The Lies of I’s—When “I Want” Becomes “I Need” (Ep. 121)

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

How often do you find yourself saying, “I need;” confusing a want or desire with something that really is not essential? We live in a world that’s both consumed and fed by the social media algorithm showing all the beautiful things others have and places they go. It makes us think: I need new shoes. I need caffeine. I need to make more money. So, what happens when we don’t find contentment in what we have? What happens when our dissatisfaction grows?

Listen to the latest episode of the #FearlessPodcast where I look at the dangerous “Lies of I’s”—I Need—and a challenge of three practical ways we can practice contentment.

For more resources and additional episodes visit https://cissiegrahamlynch.com.

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0:00.0	Proverbs 910 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and we need to have a healthy view of what fearing the Lord is and
0:08.8	Fearless is a word that we use here on the podcast all the time. My podcast is named Fearless. It's a word that's so important to me, but it can have different meanings and different stages of life and different connotations, but we are of course are living in a hostile culture that's an increasingly hostile to
0:26.2	biblical truth of course and I wrote a fearless family devotional for those that didn't know. And it's a study on First Peter.
0:34.0	It's only 14 days long,
0:36.0	but it's to help equip you to spend daily time in God's word
0:39.0	and to help you prepare your family
0:41.0	to have a fearless faith. And Peter of course he wrote this
0:44.7	short letter to believers who were living in turbulent times just like we are
0:49.0	today and I will put a link in the show notes of how you can get your own copy but it's also on my website
0:55.2	sissy Graham Lynch.
1:05.0	Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith and a compromising culture. Recently I saw this video on social media of this little boy going shopping with his dad and
1:29.4	his dad said I will buy you anything that you can fit in one hand. So the little boy goes down the
1:36.1	aisle and he comes up with this huge toy that's like double his size and he's got it in
1:40.1	his hand and he's so proud of the toy he found and the dad says no I said I will buy
1:45.8	something that can fit in your hand not that you can carry with your so he's sitting
1:49.3	there kind of contemplating and you can think hmm his wheels are turning he puts the toy down and he
1:54.2	worked so hard and he grabs this toy up with one hand with all his might and it is
1:59.8	the cutest video and this little boy just created this genius work around his father
2:04.6	of kind of like taking those words of something that the father said he gave him to
2:08.4	something he really wanted and I think we as adults can be just as agile and turning something from I want to thinking I need it.
2:17.7	And we have been in the series of the lies of eyes and taking these statements of what we tell ourselves sometimes about I and how we can misuse them.
2:28.0	We have taken the lies of ice and we turned them into truth, saying I deserve into how can I serve, to I am into and it might seem elementary the kind of I needs to see we know we often over use that word and I kind of went back and forth
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