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Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today.

Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Monday, my friends. Oh my gosh,

it is the final Monday of September 2024 ever the last day of this month of life. What a gift this is.

Let's wake up. Let's live it well. I'm here to help you start your Monday right.

The title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional podcast is Sweet Secret of Happiness.

We're all looking for that ticket to happiness. What is it we are missing and how can we get it?

So we are always happy. Our creator designed us to find the sweet secret of happiness within, only in him.

Scripture refers to this inner happiness as contentment.

The Hebrew word for contentment was atarchia, and it meant a mindset on the secret of happiness completely independent of all outward things.

Meaning nothing outside of you can make you truly happy. It's all about what's in you.

And my sister, God has been working in you to bring you to this place of sweet happiness,

contentment, at archaea.

Paul writes in 1 Timothy 6, verses 6 through 8, true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.

After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can't take anything with us when we leave it.

So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.

Is that you today?

Don't you really have enough already?

You have food for today. You have clothes to put on today. Then you have the

makings of great wealth in contentment. When we know and we trust God, we can accept things as they are,

believing that it's all under the wise and loving providence of God who loves us wildly, knows what is good for us, and is always working

all things together for our good. Isn't that who your God is? He sees all things and he knows all things.

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