Contentment June 7, 2026

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Happy Sunday, happy Sunday, happy Sunday. Today is June the 7th. It's a great Sunday. It's a great day to go to church and praise the Lord. Today is a great day. Amen. Um, this is our Curl Let's Pray Ministries. Today we're going to talk about contentment in God. And we're so excited to get ready to go to church this morning. We're so excited to be in God's energy and God's love in the Holy Spirit, worshiping and praising God in spirit and in truth. And I want you to know in today's society is constantly telling us we need more of this and more of that and more of this and more of that. But I want you to know that God offers us something far more greater, and that is contentment in Him. Right? We go through so much in life and we're never satisfied. We're constantly buying this, we're constantly going there, we're constantly running around in circles. That's because we're not content. And God is trying to teach us how to be content in his love, content in his blessings, content in his presence. Amen. We have to learn how to be content with God all by himself. Because at the end of the day, when we all get to that prolet gate, and I pray that we all get in and we all get up to the kingdom. And it said, Well, streets are paved with gold, Sabbath will have no end. That's where you say I'm content with God. Because on Sabbath, it was going to be every day, it ain't going to be no stores, it ain't going to be no gambling casinos and bingos and all of that. It's going to be God and his kingdom. And so we have to learn how to praise him and be content with God because one day, every day, seven days a week, it's going to be Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, God, God, God, holy, holy, holy. Amen. So we have to learn right now how to be content in God. Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father, I pray right now, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that you are quiet every restless place in our hearts right now. Teach us to find satisfaction in your presence. God, we want to be content with you. Content with the blood of Jesus Christ, content with your love that you shed upon us each and every day. Content with the way that you provide for us each and every day. God, this isn't a competition between me and you. This is that I want to be entwined with you and content with you, oh God. And I want you to make the right decisions for me. I want you to lead me the right way. I want you to guide me the right way. I want you to show me the right way. God, I'm content with you and you alone. And God, I'm praying right now that we all can find contentment in your word, in your presence, and in your spirit. Amen. We thank you, Lord. We bless you, Lord. It's in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen. Amen. I had a little scratch in my throat. Sorry about that. I had to drink a little water. But I want you to know, I want you to know that we're gonna go in our devotion. And I want you to know that Apostle Paul and our scripture right now, our scripture on the 7th, talking about God's goodness, God's grace, and God's mercy, right? And when we look at June the 7th, our scripture text comes from Philippians 4, 11 through 12. And it says, not that I speak in respect or won't, for I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. I know both how to be abase, and I know how to abound everywhere and all in all things. I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. Amen. May the Lord have a blessing to the hearing and the reading and the doing and his word. Amen. Okay, here we go. We are back. I'm so sorry, but I had to mute myself for one second. So I want you to know that we're in a season of transforming our lives to be content with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, right? And as we look at what does that contentment look like and what is the contentment saying, it's basically telling us as we read in our devotional that Apostle Paul wrote that he learned to be content in every circumstance, right? Contentment is not settling, contentment is trusting, right? It means believing that God knows what you need and that his timing is perfect, amen. Comparison will steal joy, gratitude restores it, amen. When we focus on what we lack, we become discouraged. When we focus on God's faithfulness, our hearts become thankful, right? God has carried us through every season so far, and he ain't changed up yet. And I know he will continue to provide what we need, amen. So as we reflect on what Apostle Paul was saying, I will I have found myself and I had to learn how to be content in every situation, every circumstance, right? Being content ain't something just happened overnight. We have to learn how to be content with God's grace, love, mercy, and favor, right? We have to learn how to be content with the word of God and his will and his way over our life, right? So let me ask you all this. Where do you struggle with contentment? What blessings have you overlooked? How can you cultivate gratitude today? Think about that, reflect on that. For God is good, and we have to learn how to be content with God. It's so hard just to be content with God, and I want us to learn, I'm talking to myself too, to be more content with God, content with his answers, content with his will and his way, content with his direction, content with his yes and his no's and his maybes and his weight. We have to learn how to be content with God in all of his splendor, amen. Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Honey Father, we thank you for being more than enough in our life, Heavenly Father. In a world that constantly tells us we need more and more and more. You remind us that satisfaction is found in you. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you, oh God. Thank you, oh God, that satisfaction is found in you. Honey Father, search our hearts today. Reveal areas where comparison has stolen our joy. Reveal areas where dissatisfaction has taken root, oh God. Reveal areas where we have focused more on what we lack than on what you have already provided, oh God. Honey Father, forgive us for when we have not been content with you, oh God. Forgive us when we turned our backs on you, oh God. Holy Father, forgive us when we were trying to find contentment in the world, oh God, versus finding contentment in you. Honey Father, teach us to cultivate grateful hearts today, oh God. Help us recognize your blessings that surround us each and every day, oh God. Open up our hearts, oh God. Open up our eyes to your provision, your protection, your mercy, and your faithfulness, oh God. Honey Father, I pray for those struggling right now, oh God. Remind them that you are their provider, for those struggling emotionally, remind them that you are their comforter for those struggling physically. Remind them that you are their healer. If they're struggling spiritually, oh God, remind them that you are their shepherd, oh God. Thank you, Lord. Whatever comes our way, oh God, help us to trust you in it. Come Father, whether we are experiencing abundance or walking through hardship, help us to remain faithful and grateful to your holy and magnificent Son, Jesus Christ. Remove every spirit of envy, jealousy, striving, and discontentment, oh God. Fill us instead with peace, fill us with gratitude, fill us with trust. Help us rest in the confidence that you know exactly what you are doing right now, oh God, and help us to be confident in knowing that all that we need is you, and that your timing is perfect, that your love is perfect, that your grace is perfect, that your mercy is perfect. Honey Father, help us to learn, like Paul did, to be content in every situation and every circumstance, because our confidence is not in earthly things, but it is in you, oh God. Thank you for your faithfulness throughout every season of our lives, year after year, day after day, second after second. Honey Father, we surrender our future to you, our plans to you, our desires to you, our life to you. And we just say we trust you, oh God. We trust you, oh God, we trust you, oh God. God have your way because we know you know what's fair and we know you know what's right. So, God, we surrender. We're not gonna wear it. We're gonna have a blessed Sunday, we're not gonna wear it. We're gonna have a joyous Sunday, we're not gonna wear every. We're gonna have a peaceful Sunday because we know our life is in your hands and we are content with the blood of Jesus Christ. Amen. It's in the mighty and precious name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen, amen, amen. Glory to God, glory to God, glory to God. We surrender all to you, oh God, and we thank you, oh God, for all that you have done. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Amen. This is our care less praying mentions. Have a blessed Sunday, glory be to God, let him get all the glory. Until again, we will see you. Well, we'll hear you tomorrow. Have a blessed Sunday. Shout for the Lord for me, praise the Lord for me, worship the Lord for me, and clap your hands for the Lord for me. If we ain't in the same body of Christ when we worship, we're gonna worship together from afar. Clap your hands, stump your feet, and I'm gonna do the same for you. Have a blessed Sunday.