November 7, 2025 • 39 mins
Paul taught us that in all things we must learn to be content. Today we are tackling the idea of how we can be content in all levels of our walk with God.
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On today's podcast, the content for today is about contentment.
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So we're going to get in and maybe we'll have a short podcast
today. Maybe we'll have a long one, but
we don't, we don't know. But I, I wanted to tackle it and
we've been talking about this for, you know, the past hour or
so. And so we're going to, you know,
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just try to roll right back intoour flow of thought.
But we've been talking about contentment and, and the
importance of it in a Christian's life.
And Paul, and we can launch fromPhilippians four and, and Paul
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is talking about his, you know, his walk with God and his life
and all of the things that he's going through and he he gives us
the I've learned how to abound. I've learned how to be a based.
I've learned how to have a lot and I've heard learned how to
have very little. And he said, but what I have
learned in the middle of all of this is I've learned how to be
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content. Yes, and what we, what, you
know, circling back to what we've been talking here is I
feel like that a lot of a lot ofChristians, a lot of, you know,
Apostolic believers, whether they've been believers for a
short time or they're, they're Olympic apostolics, They're,
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they've been doing it a long time that people can get into a
place of mind and in a frame of mind of I, I've checked all the
boxes, I'm doing all the things right.
And I, I still somehow just don't feel like I'm measuring
up. I, I just don't measure up.
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I hear my pastor pushing me to pray and I'm praying, but it's
just not enough. I, I'm, I'm serving, but I just
don't feel like I'm doing enough.
And you know, I've heard, I've heard these, these words.
And when, when I start beginningto think about this, it, it came
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came to me the the need for contentment, need for
contentment in in the life of the Apostolic Christian that we
we've got to learn how to be content and also have ambition
at the same time. Yes, yes, be content, but not be
stagnant, correct? And be content in that, yes, I'm
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content in my prayer life. And so I'm not going to take my
pastor preaching that we need togo further and push more as if
I'm just, I'm just a failure as a prayer warrior.
I'm a failure as a Christian because I'm just not doing
enough. But I've got contentment because
I know my name's been on the prayer log for the past two
years and three years and I, I haven't missed.
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I've been there. I've been doing it.
And I'm content in my prayer life.
Yeah. But I still want more.
Yes, Sir. And.
Yeah, so there, you know, so there's seasons to to
everything. So people, people think that if,
if I'm not on a, if I'm not on aprayer high, you know, every
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single day of the week, Yeah, ifI'm not praying for two hours at
a time, you know, that I'm a, I'm a terrible, you know,
Christian, which it's not the case.
So, so you know, you have, you have prayer and you have
warfare. Yes.
And the main part of our prayer is supposed to be relationship.
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Based, yes. So, you know, warfare's a
consistent thing, yes, but the most important thing is, is
relationship. And I'm, I'm afraid that
sometimes we, we can move away from that and we can think that
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if we're not, you know, yelling and screaming and casting out
devils, you know, that we're missing it somehow.
And and so, and then we can compare ourselves among
ourselves. Yes, that's a danger.
Big danger. So people can be, they can be
looking at others and looking attheir prayer life at church and,
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or, or they seem to be more successful, they're getting more
of their prayers answered. All those types of scenarios and
it it it can pull away from the contentment in our own prayer
life and cause frustration 'cause us to want to quit.
Well, what's it worth? I mean, it's, you know, and back
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to what I originally just said, the seasons deal.
You're going to have seasons where you don't feel very much
and and that does not take away from their power.
If you you so many stories of old timers that we've heard
growing up and everything of manlike or verbal being for
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instance. Like.
He would he I didn't feel hardlyanything when I prayed for them,
but they got their miracle, you know, so it's not it's not
always that I'm I'm going to be just feeling this unction of
power all the time and and I'm missing it with God.
No, you you're going to have moments where you just need to
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slow down and it becomes I need to probably listen a little more
than just than just blow throughthis deal.
So. So anyway, that's one aspect of
things. You mentioned earlier about
mundane and, and people getting caught up in the mundane.
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And it's people can seem to findout, at least in their own mind,
that, well, if I'm just caught up in the mundane and doing the
same thing that I was doing, yeah, that I'm not growing or
I'm stagnating, right? Because I'm just continuing,
right? Consistency is not mundane.
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No consistency builds growth. Yes, that.
That's what we're here for. Yeah.
We're here for the consistency. I mean, we preach all the time.
Faithfulness, faithfulness. Faithfulness.
Yeah. And faithfulness and prayer.
Faithfulness in your attendance,faithful in your giving, all
those kinds of things. That's not that's not something
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that should be taken lightly. That is huge to be faithful.
I mean, that's what that's what Jesus is going to say when we
get to heaven, My good and faithful servant enter into the
joy of the Lord. And So what we may think is
mundane holds way more weight than what we're allowing
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ourselves to realize. It's a mind battle yes, there
it's the war between between your ears that you have to win,
man. Our our greatest issue is, is a
negative mindset, Yes, and, and there's so many ways we go with
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this, but that's why you come tochurch and that's why you do
come consistent because you're coming for a mind change.
You're coming for the renewing of the mind.
Being transformed. Being transformed by the
renewing of your mind. If if I if I only come to church
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to to just shout and dance. And that's a that's a wonderful
thing. But if I leave those, leave that
sanctuary and I go back outside and I have the same mind that I
walked in with. I did myself no good that day
going to church, right? And I hate to be that harsh
about it, but that's the truth. I have to leave having the
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ability to walk out there and look at situations, look at
people, look at my circumstances, look at my walk
with God in a different light. So.
Yeah. And I don't think that that you
lose that as you become a more seasoned Christian.
And I think we ought to as more seasoned Christians, you know,
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have that more in the forefront.Because, yes, I've heard it for
years. It's been the city of refugees.
They walked in this Westgate andthey left out the Eastgate is
you never leave the same way youcame.
Yes and most of the time we justadapt that to OK, this is for
the drug addict he's supposed towalk in addicted and leave
delivered right well, what aboutyou know the Christian who's
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been doing this for 30 years yesand I I I want to leave
different every time I walk in in the building yes Sir, and you
know I'm not going to leave delivered from things every time
I walk out right right. You got to be bound to be
delivered, but I can leave changed in my mind.
