Content In Every Circumstance
Hebrews 13 teaches that contentment is not found in what we own, but in the One who owns us. God does not condemn having money; He warns against money having us. True contentment grows through God’s provision, His promise and presence, and godly patterns of faith.
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Guest (Female): When I woke this morning without a warning, mercy met me. Faithfulness was God's caress. When I called out His name, grace stood at the doorway, showing me the right way, keeping me from harm's way. He never has to knock on my door because it's always open since I've been chosen. He's always welcome to come in and eat with me since I've been redeemed.
Raise the praise, raise the praise, raise the praise. Lift your hands and raise the praise. He's your peace in the valley, calm in the storm. Raise the praise, raise the praise, raise the praise. Lift your hands and raise the praise. Lift your arms when you're mourning. He's your peace in the valley, calm in the storm. Lift your hands when you're worn and weak to praise the man from Galilee.
Dr. Bernie Miller: From New Covenant Fellowship Church, this is All Things Are Possible. Worship with us on Sunday mornings at 10:30, where you'll enjoy great music and solid teaching from the Bible. We're on North Moore Road in Chattanooga. Directions and details are at ncf.church. We are a place for every race. Now, here's this week's message.
Let me ask you something. How much money would you need to have in your bank account to be happy? A survey was taken of some folks in America asking them that very same question. How much money would it take for you to be happy? You know what the average answer was? Just a little bit more.
A little more is the most expensive phrase in America. A little bit more. It has brought bigger houses, newer trucks, newer cars, newer fishing boats, new shoes, new dresses, new suits. I'm not picking on you, Fred. You look sharp, though, I got to tell you. New streaming subscriptions. Another phone that looks exactly like the one you've had for the last five years, but they tell you it's the new version, so you got to have it because it's the new version.
Contentment is like deodorant. Everyone knows they need it, but it's always easier to smell it missing on somebody else. We keep thinking if I could just get a little more. God says, what if you learned to be satisfied with more of me? The world says more stuff equals more satisfaction. Hebrews 13 says God's presence equals more satisfaction than you'll ever have.
So the question is, is our contentment dependent on what we possess or on the one who possesses us? Are we chasing more, or is God enough? Have you confused wealth with worth? I worked in the music industry, and you know the most amazing thing to me was the people that I worked around who had million-selling songs and platinum albums and things. They still weren't content.
Luther Vandross was not content. He made commercials, did a lot of things, sung backup, then he finally got noticed by Epic and we signed him. Even after Michael Jackson did Thriller, he still wanted to outdo Thriller, but he couldn't. It frustrated him. And we tried to tell him, "Mike, you've already reached the pinnacle. There's nobody that will outsell your Thriller."
When he had to bring the next album after Thriller to us, the president of the company, Tommy Mottola, called me and all the other senior and executive vice presidents into the office for a meeting. And he said, "Quincy Jones sent me the follow-up to Thriller." And he said, "I told Quincy Jones I am overnighting it back to you because there's not one hit on this album."
So let me tell you what Mike did. He didn't use anybody that wrote on his Thriller album. He went into his lab—I call it his lab—and he wrote eight out of the 11 songs on Bad. Now, why did he call the album Bad? He called it Bad because Tommy Mottola told him that the album that followed up Thriller wasn't good enough. So it was kind of like an "in your face" to Tommy Mottola because Bad sold very well just like that.
And man, when you go see the movie, you got to understand that Bad is the story that hasn't been told, but I'm telling you because I was there. But he had written eight of the 11 songs on the album, and all the ones that were released as a single were hits. And he was saying, "I'm bad." But you know, it still did not eclipse Thriller. And he kept trying and trying, but we are never satisfied with success. We want more.
You get a promotion, you think, "Well, I deserve more than this. I've been working here for years. I ought to be in charge." If you had a servant's attitude, you may be in charge one day. But as long as you got that "I am better than the one that's in front of me" attitude, you're never going to get in that seat because you're not content with what you have.
