The Joy of Learning the Secret of Contentment
Philippians 4:10-13
He is not addressing what you cannot control, but what you should control.
When anxiety appears, the cure is prayer. When the life is disorderly, the cure is mental and practical discipline. - Richard Melick
What we think matters, and it matters more than we think. – Roger Ellsworth
How?
1. Celebrate God’s Provision
“Gratitude”
Three-Fold Bond
Them
The Gift
The Lord
2. Find Contentment in Your Relationship with Jesus
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
3. Depend upon the Strength of the Lord
I Rejoiced
I Have Learned
I Know
I Can Do
Spiritual/emotional well-being and peace comes through a personal relationship with Christ and the strength he provides in every life situation. - Sprankle