Yes Sir, that that is the place where we most are changed.
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That's the most variable thing of who we are.
Is our mind, Yes. So if you're if your mind is
not, if your mind is not conquered, you cannot conquer.
Life. Yeah, right.
So we have to, we have to come, we have to get that mind change.
And that seems boring. Yeah, a lot of times because
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people it whenever you first getthe Holy Ghost, you get baptized
in Jesus name. It's such a radical shift,
right? When you're in it a while it's
it's incremental. It's a.
Little thought process. It's it's little words that
you're saying. It's it's, yeah, very, very
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minor things, it would seem. But those minor things become
huge deals in life. Well, it's the the Apollo
mission where they were sending the is the Apollo 11.
I'm not good on my NASA, but they're sending a rocket to the
moon. And what when they were sending
this moon, this rocket to the moon, they were they send the
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rocket up. And what's happening is
thrusters are making these little micro adjustments by
millimeters, inches. And it's like, well, what does a
millimeter have to do to a multiton rocket?
Well, if they don't correct thatlittle millimeter here, an inch
there and half an inch there, bythe time they get to the
destination, the calculations would put them off by miles.
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And so every time we walk into the building, it doesn't matter
if we just started the race or if we've almost finished the
race, we got to have course adjustments.
That's right. And if we come coming back,
circling back to contentment, I think that, you know, we we get
discontent when when we eliminate that from, you know,
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our process of a Christian, our our way that we live life as a
Christian. And yes, when we don't approach
a service with a desire to be changed in our mind, a desire to
let my mind be renewed. Yes, Paul said let this mind be
in you, which was also in ChristJesus.
Yes. And you know, we want to have
the mind of Christ in us. But the beginning of that verse
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is let this you have to let it. Yes, there has to be a letting
happening. I have to be surrendered, yes.
We we come in with with the intentionality of I'm not going
to leave the same way I came. I've I've got warring going on
in my mind. I've got I've got this, that and
the other. And if I don't change my mind,
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I'm going to get extremely discontent with where I'm at.
Yes, I'm going to get extremely upset and I'm it's going to
drive me crazy because I don't feel like anything's changing.
Yes, and maybe that's the problem is nothing's changing.
Yeah, Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
And so with Best going back to what you started with, you know,
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being being content, but also being zealous to to pay
attention that I am that I am making those minor adjustments
that we're talking about. So there's the comparing
yourselves among yourselves, which becomes a deal.
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And then and then you have got to always keep a focus on the
relationship. I mean, it's like the main thing
we always come back to relationship is the core of it
all. And if I am building a
relationship in my prayer, if I'm not feeling anything and if
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I'm not having these, you know, these unbelievable adjustments,
I need to be OK with that because that is there is power
in that man. When you get to the deal is, is
when you get to a place where you're only having to make minor
adjustments and you're doing great.
You know, you're in a position now where you're able to take
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those people that are having to make the huge adjustments and
say, Hey, I can guide you. I can lead you.
I can teach these Bible studies now.
I can, I can, I can help somebody lead them in prayer
because my prayer life has reached a good level.
So, so you can't, you can't allow yourself to get caught up
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in the, I'm not making it anywhere anymore.
No, you have reached a place nowwhere I grow my relationship.
I'm more intimate with God because I fixed all these other
things. I'm able to make those micro
adjustments and now I get to pull somebody else into my life
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and help them build what I have built.
And here's the issue that that Isee is discontentment all of a
sudden makes that an absolute misery and and I usually.
Nobody wants to. Nobody wants to be involved or
pray with people or anything. Yeah.
And and and it's just it it's I never measure up.
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I'm never it's never enough. Yes, and you know, I like into
that to the Ebenezer Scrooge of I have so much and it's the rich
person who just never gets enough money.
When are you going to stop? I just got 10 million.
Well, I'm not content with that.So I got to get 20, I've got to
get 100. I've got to get 500.
And build, tear down my barns and build bigger barns.
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Yeah, it's never being content. And it's the same mentality as
those people live miserable. Yes, they live unhappy lives.
They live miserable lives is because there's a lack of
contentment. Yes, there's never enough.
I've never doing enough, I'm never having enough, I'm never
giving enough. Everything I'm doing is just not
measuring up. Person over here is doing more
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or they're not doing anything atall.
So I feel like I have to do more.
And it is. It is discontentment that is
causing a misery in what should be happiness of A.
Joyful life. I'm serving, I'm doing, I'm
checking the boxes, I'm serving and I know I'm doing well and
contentment. It will cause you to step back
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and well, I see the the rebuke and the reprove of of the word
and but maybe it's not coming for me.
Right, exactly. Maybe I'm content enough in my
walk with God and I'm content enough now.
Now there's not an excuse to be,you know, lackadaisical and just
be lazy about your walk with God.
Contentment doesn't mean stopping.
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You can be content and you should be content, but you've
got to pair it with ambition to continue moving forward.
Absolutely. Otherwise it's not true
contentment. It's just laziness, correct.
But you can have that contentment to say, well, I'm
content in my prayer life. So he can't He's not coming down
on me for not praying because I'm praying my my Sunday school
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teachers not on me for, you know, the way my attitude has
been because I've had a good attitude.
You know, the it's not all aboutwhere, where am I going wrong
anymore? Contentment says I've got things
going right and I'm satisfied with with my walk with God.
I'm satisfied with my relationship with God and I'm
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going to continue to want more. Yes, I'm going to continue to
have zeal and desire. And the moment you do that, I
mean godliness plus contentment is great gain.
Yes. And so when you pair your
godliness and your your right living with contentment, there's
great gain to be had on the other side of that.
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That's exactly so. You know, you're discontent with
the micro adjustments, but add alittle bit of contentment into
that and then look down the roadand you're going to realize
there's great change, great gainthat's going to come on the
other side of that. And and thought I had as you're
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talking, circling back to the the idea of taking your thoughts
and into into aspect of this andyes, the way that you think is
like how well, how do I be content?
Paul said, I have learned yes. So how do you be content?
You learn, yes. So welcome to the School of
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Contentment, yes? It is a.
It is an everyday process of of checking the way I'm thinking.
