In this program, Chip explains four principles and four related practices that will increase our peace and provide absolute assurance that our needs are provided for, even in the midst of life's most difficult circumstances.
Introduction: What would it take for you to be content?
Content: Happy enough with what one has or is; not desiring something more or different; satisfied. -Webster’s Dictionary
The Problem: The horizon is always moving.
Two Historical Solutions:
- Conquer, achieve, and acquire until satisfied.
- Desire less and less until it doesn’t matter.
The Question: How can we be satisfied…today?
- The Answer: Philippians 4:10-13
- The Occasion: A “Thank You” Note -Philippians 4:10-13
- The Conclusion: Contentment is not a thing to be achieved, but a secret to be discovered.
- How?
Four Principles – Four Practices:
Principle #1 - Our contentment is not dependent on our circumstances.
- Practice = BE THANKFUL/GRATEFUL -Philippians 4:10
Principle #2 - Contentment is an attitude we learn not a thing we achieve.
- Practice = BE TEACHABLE -Philippians 4:11
Principle #3 - Prosperity does not have the power to give us contentment; nor poverty the power to take it away.
- Practice = BE FLEXIBLE / CHANGEABLE -Philippians 4:12
Principle #4 - Only Christ has the power to give us a contentment that transcends all life’s variables.
- Practice = BE CONTENT / TRUSTING -Philippians 4:13
Conclusion: Contentment is not passive acceptance of the status quo, but the positive assurance that God has supplied one’s needs, and the consequent release from unnecessary desires.
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