Download or read book Choose a Contented Heart written by Anita Pearce and published by Word Alive Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contentment is a choice. Although we face constant pressure to be someone we’re not, and to desire more than we have, it is our responsibility to refuse discontentment. This book reveals the keys that can unlock serenity, the source of which is a living, personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Choose a Contented Heart will challenge you to apply principles which produce profound peace and satisfaction from His life within you.
Download or read book Calm My Anxious Heart written by Linda Dillow and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though we want to be content and trust God, we can still feel overwhelmed by worry. Filled with encouragement and practical help for overcoming anxiety, this 12-session Bible study for women explains what God says about contentment and offers ways to apply it to daily life.
Download or read book How to Be Happy From the Heart of God written by Linda Berry and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Christians we often forget the choice we have each day to experience the joy of the Lord. In How to be Happyfrom the Heart of God Linda Berry draws on Scripture to remind us of the meaning of true happiness and how we can choose contentment regardless of our circumstances. Your heart will overflow with gladness and gratitude while reading this beautiful devotional. Chris Hodges Senior Pastor, Church of the Highlands Author of Fresh Air and Four Cups How to be Happyfrom the Heart of God is a self-inspired daily celebration of over one hundred happy Old and New Testament spiritual promises with practical application. Heaven and earth will collide everyday as readers are encouraged and equipped to increase positive thinking, nurture a winsome spirit, reduce stress, build faith, improve relationships with Christ, family, and friends, and discover life Gods way. Each daily promise, passage, prayer, plan, and praise will set the reader on a solid foundation for the day and end the day in a spirit of joy and thankfulness. Each daily action plan introduces: the PromiseHappy verses of Old and New Scripture from the Heart of God. Study the Promise, repeat the Promise, ask how this verse applies to your life; the Passagean encouraging word, a bit of history, a leadership lesson, a warning, an instruction, an invitation an explanation or assurance; the Prayercommit what God has revealed to you from the Promise in prayer; the Planbased upon what had has revealed to you, write out at least one action point that you would like to complete before the days end; the Praisean attitude of gratitude! Throughout the day or at the end of the day jot down all of todays big and small blessings How to be Happyfrom the Heart of God encourages readers to be aware of their happiness level by participating in the Spiritual Happiness Profile, a quick and easy assessment of where your happiness levels fall on a scale of one through seven. Practice daily over fiftyand growingsuggested Habits of Happy by showing the love of Jesus to those around you. Acts of kindness build the bridge for others to receive a touch of love from God. When we give to others, we give to ourselves as well. How to be Happy ... from the Heart of God is healthy inspiring and life-changing from the inside out!
Download or read book My Journey to Contentment written by Linda Dillow and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion journal to the 12-week Bible study Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow helps women focus on growing in contentment and faith. Learn to trust God completely and have victory over the fears that can overwhelm you.
Download or read book Your Happy Heart written by Amie Dean and published by National Center for Youth Issues. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story from the Heart... Fifth-grader Javon has the big responsibility of being a Book Buddy to a kindergartner named Richard. But when he meets Richard for the first time, he isn't so sure he's up for the challenge. Richard won't talk to Javon or even look at him. He seems sad, but Javon quickly realizes that Richard reminds him a whole lot of himself at that age, and Javon is determined to help his new friend. Both boys learn a lot that year, but what Javon learns from Richard is the most important lesson of all: that helping someone find their happiness can make your own heart happy, too. Children need to be taught they have unique gifts they can be proud of and that make them special. They need to know how to cope when the world feels like a big, scary place, and they need to be reminded of the things that make them happy so when they are sad, they can remember those things. With these tools in their tool belts, children can grow in self-confidence and learn to thrive in their world.
Download or read book Choosing Happiness written by Francisco Ugarte and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Josemaría once wrote, “Our Lord does not expect us to be unhappy in our life on earth and await a reward only in the next life. God wants us to be happy on earth too, but with a desire for the other, total happiness that only he can give.” Our lives are full of highs and lows, successes and struggles, joys and sorrows. We are called to live with a happy heart alongside it all. But it is not enough to want to be happy: we must learn to be. Fr. Francisco will help you to discover happiness regardless of life’s circumstances, by uniting your heart with the heart of God. In this book, you will be given the knowledge and the tools to embrace and live out an all-encompassing happiness —a daily fulfillment— that ensures joy now as well as in the afterlife.