Yes, yeah. Think on these things.
Absolutely whatsoever. Things are lovely.
Just a good report. Things were worthy of praise and
virtue, yes. Think on these things.
Yeah, it's checking the way thatI'm talking.
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I just, I just said something that was, it showed a little bit
of discontentment, yes. But I've been thinking that I'm
I'm content and so I'm not goingto talk like I'm discontent.
Exactly. Right.
It's learning and Paul learned in all things.
He learned how to do it when he was on the bottom and be
content, yes, as he was just making infant steps.
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And he learned when he was on the very top that I'm content.
Yes, And he was content not juston the bottom and just on the
top, but from bottom to top, yes, all the way through.
So it shows contentment. You know we'll have room for
movement. Yes, because you know, there's
again, seasons to everything. Yes, so and that was what Paul
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had learned to do and why he wasso successful is because he was
consistent and content through every single season.
He had the same temperament, thesame attitude.
The fruit of the Spirit was bearing in his life because of
that contentment. So that is vital, vital in our
walk with God that we that we weneed to be aware, being aware of
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where we're at and and the thought processes that we have
in whatever state we're in. If we're if we're getting
agitated and aggravated, you know, yeah, probably not, you
know, content like we need to be, you know, so, but the whole
the whole deal is, is being ableto watch my thoughts.
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And if you can control the way that you're thinking, man, that
that's the battle. Yeah, that is the battle
honestly, with with the contentment.
If I can capture my thoughts andstay positive, yes.
And Paul, that was what Paul did, man.
Yeah, I think myself, I think. Myself happy.
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Yeah, so yeah it was not. I mentioned this in the pre show
here and y'all missed it. Sorry.
It was good, I promise. But great free show it is not
everybody wants to attribute. Well I'm just going through this
slump and I feel worthless. I feel useless and everybody's
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just telling me it's a spiritualattack and I need to pray
through it. Yes and I've tried that trust
me, I'm a praying individual. Yes, and it didn't work.
Yeah. And so we can't just pray
through some things. You gotta go through things.
Yeah, not, not everything is a spiritual attack.
There are things that, and Pastor Copeland has talked about
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this and it's incredible. Some things are a mental attack
and they're a mental battle. And you don't win mental
battles, battles of your mind, the same way you win spiritual
battles. Yeah, sometimes praying it
sounds crazy, but sometimes praying doesn't always solve it.
Yeah, it's. You've got to take a mental
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inventory. Yes.
Yeah, God, God, God cannot operate independent of your
thought processes. Exactly.
You know he. You've got to surrender.
Ioffer my body a living sacrifice, holy and would
acceptable to him. I've got to offer myself to be
worked on, yes. And yeah.
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And so that is a huge factor. Yeah.
And then when it comes to the mind, it's like, well, how do I
deal with I feel these ways? And when these thoughts are
running crazy in my brain, in mymind, in my thinking, well, you
change your mind. Yes, yes, that is a you Job.
Yes, not somebody else other than me Job.
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Yes, that God didn't say I wouldcome to change your mind.
No, he said you take every thought into captivity of the
obedience of Christ. Yes, Paul said you need to let
the mind of Christ be in you. Yes, there's work to let
something. Yes, it's.
It is to allow him to do. It Yes, it is.
It is a letting of our mind. It is a a taking control of our
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thinking. Mm, hmm.
And it, it is not instant, no, it's work, it's process.
But we change our mind, yes? You got to wake up every day,
and I say this all the time withwith the with the thought
process of this is the day the Lord has made and I'm going to
rejoice and be glad in it. No matter what happens, no
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matter what comes, I'm going to live for God today.
And there's something powerful is going to happen today,
something wonderful. That's the kind of mentality you
have to have. I'm faithful.
I'm going to be faithful today. And, and, and you'll be amazed
at how that kind of a mentality will change you.
You when something bad happens in life, you know it, it doesn't
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hit you quite as hard anymore, You know, because you, you are
causing, you are are getting in tandem with God's word and
taking those thoughts into captivity unto the obedience of
Christ. So you know God is not this fix
all. He he can't do it without you
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working with him in it. You know, so he he's not he's a
perfect gentleman. We say he's he's not going to
he's not going to do it without,without you consenting and and
being with him and and falling after him.
So yes, Sir. Yeah, yeah.
He God never forces contentment on people.
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It's it is a process that we learn to go through that we
learn to to how to how to operate.
And when those times come that, you know, I feel like I'm being.
Running around in circles. Yeah, there there's a slow down,
there's a stop point where it says no, no, no.
I this isn't what I think it is.Yes, this, this isn't coming at
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me how my, my mind wants to tellme it's coming at me how my
pessimistic way of thinking wants to tell me it's coming at
me. It it's not chasing me anymore.
I'm going to stop and I'm going to tell me yes, you know, we're
learning to be content Yes. We're not going to get a perfect
every time you don't pass every test, right?
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We're learning to be content. We're learning to get get a
handle and a grip on, on being OK, yes, on being fine and being
confident in, in where we're at with God and in our progression
with God. And you know, it, it's it, it
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can be, it can be a very, very dangerous thing for the seasoned
Christian to to get in a place of discontentment.
And what I don't want to see is,you know, people get crossways
and and just start going throughthe motions.
It's the I'm just. I'm just here, just here you
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speak. It gets to, it gets to to where
I'm just, I'm an attitude of, well, here we go.
Again, I'm still serving, but I don't know, I guess what I
always do. Yeah.
And and I'm that always breeds. It'll go back to the beginning
here and it'll start to breed comparison and it'll start to
breed cynicism and it'll start to pull out a cynical live view
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of everything. And it doesn't matter how much
people praise you. It's not enough.
Exactly. It's it's this attitude of it's
never enough. Yeah, I'm not doing enough.
People aren't doing enough for me.
Yep. And the church is is not doing
what it's supposed to be doing. Yeah, it it it continues going
and you end up backslid. You do?
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Yeah. Backslid on a Pew or walking out
of the church that that is the end goal of it.
And it it's a dangerous, dangerous path that has a very
simple fix. And and that is first, was it
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Hosea, I think Hosea said. My people are destroyed for a
lack. Of knowledge, lack of knowledge.
