energy that allowed us to make it.
[00:05:00] All of those things. But you have to be diligent and you have to plan.
It’s not accidental. I’m going to intend today, so when I pick up my feet out from off the bed and put them on the floor today, my plan is God’s going to be with me. And we can do that, and if we plan, He will give us plenty. It leads to plenty. We will be filled up. When we have a struggle, He’s going to fill those gaps.
And the last scripture I wanted to share with you today about diligence, there’s so many, is over in 1 Timothy 5. Verses 9 and 10, and this is talking about the, what we often call the worthy widow, the widow who a congregation can support because she has no one else. There is no one else to support her, and she doesn’t have that means, and so a congregation can support her.
But God gives some qualifications of what kind of woman he wants this woman to be, to have proven herself.
[00:06:00] And what it talks about her age in verse nine talks about her having been married to one man, but in verse 10, it describes her as well reported for good works. If she has brought up children, if she’s lodged strangers, if she’s washed the saint’s feet, if she has relieved the afflicted.
If she has diligently followed every good work. This is the kind of woman that you know her character is such that she’s not going to take advantage of a situation where she’s being financially supported by someone. But this is the kind of woman that’s described over in Proverbs 31. But she is described as one who diligently follows every good work.
Good work is all of the things that God has given us to do. Whether that’s towards someone else, or just living by his word. We need to be diligent about that, and it needs to be something that defines us. That’s something someone can look at us and look at our lives and
[00:07:00] see that we don’t live accidentally by God’s word.
We live diligently to do the good work that he has given us to do. So be a planner. Look at your day as intentional. How am I going to incorporate God into my day? Bring him in. It doesn’t have to be carving out time, which it can, but it doesn’t have to. It’s how do I bring him into all those little things?
This is where diligence begins. This is how diligence grows. And this is how we diligently build on all those aspects of our faith and all these characteristics that we’re supposed to be as Christians as we see in 2nd Peter chapter 1. So I want to leave you with that today. Read those verses today. I encourage you, go write them out.
Go to Deuteronomy 6 and write verses 4 7, or take the context around it so you can get the full thing. But write those verses out and think about what God is saying, just in those verses. Take the time, it only takes a couple minutes.
[00:08:00] Proverbs 21 5, you can write that one in under a minute. Write it out, post it where you can see it to remind you to be diligent today.
And then 1 Timothy 5, 9 10, this is the goal. To be that older woman who is defined by these characteristics, being one who is diligent towards every good work. This is the goal that we’re working towards. You’re not going to be it on day one. You don’t suddenly magically become that the day that you get married, the day that you become a Christian, the day that you have children.
You grow in it every day, so just take those steps one day at a time, and I hope that you find that encouraging. Like I said, over on the diligent woman dot com, we’ve got. Three different scripture writing plans that go through all of these aspects of diligence, how to apply it to your life, spiritually, physically, all of those things and I’ll link to them below the podcast, but I want to
[00:09:00] make sure that you understand that diligence is not a one and done.
This is the life scripture talks about us walking with him, and we can only do that if we’re being diligent. So I hope you find that encouraging and be sure to subscribe to the podcast because as this goes forward, we’re going to talk about this even more. We’re going to talk about diligence. We’re going to talk about prayer.
We’re going to talk about including Bible study. in our daily life in a way that fits with all the things that we have to do, because we still have to do all of those things as a mom, as a wife, as a Christian woman, but we can fit Bible study and prayer into that too.
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