I had to learn that the hard way, and I'm just giving you the benefit of something that I've learned over my life. And I tell you, God took me down several pegs. I was so low when I got here, the ground looked like the sky. Now that's pretty low. I'm thinking, you know, I'm former vice president, I ought to be working in somebody else's company and be an executive, and He had me digging ditches out at Hamilton Place Mall because the job that I came down here for wasn't ready yet.
You know what God taught me on for those six months? Contentment. When I learned contentment the hard way, I can now tell you how I can be content with whatever stage I am. I don't need another gold record on my wall. I've got several of them on my wall from all the people that I've worked with. I want to help somebody else get a gold record on their wall. That's what I want to do.
I want to help somebody else know the Lord Jesus Christ. How? Through the lyrics that I write, through the songs that I make. And Sam and I, we've been working together for a long time. We wrote the birthday song. You don't know that, but we wrote that song a long time ago. People say, "Well, we don't need a birthday..." Yes, we do. We need ours. So we wrote ours.
Then Deborah needed a song for Easter. We wrote a song for her. I woke up one day and I said, "Sam, I got some lyrics." He said, "Give it to me, Pastor." I gave it to him. He said, "Let me work on this." He worked on it. "He Took My Place" came out of that. And that's, you know, we do a lot of stuff behind the scenes. I'm letting you get behind the curtain here today because I just want to tell you how I can be content with whatever stage I am because I've had success and I've had failure.
But I learned to be content when I was digging ditches and picking up trash out at Hamilton Place making 3.50 an hour. That's unheard of. Ain't nobody working for 3.50 an hour now. You all wouldn't—no, I'm sorry. I'd go out here and steal something. I'm not telling you all to do that now, please. When Jesus is enough, First Timothy 6 says godliness with contentment truly becomes great gain.
Our new series is in Hebrews 13. Starting off in that, after 11 chapters explaining the supremacy of Christ and chapter 12 calling all believers to endurance, chapter 13 answers the question of how to be content in every circumstance. Contentment comes from, number one, God's provisions. Next, God's promise and also His presence. And the last thing, godly patterns of faith.
I follow some people's faith that were very strong and they taught me, and I learned some things through their Bible studies and whatnot. And they made an impact on my life, and I thank God for them today because without their input in my life, I don't know where I'd be today. But it's godly people, godly patterns in people who have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that have taught me.
And I had to learn about grace, and I had to learn about mercy, and I had to learn about compassion, and I had to learn about forgiveness. Because if you're not forgiving people, you're not going to have contentment. You're going to still have bitterness in your soul. You're going to walk around like somebody owes you something, and you're going to be miserable. I'm not miserable.
I wake up in the morning, I love seeing my wife. We laugh and joke and kid around, and I mean that's our life. That's our pattern of life. Iron sharpens iron, and we share scripture and things. It's great to be able to have that. And then come to church and have people that love the Lord Jesus Christ and love the ministry that we have here and volunteer at a moment's notice. All these things, I'm content because you help me to be content. Because you guys are easy to pastor.
Because it's not a lot of biting and nipping and gossiping and all this and backbiting and all these that happen at most places. I mean, you all watch out for one another. And when somebody brings you something, "Whoa, wait a minute. I've heard that. I've heard people tell me that and I tell them no, you don't talk to me about that. You need to talk to the elders of the deacons."
The deacons take care of the people, the elders take care of the policy, and the trustees take care of the property. Now, you're talking about an elder or deacon? You need to first go to that person if you got a problem and deal it with that person. If you do things biblically, God's going to give you contentment. You're not going to go to bed angry with anybody because you're going to have contentment because you've taken care of the business that God's told you to take care of.
Hebrews 13:5, let me jump in here so I can share some things with you. It says, "Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have." Some people say, "Pastor, I don't have much in my bank account." Are you content with what you have? For He Himself has said, "I will never desert you nor will I ever forsake you."
Now, verse 5 literally means let your behavior and let your lifestyle and way of living be without affection for silver. That's what the Greek word means. God doesn't condemn us having money. He condemns money having us. The issue isn't possession; the issue is obsession. Abraham was wealthy. Job was wealthy. Joseph of Arimathea was wealthy.
