{"id":3362,"date":"2010-11-08T18:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2010-11-02T18:51:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T00:51:53","slug":"permission-no-will-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/permission-no-will-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Permission, No: Will, Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We\u2019re trained from the very earliest in our lives to not make good decisions.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a conspiracy to keep us down.\u00a0 It\u2019s just the way we\u2019ve chosen to organize the world.<\/p>\n

As a result, we\u2019ve raised a generation of permission-seeking conformists who are looking to plug into the system so they can reap its rewards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I\u2019ve learned is that I don\u2019t need permission, I need a will<\/strong>, a want-to, a drive, a passion, a desire; something that will allow me to prevail against the predictable and outrageous adversities that come the way of every person who dares raise their head and see something worth giving their lives for.<\/p>\n

A life runs on \u201cwill\u201d like a train runs on tracks.\u00a0 On the one side of the tracks is the will of God.\u00a0 Even Jesus prayed in His most desperate hour, \u201cThy will be done.\u201d\u00a0 The other side of the track is the will that I believe is God-created and placed in our hearts.\u00a0 So the dual track is simply seeking God\u2019s will and finding it in the will that He\u2019s given me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned that the way God leads me is that He gives me a fire inside<\/strong>, a desire, a passion that leads me alongside the track of His will.\u00a0 It\u2019s not obscure.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as hard to find as some people think it is.\u00a0 It\u2019s there.\u00a0 And in the pursuit of that great passion or that great will, I\u2019m constantly submitting my will to the will of God so that I can say with confidence, \u201cThy will be done,\u201d because all I simply do is submit my will to His will and then follow the sustained passion that He puts in my heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you really don\u2019t know what to do with the rest of your life, maybe you need to stop asking permission and start seeking your inner passion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re trained from the very earliest in our lives to not make good decisions.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a conspiracy to keep us down.\u00a0 It\u2019s just the way we\u2019ve chosen to organize the world. As a result, we\u2019ve raised a generation of permission-seeking conformists who are looking to plug into the system so they can reap its … Continue reading “Permission, No: Will, Yes”<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362"}],"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=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}