Download or read book Choosing Contentment written by Jessica Mathisen and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her house is bigger.Her life is perfect.Her kids are better behaved. Her husband is more romantic.How many times have thoughts like these run through your head? In today's age of constant connection through social media, we can find ourselves looking to the right or left instead of being grateful for the life we have been given. And it's exhausting. But friend, there is a better way. We can choose contentment. In this four-week guide, you will learn how to drop comparison and envy and instead choose gratitude, joy, and community. You'll take a look at your life and find the good in the midst of the hard. Each day includes Scripture, a short devotional reading, and questions for you to consider as you grow toward choosing contentment. The devotions and Scriptures in Choosing Contentment invite you to a life of more joy and less stress. If you're looking to get out of the comparison rut, this book is for you. If you wonder how to lay down the stresses of the try-hard life, you will find peace and freedom within these pages. You'll know you're not alone and that a life of deeply rooted peace can be for you.
Download or read book I Choose Peace written by Doug Bender and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the influential and ever-growing movement "I Am Second" comes a remarkable collection of well-known lives transformed from restless to happy by the power of God. When I Am Second launched in 2008, the organization meant simply to tell stories of people whose lives changed utterly when they placed God first and themselves second. Although the organization has exploded in size and influence since, that original mission has remained the same--and continues to have enormous power today. I Choose Peace is the highly anticipated new book from I Am Second, gathering together stories of people who searched everywhere for fulfillment and wholeness and found it only when they surrendered to God. People whose stories appear include the following: Chip and Joanna Gaines Kathie Lee Gifford Albert Pujols Shawn Johnson Phil and Kay Robertson Brian "Head" Welch Moving, compelling, and profoundly inspiring, the stories found here remind us that our hearts will always be restless until they find their rest in God.
Download or read book Catching Contentment written by Liz Carter and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If anyone has a right to feel angry with life, then the author is a strong candidate. Having battled with lung disease from a young age, suffered at the hands of bullies, and, reluctantly, given up her much-loved teaching job, she has plenty to complain about. But she has made a point of exploring contentment. She has drawn particularly on Paul's letter to the Philippians. 'Contentment is something we can all catch hold of,' she believes, 'whatever circumstances we find ourselves in.' This is a message which we need to hear, whether we are lifelong sufferers, like the author, or facing deprivation or injustice of another sort. Or we may simply have fallen into bad habits. We cannot fail to be uplifted, and hopefully transformed, by the author's discoveries as we learn to buck trends within society and the church. Introduction Confident contentment 1 Confident in our faith 2 Confident in our meaning and purpose 3 Confident in our identity and calling 4 Confident in our future Courageous contentment 5 Courage is active 6 Courage is acceptance 7 Courageous is brokenness 8 Courage in the Word 9 Courageous disappointment 10 Courageous lament 11 Courage is pressing on 12 Courageous contentment in action Captivated contentment 13 Captivated by glory 14 Captivated by surrender 15 Captivated satisfaction 16 Captivated by yearning 17 Captivated by infinite love 18 Captivated by discipline 19 Captivated in the dark night Contagious contentment 20 Contagious unity 21 Jesus - the greatest example of contagious contentment
Download or read book How We Choose to Be Happy written by Rick Foster and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now featuring new research and the most current information on the science of happiness, this book presents an outline of the nine choices happy people consistently make. Also included are tools for self-assessment to allow readers to measure happiness-and to find out what might be holding them back from having more of it. Insightful, intimate, and inspiring, How We Choose to Be Happy lets readers learn by example, and take substantial steps toward joining the ranks of the extremely happy.
Download or read book A Content Heart Youth written by Kim Sorgius and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to fight off the me-first "gimmie" attitude that consumes kids today?In a world of instant gratification, upside down priorities, and exonerated selfies, we need something to help our kids as they strive for true contentment in their lives. What we need is a better understanding of what God's Word says regarding this matter.A Content Heart is a 22-lesson Bible study helping kids and teens to find godly contentment in a me-first world. Students will go on a journey through Scripture, learning how to practically and realistically find contentment with themselves, their circumstances, and their worldly possessions. This study is written for families to work through together either in devotions or homeschool Bible time. Each member of the family works on his/her level, while studying the same topic each day. The Youth version is written for students to complete on their own, if desired and is recommended for ages 8 and up. The Junior version is written for ages 4-8 with the student contributing primarily through drawing.True contentment is a life-long commitment of faith, but the right foundation will equip kids to be joyful and thankful in everything that God gives! Start building your family's foundation today!
Download or read book Less Stress More Peace written by Verna Birkey and published by Fleming H. Revell Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the inevitability of stressful circumstances such as change, disappointment and rejection, there is a way to experience contentment and peace. Less Stress, More Peace is based on the indisputable assurance that there is a God-given handle for easing, regulating and rising above the daily stresses of life.
