Happy Monday!

What a morning we had @ Destiny Family Center yesterday! Worship was amazing! The panel discussion was SO MUCH FUN (Cindi Fortin, Ben Scott, Melanie Thomas, Wayne Howard, and Emily Beauchamp)… then the motocross faith illustration! Transformational!

At the end of it all… three hands went up for salvation… and it was the REAL THING! Joel Gunn, Mary Kennedy, and Keith… people were crying all over the sanctuary as they turned their lives over the Christ!

If you want to watch the entire service, go to the dfc media center and CHECK IT OUT! Yesterdays video should post later today.

Ok, so as you can see in the photo (compliments of Vickie Rankin)… Cole Moore (our church motocross champion)… he demonstrated FAITH using Robby Cline’s bike (Honda cr250r 2 stroke).

In the illustration, I explained 6 symbols and I’m adding one more today: the bike, the rider, the track, the pit crew, the fans, the engine, and the fuel! PLEASE take the time to click on all the Bible verses if you can… this will greatly ENHANCE the effect!

• Vehicle: Your Potential (Ephesians 3:20)
  • In this case, we used Robby Clines Motorcycle.
  • A person can do so many things with his life… everyone has a vehicle, a potential: it’s far greater than most people comprehend!
• The Driver/Rider: You (Jeremiah 29:11)
  • You are special to God… he made YOU for a specific reason… to BE great and DO great things!
  • In this illustration: YOU are just like any other human creature, until YOU PLUG IN TO THE MATRIX.
  • And you can do whatever you feel like doing with your life.
  • In this illustration: everything changes for the RIDER that understands his vehicle, and all the key elements surrounding his vehicle… for the RIDER that learns to RUN HIS RACE as well as it can be run!
• The Track: Your Specific Destiny (Acts 26:19/2Timothy 4:6-8)
  • Every person has a specific purpose in life.
  • Our vehicles were DESIGNED for a certain kind of RACE.
  • We race our best race when were on the right track.
  • We can race our whole lives on the wrong track… it’s important we get in the right race!
• The Pit Crew: Your Pastor & Church Family (Ephesians 4:11-16)
  • These are the people who keep us doing well, and help us do BETTER on the track!
  • I’m gonna refer to these guys and gals as the spiritual mentors in our lives: especially our church leaders!
  • Without a good pit crew, we are going to race poorly, and eventually, we are going to break down!
• The Fans: Your Church Family and Other Supporters (Hebrews 10:25)
  • Some people will tell you it does not matter where a person goes to church.
  • I believe it’s VERY IMPORTANT… where a person goes to church, how often they attend, and how involved they become!
• The Engine: God (Acts 1:8)
  • If you are born again… you have an ENGINE.
  • I believe in varying degrees of Gods power… that a person can go through their whole lives only manifesting a “pit bike” degree of power.
  • According to the Bible and history… we see thousands of examples of men and women who manifested Gods power in a “Sci-Fi” kind of way!
  • You can always upgrade to something with more power!
• The Fuel: Your Faith (Hebrews 11:6)
  • Without faith, we look like a serious contender… we have a personal Bible, and we might go to a cool church, and we have a few fans, and we have about 10 or 15 racing phrases we use…
  • Without faith, we have POTENTIAL, and available POWER… but nothing to FUEL OUR DREAM MACHINE!
  • In the illustration, Cole Moore pushed the bike around for a little while… and I asked him how long he would enjoy racing if he had to PUSH HIS MACHINE! He said, “About a second!”
  • This is what life is like when we live outside of FAITH! We have to PUSH our way through life in our own human strength: with mind and muscle!
  • Just as soon as we LEARN to live by FAITH, everything changes for us!

So, where does a RIDER get FUEL for his bike? At the GAS STATION! And where does a person get FAITH (fuel) for his LIFE?

Romans 10:17 “Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.”

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Happy Saturday!

This is a long saturday blog… BUT A VERY POWERFUL MESSAGE! Invest your time to read it slowly… and watch what happens!

Last week, I received THE GREATEST FACEBOOK MESSAGE of my facebook life! Since this was a private message to me, I will not identify the sender and I will not include the entire message… just a few of the highlights!

