Food For Your Soul Unknown

Have you ever had someone assume you were doing something out of bad motives when you really had good motives, but they wouldn't believe you-- Assuming bad motives is a very unloving thing to do. Assuming good motives is a tremendously loving thing to do. And not only loving, but it's something you can do to change the people close to you for the better.

In Philippians 4-10, Paul says, -I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you have renewed your concern for me.- They sent him a gift, and he was ecstatic. And so he wrote to them and told them how happy he was about it. We hear a lot about how love must be sacrificial-you give up what you prefer for someone else's benefit. That is something love does. But not every act of love is like that. Today Paul shows us how sometimes the most loving thing you can do is to enjoy a gift.

Of all the things you experience today, one of them will be the hardest of the day. You don't know what that will be yet, but whatever it ends up being, would it be possible for you to feel contentment in that moment--

When we read in Philippians 4, -I can do all things through him who strengthens me,- what does that mean-- You can't jump over the moon. There's all kinds of things you can't do-that Jesus won't strengthen you to do no matter how much you ask him. So what does that verse mean-- Is it just a meaningless pep talk-- Or is it literally true--

In previous episodes, we've established the emense value of contentment. It will make you the richest person around because you'll be the only person with enough money and enough of everything else. Today we find out how to get it.

How much of the joy in your life comes from the fact that you have learned contentment-- And what would it take for you to have greater contentment than what you have now--