The Secret of Being Content

(Php4:10-13)



God is omniscient and omnipotent.

He knows all things, and

He can do all things.



Faith is believing this as fact, and

The life of this faith is having the secret to do all things through Him who gives strength.



Those who are successful in the world have the secret for success,

While religions discuss the secret to emptying oneself to be freed.



The Christian, on the other hand, possesses the secret to being content, for

Faith is seeing two worlds, the visible and the invisible, the reality and the substance, and

Believing that they were all made by God (He11:1-3).



The moment Adam rejected God's word regarding the forbidden fruit (Ge2:17, 3:6),

He lost the abundance of the visible world of the Garden of Eden (Ge3:24).



Because of the word of God

Abraham, by contrast, left his father's house, his homeland and

Became a blessing and increased to become a great nation (Ge12:1-3).



When God led his descendants, Israel, to leave Egypt (Dt8:11-17),

He let them pass through the desert

To humble them and finally bless them (Nu21:4-5).



Later God instructed them to build the sanctuary and

Placed the ark of covenant in it (Ex25:8, 10; He9:4)

For them to remember for generations that

God delivered them from their slavery of 430 years and that

He fed them in the desert for 40 years.



Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because

Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

He would give life to the souls of all men, for

Though He came as a son of a poor carpenter,

He is the Son of God, the incarnate Word (Jn1:1, 14), who has

All that the Father has - the power of His name Yeshua (Jn17:10-11).



As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:

1)     Through His own limits due to His death, acknowledged that the Father alone is omnipotent (Jn10:18; Php2:11; He5:7);

2)     Destroyed the devil who attempted to be like God (Is14:12-15; 1Jn3:8); and

3)     With His blood redeemed the ignorant and incompetent sinners and made a way for them to be born again as God's children (1Pe1:18-19, 23).



The Father raised Him, and

Jesus sat on the heavenly throne and received the name above all names (Php2:9-11).



The Holy Spirit whom He sent

Comes to those who received His name Yeshua and

Reminds them the power of His name (Jn14:26, 17:11):

The name that seems poor but makes one rich,

The name that seems to have nothing but has everything (2Co4:7-10).



The Christian is he who

Whether he is in need or has plenty or is lowly (Php4:11-13)

Knows the secret to being content, and

Thus, he is able to do all things

By praying in the name Yeshua.



O Lord,

Open our eyes so that

We may see the path beyond the Red Sea,

The Promised Land beyond the desert,

The fish beyond the empty net, and

The open doors beyond the prison.

Let us not become proud because we have plenty, and

Let us not become cowards because we are in need.

Rather let us be content and be bold for

We have the name Yeshua ”

The secret to being content in all situations,

The power to overcome in all situations!

Amen.