TGIF (I JUST WANT TO BE HAPPY)

Pastor Bryan – TGIF (I just want to be happy)

Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do!

Proverbs 4:7

This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

THE EFFECTS OF NEGATIVITY

• your brain.
• stress.
• Limits and .
• Damages .
• Lowers .

BIG IDEA: What you focus on your not just your feelings.

A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.

Proverbs 14:30

BIBLICAL CONTENTMENT: A confidence that God is enough and He is faithful in every .

THE SECRET OF CONTENTMENT

1. what you already .

“This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all. But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners.

I Timothy 1:15-16

Contentment when I remember what God has already me.

If you what you’ve been given, you’ll always feel like something is .

2. your life to God, not your

Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock.

Matthew 7:24-25

When your life is anchored in God, you don’t rise and fall with circumstances—you stay when everything else is .

I have learned how to be content with whatever I have…

Philippians 4:11

3. Live driven by , not distracted by .

Let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus…

Hebrews 12:1-2

You can’t run your race well if you keep someone else’s.

4. Let God define .

Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it. So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.

I Timothy 6:6-8

You’ll never like you have enough if you don’t let God what enough is.

STREET SMARTS #3

When you learn , you don’t have to wait for Friday to .