Download or read book I Choose Peace written by Chip Ingram and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lives are fraught with anxiety. Conflict in our relationships, fears about the future, information overload, financial pressure, lack of contentment--all of them can steal our joy because they steal our peace. Through Christ we are promised peace, but how can we feel peace when we live in a world of chaos? Because, says Chip Ingram, peace isn't a feeling; it's a choice. In I Choose Peace, Chip unpacks Philippians 4 to show us how we can choose peace in - relational conflict - anxious moments - a broken world - difficult circumstances - a materialistic culture If you're tired of feeling anxious over the state of the world, your relationships, or your own heart, this encouraging book will help you quiet your worries and experience real, lasting peace that doesn't depend on what's going on around you.
Download or read book Just You Wait written by Tricia Lott Williford and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody waits. We wait for a spouse, wait for a baby, wait on our children, wait for our parents. We wait for clarity and direction. We wait on a job, a promotion, a new direction. We wait for hope, for healing, and for miracles. We wait on God. And when we misunderstand what waiting is about, we can get confused about what God is up to. Waiting is one of God’s favorite tools. He can do certain things in our hearts, our lives, and our relationships while we wait—things we cannot experience once we’ve opened the gift we have been waiting for. So just you wait, because everyone takes their turn in the waiting room. It’s a long and painful fact of life, but shortcuts and microwaves aren’t the answer. God is at work behind the scenes in invisible ways you can’t see . . . yet. Just you wait and see how ready you’ll be if you spend your waiting well. Because when your opportunity comes, you don’t want to spend more time on the bench. When you wait well, you can say, “Look out, world: I am getting ready to shine. Just you wait.” In these pages, Tricia discusses the joy hidden in the discipline of waiting, and the practices of believing God is for you and working on your behalf, even when the work of His hand is hard to find.
Download or read book Calm My Anxious Heart Journal written by Linda Dillow and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion Journal to Calm My Anxious Heart, a Book that Has Helped More than 500,000 Women Trust God and Overcome Anxiety--Now Revised for a New Generation of Journalers Read the book, learn through the 10-week Bible study, and reflect through journaling on your journey to contentment to create lasting change as you overcome worry. As women--whether single women, married women, moms, grandmothers--we worry a lot. We worry about our children, our friends, our careers, our families, our spouses--and the list goes on. We want to be content and trust God with our worries, but it's a struggle to let go and free ourselves from the burden of anxiety. If you're tired of worrying about all the what-ifs in your life and want to experience the calm and contentment that the Bible promises, practice self-care by using the Calm My Anxious Heart Journal along with the new and updated Calm My Anxious Heart book to find lasting freedom. Record your thoughts as you listen to God's teaching, embrace the present, and live with joy. With Calm My Anxious Heart book and companion journal, you can let go of anxiety and experience contentment that comes from trusting God.
Download or read book The Art of Divine Contentment In Modern English written by Thomas Watson and published by Christian Classics for the Modern Reader. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to be content when life is painful and disappointing? The Art of Divine Contentment considers the implications of the Apostle Paul's claim that he had learned to be content in any situation (Phil 4:11). Our discontent is sinful when we murmur against God and accuse Him of injustice or cruelty. But by frequently beholding God's sovereignty, love, and grace, we can learn to be more content in all circumstances. Thomas Watson (1620-1686) was an English Puritan preacher and author. Watson originally published The Art of Divine Contentment around 1660. The source text for this edition is from an 1829 printing by L. B. Seeley and Sons in London. This book is a complete sentence-by-sentence modern update of Watson’s original text. Updates include: New descriptive chapter and section headings. Modern English sentence structure. Modern English vocabulary. Added paragraph breaks for topic transitions. English Standard Version (ESV) scripture references. Full scripture quotations and annotations in footnotes. Active table of contents.
Download or read book Hope for a Woman s Heart written by Pam Tebow and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Pam Tebow travels around the world to speak with women, she hears firsthand about the struggles and concerns they face. Now, in Hope for a Woman's Heart, she speaks straight to our souls through time-honored Scriptures, powerful personal stories, and deep reflections on : trusting God in the midst of challenges; choosing to live with joy, contentment, and thanksgiving; receiving God's comfort and sharing it with others; prioritizing God's Word and prayer; and resolving to love and forgive like God does. In this beautifully designed devotional, Pam will encourage you to draw nearer to the Lord, live a life that honors him, and depend on him--because he is the hope that your heart so desperately needs."--Amazon.com
