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Feeling Dry: When Adie Camp was the lead singer of The Benjamin Gate, she discovered how much busyness—even busyness created by serving God—can hurt a person's daily relationship with Christ.

 "We worked so hard to pour into others, but we never took time to make sure we were being filled ourselves," Adie says. "We didn't even have time to find a church. The first year of touring, we were free two Sundays. I went to church on one, but on the other I was just too exhausted. After three years of this, I thought, The fruit is no longer here. We're not an encouragement to each other and we're wasting the precious opportunity that the Lord's given us to share with people. We were just dry and that's why I left the band."

In 2003, The Benjamin Gate came to an end.

New beginning: Adie left music, married singer/songwriter Jeremy Camp, became a mom and felt strengthened in her faith. 

"I honestly didn't think I was going to go back into music," she says. "But then I felt God put music back on my heart. I thought, Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Why now?  I didn't tell anyone. One day, Jeremy said, 'I think you should do a solo album.' It was so weird because I'd been feeling the same thing."

When Adie returned to music with Don't Wait (BEC), she made sure God didn't get pushed to the background by busyness. How? Her first key has been daily alone time with God. "I can't last long without him," she says. "It's just so important to be filled by God."

Second, Adie makes sure that as she's ministering to others, she's also being ministered to. "It's so important to make sure I'm learning about the Bible from godly people," she says.

Lastly, she is very careful to keep her priorities straight. "I try to prioritize what's most important in order to manage my time," she says. "And sometimes the most important part of that is taking a step back and saying, 'Some things seem urgent right now, but when compared to your eternal relationship with the Lord, they are so less crucial.'"

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