Let me introduce this facebook conversation with a clip from Make me a Legend, chapter 14: Mentors, Peers, and Apprentices!

Never once before that day, was I able to comprehend on that level, the unuttered passion gusting through the aging spirit of a mentor… their dire need for establishing legacy! You see, to every genuine mentor, coach, father, and shepherd… this is the meaning of life! They wake up every day yearning to give away something of great value… to someone who recognizes the great value of that something! And so, every single time an eager young apprentice flies across the universe to meet up with his brilliant Yoda mentor… every time youthful zeal and humble admiration meets up with ripe old wisdom and protective vigilance… the fireworks go off!

Up until now, I’ve had a very nice circle of mentors, a very nice circle of peers… and only a FEW apprentices. I don’t have time on a saturday blog, to explain this while process… you’ll have to wait for the book! (smile)

This GREATEST FACEBOOK MESSAGE of my facebook life… it’s so valuable to me, because it comes from a VERY POWERFUL man who claims me as one of his greatest MENTORS! The things he says to me… they make me uncomfortable at times… and I’m not sharing this with you guys to raise my own value. I think there is something to be learned in our conversation, so here it is:

On February 22, 2010 7:12pm, he writes: (selected clips from that message)

Pastor Chuck!!! First, I have to say that I totally miss DFC and pray you guys are doing well, as well as you and your family.

Anyway, since God used you as a powerful vessel to lead me to Christ on fathers day 2008, he continues to do so. God has been so good to our family and we eagerly await any day now, the next addition to our family. Thats right another soldier for God’s army!

Man I’m still on fire for Christ!!! I need to tell you this, I need you to listen to me right now, so focus!!

Way back on August 24th 2008, you spoke about the Olympic Relay Race and our responsibility to pass on the baton to the generations. You expressed the longing in your heart that someone would take the message you preached and pass it on!

Well, I was asked to fill in here at our local church here in Peterstown WV. This was the third time and third church that I have been asked to speak in… so amazing!

Anyway, I spoke your same message that hit allot of hearts that day back in 08′, and my friend let me tell you, IT WAS SO AWESOME!!!! and had the same effect. The power and presence of God brought a breath of fresh air and a surge of indescribable power to a Church craving truth and practicality, craving the awakening of their church. I’m still on the Holy Spirit high!! Humble, but so energized. I can’t even begging to tell you how powerful it was. But it was powerful enough that they have asked me back this week. I will be there!!

You also expressed in that message that you craved a mentor when you were still young in Christ, and you longed for someone to pass your mantel on to. So let me just say this! You mentor more than you think! And you have been mentoring me from all the way out here in WV since Father’s Day 2008!!! Yes, I do want to be like you!! Yes I do want to preach like you!! I prayed all week long last week to God that would let me speak with even just an ounce of passion and fire you speak with, and I say all that humbly knowing God is above all.

Don’t ever stop doing what you’re doing, because there is something in you that I need! We have not had many conversations, matter of fact I don’t think we have even spoke for about a year or so now, but does it matter? The message is clear and you have helped me to discover the calling on my life, that is to preach the word of God.

Yes, I’m still a Liberty University student, and it has helped me so much! I wish to be ordained one day, and honestly, I don’t know how to do that or which way to go or what to do with that, but I suppose I will be lead at some point. I don’t know. Anyway I wanted to pass the good news on to you, to let you know your wish has been fulfilled. Thanks, Chuck… more then you know!

I replied to him on February 27 and then on March 5, 2010 5:33pm, he writes: (selected clips from that message)

I talked to your assistant this week, and I think I may have shocked her! I told her that I want to buy all of your messages from Father’s day 2008 to current… and then keep like a running subscription going.

So I hope to hear from someone soon about that. I know it’s allot of money but, I don’t care… all of those messages are well worth it!

I don’t mind paying that money because I believe so much in your ministry… and for me it is like investing back into the storehouse that’s planted so much into me… you know what I mean?

I know it’s a big undertaking but, I will pay… even for her time as well, if you want. In other words, you can’t put a price on revelation!

