Activating The Right Genes

I just happened to watch Gattaca this morning while getting ready to head to Lakewood Church where the sermon title was "Activating the Right Gene". The movie was about "a genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel" and the sermon was about how though we may be "genetically predisposed" to certain negative traits we can choose to activate the things that God says about us and not what science says about us! It got me wondering if there are things about myself that I feel have been inherited through my bloodline and will inevitably hold me back. I'm still not sure. In this blog I want o talk about the movie and the sermon.

Gattaca

The first Title card is a scripture from the Bible, "Consider God's handiwork; who can straighten what He hath made crooked? (Ecclesiastes 7:13)"  We soon meet  Society categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and Jerome Morrow as a perfect genetic specimen. Jerome is a paraplegic who lacks desire and Vincent Freeman is a "god child" willing to risk everything to succeed.

I thought one of the most interesting parts in the movie was when Vincent said that from an early age he came to think of himself as others thought of him, chronically ill and wherever he went genetic prophecy preceded him. I actually talked about this movie with my husband on the way to church. When people decide that they have a disadvantage anything that happens becomes evidence to that belief but Vincent proved that the things that happened were only evidence that he was human. I don't want to give away too much of the movie, because I want you to go watch it. I watched it for free on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 using the Crackle app.

Joel Osteen at Lakewood Church

• There are genes that you can deactivate.
• Its easy to use genes as an excuse but I need to take responsibility For myself. Not only can I put A stop to a curse but I can pass down a blessing
• Iniquities will continue until someone takes a stand to put a stop to it.
  Deuteronomy 30:19 KJV
  I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
  ★ Ernest Hemingway's Family has a history of suicide .
  ★Make choices that help my family
• IF Saul had taken care of his enemy (in l Samuel 15) when he had the power then Esther may not had to deal with that issue 500 years later. 
  Ezekiel 18:2-3 KJV
  What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God , ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
  My family may have made decisions that set me back but this is a new day. Deal with the issues that are holding me back.
• James 5:16 KJV
  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
  ★You can not sweep things under the rug and expect it to go away. 
• Dont learn to function in the dysfunction.
• ★Don't Take The Scenic Route
  The Osteens went on a trip and the bellman took them down a beautiful winding road to their bungalow. So that IS the way Joel would go. The next day Joel's son told him that there was a shorter way. Joel refused arguing that he was going the way that the bellman went. On the last day of
  the trip Johnathan asked if they could go his way just once, so they did. His way was shorter; it turns out the bellman was taking the scenic route and according to the map, it was a big circle .
• ★ Sometimes what l have seen modeled may not have been the right way. I need to examine the things that I do and determine whether that the best way.

Victoria At Lakewood Church

Someone May Need to Borrow Your Shoes

Acts 20:35 KJV
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

• God wants us to be tanked up because it is more blessed to give then to receive . we usually think about physical gifts but words one free encouragement is free and etc...
• Joel and Victoria went to Italy and bought his dad some nice shoes. After his dad died , Joel wore those shoes for 2 years.
• Joel's dad had lived a life that Joel wanted to glean from.
• We need to live in such away that others want to borrow our shoes.