Is, excuse me, it's it's learn what the issue is, learn what
the fix is and then the fix is contentment.
Start learning how to be content.
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Yes, I tell my youth this and and I talked and I was like you
need a post it note to stick on your mirror to tell you how
valuable you are to. God yes, I.
Go write those verses down and put it on your mirrors that you
see it every day so that you're changing your way of thinking.
Yes, if you want it bad enough, you can have it.
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Yes, exactly. And so it how bad do you want
it? How bad do you really want to
get out of the slump that you feel like you're in?
Yes. And you know, people always talk
about I'm in a rut. I'm in a rut, I'm in a routine.
Yes, sometimes routines are not.Bad.
No. We just get tired of them.
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That's right. That's exactly right.
There are routines that we need to learn to enjoy.
Yes, I will never get tired of my routine.
My rut. Yes, a prayer.
No, that is a routine and a rut that I have dug and it's just
going to get deeper as life goeson.
That's right. But I'm not tired of the rut.
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No, I'm not tired of the routineand I'm content.
With it here we could go into the rut is where you find those
moments where you do have that incredible power and then
incredible unction. It comes through the rut.
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It comes through the what seems to be boring and and and all of
those things. So because that's how God meets
with you. Yes.
God meets with us through consistency and oh, that's good.
God meets with us through consistency and, and so we don't
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need to be ashamed of that. We don't need to think that be
discontent with it, that Oh my God, we're here we are again.
I'm saying the same prayers. I'm praying for the same people.
I'm praying for revival for my church.
Well, man, that those consistentprayers is what allows the
church to grow. It's what brings revival.
It's what brings harvest. It's Oh yeah.
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So. So really the the mundane is in
is one of the most important things with your life.
The rut, like you're saying it is, is one of the most valuable
things that you have. And so, so and then again,
that's where God meets with us and we will move beyond.
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I mean, we'll have that extra, that extra umm, from the Holy
Ghost and and you know, we'll pray for something we didn't
even know. We got to pray for you.
Yes yes and so we should be excited.
We should be excited with what'smundane.
We should be excited what's whatwith what's mundane.
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You know, we, we love and it we,we should, we love high church.
We love, we love the power and we should push for that every
single every single time we gather.
I believe in the worship and theand the shouting and everything.
But people, people can get that can become a, a mundane thing to
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them. And and so you, you can't allow
the devil to get in your head, say here you are doing this
foolish dancing, this foolish lifting your hands, this foolish
praying in the prayer room. And it that is what that is what
is shaping your life and shapingyour thoughts and keeping you
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content. Yes, yes.
So the devil would like to twistit and make it say no, you're
only you're only making it off the high moments.
No, it's. It's the whole.
Whole experience. Experience of faithfulness
that's making you who you are. Yes, yes, yes, yes, he made
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even. That's right, the first.
Yes, he could possibly want, andhe made her focus on the one
thing. The one thing she didn't?
Have she didn't have the. That's right, one flaw.
Discontentment was the 1st. The first issue to the first.
Tactic. Yeah.
Wow. Yeah, that's good.
That's good, man. That's real good, yeah.
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That I mean, that's true. So we can, we can to bring that
into this, you know, we can focus, we're focusing on those
on just that one part that we think we get the most.
Out of Oh yeah. The it's the it's that deal
where I'm slain in the Holy Ghost for two hours.
Oh man, instead of the consistent 30 minutes of prayer,
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you know our prayer every singleday.
It's how. That you are stacking up in
heaven. Yep, it's how he it's how he
gets the strongest ones is he starts to pick apart, like
forget about all the other stuff.
What don't you have? What what are you missing?
What's the element that you're just not there?
Yes. And we look at the new convert
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who has this, this, that first love experience and which is,
which is another message for another time, you know, But
they're just man, they're in this thing for six months.
And all we're looking at is thatnew convert, he's just
exploding. Yeah.
Oh yeah. And we're over here like.
They're bringing people to church.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And and we're over here just
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well, I got my 3 or 4. Yeah.
This week or whatever. That's huge, man.
That's big. You got one person through and
baptized them. Yeah, that's amazing.
That's. Incredible man, you saved us
all. Yeah, keep doing it.
So yeah. So that's, that's what the devil
would love for us to do is just focus on the highs instead of
the instead of the whole experience of our walk.
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With yes, yes, that's that's good.
Well, and this is this has been a a topic.
Turned into a topic. Did.
Yeah. Yeah, I know we we've had a lot
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that we we kind of bounced off of and you know, as as we wrap
up the, the podcast here, I think for for the new believer,
if if you're looking for your first steps into your walk with
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God, don't take contentment as being something that does not
allow you to grow. Yes, go after it with everything
you've got. Go after it with zeal.
Go after it with passion, with energy and but learn contentment
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along the way. That I'm content that I've just
come into God and I'm still struggling.
I'm still dropping habits, but Ican still be content because
God's changing me and I'm tryingwith everything I've got.
And don't, don't let contentmentbe something to you that I mean,
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if it is something that's causing you to just sit back and
relax, that's not contentment truly.
And to the seasoned St. who's doing enough?
Who's who's making it? You're, you're doing everything
that you you need to be doing and you just don't feel like
it's enough. God wants you to be content in
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where you're at and he wants youto grow where you're at.
Be content as a Christian, be content with your prayer life
and take inventory of yourself because we all have room to
grow. Absolutely.
And be. Content when you take inventory
and you fall short in a little area here and an area there,
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contentment will make the blow alot softer.
And it it'll make it where you, you enjoy the growth, you enjoy
the building. And so, you know, if there's
anything that I can give is learn contentment, seek it out,
remind yourself, wake up in the morning and say thank you, God
for another day. I'm going to be content today.
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I'm going to do it right today. Write.
Write stuff down that you recognize.
Write it down, yes. That way you can go back and you
can read and say, hey, this, I've, I've accomplished these
things. Yes, yes, contentment with
godliness. It really is great gain if you
want to accelerate your growth in Christ and you want to
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solidify your walk with God and and solidify your your mental
foundation contentment. It's key and it's important.
And we we want you to grow. We want you to be happy and be
satisfied where you're where you're headed where you walk
with God is so we're excited to have where the craft here today.
