{"id":2282,"date":"2010-06-27T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2010-06-27T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T18:52:16","slug":"today-the-gathering-how-to-get-ready-to-change-for-good-and-not-just-repeat-old-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-how-to-get-ready-to-change-for-good-and-not-just-repeat-old-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: How to Get ready to Change for Good and Not Just Repeat Old Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" \/>Today @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatheringnashville.com\">The Gathering<\/a> we continued our summer series <strong>&#8220;12 Steps Up: How Messy People Mature&#8221;<\/strong> with Step #6, talking about Gearing Up.\u00a0 Gearing up for what?\u00a0 Gearing up to truly change, not just repeat old failures and past religious hang-ups.<\/p>\n<p>To truly change we have to believe that God has our best at heart.\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 When the Scriptures tell us that God predestined us,\u00a0 He thought about us.\u00a0 He foreknew us. He saw us long before we were born.\u00a0 He knew what would happen to us.\u00a0 He knew the failures, the stupid things we would get involved with.\u00a0 And yet He still decided to say &#8220;Yes.&#8221;\u00a0 <strong>For all the reasons he could have said &#8220;No&#8221; he said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221; <\/strong> So what is His plan?\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy.\u00a0 The Scriptures tell us that we be conformed to the image of His son.\u00a0 What did Jesus look like?\u00a0 Loving, gracious, happy, energetic, creative, sacrificial: all the things that make life worth living.<\/p>\n<p>But to get them, we have to be changed.\u00a0 The Scriptures say, &#8220;conformed.&#8221;\u00a0 And you know that anything that requires being squeezed into another shape is going to be a little painful.\u00a0 <strong>So today we talked about what God wants to take away, and what He wants to add. <\/strong> The most important things are the things He wants to add.\u00a0 But we have to be ready; ready to let God take away and add to.\u00a0 That takes courage.\u00a0 Most of all it takes conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Today we told you how to let God give you a converted heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today @ The Gathering we continued our summer series &#8220;12 Steps Up: How Messy People Mature&#8221; with Step #6, talking about Gearing Up.\u00a0 Gearing up for what?\u00a0 Gearing up to truly change, not just repeat old failures and past religious hang-ups. To truly change we have to believe that God has our best at heart.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-how-to-get-ready-to-change-for-good-and-not-just-repeat-old-failures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today @ The Gathering: How to Get ready to Change for Good and Not Just Repeat Old Failures&#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":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"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=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}