{"id":296,"date":"2006-09-12T22:30:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T03:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=296"},"modified":"2009-10-08T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T03:32:08","slug":"10-things-you-can%e2%80%99t-afford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/10-things-you-can%e2%80%99t-afford\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Can\u2019t Afford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, hello, all you Dave Ravers! It\u2019s good to be back after a time away. This week\u2019s Dave Rave comes from the experiences I\u2019m going through and major transitions in my life; with new beginnings, turning corners, good things completed and in the past, and even greater things on the horizon. During transition, change of people, good, bad, the coming and going, the ebbing and flowing of life, there are ten things you can never afford no matter how much money you have, friends you have, health you have or don\u2019t have. Here they are:
\n1. You can\u2019t afford anger. <\/strong>I don\u2019t mean by that, anger can\u2019t be a good thing or even a godly thing. Jesus displayed anger. What you can\u2019t afford is to allow anger to drive you to destructive and negative ends. It has to be beautiful anger; anger to right a wrong, not get revenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. You can\u2019t afford bitterness. <\/strong>If you\u2019ve lived long enough you understand that everyone feels betrayed at sometime by the people they love the most. It\u2019s the fact that you love people that allows them to get so close that they can hurt you. If you\u2019ve been hurt, betrayed, join the club. It may sound trite to say it isn\u2019t personal, but oftentimes it isn\u2019t. What you can\u2019t control is how other people behave. What you can control is the fact that you\u2019re not bitter and revengeful and you allow things to go. It\u2019s called forgiveness. You deserve it. You need it. So, give it away.<\/p>\n

3. You can\u2019t afford backward thinking. <\/strong>Backward thinking is spending most of your waking hours rehearsing how great things used to be, the good old days, back before your losses, your failures, your betrayals. Stop thinking about the past and start facing forward.<\/p>\n

4. You can\u2019t afford failure. <\/strong>Surely you know by now there is a big difference between failing and failure. Failing toward success is a good thing. Failure is a state of mind, a place we stay that predicts the future will no doubt be worse than the past.<\/p>\n

5. You can\u2019t afford negative thinking.<\/strong> Negative thinking will cut off all the powers of future possibilities. Stay away from negative people. Find positive, God-loving, life-loving people.<\/p>\n

6. You can\u2019t afford revenge. <\/strong>Stop thinking about how to get even with people in the past. Let them go. Someone did the same for you.<\/p>\n

7. You can\u2019t afford unforgiveness.<\/strong> Forgive those who have mistreated you and hurt you. You\u2019ve been forgiven much. If you haven\u2019t been forgiven, ask for it and you\u2019ll receive it.<\/p>\n

8. You can\u2019t afford to live in the land of \u201cwhat if?\u201d<\/strong> What if this had happened? What if this person had come through? What if the stock market had turned around or the housing market hadn\u2019t fallen out? You can\u2019t afford to live in the land of \u201cwhat if?\u201d
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\n9. You can\u2019t afford \u201cif only.\u201d<\/strong> This drives you crazy and shrinks your future. If only I\u2019d said this, or if only I had not said this. If only I had gone to this thing or had not gone to the other. Stop it.
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\n10. You can\u2019t afford fuzzy focus.<\/strong> All nine of these unaffordable attitudes and actions can be summed up in this one. They leave you with fuzzy focus. You need to fix your focus on the future. Face your fear, free your mind, find your voice and fix your focus on the future. What great future does God have in store for you? If you do that, you can see it. There are greater things lying ahead of us than ever, ever we could imagine. If only we will fix our focus forward, trust God and attempt great things with our lives.<\/p>\n

That means you. Right now, where you are. Get with it. Time\u2019s a wasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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