Happy Tuesday!

Besides leading people to Christ, there is nothing in all the earth comparable to being all alone in the early morning hours, in a secret garden with God and angels… when an earthling worships God with all his heart… and suddenly, a reality of the nearness and realness of Father God overtakes such a person… and in these moments one catches a very small glimpse of what life shall be like after he has passed over into eternity…

For almost 18 years, this has been my DAILY routine… to rise EARLY while almost everyone in my time zone is still sleeping… and go face to face with the lover of my soul.

Many people are very good at many things… I am very good at PRAYING and WORSHIPING God. In fact, I am much better at this than I am at anything else in life… I would like to think I pray FAR BETTER than I preach. I want my whole life to be a prayer driven life.

Call me crazy, but I believe God considers me one of his VERY CLOSE FRIENDS. I’m not a perfect Christian… I make so many mistakes just like every other person… but I’m always shutting down the noisiness of my very busy life to have quality moments with my amazing Father… obsessively sitting and chatting with him many times each day.

This lively routine has kept me FRESH and YOUNG and STRONG… like the MIGHTY EAGLES! Even though I have been hunted more than almost anyone I know, I remain YOUNG and POWERFUL to this day. Nothing has been able to successfully bring me down. Every time my enemy rushes at me like a never ending sea of waves… my VERY CLOSE FRIEND surrounds me like an impenetrable iron wall! And I am SAFE!

Sadly, few humans ever know this kind of experience. Society teaches us to avoid such spiritual obsessions. Yet, we are encouraged to obsess over earthly things… even considered bizarre if we do not LOVE this world like EVERYONE else.

1 John 2:15-16 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.

Psalm 27:4-6
4 The one thing I ask of the Lord-
the thing I seek most-
is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
delighting in the Lord’s perfections
and meditating in his Temple.
5 For he will conceal me there when troubles come;
he will hide me in his sanctuary.
He will place me out of reach on a high rock.
6 Then I will hold my head high
above my enemies who surround me.
At his sanctuary I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy,
singing and praising the Lord with music.

Psalm 84:1-4
1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
2 I long, yes, I faint with longing
to enter the courts of the Lord.
With my whole being, body and soul,
I will shout joyfully to the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young
at a place near your altar,
O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, my King and my God!
4 What joy for those who can live in your house,
always singing your praises

In the 1990′s, we were taught to beware… of being too HEAVENLY MINDED that we are no longer any EARTHLY GOOD. Today, we have gone to the other extreme: we have become too EARTHLY minded that we are no longer any HEAVENLY good.

Let us rediscover that wonder of loving God most extravagantly! Here’s a video to kick it off for you today!

Happy Sunday!

Last night, I had the opportunity to say the opening prayer over a local pro-wrestling event. Since Emily couldn’t make it, Ricky Wade came along for the adventure… and what a TIME we had you guys! This event was first class from beginning to end… packed out venue, not an empty seat left… wrestling perfection, made me feel like I was 16 again!

My 17 year old daughter, Heaven Ashlee Balsamo absolutely obsesses over “little people.” Check out Heavens Facebook, become her friend… she’s a VERY HAPPY PERSON! Heaven watches Little People, Big World (every episode) and goes CRAZY every time we run into a little person. She even told me a few months ago she wants to go on some little person CRUISE she heard about!

I couldn’t get her to come with me to this wrestling event… until I saw SHORT SLEEVE SAMPSON climb up into the ring to promote his late match! I texted Heaven and told her a midget was wrestling… her reply: I’M ON MY WAY!

Stevie Balsley, one of the event promoters… he paused the match right in the middle of all the fan frenzy so that Heaven could get her picture taken with Short Sleeve Sampson as he was entering the ring! Stevie also arranged a photo shoot after the event… one of Heavens top three life experiences FOR SURE! Short sleeve is a profound wrestler and a SUPER person… it was so much fun meeting him and the other wrestlers… a night of good clean SMILES and LAUGHTER! (2 photos posted here… more on my facebook)

The next event is scheduled for November 7 in Waynesboro, VA.

Momentum: The Reward 4 Consecutive Successes

Today should be an EXCITING morning at Destiny Family Center… so bring your beautiful self to Stuarts Draft or catch the LIVE broadcast… if you can! We’re gonna have a SMACK DOWN, BABY! haha, still feeling some left over wrestle mania in my blood. lol

Really, church has been electrifying every service for something like a month now… we’re entering super mode: that place in MOMENTUM where ANYTHING becomes POSSIBLE! Do you understand this concept?

