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Embracing Contentment

March 15, 2026 • Hundredfold Ministry Church

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Are you living in a state of "peaceful happiness," or are you caught in a cycle of constant striving? In this episode, we explore the biblical "sweet spot" of emotional fulfillment: contentment.

Drawing from 1 Timothy 6:6, we discuss how "godliness with contentment is great gain" and why having an ease of mind regarding your current situation is one of the most powerful attributes you can possess. We move beyond just talking about the Word to actively "hiding it in our hearts." This week, we focus on memorizing and meditating on key scriptures—like Psalm 146:5—to shift our mindset from "I have to" to "I get to," allowing God's peace to lead us to greater productivity and joy in every area of life.

Originally recorded on March 15, 2026

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SPEAKER_04 0:00

God really wants us to equate. Just like two plus two is four. Oh, peace and contentment and happiness means I'm with God. Oh, happiness, I'm all about God. Happiness, he's always with me. Happiness, I'm all learning all about him.

SPEAKER_03 0:19

Welcome. Come on in. Come on in. Welcome to the Hundredfold Podcast, an extension of Hundredfold Ministry with Pastor Vanessa Holland, where we seek to deepen our relationship with the Lord as we study his word and worship. Today, we're exploring that sweet spot of emotional fulfillment as we continue to discuss contentment. We'll be defining what it means to have a peaceful mind in any situation, and most importantly, we're spending time together memorizing and meditating on God's word to hide it in our hearts. Let's start the journey towards great king.

SPEAKER_04 0:54

Everybody say hallelujah, content. And that to be content and um contentment brings so many good attributes. We're going to um start by reading one verse, just because it's always good to read a verse, but we're gonna go through them all. Um, and so the first verse we'll read is 1 Timothy 6, verse 6. And it says, but godliness with contentment is great gain. Everybody say it with me. Say, but godliness with contentment is great gain. Hallelujah. So the message today is gonna be a little bit different. We're gonna have like a little sermon at in the beginning, and then we're going to work on getting some of this word in our heart, memorizing and meditating on the word, because when we hide the word of God in our heart, we are sincerely blessed. So let's start by talking a little bit about contentment and what is the definition of contentment, amen. So when I looked up some of the definitions, they were very powerful indeed. I'll share, um, I'll share it with you. It says, Contentment is a state of peaceful happiness. Everybody say peace and happy, and happy. You want some peace, and you want to be happy. Okay, contentment is a state of peaceful happiness, satisfaction, and an ease of mind with one's current possessions, status, or situation. An ease of mind. When you think about your week, day, month, year, lifetime. When you think about it, do you feel like, oh, I'm so easy going, or does it, oh, a lot of stress. Sometimes when we're excited about events coming up, you hear heard earlier in the sermon we got a graduation and may come in and we've got future things happening. Maybe there's midterm exams. We're praying for all of our students. Hallelujah. In Jesus' name, we know that God will bless. When we think about all of God's um gifts to us, I word it that way on purpose. So usually we say all the stuff we have to do, but it's really what we get to do. That's if we change that mindset alone, that's going to give us a