PTP:092. How to Become Content

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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller Episode Number 92. How to be contented

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You are on the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller Bradley’s every person has a god given promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose and that you must have a plan and a guide to get there. The pathway to promise podcast Not only is your guide through the wilderness of depression and disappointment that stand between you and your promise life, but also brings you insights and direction from inspiring successful thought leaders who have transformed their lives. Welcome to the pathway to promise now here’s Brad hello good people. Welcome back to pathway to promise podcast where we are all about helping you overcome adversity, to achieve your promise life of peace, prosperity and purpose. We do that by sharing good news of your life. One of the good news things that you can have in your life is to understand what it means to be happy, what it means to be a contented person. We’re going to talk about that today here on pathway to promise, we want you to know you can always go to our website pathway promise com, you can find past episodes of the podcast, where we some great teachers and leaders and authors who speak into your life about how helping you to overcome whatever adversities you have in your life, to achieve great things in your life, overcome things and to achieve peace, prosperity and purpose. We have a free gift for you there and we invite you to go to pathway promise calm and to get connected to our community there. contentment, and our last episode of the pathway to problems we talked about a formula or a way to be discontented and I certainly believe that being discontented or being annoyed fulfilled is an epidemic proportions in our world. People are unsatisfied people are in bad places, and that leads to destructive behavior. It leads to very rude and nasty attitudes that people treat one another. And it leads to just a sense of loneliness, and guilt and pain. That doesn’t have to be that way. Doesn’t have to be that way. I just want to share with you friends that it is a choice whether we are discontented with our life, or whether we are contented with our life. But it means we need to take some action and to do something about it. And I want to share with you a few thoughts today about how we develop our strengthen our sense of contentment in our life. Let me share with you a few thoughts here today about that. I develop contentment in my life when I sense that someone else cares for me Now I want to share with you a little bit more about that. This means sometimes we have to look for this, because we have some of us who have had lonely existence. But we know we have to seek out positive relationships. We have to surround ourselves with people who do care about us. And if we don’t feel like anybody cares about it, then invest in somebody else, and show them that you care. And the Law of Reciprocity will come around and will impact in your life almost surely. I want you to know that there’s lessons from other people and there’s lessons from the Bible, which can speak into your life. I know the Apostle Paul talks about this where he said, when he was in prison, he wrote an encouraging letter to folks, and he shared with them about what I share. You have done well to share with me and my affliction. That is what Paul was saying. Even as wrote encouraging letters from prison. He also shared that he was thankful for the support he got from other people. He was thankful. One doctor has said that there are different emotions that produce disease and human beings. And those emotions are fear and frustration, rage, resentment, hatred, envy, and jealousy. And the really the only antidote that can save people from being destroyed by these factors. This research doctor said is the emotion of love. The emotion of love.

