By: Ericka Ulysse
Looking for a movie about extreme faith, constant prayer, love, and heartbreak? Then “I Still Believe” is one you should check out. This movie is based on the life of American Contemporary Christian music singer-songwriter, Jeremy Camp, and his late wife, Melissa Lynn Henning-Camp.
The film begins as Jeremy spots Melissa Henning in a crowd during worship. The two attended a Christian college in Southern California where their relationship transforms from friendship to the ideal love story of hope and faith. Jeremy convinces Melissa that it is God’s destiny for them to be together. Melissa argues the compelling idea at first until she sees Jeremy’s faithfulness.
In the midst of the spark of their love, their world is turned upside down as Melissa is diagnosed with ovarian cancer shortly before they are married.
As Melissa undergoes exhausting surgeries and chemotherapy treatments, Jeremy becomes more and more successful in his Gospel musical career. During Melissa’s process, he asks his concert audiences to pray for Melissa in hopes of full recovery.
The song, “I Still Believe” was also birthed out of the incredible story between Jeremy and Melissa of love and the tragic loss they faced. Despite the harrowing events, the young couple maintained their faith in God through all of it.
This movie is proof that suffering draws out the true thoughts, attitudes, assumptions, and desires of our hearts to ultimately grow us even closer to God. How can someone continue to trust God after the unimaginable? After death. When the one thing you prayed for constantly and consistently for God to do goes the opposite direction? Through pain and suffering, I Still Believe shows us that even after pain and suffering you can develop your relationship with God, sustain it, trust, and believe again
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