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I like to start with something 45 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 5: funny and I heard about this pastor he decided to 46 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 5: skip church one Sunday morning and go play golf. He 47 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 5: told his assistant that he wasn't feeling well, and he 48 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 5: drove to a golf course in another city so nobody 49 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 5: would know him. He teed off. On the first hole, 50 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 5: a huge gust of wind caught his ball, carried it 51 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 5: an extra one hundred yards, and dropped it right in 52 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 5: the hole for a four hundred and fifty yard hole 53 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,839 Speaker 5: in one. An angel looked at God and said, what'd 54 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 5: you do that for? God smiled and said, who's he 55 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 5: going to tell? Hold up your bible, say it like 56 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 5: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 57 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 5: it says I am. I have what it says I have. 58 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 5: I can do what it says I could do. Today 59 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 60 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 61 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 62 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about living content. 63 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 5: It's good to have dreams and goals. We should be 64 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 5: stretching our faith, believing for something bigger. But here's the key. 65 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 5: While we're waiting for things to change, waiting for promises, 66 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 5: to come to pass. We shouldn't be discontent where we are. 67 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 5: Maybe you're believing to have a baby, believing for a 68 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 5: new house, believing to get married. That's great, but don't 69 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 5: go the next five years discontent being single, discontent with 70 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 5: the house you have, discontent not having a child. Learn 71 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 5: to enjoy the season that you're in. Being unhappy, frustrated, 72 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 5: wondering if it's ever going to change is not going 73 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 5: to make it happen any sooner. When we're discontent, we're 74 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 5: dishonoring God. We're so focused on what we want, we're 75 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 5: taking for granted what we have. The right attitude is, 76 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 5: I'm believing for a new house, but in the meantime, 77 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 5: I'm happy with the house I have. I'm believing to 78 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 5: get married, but in the meantime, I'm content being single. 79 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 5: Believing for a better job, but I'm happy with the 80 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 5: job I have right now. The apostle Paul said, I 81 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 5: have learned how to be content, whether I'm abased or 82 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 5: a bounding, whether I have plenty or whether I'm in need. Notice, 83 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 5: he had to learn to be content doesn't happen automatically. 84 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 5: It's a choice we have to make being content, Does 85 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 5: it mean that we don't want change, we give up 86 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 5: on our dreams, we settle where we are. Oh, it 87 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 5: means we're not fighting everything, We're not frustrated. We're trusting 88 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 5: God's timing. We know he's working behind the scenes and 89 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 5: at the right time, he'll get us to where we're 90 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 5: supposed to be. Now, I found some situations will not 91 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 5: change until we change as long as we're frustrated, stressed out, 92 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 5: thinking why is it taking so long? Why am I 93 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 5: still dealing with this problem? Why is my husband still 94 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 5: aggravating me? No, if God has us there, we must 95 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 5: need it. He's going to use it to do a 96 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 5: work in us. When we're content, we're growing, we're developing character, 97 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 5: our faith is being strengthened. You don't grow in the 98 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 5: good times when everything's going your way. You grow when 99 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 5: there's pressure. You feel like being sour, but you choose 100 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 5: to be happy. You could easily complain, but you say, Lord, 101 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 5: thank you for another great day. All your dreams haven't 102 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 5: come to pass, but you choose to enjoy the season 103 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 5: that you're in. That's passing the test. That's what allows 104 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 5: God to go to work. Instead of trying to change 105 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 5: the situation, Let it change you. There's something wrong if 106 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 5: we're always discontented. I don't like my job, tired of 107 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 5: this small apartment. These kids get on my nerves. When 108 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 5: is my business ever gonna grow? That's going to keep 109 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 5: you where you are. God's plan for our life is 110 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 5: not to just make us comfortable, but to grow us up, 111 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 5: to mature us so he can release more of his favor. 112 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 5: You may not like where you are, but you wouldn't 113 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 5: be there unless God had a purpose for it. Make 114 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 5: sure you pass the test. This is what David did. 115 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 5: He spent years in the lonely shepherd's fields, taking care 116 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 5: of his father's sheep. And what's interesting is he had 117 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 5: already been chosen to be the next king of Israel. 118 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 5: The prophet Samuel had already anointed him. David could have thought, God, 119 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 5: this isn't right. I've got big dreams. You promised me 120 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 5: great things. What am I doing stuck out here with 121 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 5: a bunch of shep No. David understood this principle. He 122 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 5: didn't live stressed, frustrated, He bloomed where he was planted. 