You know, this is the case, don’t you? You know, this is the case. When we show people love and love happens, it helps them and when people love us, it helps us as well. Tell people that you love them. Tell people that you care, and you’re much more likely to have someone tell you that they care about you. Now, that can be a simple thing. It can be a verbal thing in the family. It might be a Facebook post where you share a good word with somebody and do it even beyond their birthday, things like that. Share posts, write a card, write a card just because do those things. And you will get some reciprocity back in your life. Do you want to be content in your life, then show appreciation for others, then you will have this important factor of sensing and knowing and feeling confident that you are cared for. Another way to develop contentment in your life is to know that you are growing. Get to know you’re growing is to do good things I like to call dark humidity. We have here on the made a promise to good people. And good people do good things. And good things mean we are growing people. Good thing might be reading a book, it might be listening to a podcast, it might be growing, growing our knowledge, or it might be serving in a soup kitchen or it might be serving in some other way. Be confident in your life that when you do good things, God will do good things in you. And the Bible that says among other things, he says, God who began to good your good work and you will perfect it in you. Until the day of Christ Jesus goes on to say, it is God who is at work in you both to willing to work for his good pleasure. You see, friends, if you’re a believer, then you believe you’re going on to perfection someday to be with Christ. But for all of us, I believe when you do good stuff, it helps you grow. And I want to encourage you to be good people do Good stuff up for others, but do you do good things for other people, you will grow and guess what, you will become more content because you are contributing to what? The greater good, you’re good you have established for yourself a goal, which gives you purpose here and the pathway to progress, we like to say that we are all about helping you develop your peace and, and prosperity and purpose and the purpose place means that we have a contract. The purpose, peace means that we have a contribution to make for the greater good. We have a sense of understanding that we have a reason to exist. We have goals and our life, growth produces happiness. Art Linkletter said this. He was a entertainer from the 60s and 70s. He said this growth is happiness. I never want to be what I want to be because there’s always Always something out there yet for me, I get a kick out of living in the here and now. But I never want to feel I know the best way how there’s always one Hill higher with a better view, something waiting to be learned that I never knew to my days are over and never fully Fill my cup. Let me keep on growing up, had some good things there. A couple more things about growing your contentment. I tried to understand your circumstances in light of a bigger plan. Circumstances happened to us here on the pathway to promise we talk about adverse conditions, the five DS of death and depression and divorce and debt and, and and depression and disease. Those things that can happen to all of us those are circumstantial, but we can’t overcome those if we choose to. And we see things in a bigger plan especially we see things in life God’s bigger plan for us how God uses our circumstances, God uses our situations to grow us as people, then we could have a much better attitude and better understanding of being content in all circumstances.

One of the things I’ve a person journals a lot when they interested, anything interesting things that you can do is go back and look at your old journals, or an old diary from say, five or 10 years ago. And sometimes you may write in there something that was happening at that at the time, which was a big deal. You know, a big situation, maybe buying a home or maybe you had to change jobs, or maybe you had to deal with a health issue or relationship matter. But oftentimes, if you go to your present cert present situation, you look back on it, you’ll see that in retrospect, it was handled, it was dealt with, it was cared for, and you might even think, man, it wasn’t such a big deal after all, but the time it was View your circumstances and a bigger picture and on the panorama of your life, one of the panorama of your relationships, that this is a moment. But this is a moment that you do not have to be stuck in circumstances can turn out to be a part of the process of growing for the greater good. Just because you may be seemingly in prison right now, the day can come when you can get out of prison, and you can speak into the world out of your experience. See friends that if we have pain in our life, that’s one thing. But if we get stuck in the malaise of mediocrity, if we get stuck in our on our pain, then what purpose is it? Sure sir. So there is no greater pain really than pain without purpose. So use the pain in your life and use it to move forward in your life. I would just also contend to us that as people of faith, you just need to desire something greater than yourself. For some of us that may be a life of faith or life of Jesus, but have something greater than yourself that you could strive for. And to know that you have something that you want to die for something you’re willing to give up everything for. And that’s what I want to encourage you to do here today to have contentment in your life. Couple more things that we can do is that to sink on good stuff, fill your mind with good things, hang around other contented people. You know, it said that we are highly influenced by the people around us who are contented. Well, I encourage you to do that. To allow yourself to be surrounded by those folks if we can be helpful here at the pathway to promise we want to do just that. And understand that our circumstances and contentment are related as We already talked about that a little bit. Rely on a power greater than ourselves here at the pathway to promise we want to help you do those things we hope to want to build contentment in your life to give you some tools and some processes in order to move through your adversities to achieve your life of peace, prosperity and purpose. You over to our website pathway promise calm and you can find some good stuff there. They can help build your life of contentment. They’ll build your life of good stuff. And we invite you to do just that. We have a free gift for you their pathway promised calm you can pick that up. Also, you can also hear great teaching from other people we’ve interviewed on the pathway to promise we can help fill your life with good things. So until next time, friends, live a life of contentment. Choose contentment or discontentment and remember to keep your promises because there’s power and a promise kept. Thanks so much for taking the path later. Promise with Dr. Brad Miller as a subscriber, you’ll be a vital part of the pathway to promise community visit us on the web at pathway promise.com. Until next time, remember to stay on your pathway to promise

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