{"id":703,"date":"2009-01-25T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=703"},"modified":"2009-10-16T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:24:27","slug":"today-the-gathering-january-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-january-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering – January 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"4DumbestThingsIcon_Large\"Today at The Gathering<\/a> we completed our first series of the year, \u201c4 Dumbest Things We Do During Down Times,\u201d<\/em> with installment number four, \u201cWe Wait It Out and Get Left Behind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a talk about the true meaning of patience<\/span>; that virtue that sees us through down times.\u00a0 An awfully lot of people misunderstand what patience is.\u00a0 So we talked about three things it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Patience is not laziness.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Patience is not passivity<\/span>; just sitting around and doing nothing and waiting for the world to act on you.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Patience is not resignation.<\/span> The whole fatalistic whatever will be will be attitude isn\u2019t backed up by a single verse in sacred Scripture.<\/p>\n

Patience is what we need during this global transformation; the patience to understand these three things:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Life isn\u2019t a marathon, so you need to pace yourself<\/span>.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t the fastest off the starting block or the fastest in the first three miles.\u00a0 A marathon is a full 26 miles plus.\u00a0 It\u2019s living well and finishing well.\u00a0 And you have to do that at your own pace.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since life is about advancing one day at a time, you need to learn to brace yourself<\/span>.\u00a0 We don\u2019t advance without opposition; without periods of failure, of reverse.\u00a0 No one wins every time.\u00a0 No one hits the ball every time they come up to bat.\u00a0 You need to learn how to face adversity and turn it into an advantage.\u00a0 This is so important I wrote an entire book on it entitled, \u201cThe Power To Prevail<\/span>.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since life is about getting back up once you\u2019ve been knocked down, you learn to grace yourself<\/span>.\u00a0 By that I mean, a lot of times the dumb things that happen to us, we do to ourselves.\u00a0 So we need to learn to accept and receive the grace we give to other people.\u00a0 This is absolutely essential.<\/p>\n

This series completes the month of January in a brand new year.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to believe that the first month of 2009 is already gone.\u00a0 But this could be your best year yet if you follow the insight that comes from the sacred Scripture that we\u2019ve dealt with over the last four weeks.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not aware, a free CD of each message is available at the end of every service<\/span>.\u00a0 The only thing we ask you to do is pass it along to someone else when you\u2019re done so The Word can get out.<\/p>\n

As I announced this morning, next weekend Paula and I will be taking our first weekend away from The Gathering and I\u2019ve invited Dr. Stephen Mansfield<\/a> to speak.\u00a0 One of the most prolific authors in our time, an exceptional speaker, and an even better person, Stephen has been a great friend over the years.\u00a0 Make sure you bring someone with you to enjoy this gifted teacher next week at The Gathering at both the 9:00 and 10:30<\/span> services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today at The Gathering we completed our first series of the year, \u201c4 Dumbest Things We Do During Down Times,\u201d with installment number four, \u201cWe Wait It Out and Get Left Behind.\u201d This is a talk about the true meaning of patience; that virtue that sees us through down times.\u00a0 An awfully lot of people … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering – January 25”<\/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\/703"}],"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=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}