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What would you think if someone prayed a blessing over you asking God to treat you just as you have treated them; “And Lord, I ask that you treat Jay just like he treated me today in this deal”. Would it stop you in your tracks long enough to consider making adjustments, making changes within your heart? Would you truly make heart changes so evident to those around you no matter the consequence, so evident by your words and actions, so evident they knew it was for real?

Flywheel is the first of many well written Kendrick Brothers movies. The purpose, to stir a change of heart so evident others will be blessed “…as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them” Luke 6:31 (ESV).

Sherwood Baptist Church (Albany, Georgia) Senior Pastor Michael Catt “You’re in the shape you’re in today because of the choices you’ve made. Your marriage is in the shape it is in today because of the choices you’ve made. Your relationship with your wife and with your children is in the shape it’s in because of the choices you’ve made. You’re in financial bondage today because of the choices you’ve made. God’s Word would set you free if you would read it, but you’re in bondage and you’re stressed and you’re under all the dirt and the stuff and you feel like you’re a slave to your debt and to a relationship because you’ve not listened to the Word of God. And until you listen to the Word of God, you will make the wrong choices, go down the wrong road, lose your family, lose your home, lose your security, lose your investments because God has a way to live life. And you and I cannot live life on our terms and ask God to bless us. And the reason that many people that I’m talking to today are in bondage and in frustration and in defeat is because you don’t really want to know what God says, and you don’t want to live it God’s way”.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

~~~2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)~~~

While I have watched several of the first class Kendrick Brothers’ movies, I only just recently watched “Flywheel”. I must say it is well done, especially considering it was their very first movie. While Alex Kendrick’s childhood dreams of becoming a filmmaker have truly been blessed by God, in the I am Second film he candidly reveals the challenges it has had on his own relationship with God, his marriage and family, and how God wonderfully uses these amazing movies to not only challenge, but bless his obedience.

“God said something to me. It’s like He spoke to me so clearly I heard Him word for word. And He said Alex, would you rather have an easier rode with less fruit or a harder rode with more fruit” Alex Kendrick.

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Blessings!

JUST A SIP

Harvest Is Coming, Stay Strong

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 taylorjamesalbert

“And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.”

~~~Galatians 6:9 (AMPC)~~~

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

~~~Galatians 6:9 (KJV)~~~

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To God Be The Glory!

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 taylorjamesalbert

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.”

~~~Psalm 19:1-2 (KJV)~~~

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Labour Not In Vain

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 taylorjamesalbert

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

~~~1 Corinthians 15:58 (KJV)~~~

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The Lord Is My Strength

February 28, 2021March 1, 2021 taylorjamesalbert

“God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.”

~~~Habakkuk 3:19 (ESV)~~~

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Marriage: God’s Holy Decree

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 taylorjamesalbert

“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

~~~Mark 10:7-9 (KJV)~~~

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Why God Does Our Pruning

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 taylorjamesalbert

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.”

~~~John 15:1-4 (KJV)~~~

“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”

~~~John 15:7-8 (KJV)~~~

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MARRIAGE STANDING

Selfish, Emotional, Nonsensical Crazy-Making, Yep! It Surprised Me, Too!

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 taylorjamesalbert

When a couple goes through marital issues, poor decisions are often made, strike that, poor decisions are always made. While I did not divorce my husband, my crazy-making, in word and deed, led my amazing husband to want to run away from home, far, far away. I get it, yes,…now I get it. We have both apologized to each other and to our precious son, and healing is slowly but surely happening.

“It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house” Proverbs 21:9 (KJV).

Once I let go of my selfish, bitter, revengeful, angry, blaming, prideful,…pity me and poor me attitudes, I was finally able to love my husband in a deeper way, allowing me to see him as a tender, hurting, and severely damaged soul. You see, we fell head over heels in love way back, well I recorded in my journal that I had met the man of my dreams, was in love, and yes, ready to marry my future husband back on January 17th of 1982. It’s seems like just yesterday. I still feel the joy, excitement, and yes, the love.

What’s so difficult when it comes to marital issues is that it always looks like your better half has all the problems. Your emotions get the best of you causing you to begin seeing them as selfish and so, let the games begin. Funny, truth be told, you, yourself, are being selfish.

No, I’m not going to discount your or my spouse’s part to play in all of this nonsense, just pointing out how it wasn’t just my husband, but Moi as well who needed to get my head examined, my eyes check, and my heart cleansed of all selfishness.

“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (KJV).

We absolutely must stay on guard, watching out for those moments when we find ourselves thinking more about ourselves than about the relationship, the marriage. Marriage is about two people coming together, two people who have vowed to forsake all others and to commit to the bond, the unity created before God and family.

“And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand” Matthew 12:25 (KJV).

I can still hear that still small voice whispering in my ear of how a house divided cannot stand. Of course I couldn’t see how I was creating division in our marriage by becoming selfish. What I convinced myself of was how I was doing everything I possibly could to prevent such a division from occurring. I was on a mission, a mission commissioned by God no less. Crazy huh? This is how selfishness works and ultimately how selfishness causes us to lose every single time.

Thank God He does not quit on us. Thank God He is a God who forgives, forgets, heals and restores. I like to say God is a God of second-second chances. And for this I will forever be grateful.