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We were saved to serve God, but Satan wants to distract us from God using the world’s allurements. One of the greatest needs in life is contentment. Contentment comes only by the application of the doctrines of God to my life.
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Any lack of contentment signals a deficiency in experiencing God’s truth in my life. Just as prayerfulness reflects how much we need God, so our:
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Contentment Reflects How Well We Know God
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There are three key truths about God that when embraced by choice in our lives, release contentment into our lives. Those truths are the goodness of God, the omniscience of God, and the omnipotence of God.
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When those truths are held to, then we accept our personal unworthiness, we mortify our personal worldliness, we pursue our friendship with God, and then we enjoy more and more satisfaction in God.
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Contentment is satisfaction with God’s goodness, omniscience, and omnipotence.
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Contentment produces a peaceful, thankful, and happy-with-what-you-have: type of life. Contentment unleashes God’s power into my life and ministry: no matter how bad or good it is.