Learning A Secret

Learning a Secret
Message Notes
Philippians 4:8-14
8And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you. 10How I praise the Lord that you are concerned about me again. I know you have always been concerned for me, but you didn’t have the chance to help me. 11Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. 12I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. 13For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. 14Even so, you have done well to share with me in my present difficulty.
2 Corinthians 12:10
That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
1 Timothy 6:6-8
6Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. 7After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it. 8So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.
Hebrews 13:5-6
5Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.” 6So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, so I will have no fear. What can mere people do to me?”
“Contentment is the inward, gracious, quiet spirit that joyfully rests in God’s Providence”
-Erik Raymond
“Contentment is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord at His disposal”
-Sinclair Ferguson
“If grace has really changed our hearts, we don’t ultimately care if life goes the way we want it, as long as we have Him.”
-Dr. Tim Keller
Music Links
God and King - Gateway Worship
This Is Amazing Grace - Phil Wickham
God You Are My God - Vertical Church Band
Wide As The Sky - Matt Redman