{"id":5247,"date":"2012-01-06T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2012-01-05T22:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T04:06:38","slug":"fmbs-032-john-15-heres-why-youre-failing-and-frustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/fmbs-032-john-15-heres-why-youre-failing-and-frustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"FMBS 032: John 15 – Here’s Why You’re Failing and Frustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ever wonder why you feel so frustrated that no matter how many resolutions you make, how much effort you exert, how many books you read or classes you attend, you seem to stay stuck all the time?\u00a0\u00a0 Well, if you’ve ever felt that way, or if you feel that way right now, at the beginning of a new year, you’ve come to the right place.\u00a0 Because we’re going to be able to learn today, in John 15, why people fail, and why they stay frustrated.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the chapter about the vine, about how the life of God flows into ordinary, fractured, broken human beings;\u00a0 how God takes us where we are, and plants us into himself. He becomes the vine, we’re the branch, and He flows through us.\u00a0 The life that we live, as Paul said, is not the life that we<\/em> live, it’s the life He lives through us<\/strong>, so that our fruitfulness and our continued success over time is guaranteed, as long as we don’t forget the vine\/branch relationship.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

And also, by the way, there’s a reason why so many people don’t like you, why there are people who lie to you, why there are people who betray you, why there are people who walk away just at the right time to cause you the maximum pain and frustration.\u00a0 It’s all in there.\u00a0 You’ll find it today in John 15: the vine and the branch theory.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder why you feel so frustrated that no matter how many resolutions you make, how much effort you exert, how many books you read or classes you attend, you seem to stay stuck all the time?\u00a0\u00a0 Well, if you’ve ever felt that way, or if you feel that way right now, at the beginning … Continue reading “FMBS 032: John 15 – Here’s Why You’re Failing and Frustrated”<\/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":[39],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247"}],"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=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}