My heart overflows with joy when I think of how you showed your love to me by your financial support of my ministry. For even though you have so little, you still continue to help me at every opportunity. 11 I’m not telling you this because I’m in need, for I have learned to be satisfied in any circumstance. 12–13 I know what it means to lack, and I know what it means to experience overwhelming abundance. For I’m trained in the secret of overcoming all things, whether in fullness or in hunger. And I find that the strength of Christ’s explosive power infuses me to conquer every difficulty. Philippians 4:10-13 The Passion Translation
Core Contentment
Jesus, I pray for our family to have a contentment at the core of our being, a contentment that leads to us mastering our wants with Your Will. We all want things, we think we need. Lord, you know what our family needs most and I know without a doubt that You purposefully withhold some of our wants to fulfill our need to grow through to You. If you gave us everything we wanted, would we need You? Also, if You gave us everything we wanted, would we be content? NO! You, Lord God, know better than anyone the human condition we bear and it is never satisfied, never content outside of a vital-vertical relationship with You.
Connection = Contentment
Lord God develop in each one of us the kind of contentment that comes from being connected to You, heart to heart. Holy Spirit, if our family is to have contentment at the core of our being, and at the center of our family life, it begins with a connection with You. Father God, draw each of our family members to a relationship with You where we “Make It Personal” with You. Holy Spirit draw our family members into the contentment of heart that comes with personal connection with You. Connection = Contentment. Let it be so in the lives of our family members, connect us heart to heart with our God.
The pine was all out of heart because it could not bear grapes like the vine. The geranium was fretting because it was not tall and fragrant like the lilac. Coming to a heart’s-ease, he found its bright face lifted as cheery as ever, “Well, heart’s-ease, I’m glad, amidst all this discouragement, to find one brave little flower. You do not seem to be the least disheartened.” “No, I am not of much account, but I thought that if you wanted an oak, or a pine, or a peach tree, or a lilac, you would have planted one: but as I knew you wanted a heart’s-ease, I am determined to be the best little heart’s-ease that I can.” Excerpt From Streams In The Desert By L.B. Cowman
Comfort – Contentment Zones
Contentment can not happen in a heart that has compartments where God is not allowed in. There are some places in our hearts, we have compartmentalized God out of, because we don’t want His opinion in this area of our life, we want to do it our way. We are content and comfortable with the culture, instead of being content with God’s way, truth and life. Jesus tear down the walls in our hearts, that we might be wholly-holy Yours, that we might have a contented heart, undivided in purpose of loving You first, and serving others before ourselves. This is where contentment is spawned, in a soul atmosphere where the interests of God’s Kingdom and the valuing of others is put first in our family lives. Let it be so Jesus. Stretch this family out of its comfort-contentment zones, may we experience new things, stretch our family contentment past our worldly culture, so we learn to be content with You, with Your Kingdom, the place where we do belong, the place we will all ultimately be together with You and our family.
Anchored In Contentment
Jesus, anchor the hearts of our family members in the contentment of knowing You, knowing Your Word, knowing Your will and being satisfied in it. Lord, we pray for the many benefits of being content in You to bless our family. Contentment has many family profits, one of which is the growing of our confidence in God which occurs in a family whose expectations rest in God and a family who is contentment is all about God writing the story of their family life. We belong to God, we live in this world, but are not of it. Contentment without connection is a slippery slope in this world. Jesus may our family realize that being Yours, being exactly Who You shaped our family to be is enough, it is our contentment as we cling to our future and hope, the place for us, where You have made a way for us to go and where we do belong, Your Kingdom.
So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love. There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One! Romans 8:38-39 TPT
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