Today is an exciting day! #FaithHealingMovie is an official selection for the 2024 Christian Worldview Film Festival in Albany, Georgia, and we couldn’t feel more blessed and excited!
Not only that, but we will be releasing the film on our website THIS SUMMER!! We are so excited for you to see this amazing film, its stellar cast, and its unforgettable message about the healing power of Forgiveness! Be sure to stay tuned, because a NEW TRAILER, PREVIEW CLIPS, and other cool stuff could be coming your way VERY SOON!! Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter so you won't miss out! Click HERE to sign up: https://project2911productions.weebly.com/contact.html Thank you for your love and support! We couldn't do this without you! God bless!
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God continues to move, bless, and confirm the calling He has placed on our lives! Faith Healing has been nominated for Best Writing and Best and Sound and Music in the Great Lakes Christian Film Festival! We thank them so much for this honor and feel so blessed!
Congratulations to Writer and Director Branton McMahan, Score Composer Kenji Standlee, and Sound Mixer Ken Everson! Congratulations to our friend and Director of Photography Jason R. Johnston! #FaithHealingMovie has been nominated for Best Cinematography by the 2023 CONTENT Film Festival and Media Summit! We couldn't be more proud or excited for his well-deserved nomination!
It’s an exciting week for us as #faithhealingmovie is heading to 2 FILM FESTIVALS!! We are so excited and feel so blessed to be a part of these events.
If you’d like to learn more or purchase tickets for the events, click these links below! https://www.cffilmfest.org/ https://glcff.com/ This will be my final post for the month of June.
It’s no coincidence in my mind that all this started right as my pastors were going on sabbatical for the month as well. The first Sunday of that month was the first time in my life I truly felt like I not only heard God speak, but that I truly listened to what He had to say. It felt good to stop journaling, which is how I think and process, and admittedly overthink, and just listen. Be present, be still, and work in God’s presence. The truth is often what we make of it and what we chose to believe based on our own points of view. The truth is that I was trying to force God to show me what I wanted to see instead of focusing on the here and now. While I continue to struggle and earnestly pray for a change in many areas of my life, I also pray that God would help me to do better and to prosper and bloom where I’ve been placed right now. Knowing that where I am is only temporary and that God may be starting the change I pray for in my life put into perspective that this is where God has placed me and what He wants me to focus on right now. All of a sudden, that made bad days more bearable and even joyful. In the end, I learned this month that our greatest moments come in moments of surrender. And when I finally learned how to surrender, I began to walk with a new pep in my step and truly experience joy in all circumstances. Everything. Work. Ideas. Creativity. It all just began to flow with God instead of against Him. Instead of me working against God or running away from Him, I began to truly walk with God instead of ahead of Him. God was beginning to put something together one piece at a time because I began to pursue the little ideas He gave me instead of the big projects I wanted to do. I am so thankful and blessed that God allowed me to go through this month. It wasn’t what I prayed for or what I even wanted. I wanted to avoid something that dishonors God, but God used this short season to draw me into a closer relationship with Him and reveal some painful albeit necessary truths. Now as I wait and pray for change to take place, I walk with greater joy and trust in Him. As I pursue ideas instead of projects, I feel happy to fulfill my calling according to His will, not my own. Thank your for following me along this journey, but if I know God, this is only the beginning of something great and honoring to His name. On the advice of someone who has truly taken me in as one of their own and mentored me spiritually, I finally began a Bible study plan to read the Bible straight through from beginning to end within a year. Since then, I have learned things about Scripture that I never knew before. I now realize that I was lost, but now I’m found. I was blind, but now I see differently. And with that came a new spark of faith, a new desire to pursue God, and new ability to be strategic in my studies and seek God out in the areas of life I feel He is calling me to pursue.
That being said, the Bible says that God knows our needs before we even ask them. And God answered a prayer that I stopped praying a long time ago because it just seemed too far out. But with God all things are possible. And that’s what God revealed to me through experiences that led to the place I am now! Even in a season of financial and emotional hardship there are blessings. Combined with the debt of repairing my truck after a deer strike, I lost nearly $3,000 completing post-production for Faith Healing when a crew member and I had a falling out, forcing me to dip further into my own money to finally complete the project that was burning me out in every area of my life. It was hard and risky. I began to doubt God and feared falling back into a trap I’d been victim to in 2020. But recently, I have truly began to realize what a rich man I am as well as how essential tithing is to my walk with Christ. In a season where I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to pay the bills, not to mention being forced to put so many things on hold, God always gave me enough. Never too little. Not always too much. He never allowed me to go upside down, and while at times I was living with less than $150 in my bank account and nearly no savings to fall back on, God never gave me less than what I needed. But I realized that God needed me to give Him a little more. So I began to give God what I had plus a little extra, and He blessed and multiplied it just like when Jesus fed the 5,000 (Matthew 14:13-21). Financially and Spiritually, I felt like a rich man, and began to see it both in my heart and in my bank account. The Bible explicitly says that we cannot serve two master; God and money. Only one or the other, but we are to use the latter to honor the former. Our money is God’s that He gives and takes away from us. He doesn’t need our money, but He does ask that we use it to honor Him and demonstrate our trust and faith in Him. Personally, I pray that God would enrich all of us who tithe so that we may give more than what our bank accounts say we can.
On our last day in PCB, our prayers were answered. The storm clouds and rip currents gave way to clear, blue skies and water calm enough to wade. Calm by comparison to what Peter had to walk on to get to Jesus. It was disappointing to say the least that we waited all week for one day to play safely in the water, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
God needed me to be focused, not distracted. If I’d spent all my time sleeping or swimming, I would never have been in a place mentally or spiritually to hear what He was trying to say to me. In a season where God has felt a million miles away, to spend a week in His presence and realize that He is still at work in my life despite my feelings of depression, burnout, and inadequacy was worth more to me than any vacation. I’m so blessed that I get to come here, and I hope to be about continue to return to this place year after year. As the sun rose after a sleepless night midway through our week in Panama City, I sensed that it was time for me to make a change, and I recalled something my old boss and even my pastor told me once. You can’t grow if you remain in your comfort zone.
There’s nothing like going down to the beach early before everyone else arrives and smelling the fresh ocean air in the morning. I’ve been coming down to Panama City for years, and not once have I really noticed that smell or been on the beach almost completely alone. It was a welcome, beautiful sensation, as will be what I hope and pray God is about to allow to happen. I’ve been praying for a change in many areas of my life, and I realized that it was time for me to start seeking out those opportunities and praying for open doors. I believe that God was beginning to guide me through steps I need to take to make that happen. I pray it would be so. I had prayed leading up to my vacation for a divine encounter, but I figured that was with a person or something. In actuality, I was praying for a divine encounter with God, and for the first time in so long, I felt like God was speaking to me directly offering me His wisdom and guidance as I tend to pray for night after night. Now I just pray for the strength and courage to carry out these steps He’s calling me to take. I encourage you that if you are called to take a leap of faith, God will surely catch you when you jump. |