123 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 5: He knew God was in control, so he just kept 124 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 5: being his best, going to work with a good attitude, 125 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 5: grateful for where he was because he was content in 126 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 5: the shepherd's fields. He made it to the throne, to 127 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 5: the palace. He passed that test. But if you're not 128 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 5: content in the season you're in, while you're waiting for 129 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 5: things to change, then even if you do somehow make 130 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 5: it to your throne, so to speak, your dreams do 131 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 5: come to pass, you're still not going to be satisfied. 132 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 5: You may be happy for a little while, but here's 133 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 5: the problem. Discontentment will follow you everywhere you go. A 134 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 5: few years ago, I came home one evening and I 135 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 5: heard this high pitched sound in the house, like a 136 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 5: tone you hear from a television broadcast. I could just 137 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 5: faintly hear it, and I thought maybe a smoke hector 138 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 5: battery was low where alarm was going off upstairs. So 139 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 5: I started going around everywhere trying to figure out where 140 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 5: it was. But it seemed like everywhere I went it 141 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 5: sounded exactly the same. I couldn't get any closer to it. 142 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 5: It was very puzzling. I went upstairs and checked rooms 143 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 5: and drawers, checked the pantry. Finally I went up in 144 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 5: the attic. I thought maybe a hot water heater or 145 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 5: an air conditioner had a part that was going bad. 146 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 5: I got way up in the attic and it still 147 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 5: sounded exactly the same. After about twenty minutes, I went 148 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 5: down to my room to change clothes. I took off 149 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 5: my cell phone from my belt where it was clip, 150 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 5: and I put it on my counter. When I did, 151 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 5: I could tell the tone was coming from my cell phone. 152 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 5: That's why it sounded the same everywhere I went. It 153 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 5: was clip to me. I couldn't get away from it. 154 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 5: That's the way it is with discontentment. It follows us around. 155 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 5: God blesses us with promotion. We're happy for a little while. 156 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 5: Then the discontentment comes. We don't want to work so hard, 157 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 5: we don't want the responsibility. It's not our circumstances. It's 158 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 5: the spirit of discontentment, seeing the wrong, complaining about what 159 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 5: we don't like, never having enough. That's why Paul said, 160 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 5: I've learned how to be content. You've got to train 161 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,599 Speaker 5: your mind to see the good, to be grateful for 162 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 5: what you have. Life will go so much better if 163 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 5: you will be content in each season. Content when you 164 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 5: have a lot, and content when you don't have a lot. 165 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 5: Content whether your children are in diapers, or whether they're 166 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 5: in college, whether you're in maintenance or management. You have 167 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 5: the grace you need to enjoy each season. If your 168 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 5: dreams are not coming to pass, that's a test. Will 169 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 5: you do like David and Bloom where you're planted, will 170 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 5: you choose to enjoy that season and not just endure? Thinking, God, 171 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 5: when is this ever going to change? I've been praying 172 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 5: for two years. No, maybe it's going to change. When 173 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 5: you change, You've got to be satisfied with where God 174 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 5: has you right now. Again. It doesn't mean you settle there, 175 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 5: never expect anything good. It means you don't live frustrated, 176 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 5: always wanting something more. God, I need more money, then 177 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 5: I'll be happy. I need a better job, need a 178 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 5: bigger house, need to lose twenty pounds, I need my 179 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 5: kids to make better grades. Then I enjoy life. Or 180 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 5: if you get all that corrected, if you accomplish your 181 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 5: wish list, something else will come up to make you discontented. 182 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 5: You got to put your foot down and say that's it. 183 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 5: Everything may not be perfect in my life, all my 184 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 5: dreams may not have come to pass yet, but I'm 185 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 5: not living frustrated, stressed out. I'm gonna bloom right where 186 00:10:54,800 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 5: I'm planning. In other words, I'm content whether I'm having 187 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 5: a twenty year old Volkswagen or a brand new Mercedes Benz. 188 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 5: I'm content whether I'm living in a small apartment or 189 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 5: a beautiful dream house. I'm content whether my business is 190 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 5: booming or whether it's a little slow. You cannot let 191 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,959 Speaker 5: your contentment be based on what you have or don't have, 192 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 5: on who likes you or who doesn't like you. Learn 193 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 5: to be content in every season. Content when God blesses 194 