{"id":1335,"date":"2010-01-24T15:26:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"1630740795"},"modified":"2010-01-24T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:26:43","slug":"today-the-gathering-you-reap-what-you-risk-giving-what-you-can%e2%80%99t-keep-gaining-what-you-can%e2%80%99t-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-you-reap-what-you-risk-giving-what-you-can%e2%80%99t-keep-gaining-what-you-can%e2%80%99t-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering – You Reap What You Risk: Giving What You Can\u2019t Keep; Gaining What You Can\u2019t Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"IG_Icon\"<\/a>One of the most important fears we all face is risk.\u00a0 And yet to risk nothing is to risk losing everything.\u00a0 This is a principle of life that can\u2019t be ignored or denied; only understood, obeyed, and profited from.<\/p>\n

As we think about risk and being born into the world of risk, we also need to understand that we weren\u2019t born without advantages.\u00a0 Two of God\u2019s best gifts He\u2019s given to us are climbing gear, and an ascending spirit, which means we\u2019re always going want to climb the mountains we face.\u00a0 We\u2019ll always want to advance the good.\u00a0 It is our nobler angels that need to be understood, and fed.\u00a0 And here\u2019s how we do it.\u00a0 Here are the four realities of real life:<\/p>\n

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  1. Everything you enjoy comes from God<\/strong>.\u00a0 Every good and perfect gift is from above, the Scriptures teach us.\u00a0 Every day, every dollar, every moment, every relationship, every thing, every asset is a gift from God straight to you.\u00a0 You didn\u2019t get it by accident.\u00a0 It was sent your way through the hands of a loving God.<\/li>\n
  2. Everything you enjoy gives you choices and options<\/strong>.\u00a0 That\u2019s why debt is so pernicious; because it, little by little, destroys our future by leveraging the future in order to enjoy something in the present for which we have not risked or reaped the benefit.<\/li>\n
  3. Everything you enjoy comes with consequences<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Scriptures are clear.\u00a0 To whom much is given, much will be demanded. And once you face the consequences you can\u2019t simply pray them away or ask God to allow you to avoid them because oftentimes facing the consequences forces us to bring about the change that created the consequence in the first place.<\/li>\n
  4. Everything you enjoy you are responsible to leverage<\/strong>.\u00a0 That\u2019s what you do with the resources you have.\u00a0 You have so many: personal, financial, intellectual, and relational resources.\u00a0 Are you leveraging them into a bigger, brighter future or are you letting them spoil on the vine because you are afraid to take the right risk?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One of the most important fears we all face is risk.\u00a0 And yet to risk nothing is to risk losing everything.\u00a0 This is a principle of life that can\u2019t be ignored or denied; only understood, obeyed, and profited from. As we think about risk and being born into the world of risk, we also need … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering – You Reap What You Risk: Giving What You Can\u2019t Keep; Gaining What You Can\u2019t Lose”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}