For This Reason | Week Ten

SERIES: For This Reason

MESSAGE: Learn the Secret

DATE: April 2, 2023

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly because once again you renewed your care for me. You were, in fact, concerned about me but lacked the opportunity to show it. Philippians 4:10

I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself. I know how to make do with little, and I know how to make do with a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content—whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need. Philippians 4:11-12

Contentment Diagnostics
– Do I regularly express gratitude? 

– Do I frequently feel entitled? 

– Do I routinely compare with others? 

 

Discontentment is really

with God. 

 

I am able to do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 

 

And you Philippians know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone. For even in Thessalonica you sent gifts for my need several times. Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit that is increasing to your account. Philippians 4:15-17 

 

But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you provided—a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. Philippians 4:18 

 

And my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:19 

 

The promise of

is based on the premise of .