The Contentment Test
Sermon Notes
1. Resist destructive desires 2. Refocus your life on what lasts 3. Release what you have to help others
James 1:2-4
James 1:2-4 NLT
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
Revelation 21:6
Revelation 21:6 NLT
And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life.
John 4:15-17
John 4:15-17 NKJV
The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come here. The woman answered and said, I have no husband.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Ecclesiastes 4:4 NLT
Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
Psalm 139:23-24
Psalm 139:23-24 NLT
Search me, OGod, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
Proverbs 14:30
Proverbs 14:30 CEV
It’s healthy to be content, but envy can eat you up.
Luke 12:34
Luke 12:34 NLT
Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.
John 4:14
John 4:14 NLT
But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”
Philippians 4:11-13
Philippians 4:11-13 NKJV
Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Psalms 37:4
Psalm 37:4 ESV
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Example Bible Reference Title
Genesis 1:1 NIV84
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
John 4:28-29
John 4:28-29 NKJV
The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?
John 4:39
John 4:39 NLT
Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!”