Contentment
1 Timothy 6:6
1 Timothy 6:6
“I have not written to you because you do not know the truth but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.” 1 John 2:21 Whether the lie is to protect yourself, protect others, to get yourself out of an uncomfortable situation, or to avoid…
We are free to… Have abundant life eternally and now! Hope! Love ourselves (God loves us so we are lovable!) Love God! Love others! – Now we are filled up and can pour out! Have joy! – Joy is always coupled in the Bible with being in the presence of…
“…the joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10“…joy comes in the morning.” Psalm 30:5 Oh to know the joy of the Lord! But joy is born from sorrow. In Nehemiah it was the sorrow of having forgotten their God, of having been in exile from their homeland, and…
“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” James 1:5 This is a promise in the word of God and yet sometimes, I don’t feel like God does give me wisdom…
“…but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.” 1 Peter 3:4 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.” Matthew 5:5 Boy! God is hitting me between the…
“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of…