CD#1377 12/20/20 Sun. A.M.
“LEARNING Contentment”
Isa. 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
5th part of our JOY Journey with Jesus! Today the Holy Spirit desires to teach us how to cultivate contentment so we will NOT manufacture misery! A contented spirit is NOT bound by circumstances! Decree: By Jesus I am free!
Text: *Phil. 4:10-13 – V.11 “WANT” = “A FALLING SHORT” – learned in all circumstance learned contentment!
#1 SOURCE
*Read Hebrews 1:8-9 – Jesus was anointed with gladness (to jump for joy) above His fellows! *Read John 3:29 – to have “Jesus JOY” we must “STAND & HEAR”! Read John 15:11 & 17:13 –2nd witness “Jesus JOY” comes from His Words abiding in you! (John 10:27 – my sheep HEAR My Voice)
#2 SATED
*Read 1 Tim. 6:5-12 – note V.6 you can be godly with “CONTENTMENT”- See Col. 3:16 – “LET” the Word of Christ dwell in you richly!
#3 SURENESS
*Read Pro. 30:5 or Judges 9:15 See Psalms 19:7 close with Isa. 55:11-12–Word then “JOY”!
Illustration: Dr. A. T. Schofield's eldest daughter was a great horsewoman but being thrown when rough-riding got a depressed fracture of the skull upon which no surgeon would operate, and of which, after some years of great suffering, she died. "When my daughter had been ill a fortnight, her nurse came to me and said she thought I would like to know that she had become a Christian. `Why, what were you when you came?' `I was an atheist, Doctor.' `I suppose your patient has been speaking to you?' `No, she never said a word, but she is the only absolutely contented girl I ever met, and I couldn't understand it, so I asked for her secret, and now I'm a Christian.
