Are You Fulfilled? | Torah | Genesis 29:14b-30

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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What is your contentment dependent on? Will God make you happy? If you have Jesus, is that enough for you? In today's episode, Tanya looks at Genesis 29:14b-30 to discuss Jacob's discontentment throughout his life. Where do you see discontentment in your life? Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Genesis 29:14b-30 Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life
0:09.0	and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmoth.
0:12.0	Right now we're going through the first book of the Bible,
0:14.3	Genesis. I'm not sure if he's really happy. I have no idea if he's a believer or what he believes
0:21.6	exactly, but at least in his YouTube video he looks like a pretty happy guy.
0:26.5	He's wearing a loose t-shirt, a straw hat, and he has some sunglasses on top of his head.
0:31.4	He looks like he's getting ready to head out for a surfing
0:33.9	lesson. As far as I can tell that seems like a pretty good way to live. But Justin Kahn says,
0:39.1	it took some pretty hard mental work to get to that place. He says in his YouTube video that he had to get
0:44.9	off the treadmill of thinking, if I could just have X I'll be happy, which leads to 2X and
0:50.1	exponential Xs, because there's always more to uncover.
0:54.8	And at least in one big way he did that.
0:57.7	Justin Kahn is a software developer, an entrepreneur.
1:00.8	He in Yale grad that talks about how to find true happiness. And while you and I might say that's easy for a guy that made a billion, yes, a billion dollars when he sold his company, Twitch, to Jeff Bezos.
1:14.1	There's another side to the story.
1:16.1	Kahn and his business partner, Emmett Sheer,
1:18.1	lucked out when their idea for a calendar app
1:21.0	got a $12,000 investment to get wind in its sales.
1:25.0	But that bump was just before a big disappointment because Google launched and came out with its
1:30.4	own calendar app before Kahn and Sheer really got anything substantial going.
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