lot more ease. That, oh, instead of I have to do this and I have to do this, oh yay, I get to do this and I get to do that. When we think about God's gifts to us, that we get to do, sometimes it can be stressful. But if we hear this definition, it says contentment is a state of peacefulness, peaceful happiness, satisfaction, and ease of mind with one's current possessions, status, or situation. It involves appreciating the present rather than longing for more, representing a sweet spot of emotional fulfillment. It feels so good to be happy. It's worth pursuing it. If you didn't hear last week, go back and hear last week's sermon. It was a blessing indeed. Hallelujah. That, oh, God wants us to stop always striving and longing. I had a conversation with some of the ministers this week, and we were reflecting on when you're actually content, happy, and fulfilled with where you are, so many more things get accomplished than when you're trying to strive for something, et cetera. For example, if my house is a mess, oh my goodness, sometimes I can be like, oh, this is so stressed, it's such a mess, I gotta get it clean, try for weeks with no progress. But if I'm happy and content and high on the Lord and we're so glow, so glorious happy, so much progress in one day. I've seen the same thing in different ventures of my life, whether it's trying to uh uh progress in my career or be um more productive as a family member, a wife, a mother person, hallelujah, young lady in the Lord. You never want to forget that self-care, hallelujah, or what if it's about um health and weight, weight, weight management, no matter what, God always does more when we're content in Him. When that condemnation demon isn't saying, you should be here and you should be there, and why am I not this? So we know that it's a blessing to pursue being happy and to have peace. So those are the first two scriptures we're going that um outside of our memorization scriptures, those are the two scriptures we're gonna look at today. So the first scripture there is going to be Psalm one forty-six, verse five. And when you have Psalm one forty-six, verse five, say amen. Psalm one forty-six, verse five. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. During the time of um of this, our reading, there are so many false gods. But happy is he that has the God of Jacob, the one true living God, the one who created everything, the one you can only access through Jesus Christ, his son, who he sent through the blood of Jesus, his salvation power. Happy is he, happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. If you remember last week, or if you just join us for the first time, this week, that the key to contentment, to happiness is coming to the Lord. God the Father, Jesus the Son, God the Holy Spirit. That Lord God, I come to you. I want to know about you, I want to see what you're all about. I want to spend time with you. That if I need help, I'm not running to every single other person in the world before I come to God. I go to God first because the God of Jacob is my help. The one true God. Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. That, oh, I'm not trying to trust in that. Oh, if I get rich, I could do this. If I get these friends, I could do this. If I look this way, it would be like this. No, my hope, what I'm looking forward to, the hope that makes me excited is God, I'm pleasing you. God, I'm in your presence, God, I'm fellowshipping with you. Lord God, you are my hope. You are my joy, you are my delight, and I trust in you. Happy is he that hath got the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. In our second verse, Isaiah 26, 3. When you have it say, happy and peace.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