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 5: you with a lot, and content when you have a little, 195 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 5: content when the dreams are coming to pass, and content 196 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 5: while you're waiting. Content in the shepherd's fields, and content 197 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 5: in the palace. The Scripture says godliness with contentment is 198 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 5: great gain. Life is very free when you can say 199 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 5: I'm content with who God made me to be. I'm 200 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 5: content with my personality, content with my looks, content with 201 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 5: my gifts. I'm content with where I am in life, 202 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 5: my position, my career, my relationships, my house. This is 203 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 5: the reason many people are unhappy. They're always wishing for 204 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 5: something different. Some single people are not going to be 205 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 5: content until they get married. No, you need to enjoy 206 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 5: being single, because when you get married, you'll enjoy it more. 207 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 5: I'm smarter than I look. There are married people that 208 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 5: wish they weren't married, wish they were married to somebody else. 209 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 5: White people sit in tanning booths trying to get darker. 210 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 5: Dark people put cream on their skin trying to get lighter. 211 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 5: Ladies with curly hair go to the salon to get 212 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 5: it straightened. People with straight hair go to the salon 213 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 5: to get it purmed. People with no hair go to 214 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 5: the salon to buy some hair. But really, there's nothing 215 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 5: wrong with improving, being your best, showing your style. But 216 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 5: you shouldn't always be wishing you were something different, can 217 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 5: with who God made you to be. It's a tragedy 218 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 5: to go through life always dissatisfied, wishing you had more, 219 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 5: wanting to look like somebody else, waiting to be happy. 220 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 5: I'm asking you to be content right where you are. 221 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 5: Think about Mary, the Mother of Christ, when she was 222 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 5: pregnant with Jesus, she had to ride a donkey to Bethlehem. Now, 223 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 5: I've lived with a pregnant woman twice, the same one. 224 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 5: If I would have suggested Victoria getting on a donkey 225 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 5: at nine months pregnant, I probably wouldn't be here today. 226 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 5: Mary could have complained, Joseph, why don't you get me 227 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 5: something smoother? This is hard? When she got to Bethlahem, Joseph, 228 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 5: why didn't you make us a hotel reservation? Why didn't 229 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 5: you get me a hospital room? You knew I was 230 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 5: gonna have this baby. Been all over the news when 231 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 5: the baby was born, Joseph, why didn't you buy the 232 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 5: baby a new outfit? I've got to wrap my beautiful 233 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 5: baby in swaddling clothes that was strips of cloth. Mary 234 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 5: didn't have designer jeans, fancy purse, a latte from Starbucks. 235 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 5: But she never complained. She never found fault with Joseph. 236 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 5: She didn't say, God, if I'm going to have this 237 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 5: baby for you, at least you could make it more 238 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 5: comfortable on me. 239 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 4: No. 240 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 5: She was content in the season. She was in content 241 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 5: when the angel said you've been highly favored, and content 242 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 5: writing a donkey, pregnant, content giving birth in a barn 243 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 5: with a bunch of animals, and content when the wise 244 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 5: men said, your son is the Messiah. It takes a 245 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 5: mature person to be content on the mountaintop and content 246 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 5: in the valley. A couple of years after Victoria and 247 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 5: I were married, we found this piece of property that 248 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 5: we really liked. Was close into the city in a 249 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 5: nice neighborhoo hood, but it had a very old rundown 250 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 5: house on it that had made your foundation problems. Most 251 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 5: people would have torn it down, but we decided to 252 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 5: fix it up and live in it. The floors in 253 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 5: the den were so slanted that I had to put 254 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 5: little blocks of wood under the front legs of the 255 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 5: couch so it would match up with the back legs. 256 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 5: Most of the interior doors would not close properly. It 257 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 5: didn't bother us. We were happy. My mother would come over, Joel, 258 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 5: how do you live in this house with these crooked floors? 259 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 5: God gives you the grace for each season. Today we 260 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 5: have a nice house with even floors. But I don't 261 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 5: believe we would be where we are if we had 262 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 5: not been content in that older home. It would have 263 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 5: been easy to complain. This is a piece of jump God. 264 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 5: We wanted something new. When is it ever going to change? 