A message from Girls With Swords Study by Lisa Bevere
and I turn around looks at the TV and I
said what are we watching
he said mom we are watching Terminator
now I am NOT saying it is a Christian
movie I watched the edited television
version of it and it is 80s awful but
there is basically a storyline in this
that I need to unpack for you it is the
story of Sarah Connor she is a moped
riding waitress every single day she
goes to Marie Callender where she serves
pie and coffee and every single night
she goes home and waits by the phone
hoping some blind dates gonna work out
for her that is until Arnold
Schwarzenegger the former Governor of
California and Maria Shriver Zechs
husband comes back from the future and
he has one goal and mine and that is to
assassinate everyone with the name Sarah
Connor and you know what it doesn’t look
like he is going to fail because he has
in his possession the height of eighties
data which is a page torn out of the
yellow book and he is crossing them off
one by one when Sarah realizes she might
be in danger
she did what a lot of us did in the 80s
she goes out to a bar she’s gonna get
lost in a crowd
Arnold shows up guns blazing but at the
same time as her assassin from the
future shows up her protector from the
future shows up and he grabs ahold of
Sarah and he says if you want to live
come with me the lego movie has
rephrased this too if you want to not
die come with me
Sarah looks at all the dead people and
she decides to leave with this complete
stranger and they’re in the car running
away from the relentless pursuing
assassin and the whole time the bullets
are flying and chaos is going on her
protector from the future is trying to
tell her who she is he said in the
future you’re a hero
the future we fight with the strategies
you wrote down for us in the future your
son is our general she’s like stop it
right there this is a horrible case of
mistaken identity I am a waitress I
don’t even have a boyfriend but he
continues to tell her who she is
until Sarah has a meltdown and if you
saw her hair you would understand why
the eighties for an awkward time for a
lot of us anyway
Sarah yells but I haven’t done anything
and our protector from the future looks
at her and says no but you will and it
was in that moment that I realized that
the enemy of our souls often knows who
we are long before we wake up and
realize who we are and I need you to
hear something I don’t know what your
life has looked like up into this moment
but I do know this the attacks on your
life have much more to do with who you
might be in the future than who you have
been in the past and the enemy
strategically targets people he is not
stupid he has got to see things and he
knows how it’s gonna play out he
strategically targets people when they
are young to try to take them out of
their destiny but your history does not
determine your destiny
and I need every woman here to learn the
two things that Sarah learned in the car
that night number one you’re a target I
know we didn’t tell you that during the
altar call
I know Christine didn’t say oh by the
way you’re a target that she left this
for me the moment you became a Christian
you became a target see Christian is not
a nice person who passes out tracks
instead of candy on Halloween Christian
actually means anointed one and when you
are anointed by God’s Spirit you are
marked and when you are marked by the
anointing of the Most High God you are
noted by the enemy I’m sorry your target
that’s that’s just what’s gonna happen
but the second part you do have a choice
about you just might be a hero