The Secret to Lasting Joy: Contentment, Community, Generosity

What are you chasing after? What do you think will bring you happiness? Are you restless, always looking for the next thing, the next relationship, the next achievement, the next material thing? If so, you're feeding watch this now. You're feeding discontentment, and discontentment is always hungry and never full. If the joy of the Lord is our strength, then discontentment is our weakness. Stop buying things you don't need with money you don't have trying to impress people you don't even like. [00:50:33] (34 seconds)  #ChooseContentment

When we spend, we invest in the present. When we save, we invest in our future. But when we give, we invest into eternity. And some of you, you have earthly accounts and you should. And you've got emergency accounts and you should. Oh, but very few have eternal accounts. And while the bible says in Proverbs that you ought to save and save and save, the rest of the bible gives caution about saving up down here where moth and rust destroy, but lay up your treasures in heaven. [01:09:10] (36 seconds)  #EternalInvesting

God's the greatest giver and if you wanna be like God, you're gonna be generous. Here it is. Generosity is the antidote to discontentment. How do you get discontentment under control? You give. You give. And I I I just I want you if you don't leave with anything else, get this today. God works through people, but people are not your source. God is your source. [01:10:03] (26 seconds)  #GenerosityHeals

Now, the secret I'm talking about is lasting joy. A world full of sorrow needs a church that's full of joy. I want people to come to Liberty Life and say, man, this place is different. I want them to come and say, these people are different. Now the world will connect joy with circumstances, money, success, vacations, trips. But watch this. Paul had joy not in a place. He's in prison. Not in a position. No. It's in a person. It's in Jesus. Joy is in Jesus. [00:46:49] (37 seconds)  #JoyInJesus

Paul ended up in Rome, but not the way he wanted to. He ended up there in chains. He ended up there in jail. But watch this. By being jail chain whoo. Chain in jail to a soldier, hour after hour, they saw something different about him. He did not win them by complaining. He won them through contentment. He won them through joy that he had in jail. And they said, my soul, whatever this man's got, I want. And one by one, they're coming to the Lord. [00:59:55] (38 seconds)  #ContentmentWins

Comparison, control, coveting, and contentment cannot coexist. Here it is. Circumstances change. That's why you're you're up and down and in and out and hot and cold, and you can't find contentment. But Jesus everybody say Jesus. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if you have him, you have all you need. [00:52:58] (26 seconds)  #ContentmentInChrist

You know, there's probably not a verse that's been misquoted or taken out of context more than that one. Athletes all the time, they're saying, I can do all things. I can do all things. I can do all things. Well, you that verse, you can only claim that verse if you have contentment in Christ. I can do all things through Christ because he's my contentment. [00:53:33] (23 seconds)  #AllThingsThroughChrist

He said, but it was the Philippians that sent me aid more than once when I was in need. His joy also came not just from the strength of God's power, but the support of God's people. Paul is rejoicing that God has worked through his family. There's great joy in the community and the family of God. There's joy in gospel partnership. There's joy when somebody's concerned for you. There's joy when somebody is sharing and supporting. And watch this. Paul said, it showed up just at the right time. [00:58:33] (32 seconds)  #JoyInCommunity