Todays Video Blog!
Happy Monday!
Had an excellent weekend, excellent Sunday… how about you guys? Would love to hear about it!
I don’t want to get weird on you guys, but I was on Fox News dot com this morning and noticed the following advertisement. Why am I posting this random image and what the big deal with this Nation Wide Insurance advertisement?
Well, first because: society seldom uses the term “in the wilderness”… and second because: I wrote and spoke about moving away from the middle ground of the wilderness yesterday! Talk about the bizarrest confirmation of all time! Just thought you guys might get a kick out of this!
Very cool story!
Speaking of confirmations… well, as you read on Saturdays blog: I had a most triumphant writing week, laid down something like 27 pages of the best material I’ve ever written! The last thing I wrote about on Saturday… came from the final chapter of the book, Untame Yourself!
I read some of it to my assistant, Kristin Via… and we both agreed that I had pushed the envelope WAY TOO FAR… maybe the most INTENSE and PROVOCATIVE literature I’ve read in my life! So intense, it felt like my book was turning into the manifesto of a revolution!
In fear of isolating myself from some of the mainstream folks in our nation and world, I sought to tone it back… and it was like my arms and fingers FROZE UP SOLID… I could not make a single change! For to do so, would directly violate the purpose of that chapter.
An unedited clip from that chapter:
This is our nation-this is our world! Our youngest generations have never seen a better way! They are born into the earth during a time of unprecedented Christian repression; oblivious to the fact that this is not how their forefathers wanted things to turn out! They hear us talk of yesterday’s awakenings like we’ve crafted the fairy tale of something that can never really be.
Today’s kids can hardly understand why it is not natural for a man to marry another man. Or what is wrong with sex before marriage. Or what’s the big deal with using drugs and still claiming a heartfelt relationship with God. They live in a world without boundaries, a world lacking a moral compass and a spiritual conviction… a world when self is god and anything that feels right is perfect.
Up until now, you and I have reasoned: that to revolt would be far too costly. So we’ve chained our passions and toned our standards down… we’ve silenced the John the Baptist voices among us. We’ve chosen rather, to coexist in unevangelistic compromise with Islam and the other false religions of our era.
We’re cowering in the face of radical liberal agendas. We’re tolerating the immoralities of our day, increasingly vexed in our righteous souls as we switch through the channels on our televisions and move about in public places… somehow, we just know that tomorrows better world is a very real possibility, but we just don’t see how… because we have become the minority voice!
Give me a sign!
So I finished up Saturday, writing a segment from the life of Samson: the original hulk! And I prayed, “God, if this chapter is far too radical, please give me a sign. If you’re smiling on it, and if you are giving me these goose pimples and teary eyes… then confirm it in some strange way!”
I woke up Sunday morning at 4:45am, got up and gathered my belonging to head for the office. Emily leaves the television on all night long, every night. Before bed every night, she presets a bunch of channels for the entire night.
So, when I woke @ 4:45am Sunday morning… the television in our bedroom was on some kiddy channel… and it was airing a bible cartoon! Anybody wanna guess which Bible character? It was a cartoon of SAMSON!
Talk about a strange approval! I remember looking at the TV and chills shot across my body… and I thought to myself, “What are the chances of this HAPPENING!”
Thought you might like to hear this goofy story of mine.
The bigger the impact of a potential action, the more confirmation we should seek. There are many ways to seek Gods direction for a potential action. The bigger the decision, the more of the confirmations I seek out. Here at the Destiny Campus of Life Christian University, we teach about developing your own confirmation system.
Here’s a sloppy version of my personal confirmation system!
- Prayer: We must develop the ability to listen, hear, and follow the voice of God in our lives. Jesus promised, “My sheep LISTEN to my voice; I know them, and they follow me!”
- Peace or the absence of Peace: Philippians 4:6-7 promises that the peace of God will RULE in our hearts. That word rule is the same word we would use to describe an UMPIRE in baseball. What does the UMPIRE do? He shouts, SAFE or OUT or FOUL BALL, etc. So I pay attention to my heart AS I AM IN COMMUNION with God.
