Amazing, amazing God!!!!!

Ok.... my last post had the following comment...

I'm told that there is a new movie out called "The Flywheel", produced by the same church that created "Facing the Giants". I have not seen it yet, but if God is at the center of it, I'll DEFINITELY check it out..... and possibly add it to my list of favorites!

Well..... The Flywheel now TOPS my list of favorites! I don't even know how to begin! It is about honoring God with your money, and with every area of your life, and about the husband being the spiritual leader of his household, being a godly husband, father, employer... and letting GOD be in control of every area of your life. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How is it that this movie came out in 2003, and I am just finding out about it 5 years later?? God's timing is amazing amazing amazing!! We are at a place in our life right now where we are on the other end of this same story. My husband had a call to ministry on his life many years ago... 1989. He knew he was called of God, but at such a young age, he made choices that took him in the opposite direction for a while. As his wife of 13 years, I have been praying for him to answer that call. I prayed many of the things that the wife in this movie prayed. It has been so amazing to watch God work and get ahold of my husband's heart! Praise God!!! Not that he wasn't loving and serving God. He totally was! But to see him step with authority into his God given role as spiritual leader of our family and then answer the call to ministry has been an incredible experience. We have been working hard to correct wrong choices in our financial life, and have been honoring God with our tithes, and it has been quite an experience to watch God work on our behalf. He is so wonderful. I have been talking alot with my next door neighbor, Chris. She and her family attend a different church in the area. She really loves the Lord, and we have lots of great talks about God. Lately, her pastor has been teaching a lot on finances, and last week, every person in the church received a plastic card the size of a credit card to keep in their wallet/purse. She picked one up for me. It is two sided. Here is what it says:

Side one...

My Commitment


Today I trust God with my money and
commit myself to His financial plan.
Contentment is mine,
knowing that He will meet
my every need.

Side two...

Taking control of my money

Step 1. Ask God for the courage to take control of your finances.
Step 2. Ask God for wisdom and develop a spending plan.
Step 3. Ask God for faith, and tithe consistently.
Step 4. Ask God for the discipline to get out of debt and stay out of debt.
Step 5. Ask God to give you a heart of contentment.

Wow....

I have to tell you....this is an amazing end to my evening. Tonight was the fire department banquet, and my husband and I got a baby sitter and headed out. It was the typical evening of banquets that we attend for fire and rescue... good food, good fellowship with friends, lots of honor given where honor is due.... lots of alcohol, lots of lousy ungodly music.... and tonight, and unexpected jab at my husband (typical of the enemy since my husband has committed to serving God in ministry) that I found quite hurtful, but said nothing except to my husband. One very cool thing is that my husband was asked to give the blessing before eating( which occurred directly after said jab)... he turned an embarrassing jab over to God and the Lord left a Godly impression of him in everyone's mind instead. How cool is that??? We left when the music started getting particularly bad. But the evening took a turn for the better when I took our sitter home. She is a member of our youth group and my kids LOVE her! She is a great young lady. As I was taking her home, we were talking, and the subject turned to the awesome miracle working power of God. We discussed the couple in Arkansas whose house was totally blown away by a tornado as they stood in the kitchen of their home, but they were unmoved and unscathed.... the linoleum floor they were standing on was stripped from under them and the house blown away.... they never moved or felt a thing. God is amazing. We talked about my husband's little brother who was two years old when he ran into the road chasing a dog, and a car came.... mom called on the name of Jesus, and he became spirit as he passed through the moving car.... it didn't hurt him at all!! We talked about the blouse or sweater or whatever it is, on display at the museum of UPCI headquarters, which has a bullet hole in it where a bullet hit a lady, I think, in the chest, made a hole in the sweater, then bounced off the chest and onto the ground. Our God is a God of unlimited wonder!! There is NOTHING He cannot do.... nothing He WILL NOT do for His children!


THEN.... I come back home, and my husband puts in the Flywheel movie, and I bawl my eyes out half a dozen times as God speaks to my heart through the words of the actors.... the end of my night FAR surpassed the beginning, even though I DO like going out with my husband for the evening once in a while! YOU ROCK, babe! But God is mind blowing!!!!!! Thank you, Jason, for choosing to serve Him!!!!!