265 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 5: No pass the test, whether you're abased or abounding, whether 266 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 5: you're in your dream house or a crooked floorhouse, make 267 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 5: the decision. I'm going to be content. I'm going to 268 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 5: enjoy my life. I'm going to be grateful for what 269 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 5: God's given me. I'm going to be the best I 270 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 5: can be right where I am. The Apostle Paul, who 271 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 5: said I've learned how to be content wrote much of 272 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 5: the New Testament from a prison cell. When you've made 273 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 5: up your mind to be content, prisons can't stop you, 274 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 5: Crooked floors can't stop you. Donkeys can't stop you. Lonely 275 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 5: shepherds fiels can't stop you. God forgets you to where 276 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 5: you're supposed to be. A gentleman recently was telling me 277 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 5: about all of his problems and everything that was wrong 278 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 5: in his life, and went on and on as long story. 279 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 5: He ended by saying, Joel, I just don't like my life. 280 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 5: Here's the problem. It's the only life you have. You 281 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 5: can't trade it in. You can't become someone else. You 282 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 5: may have a thousand reasons to live unhappy, but you've 283 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 5: got to make this choice that you're going to be content. 284 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 5: If you're sour, when is it ever going to change? 285 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 5: You'll get stuck. God does not promote discontentment. Shake it 286 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 5: off and focus on what's right in your life. Focus 287 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 5: on what you do have. Most of us. When we 288 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 5: woke up this morning, we could see the sunlight, our 289 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 5: eyes worked, most of you could hear the bird singing. 290 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 5: You had a roof over your head. You have opportunity 291 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 5: people to love in your life. There's a lot right 292 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 5: in your life. Don't take it for granted. Don't get 293 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 5: so focused on the crooked floors, the donkeys, the struggles 294 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 5: that you miss the gift of this day. See, every 295 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 5: season is not springtime with the flowers, beautiful blooming, nice sunshine, 296 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 5: cool weather. That's a great season. But you're not going 297 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 5: to grow if you stay in harvest. There's got to 298 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 5: be planting seasons, watering seasons, maintain seasons where you're pulling 299 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 5: the weeds, tilling the soil. Those are important seasons. Without 300 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 5: going through that process, then you're not going to come 301 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 5: into a new season of harvest. Instead of being frustrated 302 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 5: by the difficulties, have a new perspective. That season is 303 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 5: getting you prepared for promotion. It may look like you're stuck, 304 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 5: you don't see anything happening, but God is at work 305 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,479 Speaker 5: and at the right time, the season will change. Winter 306 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:35,400 Speaker 5: always gives way to spring. It takes a mature person 307 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 5: to be content not only in the harvest season, but 308 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 5: content in planning season, content in the watering season, content 309 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 5: in the pulling up the weed season. You may be 310 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 5: in one of those difficult seasons right now, raising a 311 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 5: small child, or taking care of an elderly loved one, 312 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 5: perhaps dealing with an illness. You feel like you're riding 313 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 5: that donkey. It's easy to think, as as soon as 314 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 5: I get through this tough time, then I'll get my 315 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 5: joy back. Soon as my kids get out of diapers, 316 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 5: soon as I make it through the busy season at work, 317 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 5: as soon as I lose this twenty pounds. No, this 318 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 5: is the day the Lord has made. You got to 319 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,199 Speaker 5: choose to rejoice today. God has given you the grace 320 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 5: you need not to endure the season that doesn't take 321 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 5: any faith, but to enjoy the season. When you'll content, 322 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 5: You see each day as a gift. You appreciate the 323 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 5: people in your life. You're grateful for what God has 324 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 5: given you. That not only is making you stronger, developing 325 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 5: your character, but you're passing the test. You will come 326 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 5: out of fall, out of winter, and you will come 327 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 5: into your springtime. Things will begin to bloom and blossom 328 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 5: once again. When I was growing up, there were five 329 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 5: of us kids in the house. Of course, my parents 330 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 5: were pastors and we didn't have necessarily a lot of money, 331 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 5: but as a little boy always felt like we were 332 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 5: well off. We had fun. We played hide and go 333 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 5: seek in the house. We'd go out in the front 334 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 5: yard and have big races. Life was good. But my 335 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 5: parents couldn't afford to take us on a big family 336 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 5: vacation every year, so every couple of months, my father 337 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 5: would load us kids up in the car and take 338 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 5: us up to the airport to ride the tram from 339 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 5: Terminal A to Terminal B. There were just two terminals 340 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 5: back then, and the tram was free. We thought that 341 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 5: was so great. We would ride it over and over 342 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 5: and over. People would look at us like we were 343 