I feel like I have been facing
giants all my life, like everyone does at some point or another. So when I saw
the title of this movie “Facing the Giants” I decided to watch it and see what
it was all about. It is a Christian
movie and is based on a Shiloh Christian Academy football team which are led by
head coach Grant Taylor.
He has been in charge of the team for six
years but the team have never won a game.
Now on his seventh year of head coach the season begins with a
three-game losing streak. The father’s
of the players are angry about this and blame Taylor and talk about replacing
him with the defensive coordinator Brady Owens.
The losing streak of his
football team is not Grant’s only problem – his car is old and keeps breaking
down and he discovers that his wife cannot become pregnant which hurts her so
much as she really wants to be a mother.
Grant turns to God for help
and asks him to speak to him. And God
does talk to him through Bible verses:
“These are the words of him
who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can
shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8 I know your deeds. See, I have
placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little
strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name” (Revelation 3 vs 8)
Basically this says that the
Lord is not through with us yet – he has opened doors for us to walk through
and we should walk through them and see what happens. This verse was shown to me this week when God
opened a door for me and I was scared to walk through it, but decided to as by
not doing so, I am not obeying God and he knows what is best for me.
Like Grant did, he need to
give all we have to God and leave the results up to Him and no matter how hard
it hurts, we need to keep going.
Grant decides to create a new
coaching philosophy and decides to praise God, no matter if they lose, no
matter if they win, they are going to praise God. He guides and urges each one of his players
to give the maximum effort and motivates them to believe they can under God’s
provision. From that point on, the Eagles lose only one more game for the rest
of the season and advance all the way to the state championship against the three-time defending champion Richland
Giants. Even though the Eagles have only a third as many players as the Giants,
the Eagles hold their own and ultimately win the game on a 51-yard field goal
from a backup kicker who had never kicked more than a 35-yarder before. Grant’s prayers have been answered and God has
rewarded him and his team for their obedience and faith.
And that is not
the only good news that Grant receives that night – he also finds out what his
wife Brooke has conceived after four years of not being able to and he is going
to be a Dad. Another answer to prayer
for Grant Taylor.
I learnt a lot
from this movie:
- Be patient
- Can’t judge people by their actions and then judge yourself by your intenstions
- We need the right attitude – a can do attitude – a postivie attitude
- With God nothing is impossible
- In the Bible, God’s word, the words “Do not fear” are mentioned 365 times and if God said something that many times then he must be serious about it. If God wants us to remember something he usually says it three times, so he must really want us not to fear as he said it 365 times – this is one “Do not fear” for every day of the year. Amazing.
- As long as we honour God nothing is impossible
- We need to praise him when you win and praise him when you lose
- God can do whatever he wants to do, whenever he chooses. And he chooses to work in our lives because he loves us. As it says in Matthew 19 vs 26: Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
If you have a chance to watch the movie do, but
more importantly read Revelation Chapter 3, it has a lot of important stuff to
say to us all.
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