- Gods Word: according to 2Timothy 3:16, the Bible is PROFITABLE for all things! God never leads contrary to his written word. Many times, if we are reading our Bibles often (as we really should be), God will reveal his will to us through the repetition of certain principles, through our thoughts concerning certain verses… by arresting our attention as we read and listen to our Bibles.
- Wise Councel: If my intended course of action is really from the voice of God, then it will be able to withstand the scrutiny of wise councel. Psalm 33:11 talks about how the councel of the Lord will STAND! In earlier years, I surrounded myself with people who always told me what I wanted to hear. Today, I surround myself with people who are: truthful, bold, but not controlling… compassionate, passionate, teachable themselves… people who are not afraid to INFORM me with a strong opinion, and then still humble enough to let me make my own final decision.
- Supernatural: dreams, visions, angels, and prophecies.
- Circumstances: open doors, closing doors… this one is dangerous, because we do not want to be tossed all over the place by good and bad circumstances. The Apostle Paul talked about a WIDE DOOR of opportunity OPENING UP IN FRONT OF HIM… and he went through it! There were other times when he did not go through what SEEMED to be an open door. Not all good things are God things.
Thats about it for today… I almost feel as if I’ve given my readers INFORMATION overload. Sorry, I just got carried away! I pray todays blog adds tremendous value to your amazing lives… I love you all so very much!
Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!
Chuck
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Loving the video blog!! I am going to use part of your Personal Confirmation System for sure!!! Thanks Pastor! Have to leave for work, but I am going to listen again and get as much from this as I can! Love you guys!!
Love you Elaine! Thanks for stopping in to say hello! Missing you guys more each day… praying for you success all the time! Your fruitfulness brings us great joy! Give Jeremy and the kids a GREAT BIG HUG!
Good morning Chuck,I love the video blog.When I was on the 700 club, I did not understand why the LORD opened that door.Chuck just like your video blog it can reach a greater amount of people.When they called me and told 892 people gave there life to JESUS,I knew then why the LORD opened that door.
Chuck you spoke of dreams,last night I had a dream.I was in the wilderness,tree's everywhere.
Every where I went behind me was blazing FIRES,they consumed everything.Also it is important to say that they were never at anytime near enough to burn me.Also I remember seeing whole tree's roots and all coming out of the ground eveywhere I went.Can you help me understand?The reason I wrote this is because it went along with being in the wilderness!!!!
Just like Moses turned aside to look on the burning bush… the fire did not consume the bush because it was made for branding Gods prophet.
In your dream, the TREES, the ENTIRE WILDERNESS was consumed. But it did not consume you. I wonder if God is showing you a vision of how everything around you is being consumed… in the world and in the churches… everything is being shaken that can be shaken… and you're standing in the middle of this BLOWN AWAY… and so far you have ENDURED, you have kept yourself from being consumed by any of it.
You're a survivor! You have stayed away from Korah's tent and you've stayed away from the grumbling and murmuring of the unbelieving WILDERNESS generation… and like Joshua, you have survived the burning… like Shadrach, Meshac, and Abednigo… you've come through the FIRES without the smell of smoke!
Thats what comes to me… You're a survivor!
I thank you for writing me back with such a prophetic view of it.I have stayed away from all of the stuff that steals the joy and life out of you.Also after I wrote to you I felt the leading to go to Jeremiah 1, talking about uprooting and destroying.One more thing I want to add to the dream I also saw houses, like I was walking into neighberhoods.Sorry I left that out.
These video blogs are awesome!!! Thanks for the effort that you put into these blogs everyday. Just wanting to let you know, that you are making a difference.I'm so looking forward to reading your book when its published. Thanks mate and God Bless, Brett.
Sure thing Mark… things have been uprooting all around you, just as they did all around Joshua and Caleb in the wilderness. But you have remained upright… you are a survivor!
Hey Brett! I can't find you on facebook today… thanks for the encouragement mate! Really, God USES comments like yours to fuel my fire passion! I only have about 20 pages to go… and the book will be on its way to editing and publishing! I'm THRILLED!