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 5: so confused. We weren't lost. We were having fun. My 344 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 5: father learned to be content in each season. Instead of 345 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 5: complaining that he didn't have enough, he chose to bloom 346 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 5: where he was planning. It's funny when some of my 347 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 5: friends as a little boy would tell me they were 348 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 5: going to Disneyland. I always thought that meant they were 349 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 5: going up to the airport to ride the trams. I say, yeah, 350 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 5: we've been there before. When I got old enough to 351 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 5: realize what Disneyland really was, I needed counseling. But don't 352 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 5: miss a great season in your life wishing you had more, 353 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 5: complaining about what you don't have. Listen, the real joy 354 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 5: in life is in the simple things. Making memories with 355 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 5: your family, riding the trains together at the airport, playing 356 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 5: hide and go seeking the house, watching the sunset with 357 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 5: your spouse, looking at the stars at night. Simple things. 358 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 5: When our children were younger, Jonathan about five and Alexander 359 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 5: would have been two, we planned a big vacation to Disneyland. 360 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 5: They were going to get to eat breakfast with Mickey 361 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 5: Mouse and take pictures with the other characters. It's a 362 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 5: big deal, you know, getting two small children out to California, 363 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 5: Booking the hotel, getting the rental car, the flights. Spend 364 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 5: half of my retirement to get there. When we arrived, 365 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 5: we checked into the hotel and we went straight to 366 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 5: the park. I was so excited for my children. We 367 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 5: weren't there fifteen minutes. Jonathan said, Dad, I want to 368 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 5: go back to the hotel and go swimming. I didn't 369 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 5: think I heard him ride. I said, you want to 370 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 5: do what. He said, I want to go back and 371 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 5: go swimming. I said, no, no, no, Jonathan, We're at 372 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 5: disney Land. We came a long way. Look at all 373 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 5: these rides. This is going to be fun. He said, no, Daddy, 374 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 5: I want to go back and go swimming. I said, Jonathan, 375 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 5: we can swim any time at home at the neighborhood pool. 376 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 5: We're at Disneyland. He sat down on the pavement, crossed 377 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 5: his arms and said, I don't want to be at Disneyland. 378 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 5: I want to go swimming. I said, Jonathan. I spent 379 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 5: fifty bucks on your ticket. You're gonna have fun whether 380 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 5: you like it or not. I thought later I should 381 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 5: have done like my dad and taken them to the 382 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 5: airport to ride the trams. Could have saved me a 383 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,199 Speaker 5: lot of money. So you don't have to have a 384 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 5: big vacation to have fun. Learn to enjoy the simple 385 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 5: things in life. A mistake we make too often is 386 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 5: we think, when we reach a certain goal, then we'll 387 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 5: be happy. As soon as I finish college, Joel, as 388 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 5: soon as I get the promotion, soon as I move 389 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 5: into the new house, as soon as I have this baby, 390 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 5: then I'll enjoy my life. Yes, you'll be happy when 391 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 5: you accomplish your goals, but there are challenges that come 392 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 5: along with it. I've heard it said with every blessing 393 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 5: comes a burden. You'll never come to a place where 394 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 5: you're problem free, no conflict, no bills to pay, everybody 395 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 5: celebrating you. That's not reality. If you don't learn to 396 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 5: be content where you are, you won't be content when 397 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 5: dreams come to pass. When God blesses you with that 398 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 5: new house, what comes with it is a bigger yard 399 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,400 Speaker 5: tom more rooms to clean, more to maintain. When you're 400 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 5: blessed with that promotion, what comes with it is more responsibility. 401 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 5: When you have that beautiful baby, nothing like it in 402 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 5: all the world, But at three o'clock in the morning, 403 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 5: that baby wants to eat. They don't do things on 404 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:07,199 Speaker 5: our timetable. Now, don't pray for a bigger blessing if 405 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 5: you're going to complain about a bigger burden. We love 406 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 5: our new facility. This is a dream come true. God 407 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 5: did more than we can ask or think. But with 408 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 5: this amazing blessing came an amazing utility bill. First time 409 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 5: I saw it, I thought, God, I sure liked our 410 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 5: old facility. The good news is. God wouldn't give you 411 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 5: the blessing if you couldn't handle the burden. You have 412 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 5: the grace you need for each season. Now do your 413 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:42,239 Speaker 5: part and choose to be content. You could be in 414 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 5: one of the best seasons of your life right now, 415 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 5: but you're not enjoying it because you're focused on the burden, 416 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 5: on what you don't have, on how difficult it is, 417 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,719 Speaker 5: because you're waiting for things to change. You're missing the 418 00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 5: beauty of this moment, the joy of today. Through life, 419 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 5: always wanting something else. See the gift in what you 420 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 5: have right now. Can I tell you we are living 421 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 5: in the good old days. Twenty years from now, you'll 422 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 5: look back and say, Wow, twenty fourteen was one of 423 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 5: the best times of my life. Don't miss it living discontent, gentlemen, 424 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 5: I know by the name of Mitch Album wrote a 425 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 5: great book called The Five People You Meet in Heaven. 