Happy and peace.

SPEAKER_04 8:55

Amen. Amen. Isaiah twenty six verse three says this. Isaiah twenty-six verse three says this. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. I'll read it again. Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusted in thee. Our first line of that definition of contentment said, peaceful happiness. This is peaceful happiness. That if you trust in God, if your mind is stayed on God, God will keep you in perfect peace. How often are you thinking about the Lord? How often are you speaking about the Lord? You know, God says, if you're not ashamed of me down here, I won't be ashamed of you when it's time for you to stand before me in the heavenly kingdom. So I don't, I know I'm gonna want God to say, hey, that's my girl when I get up to heaven. So I talk about him. I um I don't mind the whole world scene. I'm gonna put my very strong uh brother Noah on the spot. Could you please go upstairs and get that yellow swim bag? Um, you'll see why I asked in a few moments as as quick as you can. Praise the Lord. So when you are happy and at peace, what what precedes that is that we have our mind on God. Can you do a mental check right now? Really think about, oh, how am how much do I think about God? How much do I talk about Him? How much do I read His Word? How much am I trying to figure out, Lord God, how do I, you know, just get to that happy place in you? The easiest way, the easiest way to get closer to God is to um start playing gospel music and read his word and to pray and to praise, okay? So if you're praying, you're talking to him. If you're praising, thank you. If you're praising God, you're um you're if you're praising God, his his praises, his word is coming out your mouth. And as you hear yourself talk about God and God, you're wonderful, and thank you for this day, your ears hear it. And so it's uh multiple fold ministry to yourself and to the Lord, to the Lord first, and then to yourself. It's really important that we do a loud vocal affirmation of the Lord. Does that make sense? Okay. If you're having gospel on all the time, and you all, we have unlimited gospel, unlimited gospel. You have the worship songs of the day, the you know, there's a praise team um movement where where you're worshiping God, then you've got you got 80s, the the 90s and the 2000s, you got more of like the Kirk Franklin vibe and um uh Fred Hammond, you know, in the in the 90s and the 2000s. You've got the older gospel, um, when I rose this morning. I didn't have no doubt. Now, listen, those words, as you sing those songs, when you sing them aloud and when they come into your head, that's the word of God speaking to you. So many songs are straight out of the um word of God, like Psalms 34. I sought the Lord, you know, like um blessed is the name of the Lord. I'm trying to give you all the keys that will sustain you for the rest of your life. For your young, for the young folk, you all have a long time left to live. And you want the word of God as a default in your head. That, oh, it's just I can hear the songs, I sing the songs. I had the um Alexa playing some music the other day, and uh we're all looking to see if she came on, okay, the other day, and it was tons of songs that I hadn't heard in ages, but I was singing every word, and as I was singing every word, I was like, these are scriptures. I I had a new revelation of how much those songs have preached the word of God in my life, and the word of God sustains and happy and peace, and that peace are we when we hide the word in our heart. I said, I'm not ashamed to fly my Jesus colors when I go to the pool. You see, I have the brightest bag in the whole white world. This big bag always is at the end of the pool. Now, I don't do it to show off, or oh, I don't do it for um look, you know, everybody look at the Jesus at me, but what I do it for is I love Jesus and it motivates me. But then what I notice over time is that it's a witness. You may see some black girl power on there with the black hair in there and some hearts and some some light-hearted dolphins or mermaids. But what you also see is I love Jesus. Some of them read, um, Jesus save me. Uh it says, but pray first. It says, God is not dead and believe and God bless, and um, don't be afraid. And Jesus loves you and be kind and child of God. The other side, this side here, it reads like this. Some of those highlights are Jesus loves me, walk by faith, pray, pray, pray. God is good, love, God is my strength. When I was younger, I was afraid. Not not, well, a lot of time I wasn't afraid, but there was sometimes a little tiny bit of times. I said, let's keep it real. Everybody was like, oh, that's a Jesus girl. And I'm proud of it. Hallelujah. But but when I did get um, let's say older, maybe like 28, 35, um, there was a cultural sentiment of, oh, you Christians are are um shoving stuff down people's throat or they're so biased or they're mean, they don't like these people. And so then I got, oh, is that will it offend them? Will they feel this way? But you know what I found, you all? When people look at this bag in the pool, they get so happy. Even the people that are, some of the um, I don't want to talk about any particular group, some of the uh people that you may think is not as friendly or have a scowl on their face, or they've lived a long time and it seems like they have the bitter Walter mouth all lines all deep. Um, I can't make my face that way, but picture deep, deep frowns that their face would light up, or they'd be like, Well, good morning. You know, they talk to you even if they wouldn't normally, because the world is thirsty for God, you all. Do not be afraid to shine your Jesus colors bright. It makes us happy, it makes us blessed. Amen.

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Amen.

