So, I’m writing this post after the second day of the ADAPT youth summitt, and I have to be honest, I’m feeling torn right now. I been involved in ADAPT for almost six years now, but I think it’s time I step back  and take a break from ADAPT for a season. Robin and I are becoming foster parents and we are trying to start a family. I want to be the best husband and daddy that I can be, and latey ADAPT has been bringing out the worst in me. I been a hot-tempered person since I was a teen, and been working on it,praying,and trusting God to help me be kind, peaceful, loving,merciful,and graceful. He has used these last few days to show me things that are in my heart that i need to kill. I have had my buttons pushed by the trainers and there’s been times when i was quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger(James 1:19) but there’s been times that my temper got  the best of me. I let my circumstances of flying alone to Chicago, finding a cab, and getting lost looking for my room steal my joy. But I prayed and got my heart refuled in scripture and no matter what my joy needs to be in my God and not my circumstances. He’s with me no matter what. He’s my peace! I need not to be afraid.

7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, [1] a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

No matter what happens for the rest of the weekend, I got Jesus. And He’s enough for me. People here can like me or hate me but he’ll never leave me or forsake me.

6 So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper;
 I will not fear;
what can man do to me?”- Hebrews 13:6

No matter what decision I make about ADAPT right now, the Lord is with me and will help me do the right thing. God Bless.

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