{"id":2062,"date":"2010-05-29T06:59:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2010-05-29T06:59:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T12:59:48","slug":"tomorrow-the-gathering-12-steps-up-look-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/tomorrow-the-gathering-12-steps-up-look-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow @ The Gathering -12 Steps Up: Look Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/flyers\/12steps_icon-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"258\" \/>Last weekend we began a brand new series @ <a href=\"http:\/\/g3church.com\">The Gathering<\/a> called <strong>\u201c12 Steps Up: How messy people mature.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re taking the 12 steps from AA, an amazing process of not just recovery, but maturation, and applying it to everyday life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last week we started with Step One: Wake up<\/strong>.\u00a0 Wake up and recognize that you are powerless to change your life.\u00a0 You\u2019re powerless over the ups and downs, the adversities.\u00a0 It rains.\u00a0 It rains on the good and the bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The second step is Look Up. <\/strong> When you wake up, and you look around and see the reality of your life, you have one of three choices.\u00a0 You can<em> look out around you to circumstances<\/em> \u2013 good or bad \u2013 knowing that if they are good today, they could change tomorrow on a dime and be bad.\u00a0 Or you can <em>look to the people <\/em>who may or may not be there for you.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve looked outward, <em>you can look inward<\/em> and you see the wounds and the pain.\u00a0 You see things in your life and your attitude that make you sad and angry because they are things you can\u2019t seem to let go of and get over.\u00a0<strong> And then you can look up. <\/strong> That\u2019s what happens in the second step.\u00a0 We begin to believe that <em>a power greater than us can restore us to sanity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So tomorrow we\u2019re going to be talking about how to Look Up in real, practical terms; not just some religious cosmetic cover-up of how life really is, but how we can truly, truly look up and connect to God in powerful ways.\u00a0 <strong>Tomorrow we\u2019ll talk about three things God dares us to do<\/strong>, and the one thing we have, <em>only one<\/em>, that He wants.\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t want your car, your house, your money.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t want your song.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t want your attention.\u00a0 But there is one thing He desires.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we began a brand new series @ The Gathering called \u201c12 Steps Up: How messy people mature.\u201d We\u2019re taking the 12 steps from AA, an amazing process of not just recovery, but maturation, and applying it to everyday life. Last week we started with Step One: Wake up.\u00a0 Wake up and recognize that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/tomorrow-the-gathering-12-steps-up-look-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tomorrow @ The Gathering -12 Steps Up: Look Up&#8221;<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062"}],"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=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}