So God's not—He's not concerned about you being wealthy. He doesn't mind you being wealthy. He takes issue with you being obsessed with it more than Him. But when you come to the place where, God, I'm okay because I know that whatever I need for the day, if you take care of the birds, the ravens, and all those things, I know you're going to take care of me because you said in your word that we are more important than the birds and the grass and all this other stuff.
Verse 5 is condemning letting our hearts be controlled by wealth. Jesus said in Matthew 6:21, "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Two men won the lottery. One ended up divorced. The other ended up bankrupt. Money changed their bank accounts, but it didn't change their hearts. If money solved contentment, Hollywood wouldn't have therapists.
If money satisfied contentment, professional athletes wouldn't retire unhappy. Celebrities wouldn't overdose or commit suicide if money were contentment. Money is a wonderful servant, but it is a terrible master. Contentment isn't a financial issue; it's a spiritual one. The command is "Be content with what you have," meaning be satisfied, to regard as sufficient, to rest in enough. How much is enough for you?
So release the pursuit of more. Let it go. Be content with what you have. And be content because of who you have. We have God's promises and His presence. God's promise is supported by His presence. Its strength is seen in a double and triple negative. For God said... next verse... so be confident. We can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?"
But in all these things... no, you're going too fast. Go back for me to the other verses in Hebrews. Thank you. Let's go back to five again. Well, thank you. Make sure that you're content with what you have. What do we have? We have a God that has made some promises to us, and He's promised us that He will never leave me, He'll never leave nor forsake us.
Now, in the verse in B of that verse in verse 5, He says, "For He Himself has said, I will never desert you nor will I ever forsake you." It's a double negative in the Greek and a triple negative in the Greek for the second part. The double negative reads like this: God has said, "I will not, I will not, absolutely never ever leave you." That's the verb tense in the Greek.
So God is saying, let me just double up on this. "I will not ever desert you. I will not, I will not ever desert you. Nor will I ever, nor will I ever ever forsake you." You know why He doesn't forsake us? Because Christ was forsaken for us on the cross because of our sins. That's why He said, "My God, my God, why has you forsaken me?"
And the question was answered with this: so that I'll never have to forsake anyone who puts their trust and faith in you and me. So God forsook His Son because He took on our sins. So now we don't have to worry about trying to please God by doing some good works to cover our sins because Christ already took care of that. There's nothing that you can say or do to cause God to desert you or forsake you.
Now the triple negative is really good. For God has said, "I will not, I will not absolutely never ever leave you." That means forsake. The Greek word "leave" means to send back, to relax, to loosen, not to uphold. It means to let sink. And so "forsake" is a compound of three Greek words meaning rejection, defeat, helplessness.
It means forsaking someone in the state of defeat or helpless amid hostile circumstances. The word in its totality means to abandon, to desert, to leave in straits, to leave helpless and destitute, in a lurch or let down. You know, you guys are so faithful. You share and you give to the ministry and we give to Steve when he goes on a mission trip so that he can have something extra while he's gone.
And you guys do that. You all give so that we can help him. And we have a budget. Every ministry in here has a budget. And at the end of the year, they ask for the same or more. If they ask for more, we want to ask, "Well, what are you going to do with more?" We don't give more if you don't justify the more. If you say, "Well, we're going to reach out more to people outside the church," then we'll give you some more.
But you got to answer these three things: Will it show people Christ? That's evangelism. Will it grow people in Christ? That's discipleship. And will it glorify God? Now, you can not touch the first two, but the last one you got to hit because whatever you do has to glorify God. If you're not going to glorify Him, there's no need to do it because you're wasting your time.
And time is valuable. Don't be wasting your time. And so there are three negatives before "forsake." "I will not, I will not, I will not let you down." This is a promise of triple assurance. So if you ever need to know how God feels about you, this is it. "I'll never desert you." "Well, my mama..." "I'll never desert you." "My dad..." "I will never desert you." "My best friend..." "I will never desert you."
