{"id":686,"date":"2009-03-01T19:57:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=686"},"modified":"2009-10-16T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:00:33","slug":"today-the-gathering-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-march-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering – March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Icon_small1\"Today @ The Gathering<\/a> we continued in our current series. \u201cThe Power To Prevail,\u201d<\/em> with an installment entitled, \u201cTurning Your Can\u2019ts Into Cans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a really serious concept because so many people you hear talking, talk about their can\u2019ts<\/em>; not their cans<\/em>: what they might do if other things were available.\u00a0 The truth is, you can\u2019t build a life on the negative, or a can\u2019t.\u00a0 But we so early learn what we can\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

We talked about the three ways we learn how to live a small life<\/span>, or a can\u2019t life:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We learn what we can\u2019t do by listening to our critics<\/span>; and there are plenty of them out there.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We learn by living with comparisons<\/span> that are false.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We learn by losing artificial competitions <\/span>that we don\u2019t need to be in to start with.<\/p>\n

We used the Romans 8:28-31<\/span> passage as a group affirmation; that we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him<\/span>, and those who have been called.\u00a0 The truth of the matter is, not everyone can make that statement with any degree of assurance.\u00a0 But if you are a follower of Jesus, you should be able to say, \u201cAnd we know.\u201d\u00a0 The word know there is the idea of knowing by experience.\u00a0 You can know a thing objectively as a piece of information, but when you live with it, it becomes a part of you.\u00a0 The question is, how do you do that?\u00a0 How do you translate what you hear from a speaker, or read from a book, into real life?\u00a0 I\u2019ve found the most helpful thing to do is to make strong affirmations.<\/p>\n

Here are the three affirmations<\/span> that we talked about today:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With God\u2019s help, I will excel at what I must do with what\u2019s available<\/span>.\u00a0 No excuses, no copping out, and no living someone else\u2019s life.\u00a0 I will excel at what I must do; not what someone else must do, but what I<\/em> must do with what is available, trusting that God will make what else I need available in the future.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With God\u2019s help I will derail the devices of difficult people<\/span>.\u00a0 Remember, hurt people hurt people.\u00a0 Much of what you experience in the way of broken relationships has nothing to do with you, but with what other people already bring to the table.\u00a0 You deal with this by understanding these two statements: If you live reacting to the hurt of hurting people you\u2019re going to be frustrated.\u00a0 But if you live by acting in light of the hurt of hurting people, you\u2019ll be fulfilled.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With God\u2019s help, I will prevail against prevailing wisdom.<\/span> Remember, the facts ain\u2019t always the facts, and experts have been proven wrong more times than not.\u00a0 Today is not the time to be involved in making world globes.\u00a0 Boundaries change and they move constantly in the real world.\u00a0 And that\u2019s also true in the spiritual world.<\/p>\n

We also emphasized again, our Call To Prayer <\/span><\/a>on Monday, March 9th.\u00a0 This is going to be an awesome night.\u00a0 I hope you are planning to attend and bring someone with you.\u00a0 If you know people who are without jobs, have been laid-off, are in fear of being laid-off, who need prayer, who are serious about getting serious with God in prayer, bring them with you.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be glad you did<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today @ The Gathering we continued in our current series. \u201cThe Power To Prevail,\u201d with an installment entitled, \u201cTurning Your Can\u2019ts Into Cans.\u201d This is a really serious concept because so many people you hear talking, talk about their can\u2019ts; not their cans: what they might do if other things were available.\u00a0 The truth is, … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering – March 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/686"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}