Let me explain! I don’t get to play Xbox-360 very much anymore… have never been obsessed, but always enjoyed the quality times my son and I had playing Xbox from time to time. If you’ve ever played even once, you probably understand the concept of MOMENTUM!

You see… in the world of video games, a person is REWARDED for CONSECUTIVE SUCCESSES! In other words… once you make a certain number of right moves consecutively, your player BURSTS INTO FLAMES with SUPER POWERS… to make SUPER MOVES and do SUPER TRICKS!

So the goal here is: BE CONSISTENT! Do the right things consecutively UNTIL YOU ALSO BURST INTO FLAMES! Then, in your SUPER MODE: use your SUPER POWERS to bust those SUPER MOVES!

If hard times cause a person to make the main thing, the main thing… and if, in hard times a person consecutively does the right thing LONG ENOUGH… eventually he will BURST INTO THE FLAMES OF MOMENTUM!

I feel as if this is right now happening in my own personal life… and for destiny family center… and for the ChuckBalsamo.com Tribe! And now, we must maximize our super powers to bust our greatest moves YET!

I hope todays blog INSPIRES you to GET FOCUSED, STAY FOCUSED, AVOID DISTRACTIONS, BE CONSISTENT, ACHIEVE MOMENTUM… and then bust the greatest moves of your entire lives! Have a SUPER day everyone!! Love you all!

Happy Saturday!

Sitting here on my old worn out family room couch dreaming about all the possibilities of tomorrow morning @ Destiny Family Center! Very intense week this has been… many high pressured challenges met and overcome… and I’ve NEVER felt more right about what I’m doing than I have these past 30 days!

God has to be SMILING BIG… as we DO exactly what he has asked us to do, EXACTLY the way he has asked for us to do it! Relentless pressure has a way of reducing life down to its most important elements. Seven months of pressure… and a DIAMOND is found where the COAL once existed!

According to an article @ wikipedia.com, the most natural diamonds are formed at HIGH-pressure HIGH-temperature conditions existing at depths of 140 to 190 kilometers (87 to 120 mi) in the Earth mantle.

Pressure and heat… epic levels of pressure and heat!

There is this guy in the Bible, his name is Joseph… his story is found in the book of Genesis. Joseph had a dream when he was young: that he would become a legendary world leader when he grew up.

As Joseph shared his dreams with his older brothers… jealousy provoked them to sell Joseph into Egyptian slavery. And for 13 years, instead of living the dream… Joseph suffered through one of the darkest nightmares any person could ever IMAGINE.

For 13 years, Joseph’s path seemed to be taking him ANYWHERE but up! Left for dead, sold into slavery, falsely accused of raping his masters wife, thrown into prison… all alone, without a loving family or a friend to lean on… JUST A MAN AND HIS DREAM!

I bet each night, as Joseph laid his head to rest… the dreams would return. Somehow, Joseph’s dream survived… it kept speaking… and calling for Joseph to endure those HIGH-PRESSURE HIGH-TEMPERATURE conditions… and what seemed to be 87 to 120 miles into the center of the earth… as far away from a dream as a person can ever get!

If you’ve ever read this story or heard it told, you will know that ONCE THIS DIAMOND had been FULLY DEVELOPED, a series of bizarre events conspired in Joseph’s favor… and as the preachers tell it: Joseph went from the pit to the palace JUST LIKE THAT!

All the pain and all the pressure and all the heat… it had to be so worth it when Joseph’s good name was cleared, and he was freed from prison, reunited with his family, and given a royal seat as second in charge of the Egyptian Kingdom!

Talk about a RAGS to RICHES story!

It’s getting late and I have a very busy saturday schedule… so I’m gonna have wrap things up this morning. I hope todays blog inspires you to APPRECIATE your very own HIGH-PRESSURE HIGH-TEMPERATURE conditions… you are NOT going to die in this… you’re going to survive it… and when the time is right, you will be MINED FROM THE EARTH to LIVE YOUR DREAM!

Have a most outstanding weekend everyone! Oh, I’m doing the opening prayer for a local pro wresting event tonight… pray that my prayer turns out good! lol See a bunch of you tomorrow at 10am… in person or on the LIVE broadcast!