Here is my last reply and the capstone on a very powerful message: about recognizing value before the

Wow “T”, people don’t usually recognize VALUE until after success… or after death (like with an artist).

I was just thinking a few days ago how my book would be finished next week and then published by the holiday season… and if it does as well as it could do, all of the sudden… PEOPLE from all over the world will VALUE my life and teachings SO MUCH MORE than they have in the past.

In that day, I won’t be saying or doing ANYTHING different from what I’ve already been saying and doing… and the whole world will SUDDENLY LISTEN!

I thank God for people LIKE YOU “T”! You can’t imagine the kind of message you’re sending me by requesting these messages BEFORE everyone else says they are valuable!

It’s a message from God about how HE VALUES what I’m doing… especially on the heels of a very challenging 2009! God bless you and your family… I will NEVER forget the encouragement you’ve sent my way AGAIN AND AGAIN! I’m so HONORED to have a TINY part in your GREAT LIFE!

So, what are the messages in this facebook conversation?

VALUE the special people in your life BEFORE they “succeed” or “die.”

There is so much more I can say right now… but this is already the longest blog I’ve written in a VERY LONG TIME! Leave your comments… have a most triumphant day! Love you all & praying for you this morning!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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Happy Sunday!

I was thinking about my 10am message for Destiny Family Center this morning… and I wrote the following:

Courage is a crucial element in success! For me, courage is faith, and faith is knowing God! Today, I am FEARLESS!

Joshua 1:6-9 “Be strong and COURAGEOUS, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. Be strong and very COURAGEOUS. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and COURAGEOUS. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”

God tells Joshua to be COURAGEOUS three times in three verses! Do you think I’m on to something here?

Now, take a closer look at this text. What else is God saying to him (and us)?

How about in the very MIDDLE or the HEART of these three verses?

“Be careful to OBEY all the law my servant Moses gave you [In the Bible, the term 'law' speaks of the revealed Word of God, the cannon of scripture, the Bible]; DO NOT TURN FROM IT to the right or to the left, that you may BE SUCCESSFUL WHEREVER YOU GO. Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; MEDITATE ON IT day and night, so that you may BE CAREFUL TO DO everything written in it. Then you will BE PROSPEROUS and SUCCESSFUL.”

Now is my phrase starting to make sense?

Courage is a crucial element is success. For me, courage is faith, and faith is knowing God! Today I am FEARLESS!

I Woke Up Scared!

Here’s what was going on with me this morning: I was thinking about a few of the discouraging aspects of my past, my shattered dreams, my insufficiencies, all the obstacles before me… and I in a few short minutes, I had been diluted down to a fraction of my potency!

Are you doing this to yourself, unbeknownst? Wanna know how to STOP IT?

Courage is Faith & Faith is Knowing God!

In three verses, God gave Joshua one of the greatest speeches about success. This is the speech that echoed into Joshua’s future and made him one of the greatest military leaders in all of history!

Romans 10:17 “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

So, where can a person get faith? Where does faith come from? It comes from SPIRITUALLY KNOWING the Word of God!

This is what God was actually saying, “Joshua, I’m asking you to make history here! You’re about to go down in Israel’s chronicles as one of the greatest military leaders of all time… and it’s going to take COURAGE! So, here is HOW YOU GET COURAGE: Meditate of my Word so much that you KNOW it like few have ever known it before you, then DO WHAT IT SAYS, don’t swerve off from it to the right or the left, Be very careful to live how it leads you to live and do what it leads you to do! Don’t live by your EMOTIONS… LIVE BY FAITH! And that will produce COURAGE… and that will make you prosperous and successful EVERYWHERE YOU GO!”

New Faith, New Courage, New Successes!

Same goes for you and me! I guess NOW would be a good time to open our Bibles and meditate of a scripture until it PRODUCES NEW FAITH in our heart. NEW FAITH produces NEW COURAGE, and NEW COURAGE brings NEW SUCCESSES!

Courage is a crucial element in success! For me, courage is faith, and faith is knowing God! Today, I am FEARLESS!

Have a fearless Sunday… God bless you all!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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