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And so thank you for being with us.
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So we're going to get in and maybe we'll have a short podcast
today. Maybe we'll have a long one, but
we don't, we don't know. But I, I wanted to tackle it and
we've been talking about this for, you know, the past hour or
so. And so we're going to, you know,
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just try to roll right back intoour flow of thought.
But we've been talking about contentment and, and the
importance of it in a Christian's life.
And Paul, and we can launch fromPhilippians four and, and Paul
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is talking about his, you know, his walk with God and his life
and all of the things that he's going through and he he gives us
the I've learned how to abound. I've learned how to be a based.
I've learned how to have a lot and I've heard learned how to
have very little. And he said, but what I have
learned in the middle of all of this is I've learned how to be
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content. Yes, and what we, what, you
know, circling back to what we've been talking here is I
feel like that a lot of a lot ofChristians, a lot of, you know,
Apostolic believers, whether they've been believers for a
short time or they're, they're Olympic apostolics, They're,
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they've been doing it a long time that people can get into a
place of mind and in a frame of mind of I, I've checked all the
boxes, I'm doing all the things right.
And I, I still somehow just don't feel like I'm measuring
up. I, I just don't measure up.
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I hear my pastor pushing me to pray and I'm praying, but it's
just not enough. I, I'm, I'm serving, but I just
don't feel like I'm doing enough.
And you know, I've heard, I've heard these, these words.
And when, when I start beginningto think about this, it, it came
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came to me the the need for contentment, need for
contentment in in the life of the Apostolic Christian that we
we've got to learn how to be content and also have ambition
at the same time. Yes, yes, be content, but not be
stagnant, correct? And be content in that, yes, I'm
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content in my prayer life. And so I'm not going to take my
pastor preaching that we need togo further and push more as if
I'm just, I'm just a failure as a prayer warrior.
I'm a failure as a Christian because I'm just not doing
enough. But I've got contentment because
I know my name's been on the prayer log for the past two
years and three years and I, I haven't missed.
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I've been there. I've been doing it.
And I'm content in my prayer life.
Yeah. But I still want more.
Yes, Sir. And.
Yeah, so there, you know, so there's seasons to to
everything. So people, people think that if,
if I'm not on a, if I'm not on aprayer high, you know, every
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single day of the week, Yeah, ifI'm not praying for two hours at
a time, you know, that I'm a, I'm a terrible, you know,
Christian, which it's not the case.
So, so you know, you have, you have prayer and you have
warfare. Yes.
And the main part of our prayer is supposed to be relationship.
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Based, yes. So, you know, warfare's a
consistent thing, yes, but the most important thing is, is
relationship. And I'm, I'm afraid that
sometimes we, we can move away from that and we can think that
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if we're not, you know, yelling and screaming and casting out
devils, you know, that we're missing it somehow.
And and so, and then we can compare ourselves among
ourselves. Yes, that's a danger.
Big danger. So people can be, they can be
looking at others and looking attheir prayer life at church and,
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or, or they seem to be more successful, they're getting more
of their prayers answered. All those types of scenarios and
it it it can pull away from the contentment in our own prayer
life and cause frustration 'cause us to want to quit.
Well, what's it worth? I mean, it's, you know, and back
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to what I originally just said, the seasons deal.
You're going to have seasons where you don't feel very much
and and that does not take away from their power.
If you you so many stories of old timers that we've heard
growing up and everything of manlike or verbal being for
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instance. Like.
He would he I didn't feel hardlyanything when I prayed for them,
but they got their miracle, you know, so it's not it's not
always that I'm I'm going to be just feeling this unction of
power all the time and and I'm missing it with God.
No, you you're going to have moments where you just need to
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slow down and it becomes I need to probably listen a little more
than just than just blow throughthis deal.
So. So anyway, that's one aspect of
things. You mentioned earlier about
mundane and, and people getting caught up in the mundane.
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And it's people can seem to findout, at least in their own mind,
that, well, if I'm just caught up in the mundane and doing the
same thing that I was doing, yeah, that I'm not growing or
I'm stagnating, right? Because I'm just continuing,
right? Consistency is not mundane.
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No consistency builds growth. Yes, that.
That's what we're here for. Yeah.
We're here for the consistency. I mean, we preach all the time.
Faithfulness, faithfulness. Faithfulness.
Yeah. And faithfulness and prayer.
Faithfulness in your attendance,faithful in your giving, all
those kinds of things. That's not that's not something
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that should be taken lightly. That is huge to be faithful.
I mean, that's what that's what Jesus is going to say when we
get to heaven, My good and faithful servant enter into the
joy of the Lord. And So what we may think is
mundane holds way more weight than what we're allowing
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ourselves to realize. It's a mind battle yes, there
it's the war between between your ears that you have to win,
man. Our our greatest issue is, is a
negative mindset, Yes, and, and there's so many ways we go with
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this, but that's why you come tochurch and that's why you do
come consistent because you're coming for a mind change.
You're coming for the renewing of the mind.
Being transformed. Being transformed by the
renewing of your mind. If if I if I only come to church
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to to just shout and dance. And that's a that's a wonderful
thing. But if I leave those, leave that
sanctuary and I go back outside and I have the same mind that I
walked in with. I did myself no good that day
going to church, right? And I hate to be that harsh
about it, but that's the truth. I have to leave having the
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ability to walk out there and look at situations, look at
people, look at my circumstances, look at my walk
with God in a different light. So.
Yeah. And I don't think that that you
lose that as you become a more seasoned Christian.
And I think we ought to as more seasoned Christians, you know,
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have that more in the forefront.Because, yes, I've heard it for
years. It's been the city of refugees.
They walked in this Westgate andthey left out the Eastgate is
you never leave the same way youcame.
Yes and most of the time we justadapt that to OK, this is for
the drug addict he's supposed towalk in addicted and leave
delivered right well, what aboutyou know the Christian who's
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been doing this for 30 years yesand I I I want to leave
different every time I walk in in the building yes Sir, and you
know I'm not going to leave delivered from things every time
I walk out right right. You got to be bound to be
delivered, but I can leave changed in my mind.
Yes Sir, that that is the place where we most are changed.