"I'll never forsake you. I'll never leave you in a lurch. I'll never leave you in a hostile environment. I will find a way to get you out of there." God will absolutely never abandon us. We can be content because we're never left alone. The Greek sentence is emphatic using five negatives in verse 5 to convey a positive. I love the word of God.
God isn't promising we'll always have everything that we need—well, want. But He'll always supply our needs. But some of you all want this and want that and want that. It's not going to make you happy, but you want it just so you can say, "I got it." He's promising we'll always have Him. And if we have Him, He will supply all of our needs according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus.
People lack who don't know God. But those who know God, we don't lack. How many of you all had to go hungry a whole month? Any of you? No, you didn't. Nobody fed you, man? I went hungry, but I tell you, I prayed to God. You know what? I learned how to make rice last a long time. Rice is the thing that will fill you up quicker than anything else. I had rice, man, I'm telling you the truth, for days.
I called my mama and said, "Mama, is there another way to make this rice here?" I've put everything in here I know to put in here. But you know what? God says the righteous will never be forsaken. And I praise God for that. God is saying, if God can feed the birds and you're more valuable than the birds, He'll feed you too. God will come to our rescue when we find ourselves in difficult circumstances.
He did it for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He did it for Elijah. Elijah was by the creek, and what do you know? A bird came—a raven—came and gave him food every day. And the brook that was supposed to dry up didn't dry up until God was ready to move him on to something better and something different. But He still provided for him when he got there because God was never going to forsake someone that He sent on a mission.
Some of you are still trying to figure out, am I in Daniel's shoes? Am I in David's shoes? Am I in Joseph's shoes, or am I in Meshach's shoes? And think about this. In Hebrews chapter 1, almost at the latter part of that verse, you know what it says? It says that we have ministering spirits that follow us before salvation because we've been marked out for salvation.
So if the ministering spirits follow us who have been marked out for salvation, do you think they're going to give up their job after we get saved? We've got the same ministering spirits that are with us, and God is working through them to make sure that we're taken care of. And we have the Holy Spirit who prays for us with groanings too deep for words on our behalf.
And then Jesus Christ at the right hand of God, it says in Romans that He is also interceding on our behalf. So you got the Holy Spirit and you got Christ. So what is it you need that they're not praying for you to get? That's why you need to be satisfied with what you have. God never tells us to do something without giving us something greater.
Contentment is a decision. It's not based on income. It's not based on inflation. It's not based on promotions. It's based on God's presence and His provisions. In Philippians 4, Paul said, "I have learned to be content." You just can't be content—"Well, today I'm going to be content." No, you have to learn to be content. Contentment is learned, not inherited.
A man said to his wife, "Honey, money can't buy happiness." She said, "Maybe not, but I'd like enough money to shop until I find out." The problem isn't having things. The problem begins when things begin having us. Contentment is taught before it's caught. Did you catch that? We need to release the pursuit of more and rest in God's promise and His presence.
Hebrews 13:6, "So we confidently say, the Lord is my helper. I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?" He's quoting a verse of scripture in the Old Testament. Helper in this verse is different than the Holy Spirit and a wife. Helper in this verse means one who runs to the cry. One who runs to the cry.
So if you're crying out at night, the Lord becomes your helper. If you're afraid of something and you're crying out, God runs to the cry. If you're crying and your tears are filling your pillow, God is coming to help you in your situation, so don't be afraid what man can do to you because God is your helper. It pictures someone rushing to help the moment they hear you call.
God isn't reluctant; He's responsive. He says, "I will not fear what this guy says. I will not be afraid." Fear grows where faith shrinks. Let me repeat that. Fear grows where faith shrinks. When we know God is near, our faith causes fear to shrink, and it's replaced with peace. The peace that surpasses all understanding. How many of you all had that peace? How many of you needed that peace and it came flowing in like a river?
