1. Biblical Contentment By Melissa Kruger
Session One
What is Biblical Contentment

2. Thirsty, Should He Drink the Sea Water?

3. Our world is broken, and because it’s broken, life is hard
Our world is broken, and because it’s broken, life is hard. How have you responded in the past to the hardships in your life?

4. 11 I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself. 12 I know both how to make do with little, and I know how to make do with a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content—whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need. 13 I am able to do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:11-13

5. 15 but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you. 1 Peter 3:15

6. 8 We are afflicted in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair; 9 we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed. 10 We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body. 2 Corinthians 4:8-10

7. 7 Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and affliction, we were encouraged about you through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord. 9 How can we thank God for you in return for all the joy we experience before our God because of you, 1 Thessalonians 3:7-9

8. What is Biblical Contentment
An inward assurance in God’s sovereignty and goodness that produces the fruit of joy, peace, and thanksgiving in the life of a believer regardless of outward circumstances.

9. Jesus

10. “Contentment is far more powerful than a change of circumstances
“Contentment is far more powerful than a change of circumstances. Instead of being sourced on the outside and subject to changing circumstances, biblical contentment comes from within and endures through the spectrum of circumstances.” 
Erik Raymond Chasing Contentment

11.  Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling. 17 As she followed Paul and us she cried out, “These men, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation, are the servants of the Most High God.” 18 She did this for many days. Paul was greatly annoyed. Turning to the spirit, he said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out right away.

12. 19 When her owners realized that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. 20 Bringing them before the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are seriously disturbing our city. They are Jews 21 and are promoting customs that are not legal for us as Romans to adopt or practice.” 22 The crowd joined in the attack against them, and the chief magistrates stripped off their clothes and ordered them to be beaten with rods. 

13. 23 After they had severely flogged them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to guard them carefully. 24 Receiving such an order, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Acts 16:16-25

14. What is Biblical Contentment
An inward assurance in God’s sovereignty and goodness that produces the fruit of joy, peace, and thanksgiving in the life of a believer regardless of outward circumstances.

15. Where We Put our Hope (What we thirst for), Is Where We Put our Trust
Agree or Disagree?

16. What is Biblical Contentment
An inward assurance in God’s sovereignty and goodness that produces the fruit of joy, peace, and thanksgiving in the life of a believer regardless of outward circumstances.

17. The person who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed.
8 He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8

18. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 4 Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me. John 15:1,4-5