I Can Trust God
I Do Trust God
God Can Trust Me
Review
How Can I rejoice in troubling time?
How Can I Not Be Anxious about the Future or Persecution?
How Can I Have Peace when I do not like my circumstances? Or did not choose my circumstances?
How Can I be Content in an Entitled, Selfish, “Gimme” More World?
Contentment is finding satisfaction in God and whatever God gives to us.
We are tested in the school of prosperity and poverty. We are tested by greed and envy.
The truth of the matter is -
We worry about finances
We stress about our circumstances
We struggle with selfishness and greed and envy.
We waste our lives and our living on things that don’t matter for eternity
How Do We Live Differently as believers and a church?
1. Gratitude (4:10).
2. Contentment (4:11-13).
1. Celebrate God’s Provision
2. Find Contentment in Your Relationship with Jesus
3. Depend upon the Strength of the Lord
“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition” (The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment)
3. Partnership (4:14-16).
4. Fruitfulness (4:17).
5. Worship (4:18)
6. Faith (4:19-20).
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5 words of Contentment
faith,
humility,
submission,
dependence,
and unselfishness.