SPEAKER_04 16:16

Everybody say hallelujah. So we want to be happy, we want to be at peace, we want to run to Jesus. One of the biggest ways to change your heart into a heart of contentment is by memorizing his word. Last week, God gave us some memorization scriptures. Okay, you can hear the sermon from last week. It looks like this. Hopefully, if you're on YouTube, it's in the comments, and if you're on Facebook, it's in the comments. Um, I'm I should have said that I'm make we'll make a post of a picture post and then connect it. And so um, oh, Mr. Dan's gonna put the words in and then take some um give me a moment and let me see what I can do. Hallelujah, because I want you all to be able to look and see. We thank God that um his will is always right, and we definitely don't um rush through what God has for us, amen. I feel Jesus. I feel Jesus. I feel Jesus is gonna be in the post above it in this place. Yes, my soul does, yes, my soul does burn within me, burn within me. I feel Jesus in this place, amen. So that link to the picture is there, and if you could please copy it from Facebook and put it onto the YouTube. Amen. So this scriptures that we're gonna go through today. Um, everybody here has a paper printout, and you can print that out. And if you want me to send you like a word or a PowerPoint or something like that, please put it in the comments, that'll be easy to do. Um, but last week we were going over one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight passages. And so what I want us to do, we're going to memorize the verse, um, each verse one at a time. So normally, if you're memorizing verses, say if I was gonna memorize this, it may take like, I don't know, eight hours or something to get it really deep inside. But we're going to do each one, you know, piece by piece, just so we can start to have it in our in our mind, in our heart. And we don't ever want someone to come through this ministry week after week after week and not have the tools they need. Like, oh, well, they say memorized, but I don't know what they're talking about. Well, you're gonna see today. And so the first one we went over goes right into the main theme of contentment, which you got to come to the Lord. So Matthew 11, 28 through 30 says this, and I hope that you're technically savvy enough to have me on one screen talking and open up the picture in another where you can flip back and forth. Um, and so Matthew 11, 28 through 30 says this Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest into your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. One, when you memorize, you want to use all your senses, okay? So that's why you print it out, you post it, you have it wherever you need to. When I was memorizing one section, one verse in the pool, um, I had this in a uh gallon-sized poster bag so that as I went, I could rehearse it. Okay, come unto me, all you that labored. I was swimming back and forth. Do whatever's necessary to get it in your heart. Because as you memorize the word, the word is not like the word of God, the Holy Bible, the scriptures are is not like any other book. It is living. This is God's message to us. Yes, we mentally analyze it and uh can understand what it's saying, but it also pierces the heart. It's active. So even if you are not um fully knowing what's happening with you as you repeat it, it helps you be anchored in what God is commanding you to do, which in this case is contentment and peaceful happiness. Yes? Okay, so everybody say, Come unto me. Come unto me, all ye that labor.

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All ye that labor.

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Okay, so the first part of memorization is just get a chunk that I can keep in my head. So oh, I read it, I see it with my eyes, I want to hear it, I want to see it. Come unto me, all ye that labor. Then I turn over the paper and I repeat it. Come unto me, all ye that labor. Okay, oftentimes it's good also to start with the reference, even before that. So we would say Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Let's say it. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. And then we group them together. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come unto me, all ye that labor. When you're memorizing, you want to make sure you understand what. You're talking about. Oh, I'm coming to Jesus and all of us that are working hard. Okay, come unto me, all ye that labor. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come unto me, all you that labor. Let's say it. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come unto me, all ye that labor. Then you would add the next phrase, and are heavy laden. So not only that you're working, but you got tons of burdens. You beat down, okay? We talked about the stress of life. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. And are heavy laden. You keep repeating that to yourself, and are heavy laden. Everybody say about three times, and are heavy laden and are heavy laden and are heavy laden. Okay? And then we'll group it all together. I'll say it first. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. Let's say it together. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. Now raise your hand if you think you could explain, you understand what you just repeated well enough to explain it to someone else. Okay? Because I'm gonna keep on checking. You all are gonna be litmus tests for people online that if you don't understand something, say, oh wait, I don't understand this part, so we can break it down. Amen. Let's say it again. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. And then once Jesus says, Come to him, what's he gonna do about it? He says, And I will give you rest. Let's say it. And I will give you rest again. And I will give you rest again, and I will give you rest. Don't we want rest and peace when we're all heavy laden and stressed out? So Jesus says, Come unto me. Let's say it again. Matthew 11, 28 through 30, all together. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come to me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Again, Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Okay. So if you uh didn't catch it when one of those times I said, come to instead of come unto, when you make a mistake, is that's actually the one of the best things because you're like, oh, I made a mistake. It's not to, it's unto, and you kick that in your head. Come unto, come unto, come unto it. Okay, amen. Now let's keep reading. The next sentence says, Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. You all, that's one of the powerful things that Jesus is saying that a yoke we explained last week is the oxen would have a yoke, a wooden, a wooden um harness that keeps them working as they go around, keeps them in place. Well, the yoke of the world is heavy, but God's yoke is light. He's like, take contentment, take joy. Get rid of that other stuff, take my yoke, take my yoke, the call to be saved and faithful in God in this Christian walk and being part of the kingdom of God. Take that yoke, that call to work instead. He says, Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. That we should study the scriptures, study the word, have gospel. Lord, try him, try God. He loves to say, Please, would you give me this? And yay, you got it, and now you learned I'm faithful. Ask me for something else. Oh God, can you help me here and I help you? Ah, you learned I was your helper. Does that make sense? Okay, so say, take my yoke upon you and learn of me.