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That's the most variable thing of who we are.
Is our mind, Yes. So if you're if your mind is
not, if your mind is not conquered, you cannot conquer.
Life. Yeah, right.
So we have to, we have to come, we have to get that mind change.
And that seems boring. Yeah, a lot of times because
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people it whenever you first getthe Holy Ghost, you get baptized
in Jesus name. It's such a radical shift,
right? When you're in it a while it's
it's incremental. It's a.
Little thought process. It's it's little words that
you're saying. It's it's, yeah, very, very
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minor things, it would seem. But those minor things become
huge deals in life. Well, it's the the Apollo
mission where they were sending the is the Apollo 11.
I'm not good on my NASA, but they're sending a rocket to the
moon. And what when they were sending
this moon, this rocket to the moon, they were they send the
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rocket up. And what's happening is
thrusters are making these little micro adjustments by
millimeters, inches. And it's like, well, what does a
millimeter have to do to a multiton rocket?
Well, if they don't correct thatlittle millimeter here, an inch
there and half an inch there, bythe time they get to the
destination, the calculations would put them off by miles.
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And so every time we walk into the building, it doesn't matter
if we just started the race or if we've almost finished the
race, we got to have course adjustments.
That's right. And if we come coming back,
circling back to contentment, I think that, you know, we we get
discontent when when we eliminate that from, you know,
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our process of a Christian, our our way that we live life as a
Christian. And yes, when we don't approach
a service with a desire to be changed in our mind, a desire to
let my mind be renewed. Yes, Paul said let this mind be
in you, which was also in ChristJesus.
Yes. And you know, we want to have
the mind of Christ in us. But the beginning of that verse
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is let this you have to let it. Yes, there has to be a letting
happening. I have to be surrendered, yes.
We we come in with with the intentionality of I'm not going
to leave the same way I came. I've I've got warring going on
in my mind. I've got I've got this, that and
the other. And if I don't change my mind,
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I'm going to get extremely discontent with where I'm at.
Yes, I'm going to get extremely upset and I'm it's going to
drive me crazy because I don't feel like anything's changing.
Yes, and maybe that's the problem is nothing's changing.
Yeah, Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
And so with Best going back to what you started with, you know,
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being being content, but also being zealous to to pay
attention that I am that I am making those minor adjustments
that we're talking about. So there's the comparing
yourselves among yourselves, which becomes a deal.
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And then and then you have got to always keep a focus on the
relationship. I mean, it's like the main thing
we always come back to relationship is the core of it
all. And if I am building a
relationship in my prayer, if I'm not feeling anything and if
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I'm not having these, you know, these unbelievable adjustments,
I need to be OK with that because that is there is power
in that man. When you get to the deal is, is
when you get to a place where you're only having to make minor
adjustments and you're doing great.
You know, you're in a position now where you're able to take
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those people that are having to make the huge adjustments and
say, Hey, I can guide you. I can lead you.
I can teach these Bible studies now.
I can, I can, I can help somebody lead them in prayer
because my prayer life has reached a good level.
So, so you can't, you can't allow yourself to get caught up
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in the, I'm not making it anywhere anymore.
No, you have reached a place nowwhere I grow my relationship.
I'm more intimate with God because I fixed all these other
things. I'm able to make those micro
adjustments and now I get to pull somebody else into my life
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and help them build what I have built.
And here's the issue that that Isee is discontentment all of a
sudden makes that an absolute misery and and I usually.
Nobody wants to. Nobody wants to be involved or
pray with people or anything. Yeah.
And and and it's just it it's I never measure up.
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I'm never it's never enough. Yes, and you know, I like into
that to the Ebenezer Scrooge of I have so much and it's the rich
person who just never gets enough money.
When are you going to stop? I just got 10 million.
Well, I'm not content with that.So I got to get 20, I've got to
get 100. I've got to get 500.
And build, tear down my barns and build bigger barns.
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Yeah, it's never being content. And it's the same mentality as
those people live miserable. Yes, they live unhappy lives.
They live miserable lives is because there's a lack of
contentment. Yes, there's never enough.
I've never doing enough, I'm never having enough, I'm never
giving enough. Everything I'm doing is just not
measuring up. Person over here is doing more
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or they're not doing anything atall.
So I feel like I have to do more.
And it is. It is discontentment that is
causing a misery in what should be happiness of A.
Joyful life. I'm serving, I'm doing, I'm
checking the boxes, I'm serving and I know I'm doing well and
contentment. It will cause you to step back
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and well, I see the the rebuke and the reprove of of the word
and but maybe it's not coming for me.
Right, exactly. Maybe I'm content enough in my
walk with God and I'm content enough now.
Now there's not an excuse to be,you know, lackadaisical and just
be lazy about your walk with God.
Contentment doesn't mean stopping.
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You can be content and you should be content, but you've
got to pair it with ambition to continue moving forward.
Absolutely. Otherwise it's not true
contentment. It's just laziness, correct.
But you can have that contentment to say, well, I'm
content in my prayer life. So he can't He's not coming down
on me for not praying because I'm praying my my Sunday school
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teachers not on me for, you know, the way my attitude has
been because I've had a good attitude.
You know, the it's not all aboutwhere, where am I going wrong
anymore? Contentment says I've got things
going right and I'm satisfied with with my walk with God.
I'm satisfied with my relationship with God and I'm
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going to continue to want more. Yes, I'm going to continue to
have zeal and desire. And the moment you do that, I
mean godliness plus contentment is great gain.
Yes. And so when you pair your
godliness and your your right living with contentment, there's
great gain to be had on the other side of that.
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That's exactly so. You know, you're discontent with
the micro adjustments, but add alittle bit of contentment into
that and then look down the roadand you're going to realize
there's great change, great gainthat's going to come on the
other side of that. And and thought I had as you're
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talking, circling back to the the idea of taking your thoughts
and into into aspect of this andyes, the way that you think is
like how well, how do I be content?
Paul said, I have learned yes. So how do you be content?
You learn, yes. So welcome to the School of
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Contentment, yes? It is a.
It is an everyday process of of checking the way I'm thinking.
Yes, yeah. Think on these things.
Absolutely whatsoever. Things are lovely.
