So recently, I watched an inspirational and religious genre movie named Facing the Giants. It's a football movie about a football coach, the players, and their struggles and how they overcome them. It's was a pretty good movie, but it was kinda predictable and cheesy (may I say?).
So these are some of the quotes that I liked the best from the movie. They are kinda religious, so if you are not into that kind of think or will get mad later about it, I warned you! But everyone should read it, just because! :)
Have you ever thought, we're the players and God's our coach?
Can you imagine? God's beside us, screaming at us, "DONT GIVE UP! GIVE ME YOUR BEST!" Even when we have no strength left, he's beside us the whole way, encouraging us, pushing us forward. And when we're in the middle of our "death crawl", and we're on the ground crying "It hurts.", God's by us, yelling, "Dont quit on me! I want your BEST-YOUR VERY BEST!" When we scream, "I'm out of strength!", he says, "Don't you give up on me. You keep going, you hear me? Don't give up on me! You're doing good!" While we're screaming, "I CANT", he's right there saying, "YOU CAN!"
And finally, when we've reached the end of our rope and can't continue anymore, he unblindfolds us, and shows us we're in the "end zone"... It's incredible.
Amen! It is incredible. I never thought of it like that before and really... I should have! This wasn't really from the movie. A person on youtube commented this for the movie, but it wasn't actually said IN the movie. I really thought this was touching and it was a great awakening for me. Hope it was for y'all too! (lol y'all)
Jesus said the most important thing you could do with your life was to love God with everything you are and love others as yourself.
Just another one of those things you need to be reminded of.
There were two men, both praying to God for rain on their fields. One prepared his fields and the other didn't, but only the one that prepared his fields received rain.
Who do you think believed and trusted in God to provide rain for his fields?
Of course, the one that prepared his fields received the rain from God, because he believed God would provide the rain for him, so he was always preparing for that day. While the other kept praying but never prepared because he didn't fully trust in God. He had doubts and fears, and so didn't prepare his fields.
We, like the one man that prepared his fields, need to prepare ourselves if we want God to answer are prayers. If we are praying to go to university, we need to prepare ourselves for university. When we prepare ourselves, we believe and trust in God.
If one doubts their chances to go to university, why prepare? They don't prepare.
This was one of the stories this man told in the story. I thought it was like told just for me or something! In summary, it's saying, I can't just pray and pray for something and not prepare for it to come true. But I need to prepare and pray. It's like me praying for university. I pray and pray to get accepted in to Harvard, let's say... But I do know that Harvard accepts only a specific amount of people based on specific, very specific, qualifications and achievements. I can't just pray and pray to God 24/7 and expect me to get in when I'm not making straight As or studying for the SAT. I need to prepare myself for Harvard AND pray for Harvard. I think this applies to any situation, and it's really true, I think.
God gave us his one and only son so that we may live for him.
It was just one of those quotes that I needed as a reminder. Reminders are always good, because you know it, but it's not with you. Being reminded of things keeps it in our thoughts for a while.
If we win, we praise Him. If we lose, we praise Him.
This quote I thought was really important for me. It is so easy to praise God when everything goes your way, but how about when it doesn't? It's so hard, oh boy do I know! But really, this quote made me really think hard about me and what I do when something goes terribly wrong. Do I praise him when I lose too? It really made me make an effort in trying to change my ways. Very nice quote!
I hope you guys like the quotes for August of 2010!
More posts to come!!!