I'm telling you, that peace that you can't explain to somebody that don't know Jesus Christ, but you got to know Jesus to know that kind of peace. You can't know that peace being a heathen. But if you're a child of God, you know that peace. You walk in, the boss says, "We need to talk at the end of the week." And all of a sudden, the devil says, "Oh, you're going to get canned."
And all that week leading up to it, fear has increased and faith has shrunk. Then you walk in, the boss says, "You've been doing a great job, and I want to..." and then you start thinking, "I've been all this week thinking about I'm going to get something bad, some bad news." And see, I don't fall for the trick of the devil. See, when somebody tells me something I don't understand what they mean by it, I don't assume nothing.
You know what they say about those who assume now? I'm not going to go any further. Look, why would you jump to assumptions rather than jump to faith? Wait a minute, has God ever let you down? No. Well, why you think He's going to let you down in this situation? And if He takes this out of your way, it may be because He's got something better to send you through to find that He's been working on on your behalf.
Man, I'm telling you, I'm thankful for everything I get. And even when I lose stuff, I realize that God is always at work in me both to will and to do for His good pleasure. And it could be something going on in my life that I don't know of. And God is trying to bring it to the surface so that I can know. And so when I figure that out, then my faith starts to rise and I get the peace that God gives that surpasses all understanding, that guards my heart and my mind in Christ.
Notice the promises of God's presence produces courage. He says, "The Lord is my helper. I will not be afraid." Why? Because of God's presence and because of God's promise. Contentment isn't confidence in tomorrow. It is confidence in God. Have you noticed when we're children, we're afraid of monsters under the bed? My wife used to tell me about stories about that.
And her dad would come in and he would turn on the lights. "There's nothing under here, honey." "Yes, there is!" "Yes, there is, Daddy! It's under there, Daddy! It's under there!" And so he'd come in there and he'd take care of the monsters for her, and he'd go back into his bedroom. She feels a little bit comfortable. But there's some kids that are scared of monsters, and there are some grown-ups that are scared of monsters.
Monsters on their job. Monsters in their neighborhood. Monsters that they are dating. I'm going to move on. As adults, we're not afraid of monsters under the bed. We're scared of credit card statements. Different monsters, same answer. The Lord is my helper. Human power has limits; God's power does not. People can criticize, disappoint, reject you, and abandon you, but God never will.
Because of God's promise, our response changes. Fear gives way to faith. The word "boldly" means with cheerful confidence. "I can confidently say, the Lord is my helper." King James says "boldly." I can confidently say this cheerfully. Notice the progression. God speaks, we believe, then we speak. We have faith. Faith isn't pretending problems don't exist. Faith is proclaiming that God is greater than the problems.
But God promises us something else, something greater. Romans chapter 8 and verse 37. In all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am confident, I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other sake or created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You know why nothing can separate us from the love of God? Look at this. Romans 5:5, you know what it says? Romans 5:5 says the love of God has been shed in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. So if the love of God has been placed in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, how in the world can anything separate us from the love of God if it's in the Spirit and it's in us?
God is on the throne of my heart. His love is inside my heart. That means He's there in control. So there's nothing that can come into me and take that love out of me because it's the Spirit of God that's protecting me. I've been sealed by the Holy Spirit, and God has given me that love. The word "separate" means to put away from the midst of.
Contentment comes, however, from God's provisions, God's promises, God's presence, and contentment are strengthened by godly patterns of faith. Hebrews 13:7, "Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you, and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith." Now, I'm going to wait. I'm not going to share that with you yet.
Hebrews shifts from godly examples to remember people that have made an impact in our lives. Now, some people remember passwords better than they do Bible verses. They don't know John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life," but they can tell you their Netflix password just like that from 2019. They haven't changed it yet.
Wondering why they're getting all these spam calls and these spam emails because everybody got your password and they still use it today—2026. A password from 2019. Now I got to tell you, I got to be honest. I went in the house the other day, and the alarm—you have so many seconds to put the code in. I forgot it. Only been living there 30 years.
