In this movie I watched over the weekend, a woman is desperate to get married and after a motivational talk from her pastor, she proceeds to buy her wedding gown, in anticipation that her boyfriend, or any prince charming for that matter, will propose to her. This got me wondering if this woman, or real women like her, are being deceived by their pastors or if is this real faith? Do you believe buying a wedding gown will bring your wedding day closer, when there's no fiance in the picture?
this is desperation of the highest order (biko, pardon my English)...now, did she mis-understand the pastor or what...I guess I have to watch the movie to see how this played out.
ReplyDeleteGirls are getting desperate
Uche Jombo killed this role lol funny movie of the year for me....couldn't stop laughing....
ReplyDeleteShe was quite good, I enjoyed the movie.
Deletewhere did u watch it?
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DeleteLol...no mehn. This is not right at all.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that's what the pastor meant though...she played it out the way she liked.
well, i believe that what you believe in works for you. Faith has seen me through many aspect of my life. so if for anyone like the character being a "Mrs" is their priority or topmost on their list, exercising a little faith (as small as a mustard seed) is capable of yielding results
ReplyDeleteI think the act of going the whole hog to buy a gown is faith without doubt. It was this level of faith that made Abraham "consider not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb" Rom 4:19.
ReplyDeleteAt this level, it's a personal conviction, not just because "my pastor said buy the gown" but because the person has encountered God the Almighty who makes "seemingly impossible" possible.
hahaha....thats just too funny.
ReplyDeletetheres faith and theres desperation. praying is faith.........buying a wedding gown is desperation
There is faith. And buying a wedding gown can be faith. Though some people would do it not in faith but out of desperation.
ReplyDeleteWhen a couple goes ahead to shop for a baby and fix up a nursery and all that,even when they had been trying for years to have a baby,its faith.
We all have our measure of faith.
I've also heard of that, and I agree that we all have different understandings/measures of our individual faith.
DeleteI wish i had that type of faith! Just like Tamie said above i know someone who started buying baby clothes a year before she got pregnant but there is a borderline between having faith and being desperate in this situation i think
ReplyDeleteHaha there's a thin line between faith and craze... #ThatEezAll
ReplyDeleteI think it is about having faith
ReplyDeletei will take your word when you proof to me that
you hear God expressly
It is like buying baby clothes because you believe
you will conceive in spite of a doctors report or
having waited a long time
By the way, faith is like being crazy
Few people believe in things they can't see
we prefer to believe in what we can see and call it faith
Thank God, Jesus is the one who created faith
She's not wrong.
Where she went wrong was in advertising it,
but then every man has their own work of faith
I personally do not like having cheerleaders rooting
for you to lose because they don't believe
Most humans would rather go with logic?
I am one of those that think faith without works is dead, but is buying a gown really 'work'? I'll rather go with logic.
DeleteAh myne forget o, lol its not desperation.
ReplyDeleteTrue life story i know a lady who did the same, her own was even more complex, let me gist you.
She was told that cos she used to drive to work and all, she was limiting her choices and not meeting people to interact with. She stopped driving, started taking the bus, got her wedding gown, notified bridesmaids to be ready,THE MOST EXTREME PART - she started using only one side of her wardrobe, bed etc. they said if you think, belief and act like you have it then you do. she started cooking for two as well and setting two sets of food on the table when eating. she met her husband less than a month later, he was a senior manager in a bank and his car broke down so he was waiting for a cab as she was too. in about 6 months or so, they were married. they are still together today and blessed with 3 kids.
That is not the only one o, i know another story(i don't know the receipient of this one but my friend claimed it happened to her aunt) that the pastor told this lady (42 years old) to buy her gown that he had a vision that her husband would soon arrive. In faith she bought it, as a church worker, she got posted to a smaller parish. She didn't want to go initially because she felt that if she didn't find suitors in the big parish, would she then find in a small parish but the pastor told her to go. the sunday she resumed as an usher in that small parish, a nigerian dude who lives abroad came for the service. when he was coming into church, as an usher she pointed to a seat for him, they said immediately he saw her, he screamed and ran out of the church. His mum went after him and he told his mum that for the past 15 years he had been having dreams regarding a particular girl that the girl is his wife but he head never met her. which was also why he never got into any relationship as he was loooking for the girl in that dream. to cut the long story short, they got married two weeks later and she relocated with him. they've been married for 5 years now.
If these are real stories and not urban legends, then I am convinced, LOL...
Delete@myne very funny at ur urban stories
DeleteI think this is the Best Nollywood film I've seen all year... VEry cute!
ReplyDeleteIf someone tells me she's going to do this, I won't fault her. To each their own...we've all been given THE (not "a") measure of faith equally so it is your choice if you choose to make yours stronger or weaker or dormant.
ReplyDelete@ Luciano, I don't think praying alone is faith...faith without works (actions) is dead.
Good one Myne, thought provoking...
deceived by pastor? what if she had come up with the decision on her own? there's nothing wrong with it. I remember when I was trusting God for my first car, before I even went shopping, I started buying car accessories. I think such acts even motivate
ReplyDeleteMyne, it's faith. It's not the gown that'll bring the husband. It's your faith. Buying the gown is exercising your faith that your husband is coming and that you would wear that gown on the altar, getting married to your husband. Even if your Pastor said it, it's your faith that makes you go ahead and buy it. It's not desperation.
ReplyDeleteYeah, you are absolutely right
DeleteSmacks of pure desperation if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteFaith is believing without seeing, and faith without action is dead. Many said "desperation" but I will say that if you go out and buy in true faith that you will get married, and pray and believe it, the bible says it will be done. However, hoping and waiting for magic is a different story. With God nothing is impossible, your faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains! My sister bought a dress and she "liked" a guy in a different country and everyone called her crazy. Well, guess what she got married to that very man and they have 3 kids and they are raising them in a household that praises God everyday. People will call you crazy, but a preacher once said, pray till they get annoyed and call you crazy. The buying of the gown could have been influenced by the Pastor, but God sees the heart, so if she did it without believing then she would have failed. Your faith is what matters, and that is increased by His grace and prayer.
ReplyDeletePlease can someone help me with the last Christian music that was used in this movie. Please email me at annsukhanite@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI have honestly seen a very fine pair of shoes I would love to wear for my wedding and asked my then BF to help me get. He probably thot I was hysterical. LMAO.
ReplyDeleteMany different reasons for different acts. I may buy a wedding dressing before meeting my groom simply because I find it stunning. SO, this may not be desperation -depends on which angle one is coming from. Ultimately, its the person in question who knows whether it is a true act of faith or desperation! We simply can't say.
We watched this movie at my Sisters' Fellowship in church and talked about it.we noticed that she didn't seem to be employed or busy but kept trying one tactic or the other to get married. Ladies get a life! She truly seemed desperate, but the moment she calmed down, she met The One. Desperation is not a good perfume to wear; it sends the wrong signals to the wrong kind of guys.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, uche jombo was great in this movie!! :)