Comments on: The Joy and Contentment of Life http://mayheincrease.com/2009/08/the-joy-and-contentment-of-life/ He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Fallen Down But Not Destroyed http://mayheincrease.com/2009/08/the-joy-and-contentment-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1026 Fallen Down But Not Destroyed Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:00:24 +0000 http://mayheincrease.com/?p=1064#comment-1026 [...] Isn't that what it is really all about anyway? Why would I want to find a higher paying job that takes me away from my family for 40+ hours a week? Seriously. For what? So I have more money to spend? No thanks. Look, I just want enough so my family is not going hungry. My contentment is not going to be found in earthly riches! [...] [...] Isn't that what it is really all about anyway? Why would I want to find a higher paying job that takes me away from my family for 40+ hours a week? Seriously. For what? So I have more money to spend? No thanks. Look, I just want enough so my family is not going hungry. My contentment is not going to be found in earthly riches! [...]

]]> By: Latte Links (8/19) | Caffeinated Thoughts http://mayheincrease.com/2009/08/the-joy-and-contentment-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-880 Latte Links (8/19) | Caffeinated Thoughts Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:51:10 +0000 http://mayheincrease.com/?p=1064#comment-880 [...] He Increase: “The Joy and Contentment of Life” by Joe [...] [...] He Increase: “The Joy and Contentment of Life” by Joe [...]

]]> By: Joe http://mayheincrease.com/2009/08/the-joy-and-contentment-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Joe Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:58:31 +0000 http://mayheincrease.com/?p=1064#comment-876 Brother Ike, Only God could have found the perfect words to speak through you. You have given me a perfect verse for the time we are going through right now. I need to print this one out and hang it up somewhere. Thank you, brother. Brother Ike,

Only God could have found the perfect words to speak through you. You have given me a perfect verse for the time we are going through right now. I need to print this one out and hang it up somewhere.

Thank you, brother.

]]> By: Joe http://mayheincrease.com/2009/08/the-joy-and-contentment-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-875 Joe Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:47:27 +0000 http://mayheincrease.com/?p=1064#comment-875 Thank you, Steve. We are really being put through the ringer and our faith is being tested like no other time. Probably the hardest lesson for me to learn is that the longer we are Christians, the more trials we will face. It makes sense. What good is our faith if our trials are minimal and the same all the time? All I want out of this is to be His witness to His goodness. I want to learn from this situation and sing of the goodness of the Lord! Thank you, Steve.

We are really being put through the ringer and our faith is being tested like no other time. Probably the hardest lesson for me to learn is that the longer we are Christians, the more trials we will face. It makes sense. What good is our faith if our trials are minimal and the same all the time?

All I want out of this is to be His witness to His goodness. I want to learn from this situation and sing of the goodness of the Lord!

]]> By: Ike http://mayheincrease.com/2009/08/the-joy-and-contentment-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Ike Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:43:56 +0000 http://mayheincrease.com/?p=1064#comment-874 "Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse. And not since Adam first stood up on the earth has God failed a single man or woman who trusted him." A. W. Tozer, "True Faith Brings Committal," In The Root of the Righteous, pages 49-50. "Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse. And not since Adam first stood up on the earth has God failed a single man or woman who trusted him."

A. W. Tozer, "True Faith Brings Committal," In The Root of the Righteous, pages 49-50.

]]> By: steve martin http://mayheincrease.com/2009/08/the-joy-and-contentment-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-871 steve martin Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:13:27 +0000 http://mayheincrease.com/?p=1064#comment-871 Good thought, Joe. This life surely is a roller coaster ride. But like St. Paul we can be content in abundance or in want. Well, we can try, anyway. God bless you, my friend. Hang tough. "This too shall pass." Good thought, Joe.

This life surely is a roller coaster ride. But like St. Paul we can be content in abundance or in want.

Well, we can try, anyway.

God bless you, my friend. Hang tough. "This too shall pass."

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