If  I’ve learned anything in this life it is that my plans are NOT Gods plans for me!! Looking back now I realize that I was insane to think I had any kind of control over were I was headed. heres a list of my life plans.

  • Go to college and get a degree in engineering and musical arts
  • build an engineering company
  • use my profits from the company to start my own record label
  • release my first album by 2003
  • Just as soon as i get out of my mom and dads house im done with this Christian stuff 
  • I will never get married (don’t need the frustration)
  • I will never have kids
  • I will spend the rest of my life wining and dining myself.(its gonna be all about me)

Ha!!!

yea right, but this was it this was my plans and I believed in it too. But let me list the random events that’s taken place thus far

  • God called me to preach at the age of 17
  • I ran from that I said no!!
  • I did move out of my parents house
  • I Quit that Christian stuff 
  • I did start my own record label ( i skipped college) who needs that mess?
  • I became a drug addict
  • I became a Criminal
  • Lost my recording career
  • Tried to commit suicide 
  • I lived on the streets for a while
  • I went to jail ( but hey I got my GED)
  • Got a job with the power company
  • Got out of jail became an alcoholic and a drug addict
  • I got married
  • had two Kids
  • Went back to jail
  • got out went back to being a drug addict
  • Surrendered!! Okay God what ever you want to do it I cant take it anymore
  •  Lost my house, wife, kids, job 
  • Went to  a Christ centered recovery program CelebrateRecovery@eastridgecommunitychurch
  • quit doing drugs
  • Got my wife and kids back
  • found real people (real christians) who knew?
  • found freedom
  • found grace
  • found acceptance 
  • started doing this the christian stuff again (truly following Christ)
  • Got a job at Eastridge Community  Church  
  • Started building a ministry from the ground up
  • Started training leaders at CelebrateRecovery@eastridgecommunitychurch
  • Surrendered to preach again
  • Started Teaching at CelebrateRecovery@eastridgecommunitychurch

I could go on but I’ll get to my point. I don’t ever think that it was in Gods plans for me to be a drug addict, go to jail or some of the other things on that list. but i do know that through all of that he was there. I do know that he took those mistakes I made and uses them through me for his plans and his purpose. I do know that I’m happier than I have ever been doing his will and not mine. Is everything always grand of course not. But I don’t have to do this stuff alone anymore. I find so much freedom in the fact that it’s not about me. I don’t have to make plans.  just have to let him guide me in his.

My point is this. If you have some kind of list of plans that you are desperately working on? THROW IT AWAY. Pray for God to lead you. You may be able to lead yourself to water but when you get there you will drown yourself!! If I would have listened when I was 17 to God and Follwed him, then I could have saved myself a lot of grief. And who knows where I might be today? If you want to accomplish great and immpossible things. Then throw away that list, Stop trying to make things happen Ask Christ for guidence and enjoy the ride. I promise you wont regret it.

Luke 1:37 “For with God nothing is impossible”

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