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And learn of me.

SPEAKER_04 25:58

Okay, we'll say it again.

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Take my yoke upon you, take my yoke upon you, and learn of me. And learn of me.

SPEAKER_04 26:06

And turn over our paper, say, take my yoke upon you, take my yoke upon me, and learn of me.

unknown 26:12

And learn of me.

SPEAKER_04 26:13

Again, take my yoke upon you and learn of me. And what are why would we learn about Jesus? He tells us in the next one. It says, For I am meek and lowly in heart. Say it. For I am meek and lowly in heart. In heart. For I am meek and lowly in heart. Jesus is meek. He's powerful, strong, but he doesn't force his way on others. He's not full of pride. He's lowly in heart. Like Brother Noah talked about humility earlier. When we learn about Jesus and really see who he is, and he's our perfect example, then we too will be meek and lowly in heart. That as we come to Jesus and learn in Him, contentment comes from being peaceful, happy, at ease in your state. Not give me more, give me more, I should be better. So this wrong. No, you're peaceful, you're meek and lowly in heart. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Everybody say, take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart. For I am meek and lowly in heart.

SPEAKER_04 27:24

Okay. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Try to say it without your papers. Go ahead. Take my yoke my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Amen. Amen. Let's start from the beginning. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Bless you. Look, I'm looking at all these people in the room with their eyes closed or their paper over or looking up and they're saying the words. I'm so pleased. Okay, glad this too. Okay. Now, this this last one, we have a um leg up because we've heard it so many times. And so uh the last sentence of that says, For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. So train all that best of heaviness of the world.

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And you shall find rest unto your soul.

SPEAKER_04 28:30

Oh, praise Jesus. I almost forgot. And you shall find rest unto your souls. Okay, so if you know anything about the Bible once you read a lot, it's so poetic. I used to write more poetry, and so um the themes will be repeated. So in the beginning says, Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. And then the second says, Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I'm meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls. Okay, so it helps our mind um reiterate God's saying, I don't want you to miss it. I'm trying to give you rest. Say, and you shall find rest and ye shall find rest unto your souls, and you shall find rest and you shall find rest unto your souls, unto your souls, and you shall find rest unto your souls. Now, if you was doing the whole eight-hour long one at this point, you'd be writing it out by hand. So not only do you read it, repeat it, uh put the phrases together, but you write it by hand. So you have you print it out, you post it, make index cards, but you also write it many times, and then it really gets in there. And you make sure you you can visualize, you can add motions like come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. You do all the things necessary so that word is in your heart. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Say, take my yoke upon you, take my yoke upon me and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest and ye shall find rest unto your souls, unto your souls, and ye shall find rest unto your souls, and you shall find rest unto your unto your souls.

SPEAKER_04 30:15

Okay, let's go from the beginning. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Go ahead, say that part.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

Matthew 11, 28 through 30.

SPEAKER_04 30:23

Okay, I'll say it first. I'll try. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. And you shall find rest, is that right? And you shall find rest unto your souls. Hallelujah. Okay, let's do it all together. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. For I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Amen. And then the final line says, For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

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