426 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 5: They turned it into a movie now. Although it's not scriptural, 427 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,120 Speaker 5: it makes a very good point. It's about a man 428 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 5: in his sixties that had worked at an amusement park 429 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 5: his whole life. His parents owned it and that's all 430 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 5: he knew. He never really wanted to be there. He 431 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 5: had dreams to do something bigger with his life, but 432 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 5: unfortunate things kept happening. He found himself back at the 433 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 5: amusement park. He was discontented, unfulfilled, never felt like that's 434 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 5: where he was supposed to be, dreaded going to work 435 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 5: each day. On the outside, he was good to people, kind, generous, 436 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 5: he'd go out of his way to help others. But 437 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,160 Speaker 5: on the inside he was unhappy, felt like a failure 438 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 5: in life. At one point, this little girl was in 439 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 5: danger on a ride, about to be harmed, and he 440 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 5: rushed over to helper. He saved the little girl's life, 441 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 5: but in the process he lost his own life. He 442 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 5: was killed. He went to heaven and was told that 443 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 5: he would meet five people. These people would be instrumental 444 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 5: in helping him to choose what kind of heaven he 445 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 5: would have. Again, it's not doctrinely correct, but in this book, 446 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 5: you could choose what your heaven would be. If you 447 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 5: wanted to live on a beach, in a palace in 448 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 5: the mountains, it was your choice. The first man he 449 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 5: met he had helped during the war. The man told 450 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 5: him how much he meant to him. He then met 451 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 5: three other people that he had been good to. They 452 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 5: expressed their heartfelt love and appreciation for what he had done. 453 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 5: The last one he met was the little girl whose 454 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 5: life he had saved. He began to realize all of 455 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 5: his time on earth that he felt like he was 456 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 5: at the wrong place, the wrong job. He didn't like 457 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 5: his life, But actually he was at the right place. 458 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 5: God had been directing his steps. He made a difference 459 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 5: with his life when he stepped back and saw it 460 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 5: from a new perspective. He chose his heaven to be 461 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 5: the amusement park, the place that he had dreaded all 462 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 5: those years. Could it be that you're at the right 463 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 5: place for the season that you're in, but you're not 464 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 5: enjoying it. Maybe, like him, if you would step back 465 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 5: and see it from a new perspective, you would realize 466 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 5: God has you in the palm of his hand. He's 467 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 5: directing your steps. He knows where you are, what you like, 468 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 5: what you don't like. And instead of living discontented, frustrated, 469 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 5: always wishing you were somewhere else, embrace the place where 470 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 5: you are. See the good, Be grateful for what you have. 471 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 5: Remember there's a blessing and a burden for every season. 472 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 5: Don't focus on the burden, you have the grace to 473 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 5: enjoy the blessing. If you will make this choice that 474 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 5: you're going to live content through every season, blooming where 475 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 5: you're planning, not always wishing for something else, then I 476 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 5: believe and declare you're going to enjoy your life more. 477 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 5: You will rise higher, overcome every obstacle, and you will 478 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 5: become everything God's created you to be. In Jesus' name. Well, 479 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 5: we never like to close our broadcast without giving you 480 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 481 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 482 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 5: repent of my sins, Come into my heart, wash me clean. 483 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 5: I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you 484 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 5: pray that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 485 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 5: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. 486 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 5: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 487 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to the Joel Loustine podcast. Help 488 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 6: us continue to share the message of hope with those 489 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 6: all over the world. Visit Joeloustein dot com slash give 490 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 6: Hope to give a gift today. 491 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 5: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 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