Adapt and Overcome
“I
know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all
things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to
suffer need.” (Philippians
4:12)
Today’s Morsel:
One of the phrases we learned in the military was "Adapt and
Overcome." In other words, adjust and get over it. Don’t allow
your circumstances and situations to cause you to become ineffective for the
mission. Get over it. Paul knew how to adapt and overcome. He
told the church at Corinth: “Of
the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice
was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night
and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils
of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils
by mine own countrymen, in perils by the
heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in
the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils
among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in
hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those
things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the
churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? If I
must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.” (2 Corinthians 11:24-30).
He continues with these words, “But
none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that
I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of
the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24); “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to
abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be
hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me” (Philippians
4:12-13). If you can’t adapt and overcome the enemy will defeat
you and you be ineffective for the mission. Let's adapt and overcome so
we are effective for Jesus.
Sing: I’ve got Jesus on the inside
working on the outside, oh what a change in my life. I’ve got Jesus
on the inside working on the outside, oh what a change in my life. I’ve
got Jesus on the inside working on the outside, oh what a change in my life, oh
what a change, in my life.
Thought For Today:
Adapt and overcome.
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