Contentment and Gratitude

Good afternoon Family! I made this short episode to explain the value in being content and grateful in every situation. This enables the Holy Spirit more so to grow these amazing fruits within us, such as our peace and our joy. When I first learned this, and as I keep this in mind everyday, it truly helps me to enjoy my life with Jesus no matter what I'm going through. So, I wholeheartedly pray this will speak to every heart that it finds.

Episode Transcript

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Hey, y'all, this is juston just in the mess. I've been
having some days where I'll just wakeup and you ever just wake up and
just like I don't know, youjust start to feel all these unnecessary,

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random, like aucky feelings just outof nowhere or dread or you know,
things like that. And that's whenI really have to stay praying. And
when I stay praying and read aVerse for the day or read however much

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I need, you know, forthe moment, just throughout the day,
it's true medicine for our souls andsomething that I'm really working on right now,
even in whatever trial or tribulation I'mexperiencing, I'm just working on being
content. Contentment is so crucial tobeing like for protecting our joy and peace

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and just to avoid getting stressed out, and you know, for no good
reason, but when you're content andwhenever you're grateful in every situation, it's
like a superpower honestly from God.And contentment is basically just being happy with

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where you're at while you're on theway to where you're going. And I
feel like it's important to also saythat you know, this earth, it's
not our home. The people whobelong to Heaven. This earth is not

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our home, so there will alwaysbe a part in every human that will
be discontent because this is not ourhome. And that's not our fault,
you know, it's just how itis. But whenever I think about that
statement, I feel like that's oneof the very things that keeps us coming

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back to God because he is ourheavenly father. We know we're not from
here, we know we're from heavenlyplaces, and that very knowing should keep
us our minds like stayed on himand stay talking to him, because I've

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come to find that every time I'vetalked to God or you know, heard
from Him through his word, Ijust feel this sense of peace just rain
down on me, and this contentment, this lightness. You give him your

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burdens, you give him your struggles, your trials, your tribulations. You
just you hand it over to himand he'll carry it. He said,

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my burden is light and my yokeis easy, and we should learn from
him. So I just thought i'dshare that because I feel like there's a
lot of us out there who arejust unnecessarily stressed out. I mean,
the things we all go through,different things and by no means am I

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saying that these things that we're goingthrough aren't stressful. They are but Jesus
and his peace, the Holy Spiritliving in us and helping us, growing
our peace, growing our joy,our contentment, and all of the fruits
of His spirit that He has instilledin us and is growing in us.

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As we just keep our eyes onhim, we can find peace, and
we can actually find joy even inthe storms that we're going through. We
can be content and grateful because thoseare the keys in order to enjoy our

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lives. He wants us to enjoyour lives, but we won't find any
other way of doing that besides himand keeping our minds stayed on him.
He said in Isaiah, what isit Isaiah twenty six'y three whose mind

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is stayed on him? He willkeep him in perfect peace because he trusts
in him. We just need tokeep our trust in him, even whenever
it gets hard and we don't understand, He'll always be there. He'll never
leave us. Even if he doesn'ttell us all the answers. We can

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rest in the fact of knowing thathe already knows. He goes before us,
and he'll get us through so justwanted to throw it out, throw
that out there. I love youguys, and I hope you have a
good day. Bye bye,