{"id":206,"date":"2009-10-06T06:53:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"923985669"},"modified":"2009-10-06T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:34:21","slug":"yesterday-the-gathering-someday-well-all-go-back-to-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/yesterday-the-gathering-someday-well-all-go-back-to-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday @ The Gathering: Someday We’ll All Go Back to Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"bighurryicon\"We finished our series \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Big Hurry?\u201d today @ The Gathering<\/a> with installment number 8 entitled, \u201cSomeday We All Go Back to Zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

We talked about the three gifts God gives us <\/strong>on our life\u2019s journey:<\/p>\n

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  1. The gift of hello<\/strong>, which guarantees that there are all kinds of new people coming into our lives; healthy people, exciting people, people we can connect to help\u00a0 get to where we need to be and also, in turn, help them.\u00a0 Always new people, always exciting new things, always more opportunity \u2013 that\u2019s a gift from God called the gift of hello.<\/li>\n
  2. The gift of good-bye.<\/strong> Sometimes relationships just simply end; relationships with people we work with, even a career, a marriage.\u00a0 Relationships that were once good turn toxic.\u00a0 And at those moments, God gives us the ability to walk away to give the gift of good-bye, and accept the gift of hello to new, healthy people who are coming into our lives for this leg of our journey.<\/li>\n
  3. The third gift is a gift of a fresh start.<\/strong> There is a little known concept in the Old Testament called the year of jubilee<\/em>.\u00a0 Every fiftieth year, no matter what had happened in the fifty years before, all original deeds to property went back to the original families and owners.\u00a0 This basically meant that no matter how badly you\u2019d messed up, even to the point of losing the family land through bad business deals or investments, there would be at the fiftieth year the ability to start over.\u00a0 The fresh start is something that God promises each one of us everyday as we get up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But the question is, how do you get unstuck when you feel like opportunity has dried up and people simply won\u2019t respond to you?\u00a0 Here are the five ways to get unstuck<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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    1. Get up<\/strong>.\u00a0 One of the first signs of depression is when you want to stay in bed too long.\u00a0 You want to lie around and do nothing.\u00a0 You have no energy; not because you are physically sick, but you emotionally and spiritually don\u2019t have anything better to do.<\/li>\n
    2. Suit up.<\/strong> Shave, shower, put some clothes, wear your best, and get out and show people you are open for business<\/em> and you are serious.<\/li>\n
    3. Show up.<\/strong> I truly believe that over 70% of life is showing up.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been lied to when we\u2019re told there is little opportunity because there are way too many people out there for the small piece of the pie.\u00a0 The truth is, there are very few people showing up to really seize the opportunities that are there<\/em> every day.\u00a0 You need to be one of them.<\/li>\n
    4. Do the next right thing.<\/strong> It\u2019s like the old saying, \u201cHow do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.\u201d\u00a0 Maybe your goals, dreams, and aspirations, maybe just getting out of the rut you are in right now is going to take time and seems overwhelming because of the money and resources required.\u00a0 How in the world will you ever make it?\u00a0 You do it by doing the next right thing one day at a time.\u00a0 And you string those days into weeks, weeks into months, and those months into years and amazing things begin to happen.<\/li>\n
    5. Trust God with the results<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is a sowing and reaping thing.\u00a0 God won\u2019t do my part and I can\u2019t do God\u2019s part.\u00a0 I sow, and God makes it grow.\u00a0 If I get up and suit up, show up each day, accept God\u2019s gift of hello, good-bye, an a fresh start by doing the next right thing, really amazing things begin to happen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Remember, this could be the first day of a brand new beginning<\/em>, a fresh start.\u00a0 Maybe you won\u2019t do much today.\u00a0 Maybe for you, a lot is getting up, suiting up, and just getting out and being where other people are.\u00a0 Maybe you need to find an exciting, dynamic church and just start gathering there <\/strong>around other happy people; people who are energetic, people who believe that God is close and gracious, that He responds to our acts no matter how small, with love and faithfulness.\u00a0 You can get unstuck, you can begin again, and your future can be far greater than anything you\u2019ve ever known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      We finished our series \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Big Hurry?\u201d today @ The Gathering with installment number 8 entitled, \u201cSomeday We All Go Back to Zero.\u201d We talked about the three gifts God gives us on our life\u2019s journey: The gift of hello, which guarantees that there are all kinds of new people coming into our lives; … Continue reading “Yesterday @ The Gathering: Someday We’ll All Go Back to Zero”<\/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\/206"}],"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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}