Enough is Enough – Part 2

Living From Enough

December 14, 2025

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Ecclesiastes 6:7–9 (NIV) Everyone’s toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied. What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others? Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

 

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Galatians 6:3 (ERV) Don’t compare yourself with others. Just look at your own work to see if you have done anything to be proud of.

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Philippians 2:14 (NCV) Do everything without complaining or arguing.

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Psalm 146:3 (NIV) Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.

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Psalm 127:1–2 (NIV) Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain…In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat—for he grants sleep to those he loves.

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Luke 15:29–30 (NIV) Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

 

Philippians 4:11-13 (NIV) I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

• Contentment is , not .

 

1 Timothy 6:6 (NIV) But godliness with contentment is great gain.

 

• Contentment is , not .

2 Corinthians 4:16–18 (NIV) Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen…

 

• Contentment is possible because .

Psalm 23:1 (NIV) The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

 

1. Practice .

 

Psalm 23:2 (NIV) He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters.

2. Silence .

 

Psalm 23:4 (NIV) Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

3. Invite the places you .

 

Psalm 23:5-6 (NIV) You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

4. Speak truth over the .

 

Psalm 73:25–26 (NIV) Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.