I walked in and I'm looking at the numbers like, "What does this mean?" And I'm thinking, okay... beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. I'm thinking, "Oh man, what is the password?" And I'm looking at my phone, I'm thinking, uh, who can I call? Madalyn? Oh no, she's over here, she's tapping, she's at her tap class, I can't call her.
I should have called Zach because he knows the passwords. But I finally worked it out. But fear came over me, I'm thinking, "Oh man, they're going to send the police over here, they're going to lock me up because they're going to ask me what the password is and I don't know the password." And they're going to say, "Oh yeah, come on, handcuffs please."
And then they won't be able to get my wife because she has her phone off when she's doing her thing with the tap class. Man, I tell you, it was—I was afraid. But now I realize the password I'll never forget. I know what it is backwards and forwards. Don't just remember your Wi-Fi password. Remember who pointed you to Jesus. That's what they're really saying.
Remember their teaching. Remember their sacrifice. Remember their example. Remember God's faithfulness that shown through them. Biblically, remembering is always connected to action. Israel remembered the Exodus. Christians remember the Lord's Supper. Now believers remember faithful leaders that have led them throughout the ages.
Those who spoke to you the word of God. The emphasis isn't on personality or charisma or popularity. The qualification is they faithfully taught God's word. The authority came from scripture, not from themselves. A pastor's legacy is not in buildings or building buildings. It's building believers through God's word. Acts 20:27 is one of my favorite guiding verses. It says, "I have not shunned to declare to you the full counsel of God," meaning I have tried my hardest to make sure that you understand what the Bible is saying to us who are in covenant relationship with God Almighty.
And I preach the word because faith comes by hearing and the word of faith comes out of that. So what's your responsibility as a church? Hebrews 13:17, "Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you if you did it and you caused grief to those who taught you."
Now I got to read something here. I was sitting at my table and I'm not going to read the whole thing, I just got a couple of sentences that I've pulled out of here. It says, "Pastor, I pray this letter finds you well. I know you are very curious and probably more surprised to be receiving a letter from me. So many times, more than others, we have no idea the impact we really have on people unless they have the courage to say so."
"Let me start by saying thank you. So many times pastors never understand how they are the only male voice in the ears or in the life of many males and females. As I have walked this Christian journey as a wife and mom and being a part of New Covenant, I have seen myself mature spiritually and I have to say thank you to you for following the voice of God."
"As I close, I want to thank you for telling your story and giving us a sneak peek into your life to show us just how good God is. And if He can do it for you, He can do it for us. For every mountain, we will continue to give God praise and for being a great example of your scripture verse, Psalm 118:8, 'It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.' God bless you, Pastor. I love you, your spiritual daughter." And I won't tell you who that is. It ain't none of your business.
But what it does is it encourages. Those who share, I read some of those cards and it just overwhelms me with so much joy that I can't take it. So I stop and I read them when I'm in a place where I need encouragement, and I'll pull them out. Some I haven't opened yet, and I'll pull them out and I'll say, "Okay, I need to open these." And I'll start opening up about 10 or 20 of them.
Then I get overwhelmed again. I'm overwhelmed with joy and then I just say, "Thank you God for people who care and people who are willing to express how much they care." Because some pastors, they don't get that. But I get it, and I thank you all for giving it. And I love pastoring you. I love sending you out birthday cards and anniversary cards.
Some of the kids who get the letters from me, it's really the first envelope they ever got in the mail, and some of them keep it. And they keep storing them up, and I love it. It's important enough to them. And what you do for me and my wife and us as a church family, you got to know that we pray for you all the time. Every day we pray for you, or some one of you when God places it on our hearts.
And so I just thank God for you and all that you've done for me and us over these last few years as we celebrate our 30th coming up on the 15th. Get your tickets and be here. So I want to ask you, let me just deal with this word "obey." The word "obey" is to assent to. It means to give the person the right of way. It means to persuade, to move, or affect by kind words or motives, and that's what that letter did.
