{"id":2509,"date":"2010-07-25T14:14:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T20:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2010-07-25T14:14:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T20:14:34","slug":"today-the-gathering-are-you-brave-enough-to-slow-down-long-enough-and-listen-to-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-are-you-brave-enough-to-slow-down-long-enough-and-listen-to-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: Are You Brave Enough to Slow Down Long Enough and Listen to Your Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"There\u2019s an interesting statement made in 1 John 3 that goes like this:\u00a0 \u201cIf our conscience is clear, we can come to God with perfect assurance and trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two words that stand out there are conscience<\/em> and perfect.<\/em> If our conscience is clear (and whose is?) we can come to God with perfect assurance and trust. Maybe that\u2019s the key, isn\u2019t it \u2013 to learn to listen to our conscience, our inner voice; <\/strong>that part of us created in the image of God that allows us to be more than mere mortals.<\/p>\n

I asked four questions this morning to help people get a sense of how much we live outside ourselves.\u00a0 I asked:<\/p>\n

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  1. Am I driven<\/strong> by the need to fix others?<\/li>\n
  2. Do I ignore<\/strong> my internal sensors, like my conscience?<\/li>\n
  3. Do I avoid <\/strong>disciplines aimed at long-term gains? Do I live on the basis of my emotions alone?<\/li>\n
  4. Do I assume <\/strong>I can go on this way indefinitely?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These are the ways in which we choose to live our lives on the outside of ourselves so we won\u2019t have to face ourselves.\u00a0 But until we face ourselves our conscience will never be clear and we will never attain the one thing we want more thank anything in life: perfect assurance and trust in God and His love, grace, and His promises.<\/p>\n

    Today we talked about learning to listen to our lives<\/strong>: to our motives, to our emotions, to our relationships around us, and to our inner voice \u2013 our spirit.<\/p>\n

    If you are a person overcome by hurry, worry, and speed; if you\u2019re worn out at the end of every day, confused, or feel stuck, this talk is just for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There\u2019s an interesting statement made in 1 John 3 that goes like this:\u00a0 \u201cIf our conscience is clear, we can come to God with perfect assurance and trust.\u201d Two words that stand out there are conscience and perfect. If our conscience is clear (and whose is?) we can come to God with perfect assurance and … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering: Are You Brave Enough to Slow Down Long Enough and Listen to Your Life?”<\/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\/2509"}],"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=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}