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Studies show that repeated complaining rewires your brain to make future complaining more likely. So shut your big fat mouth!
Key Points:
- Complaining puts your focus in the wrong place. Exodus 14:11-12; Exodus 16:8
- If you can do something, stop complaining and just do it.
- If you’re out of options, try changing your perspective. Philippians 2:17-18
- Choose thankfulness and prove that God is worth following. Philippians 2:14-15; Psalm 103:2-5
Quote This:
Philippians 2:14-15 Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.
Talk About It
- What is your initial reaction to this topic? What jumped out at you?
- What do you complain about the most?
- Read Exodus 16:8 and discuss how it would change your view of complaining if you knew God was the end recipient.
- Read Philippians 2:17-18. What do you think the writer, Paul, is trying to say here?
- Do you more often need to change your circumstance or your perspective?
- Read Philippians 1:12-13. How could you, like Paul, flip your perspective about the struggles you’re facing?
- What are some blessings you haven’t been grateful for lately? How can you regularly turn these blessings into gratitude toward God?
- Write a personal action step based on this conversation.
This is part of the My Big Fat Mouth series. Click here for sermon resources.