Just a good report. Things were worthy of praise and
virtue, yes. Think on these things.
Yeah, it's checking the way thatI'm talking.
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I just, I just said something that was, it showed a little bit
of discontentment, yes. But I've been thinking that I'm
I'm content and so I'm not goingto talk like I'm discontent.
Exactly. Right.
It's learning and Paul learned in all things.
He learned how to do it when he was on the bottom and be
content, yes, as he was just making infant steps.
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And he learned when he was on the very top that I'm content.
Yes, And he was content not juston the bottom and just on the
top, but from bottom to top, yes, all the way through.
So it shows contentment. You know we'll have room for
movement. Yes, because you know, there's
again, seasons to everything. Yes, so and that was what Paul
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had learned to do and why he wasso successful is because he was
consistent and content through every single season.
He had the same temperament, thesame attitude.
The fruit of the Spirit was bearing in his life because of
that contentment. So that is vital, vital in our
walk with God that we that we weneed to be aware, being aware of
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where we're at and and the thought processes that we have
in whatever state we're in. If we're if we're getting
agitated and aggravated, you know, yeah, probably not, you
know, content like we need to be, you know, so, but the whole
the whole deal is, is being ableto watch my thoughts.
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And if you can control the way that you're thinking, man, that
that's the battle. Yeah, that is the battle
honestly, with with the contentment.
If I can capture my thoughts andstay positive, yes.
And Paul, that was what Paul did, man.
Yeah, I think myself, I think. Myself happy.
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Yeah, so yeah it was not. I mentioned this in the pre show
here and y'all missed it. Sorry.
It was good, I promise. But great free show it is not
everybody wants to attribute. Well I'm just going through this
slump and I feel worthless. I feel useless and everybody's
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just telling me it's a spiritualattack and I need to pray
through it. Yes and I've tried that trust
me, I'm a praying individual. Yes, and it didn't work.
Yeah. And so we can't just pray
through some things. You gotta go through things.
Yeah, not, not everything is a spiritual attack.
There are things that, and Pastor Copeland has talked about
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this and it's incredible. Some things are a mental attack
and they're a mental battle. And you don't win mental
battles, battles of your mind, the same way you win spiritual
battles. Yeah, sometimes praying it
sounds crazy, but sometimes praying doesn't always solve it.
Yeah, it's. You've got to take a mental
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inventory. Yes.
Yeah, God, God, God cannot operate independent of your
thought processes. Exactly.
You know he. You've got to surrender.
Ioffer my body a living sacrifice, holy and would
acceptable to him. I've got to offer myself to be
worked on, yes. And yeah.
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And so that is a huge factor. Yeah.
And then when it comes to the mind, it's like, well, how do I
deal with I feel these ways? And when these thoughts are
running crazy in my brain, in mymind, in my thinking, well, you
change your mind. Yes, yes, that is a you Job.
Yes, not somebody else other than me Job.
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Yes, that God didn't say I wouldcome to change your mind.
No, he said you take every thought into captivity of the
obedience of Christ. Yes, Paul said you need to let
the mind of Christ be in you. Yes, there's work to let
something. Yes, it's.
It is to allow him to do. It Yes, it is.
It is a letting of our mind. It is a a taking control of our
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thinking. Mm, hmm.
And it, it is not instant, no, it's work, it's process.
But we change our mind, yes? You got to wake up every day,
and I say this all the time withwith the with the thought
process of this is the day the Lord has made and I'm going to
rejoice and be glad in it. No matter what happens, no
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matter what comes, I'm going to live for God today.
And there's something powerful is going to happen today,
something wonderful. That's the kind of mentality you
have to have. I'm faithful.
I'm going to be faithful today. And, and, and you'll be amazed
at how that kind of a mentality will change you.
You when something bad happens in life, you know it, it doesn't
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hit you quite as hard anymore, You know, because you, you are
causing, you are are getting in tandem with God's word and
taking those thoughts into captivity unto the obedience of
Christ. So you know God is not this fix
all. He he can't do it without you
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working with him in it. You know, so he he's not he's a
perfect gentleman. We say he's he's not going to
he's not going to do it without,without you consenting and and
being with him and and falling after him.
So yes, Sir. Yeah, yeah.
He God never forces contentment on people.
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It's it is a process that we learn to go through that we
learn to to how to how to operate.
And when those times come that, you know, I feel like I'm being.
Running around in circles. Yeah, there there's a slow down,
there's a stop point where it says no, no, no.
I this isn't what I think it is.Yes, this, this isn't coming at
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me how my, my mind wants to tellme it's coming at me how my
pessimistic way of thinking wants to tell me it's coming at
me. It it's not chasing me anymore.
I'm going to stop and I'm going to tell me yes, you know, we're
learning to be content Yes. We're not going to get a perfect
every time you don't pass every test, right?
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We're learning to be content. We're learning to get get a
handle and a grip on, on being OK, yes, on being fine and being
confident in, in where we're at with God and in our progression
with God. And you know, it, it's it, it
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can be, it can be a very, very dangerous thing for the seasoned
Christian to to get in a place of discontentment.
And what I don't want to see is,you know, people get crossways
and and just start going throughthe motions.
It's the I'm just. I'm just here, just here you
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speak. It gets to, it gets to to where
I'm just, I'm an attitude of, well, here we go.
Again, I'm still serving, but I don't know, I guess what I
always do. Yeah.
And and I'm that always breeds. It'll go back to the beginning
here and it'll start to breed comparison and it'll start to
breed cynicism and it'll start to pull out a cynical live view
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of everything. And it doesn't matter how much
people praise you. It's not enough.
Exactly. It's it's this attitude of it's
never enough. Yeah, I'm not doing enough.
People aren't doing enough for me.
Yep. And the church is is not doing
what it's supposed to be doing. Yeah, it it it continues going
and you end up backslid. You do?
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Yeah. Backslid on a Pew or walking out
of the church that that is the end goal of it.
And it it's a dangerous, dangerous path that has a very
simple fix. And and that is first, was it
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Hosea, I think Hosea said. My people are destroyed for a
lack. Of knowledge, lack of knowledge.
Is, excuse me, it's it's learn what the issue is, learn what
the fix is and then the fix is contentment.
