Photos by Timothy Ramsey
The WJSJZ. (Women in Spiritual Excellence) min
istry of Kimberly Park Holiness Church, 1640 SM
Caesar Drive, sponsored a showing of the Christian
movie "War Room."
Carolyn Edmond, first
lady of Kimberly Park
Holiness Church
Members of Kimberly Park Holiness Church discuss the movie "War Room"
after viewing it on Saturday, Dec 26.
War Room
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who travels frequently and
Elizabeth is a real estate
agent. Elizabeth meets Ms.
Clara as she is attempting
to sell her home. Tony and
Elizabeth's marriage is on
shaky ground and they
argue frequently. Ms. Clara
immediately sees that
Elizabeth is having issues
and begins to probe about
her personal life and
befriends her.
Ms. Clara shows
Elizabeth her home that she
has lived in for 50 years.
She then shows her prayer
room to Elizabeth and tells
her that the power of prayer
has helped her along in life,
and that she has been where
Elizabeth is. Ms. Clara tells
Elizabeth that she calls her
prayer room her "War
Room" where she fights
her spiritual battles.
Tony, in the meantime,
is very contentious toward
Elizabeth, nor does he
spend much time with his
daughter Danielle. He
spends a lot of his time
traveling for his job and
almost has an affair with
another woman while away
on a business trip.
Ms. Clara and
Elizabeth's relationship
quickly blossoms and
Elizabeth fully commits to
the teachings of Ms. Clara.
She begins to transform her
prayer life and the way she
relates to her husband and
daughter. Elizabeth then
creates her own "War
Room" where she begins to
pray for her family and
totally surrenders to God.
Tony loses his job
because of his dishonesty
and hits rock bottom. He
then finds Elizabeth's "War
Room" and sees that she
has been praying for him
even though their relation
ship has been rocky. They
begin to repair their rela
tionship and Tony repents
to God, his family and his
former employer. In the
end, the family's prayers
have been answered and
they become the tight-knit
unit they have always
wanted to be.
Elizabeth tells Ms.
Clara that she has been a
huge blessing in her life
and Ms. Clara finally tells
her that she has prayed to
God to bring her someone
to teach her ways of prayer.
She lets Clara know that
she must pay it forward by
showing another woman
the power of prayer.
"I enjoyed the movie
and it had parts that related
to young people and it
inspired me and it's a very
good movie. In the begin
ning of the movie, she was
kind of bitter and had a lot
of hatred in her heart and I
can relate and see how that
can manifest in young peo
ple and adults," said youth
member Sydney Himes of
Kimberly Park, where the
pastor is Robert Edmond.
Laura Ford, Sunday
school teacher and prayer
leader, said, "It's powerful
and it's at a perfect time,
simply because you may
have people at your church
praying. It needs to be on a
larger scale and this movie
helps to bring that out for
others to see. Prayer is not
just done in a comer, and
when the whole church
comes together to pray,
then it actually makes a
great difference, not only in
the lives of those doing the
praying, but in the church
as a whole and also in the
community."
She went on to say, "I
love the idea that we battle
on our knees because many
times we think it's a physi
cal war, but the true root of
the matter is spiritual, so
we have to make sure we
use spiritual weapons to
defeat the enemy."
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The DVD is now available at any Walmart in the
Winston-Salem area. It's also available at Redbox at
Walgreens, 3488 Robinhood Road, and Food Lion,
1499 New Walkertown Road. Lifeway Christian
Stores, 1082 Hanes Mall Blvd., has it, or you can order
it at www.lifeway.com. Amazon has it, and it can be
purchased at www.amazon.com/War-Room.
LESSON
from page 65
Lesson: After working
a month for his uncle with
out pay, Jacob is given the
opportunity to choose a fair
wage for his labor. Already
smitten with the beauty
Rachel, Jacob proposes a
deal to work for seven
years for Rachel's hand in
marriage. Laban agrees and
the time passes very quick
ly for Jacob. At the end of
the seven years, Jacob
requests his pay of Laban.
Laban uses this opportunity
to marry off his eldest
daughter Leah, who by
report is not the beauty that
Rachel is. Under the cover
of night, Laban slips Leah
into the marriage bed and
Jacob, blinded by desire
and, of course, real love,
consummates the marriage
with her only to find in the
light of day, Rachel has a
replacement. After con
fronting Laban, who
explains the custom of mar
riage for the eldest daugh
ter first as the practice of
his people, a new deal is
struck. Laban proposes
and Jacob agrees to honor
his deceitful marriage and
complete the week-long rit
ual in exchange for permis
sion to also marry Rachel
at week's end. This, how
ever, would cost Jacob
seven more years of labor
as payment.
For your consideration:
the nature of the rela
tionship between Laban
and Jacob and Jacob and
Esau.
Was there an advantage
to Jacob in all of the deal
ings with Laban that he
overlooked?
There is a cost for love;
give and take can have
enormous effects on our
spiritual maturity... ponder
the pros and cons.
Reap what you sow ....
what, when, how?
Life's Application:
Beauty is in the eye of the
beholder; true enough but
one needs to see past the
physical and identify attrib
utes that are complementa
ry to your own person,
character and values.
Engagement periods are
more than a time period to
plan the wedding - it is also
a time to plan a shared life.
This time should also be
used as a season of real
observance of compatibili
ty, life goals, and lifestyle
adjustments that may be
necessary to strengthen
your love in adverse iitua
tions or circumsjfinces.
What then is a reasonable
period of engagement and
how do you keep God in
the equation? Jacob did not
sleep with Rachel until
after the ceremony, not as a
prelude to it.
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