I Choose Peace - In Difficult Circumstances, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this program, Chip explains four principles and four related practices that will increase our peace and provide absolute assurance that our needs are provided for, even in the midst of life's most difficult circumstances.
Introduction: What would it take for you to be content?
Content: Happy enough with what one has or is; not desiring something more or different; satisfied. -Webster’s Dictionary
The Problem: The horizon is always moving.
Two Historical Solutions:
- Conquer, achieve, and acquire until satisfied.
- Desire less and less until it doesn’t matter.
The Question: How can we be satisfied…today?
- The Answer: Philippians 4:10-13
- The Occasion: A “Thank You” Note -Philippians 4:10-13
- The Conclusion: Contentment is not a thing to be achieved, but a secret to be discovered.
- How?
Four Principles – Four Practices:
Principle #1 - Our contentment is not dependent on our circumstances.
- Practice = BE THANKFUL/GRATEFUL -Philippians 4:10
Principle #2 - Contentment is an attitude we learn not a thing we achieve.
- Practice = BE TEACHABLE -Philippians 4:11
Principle #3 - Prosperity does not have the power to give us contentment; nor poverty the power to take it away.
- Practice = BE FLEXIBLE / CHANGEABLE -Philippians 4:12
Principle #4 - Only Christ has the power to give us a contentment that transcends all life’s variables.
- Practice = BE CONTENT / TRUSTING -Philippians 4:13
Conclusion: Contentment is not passive acceptance of the status quo, but the positive assurance that God has supplied one’s needs, and the consequent release from unnecessary desires.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you or someone you love going through a difficult time? |
| 0:05.5 | We all know how it feels when circumstances overwhelm us and peace just evaporates, right? |
| 0:10.7 | Well, today I want to teach you about how to be at peace and stay at peace regardless |
| 0:16.9 | of your circumstances. |
| 0:18.7 | That's today. |
| 0:19.7 | You don't want to miss it. |
| 0:26.7 | Thanks for joining us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:31.3 | Chip's our Bible teacher for this international discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians |
| 0:36.5 | live like Christians. |
| 0:38.1 | And if you could relate to the feelings Chip just described, you're not alone. |
| 0:42.2 | We all experience discouragement and hopelessness because of our circumstances. |
| 0:46.9 | Last time, Chip shared two vital principles we can learn to hang on to peace even when |
| 0:51.6 | we feel overwhelmed. |
| 0:53.4 | Today, he's going to share two more, so I hope you'll stay with us. |
| 0:56.9 | And if you've missed any part of this timely series, I choose peace, catch up anytime through |
| 1:01.6 | the Chip Ingram app. |
| 1:03.0 | In fact, our app is a great way to listen to Chip and living on the edge any time. |
| 1:07.3 | Okay, here's part two of Chip's talk in difficult circumstances. |
| 1:11.4 | We've got a good friend and we have some similarities as kind of an intense guy and he has a lot |
| 1:19.0 | of responsibility in his job. |
| 1:22.0 | And he's stuck. |
| 1:24.3 | Some of you are stuck in your marriage, some are stuck in your job, some are stuck with |
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