Discontented?

To covet means to set your heart upon. Coveting may be good or bad.  It depends on what you are coveting. 

1 Corinthians 12:30-31 (KJV)

30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

31 But covet earnestly the best (spiritual) gifts: 

and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Since God wants us to have Spiritual gifts, we must long for and covet what God wants us to have. 

   

Anytime you see strife.  

The enemy is manifesting.  

Strife is the manifest presence of the devil.

   

James 3:14-16 (ESV)

14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 

15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 

16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

God is the God of peace and order (Col. 3:15).

1 Timothy 6 (ESV)

3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 

4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. 

He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, 

which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 

5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain, 

7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.

The evidence of godliness is not the gain of money.  

A Godly character is the gain.

Everything that comes through our hands should accomplish God's purposes.  We have it, but for a moment. 

8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

Hebrews 13:5  (ESV)

5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he (God) has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Money is not the problem.  The loving of it is.  It is a heart issue. 

If you are content without it, you are not coveting.  

God wants you to have a car, but He doesn't want you to have car on the brain.  

Only God can satisfy you.  A car cannot do it.  

There is always something else to long for.  

The enemy's trick is for us to live in longing and always being discontent. 

It applies to getting married.  If you are not complete without them, you will never complete with them.  We are only complete in God.  

It's not fair to be pressing your spouse to fulfill you. 

Discontentment is the evidence that you are coveting.

  

God can't add it to you with boat on your brain.  

God will not feed a lust that you idolize more than Him.  

Proverbs 27:20 (ESV)

...never satisfied are the eyes of man.   

   

Only God can fill a God sized whole.

Hebrews 13:5  (ESV)

...for he (God) has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

1 Timothy 6:9 (ESV)

9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

We must not crave to be rich.  

When you want something too much you'll go too far.  

10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

God is not opposed to wealth.  

He is opposed to you being covetousness. 

It's not the money.  It's the love of it, and you not living by faith. 

You don't need another dollar to be content.  

You can be content right now.  

We are complete in God if we have surrendered to Him.  

Psalm 16:11 (ESV)

11 You make known to me the path of life;
    in your presence there is fullness of joy;
    at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

  

We must not love money.  We must not love things.  We must love God and people.

  

1 Timothy 6:17(ESV)

17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

When you don't idolize money, it qualifies you to be blessed with it.  

Everything in this life is like a gallon of milk.  It all has an expiration date on it. 

Lord Jesus, I yield control of my life to you.  Forgive my past.  Save me.  You're the only one who can. 

Keith Moore, Faith Life Church
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