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God really does want to help!

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God doesn’t give up on you!


Contentment


11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am,

to be content:

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“I have learned” implies that

there is a path to

contentment

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By MELISSA CHAN January 12, 2016

If you win the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot, you may not be as lucky as you may think. Many winners befall the so-called curse of the lottery, with some squandering their fortunes and others meeting tragic ends. “So many of them wind up unhappy or wind up broke. People have had terrible things happen,” said Don McNay, 56, a financial consultant to lottery winners and the author of Life Lessons from the Lottery.

Jack Whittaker“I wish that we had torn the ticket up”

Abraham Shakespeare“I’d have been better off broke”Sandra Hayes

“These are people who you’ve loved deep down, and they’re turning into vampires trying to suck the life out of me”

Donna Mikkin“My life was hijacked by the lottery”

Richard Lustrich and I’ve been poor, and I like rich a whole lot better.”ig“I’ve been

Many people have the

ladder to success leaning on

the wrong building


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To experience true

contentment, you must

build your life on the right

foundationThis is living!

(Sermon series from

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1 Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus

Christ, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and

deacons:

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2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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3 I thank my God upon every remembrance

of you, 4 always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy,


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5 for your fellowship in the gospel from the

first day until now,


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6 being confident of this very thing, that Hewho has begun a good work in you will

complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;


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7 just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and

confirmation of the gospel, you all are

partakers with me of grace.


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8 For God is my witness, how greatly I long

for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.


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9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all

discernment, 10 that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of

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11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness

which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory

and praise of God.


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12 But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually

turned out for the furtherance of the

gospel,


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13 so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my

chains are in Christ;


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14 and most of the brethren in the Lord,

having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without

fear.


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15 Some indeed preach Christ even from

envy and strife, and some also from good will:

16 The former preach Christ from selfish

ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains;


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17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the

gospel. 18 What then? Only that in every

way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christis preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will

rejoice. Philippians 1 This is living!

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19 For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the

supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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20 according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but

with all boldness, as always, so now also

Christ will be magnified in my body,

whether by life or by death.


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21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is

gain. 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall

choose I cannot tell.


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23 For I am hard pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with

Christ, which is far better.


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Contentment


9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are

God's field, you are God's building.

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11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid,

which is Jesus Christ.


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To experience true

contentment, you must build

your life on Jesus


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The storms in life often

reveal how solid your

foundation is


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To experience true contentment, you must build your life on Jesus

24 "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of

Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house

on the rock:

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25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house;

and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.


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26 But everyone who hears these sayings of

Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house

on the sand:


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27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house;

and it fell. And great was its fall."


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Contentment


11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am,

to be content:


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12 I know how to be abased, and I know how

to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be

hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.


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13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.


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23 Are they ministers of Christ?--I speak as a fool--I am more: in labors more abundant, in

stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.


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24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was

beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I

have been in the deep;


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26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own

countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils

in the sea, in perils among false brethren;


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27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in

cold and nakedness-- 28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep

concern for all the churches.


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You can also learn to feel

contentment


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Paul realized that storms

may have a deeper purpose


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To experience true contentment, you must build your life on JesusThe storms in your life often reveal how solid your foundation is

12 But I want you to know, brethren, that

the things which happened to me have actually turned out

for the furtherance of the gospel,


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13 so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my

chains are in Christ;


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14 and most of the brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without

fear.


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Sometimes it is not

about you


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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of

all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort

those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are

comforted by God.2 Corinthians 1 This is living!

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You can experience

contentment in your life


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To experience true contentment, you must build your life on JesusThe storms in your life often reveal how solid your foundation is

Storms may have a deeper purpose

20 according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but

with all boldness, as always, so now also

Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by

death. Philippians 1 This is living!(Sermon series from

Philippians)

21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.


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Do you feel content, or does

it feel like there is something

missing?This is living!

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