BE CONTENTED

Feeling or showing satisfaction with one's possessions, status,

or situation a contented smile They lived a contented life.
• If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest
of their days in prosperity and their years in
contentment.

Job 36:11
• a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing
for something to happen.

DESIRE
• Discontentment is a slippery slope

Discontentment
The Secret to
Being Content
Doubt and Question
• Character
• Ability

Turn Away from Fear and

Toward Trust
• Believe
• Faith

Turn Away from Fear and

Toward Trust
• Ephesians 3:20
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to
the power that worketh in us

Turn Away from Fear and

Toward Trust
• Psalms 34:10
"Even strong young lions sometimes go hungry, but
those who trust in the LORD will lack no good thing."

Turn Away from Fear and

Toward Trust
Misguided Tendency
• Happen or Don’t happen
• Get or Don’t get

Turn Away from Pride and

Toward Humility
• Be Thankful
• Be Grateful
• Be Appreciative

Turn Away from Pride and

Toward Humility
Jude 1:16
These people are grumblers and complainers, living
only to satisfy their desires. They brag loudly about
themselves, and they flatter others to get what they
want.

Turn Away from Pride and

Toward Humility
Complaning
• Worry
• Anxious

Turn Away from Impatience

and Toward Perseverance
• Lamentations 3:25-26
25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to
the one who seeks him;
26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Turn Away from Impatience

and Toward Perseverance
• Gratitude
• Calm
• Be happy

Turn Away from Impatience

and Toward Perseverance
• Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses
• Hebrews 11:13
All these people were still living by faith when they died. They
did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and
welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were
foreigners and strangers on earth.

Turn Away from Impatience

and Toward Perseverance
• 11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I
have learned to be content whatever the
circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and
I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the
secret of being content in any and every situation,
whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty
or in want.

Philippians 4:11-12