Message by Chad Kelly
The Secret of Thanksgiving: Contentment
Philippians 4:10-13
Only God”™s grace in Jesus can make you truly content!
Philippians 4:10-13 (NLT)
10 How I praise the Lord that you are concerned about me again. I know you have always been concerned for me, but you didn”™t have the chance to help me. 11 Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have.
12 I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. 13 For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.
1. Contentment Does NOT Depend
on Circumstances (11-12)
Message
Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.
1 Timothy 6:6-8 (NLT)
6 Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. 7 After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can”™t take anything with us when we leave it. 8 So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.
2. Contentment DOES
Depend on Jesus (13)
Message
Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.
Hebrews 13:5-6 (NLT)
5 Don”™t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said,
“I will never fail you.
I will never abandon you.”
6 So we can say with confidence,
“The Lord is my helper,
so I will have no fear.
What can mere people do to me?”
Romans 8:32 (NLT)
32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won”™t he also give us everything else?
Piper: God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him!
Only God”™s grace in Jesus can make you truly content!