[Faith-talk] FW: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] How to be content by JoyceMeyer

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Subject: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] How to be content by Joyce Meyer
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How To Be Content
by Joyce Meyer
The Bible clearly teaches us to "be content" no matter what our
circumstances are. In Philippians 4:11, Paul said, "I have learned in
whatsoever state I am in therewith to be content." The Amplified Bible
describes being content as "satisfied to the point where you are not
disturbed or disquieted". It doesn't say satisfied to the point where you
don't want change, but satisfied for now until God brings the change.
Philippians 4:6-7 sheds more light in this area by saying, "Have no anxiety
about anything, but in all things by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, continue to let God know what you want", and verse 7 "the
peace that passes understanding shall keep your hearts and minds in Christ
Jesus". Allow me to paraphrase these scriptures in my language for you.
Don't be upset about anything, no matter what is happening. Pray about it,
and tell God your need. While you are waiting for God to move, be a very
thankful and grateful person for all that God has done for you already.
(Note: Let me say here that if God never did one thing for us except write
our names in the Lamb's Book of Life, that alone is more than enough.)

Being thankful from the heart is necessary for the receiving of God's
continued favors in our lives. Then verse 7 says after this:

1. Have no anxiety or care,

2. Tell God your need, and

3. Be thankful.

Then you will have tremendous peace and contentment no matter what state
you are in while you are waiting for God to work out His will in your life.

Let us not forget Romans 8:28 that says, "All things work together and
are fitting into a plan for good to those who love God and are called
according to His purpose."  Even the hard times can work into God's perfect
plan for your life. Cast your care, and be a thankful person. Take
inventory each day of what you have instead of counting up all the things
that you have not. Meditate on what God has done in your life instead of
what you are still waiting on Him to do. Your flesh wants you to
concentrate on what you don't have. Your spirit wants you to ask God for
what you don't have, yet concentrate on what you do have.

John 14:27 (Amplified) says, "Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and
disturbed; do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and
cowardly and unsettled." Jesus left us a legacy of peace, and He wants us
to use it. I have discovered through years of experience, many of these
years spent in frustration and discontentment, that the secret of being
content is to ask God for what I want, and know that "if it is right" He
will bring it to pass "at the right time," and if it isn't right, God will
do something much better than what I asked for anyway. We must learn to
trust God completely if we ever intend to enjoy peaceful living. It is good
to trust God for something, but God is calling His people not only to trust
Him "for something," but to trust Him "in everything."

In Genesis 50:20, Joseph, speaking to his brothers who had severely
mistreated him, said "As for you, you thought evil against me; but God
meant it for good." The very things we think are awful right now, very
often can turn out to be a great blessing. The greatest trial can develop
in you the greatest faith. God spoke this to my heart a while ago: "Joyce,
you see to the end of your nose (which isn't very far), and you assume that
anything that doesn't feel good isn't good. But I see from beginning to end
because I am The Beginning and The End, and I know many things you don't
know." We know in part. God is "The All'.

Exercise doesn't feel good, but it is good. When a rebellious child
receives a spanking, it doesn't feel good, but it is good. Hebrews 12
teaches us that no chastening for the present seems joyous but grievous,
nevertheless, later on it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to
those who have been trained by it. Perhaps we need to learn to be more
concerned with later on than with right now. Hebrews 12 also says that for
the joy set before Him, Jesus endured the cross, despising the shame, but
He is now seated at the right hand of God. Let's be willing to endure for a
season, if it will seat us at His right hand of authority and power.

In conclusion, let me say that the sum of the whole matter is this: Trust
God! Hide yourself in the secret place (in Him). God loves you. He is a
good God who only does good things. Be content knowing that His way is
perfect, and He brings with Him a great recompense of reward for those who
trust in Him.

God is our Refuge and Strength [mighty and impenetrable to temptation], a
very present and well-proved help in trouble. Ps 46:1

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