Ask yourself, am I chasing possessions more than God's presence? Ask yourself, does my peace rise and fall with my paycheck? Ask yourself, would people describe me as grateful or always wanting more? Is my contentment in my savings or in my savior? If it's not in Jesus, you've got the wrong place to place your confidence. Contentment begins when Christ becomes enough. Is Christ enough? Now the question is, do you have Christ? Because if you don't have Him, you'll never have enough.
Guest (Male): All things, all things, all are possible. All things, all things, all are possible. With Jesus.
Dr. Bernie Miller: All things are possible from New Covenant Fellowship Church. Join us in person for worship on Sunday mornings at 10:30 or online at 11:00. Connect with us anytime at ncf.church or on social media at NCF Chattanooga. We are a place for every race.
Guest (Male): All are possible. With Jesus. All things, all things, all things are possible. All things, all things, all things are possible. Oh, with Jesus. With Jesus. Oh, with Jesus. With Jesus. With Jesus. Oh, with Jesus. All are possible. All are possible. All are possible. Oh, with Jesus. All are possible. All are possible. All are possible. Yes. With Jesus. Oh, with Jesus. Oh, with Jesus. Oh, with Jesus. All things are possible. All things are possible. Oh, with Jesus. Oh, with Jesus. With Jesus. With Jesus. With Jesus. With Jesus. With Jesus. Yes. Oh, with Jesus. Amen.
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"How can I sleep peacefully at night with all that a pastor, husband, and dad has to face?" In this energetic volume, Bernie Miller answers this question that so many family and spiritual leaders face. Our best rest comes when we understand why God identifies Himself to His children as Jehovah Raah ("the Lord is my Shepherd") and Jehovah Jireh ("the Lord is my Provider"). Through a deep and delightful analysis of God's holy names, Miller plumbs the depths of all that the Good Shepherd promises—and proves—to be for His sheep. Looking for comfort and confidence grounded in eternal truth? Enjoy this encouraging study of God's manifestations to His children!
About All Things Are Possible
Dr. Miller's messages are centered on how to faithfully live an effective Christian life. The Bible says in Colosians 2:6 "Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him." It's only when we walk in obedience to God that we discover "All Things Are Possible."
About Dr. Bernie Miller
Dr. Bernie Miller received Christ as his Savior in 1988 while vice president of artist and repertoire for SONY/EPIC Records in New York. He worked with 52 artist including Michael Jackson, The Jacksons and Luther Vandross.
As a songwriter, he has written several songs, for which he has received both gold and platinum record awards. One of his songs, "I Can't Stand the Rain," (recorded by Tina Turner and Missy Elliott), was one of John Lennon's favorite songs, according to Yoko Ono, Billboard Magazine and a book by May Pang.
Dr. Miller is heavily involved in the community. He's vice-chairman of the Chattanooga Housing Authority; serves on the boards of the Blood Assurance Foundation, UTC's College of Medicine Institutional Review Board and the Hamilton County Regional Health Council. He has received numerous awards from the Mayor, Hamilton County Commissioners and the State Senate. He is an ordained Baptist minister and a graduate of Covington Theological Seminary. He was formerly the senior announcer for Moody radio's WMBW for seven years. While working with Moody, he hosted "Gospel Praise," a nationally syndicated program that was heard on the Moody Broadcasting Network. Dr. Miller and his wife Madelene have a son named Zachary.
NCF was formed in June 1996 by God and founded by twenty-five born again believers from various cultures and denominations. We have steadily grown since then which is why we built our new 700 seat worship center situated on an 18 acre campus at 1326 N. Moore Rd.
Our purpose originates from Ephes. 2:8-10 "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
Individuals are invited to enter into a relationship with Jesus that is both real and personal and is characterized by faith, obedience, and commitment. The result of this relationship is "good works." God prepared a plan for each of us in advance. The surest way to know if we are walking in that plan is to study the Bible.
Contact All Things Are Possible with Dr. Bernie Miller
http://www.ncf.church/
New Covenant Fellowship Church
1326 N. Moore Rd.
Chattanooga, TN 37411
1-423-899-8001