Start learning how to be content.
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Yes, I tell my youth this and and I talked and I was like you
need a post it note to stick on your mirror to tell you how
valuable you are to. God yes, I.
Go write those verses down and put it on your mirrors that you
see it every day so that you're changing your way of thinking.
Yes, if you want it bad enough, you can have it.
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Yes, exactly. And so it how bad do you want
it? How bad do you really want to
get out of the slump that you feel like you're in?
Yes. And you know, people always talk
about I'm in a rut. I'm in a rut, I'm in a routine.
Yes, sometimes routines are not.Bad.
No. We just get tired of them.
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That's right. That's exactly right.
There are routines that we need to learn to enjoy.
Yes, I will never get tired of my routine.
My rut. Yes, a prayer.
No, that is a routine and a rut that I have dug and it's just
going to get deeper as life goeson.
That's right. But I'm not tired of the rut.
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No, I'm not tired of the routineand I'm content.
With it here we could go into the rut is where you find those
moments where you do have that incredible power and then
incredible unction. It comes through the rut.
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It comes through the what seems to be boring and and and all of
those things. So because that's how God meets
with you. Yes.
God meets with us through consistency and oh, that's good.
God meets with us through consistency and, and so we don't
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need to be ashamed of that. We don't need to think that be
discontent with it, that Oh my God, we're here we are again.
I'm saying the same prayers. I'm praying for the same people.
I'm praying for revival for my church.
Well, man, that those consistentprayers is what allows the
church to grow. It's what brings revival.
It's what brings harvest. It's Oh yeah.
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So. So really the the mundane is in
is one of the most important things with your life.
The rut, like you're saying it is, is one of the most valuable
things that you have. And so, so and then again,
that's where God meets with us and we will move beyond.
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I mean, we'll have that extra, that extra umm, from the Holy
Ghost and and you know, we'll pray for something we didn't
even know. We got to pray for you.
Yes yes and so we should be excited.
We should be excited with what'smundane.
We should be excited what's whatwith what's mundane.
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You know, we, we love and it we,we should, we love high church.
We love, we love the power and we should push for that every
single every single time we gather.
I believe in the worship and theand the shouting and everything.
But people, people can get that can become a, a mundane thing to
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them. And and so you, you can't allow
the devil to get in your head, say here you are doing this
foolish dancing, this foolish lifting your hands, this foolish
praying in the prayer room. And it that is what that is what
is shaping your life and shapingyour thoughts and keeping you
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content. Yes, yes.
So the devil would like to twistit and make it say no, you're
only you're only making it off the high moments.
No, it's. It's the whole.
Whole experience. Experience of faithfulness
that's making you who you are. Yes, yes, yes, yes, he made
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even. That's right, the first.
Yes, he could possibly want, andhe made her focus on the one
thing. The one thing she didn't?
Have she didn't have the. That's right, one flaw.
Discontentment was the 1st. The first issue to the first.
Tactic. Yeah.
Wow. Yeah, that's good.
That's good, man. That's real good, yeah.
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That I mean, that's true. So we can, we can to bring that
into this, you know, we can focus, we're focusing on those
on just that one part that we think we get the most.
Out of Oh yeah. The it's the it's that deal
where I'm slain in the Holy Ghost for two hours.
Oh man, instead of the consistent 30 minutes of prayer,
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you know our prayer every singleday.
It's how. That you are stacking up in
heaven. Yep, it's how he it's how he
gets the strongest ones is he starts to pick apart, like
forget about all the other stuff.
What don't you have? What what are you missing?
What's the element that you're just not there?
Yes. And we look at the new convert
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who has this, this, that first love experience and which is,
which is another message for another time, you know, But
they're just man, they're in this thing for six months.
And all we're looking at is thatnew convert, he's just
exploding. Yeah.
Oh yeah. And we're over here like.
They're bringing people to church.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And and we're over here just
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well, I got my 3 or 4. Yeah.
This week or whatever. That's huge, man.
That's big. You got one person through and
baptized them. Yeah, that's amazing.
That's. Incredible man, you saved us
all. Yeah, keep doing it.
So yeah. So that's, that's what the devil
would love for us to do is just focus on the highs instead of
the instead of the whole experience of our walk.
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With yes, yes, that's that's good.
Well, and this is this has been a a topic.
Turned into a topic. Did.
Yeah. Yeah, I know we we've had a lot
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that we we kind of bounced off of and you know, as as we wrap
up the, the podcast here, I think for for the new believer,
if if you're looking for your first steps into your walk with
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God, don't take contentment as being something that does not
allow you to grow. Yes, go after it with everything
you've got. Go after it with zeal.
Go after it with passion, with energy and but learn contentment
(36:45):
along the way. That I'm content that I've just
come into God and I'm still struggling.
I'm still dropping habits, but Ican still be content because
God's changing me and I'm tryingwith everything I've got.
And don't, don't let contentmentbe something to you that I mean,
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if it is something that's causing you to just sit back and
relax, that's not contentment truly.
And to the seasoned St. who's doing enough?
Who's who's making it? You're, you're doing everything
that you you need to be doing and you just don't feel like
it's enough. God wants you to be content in
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where you're at and he wants youto grow where you're at.
Be content as a Christian, be content with your prayer life
and take inventory of yourself because we all have room to
grow. Absolutely.
And be. Content when you take inventory
and you fall short in a little area here and an area there,
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contentment will make the blow alot softer.
And it it'll make it where you, you enjoy the growth, you enjoy
the building. And so, you know, if there's
anything that I can give is learn contentment, seek it out,
remind yourself, wake up in the morning and say thank you, God
for another day. I'm going to be content today.
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I'm going to do it right today. Write.
Write stuff down that you recognize.
Write it down, yes. That way you can go back and you
can read and say, hey, this, I've, I've accomplished these
things. Yes, yes, contentment with
godliness. It really is great gain if you
want to accelerate your growth in Christ and you want to
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solidify your walk with God and and solidify your your mental
foundation contentment. It's key and it's important.
And we we want you to grow. We want you to be happy and be
satisfied where you're where you're headed where you walk
with God is so we're excited to have where the craft here today.
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And so thank you for being with us.
So God bless, musicians come. Shout back bro.
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