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Recorded Prayer: The Prodigal’s Return

Monday, April 2nd, 2012 By 13 Comments

The following prayer was recorded on Thursday night 3.28.12 at a Destiny Family Center prayer meeting…

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Here is a section of my book that parallels with this prayer…

Make Me A Legend

Chapter 6: Hurry Up And Find Rock Bottom

The Turning Point

Once you’ve really been there, you will always remember rock bottom as the Eden of your re-creation! Even though right now you may be gasping for air, only a few seconds from flat lining your way into eternity, rock bottom is a wormhole in the core of hell that transports the dead back into the land of the living.

While rock bottom will always be the low mark of your life, it is so much more—rock bottom is the starting location for your next exciting journey. So no matter how bad things might be going in your life right now, go ahead and free your heart to hope again! This moment is the end of your life as it has been to this point, but it need not be the end of you. Change your perspective! Be optimistic about all the suffering you’re going through, for this can be the start of something wonderful—it can be all upward from here, if you just do the right thing at rock bottom.

In my own life, I’ve been shocked with how fast God can shift the momentum back in my favor. It’s nothing for God to work a 24-hour miracle! It doesn’t matter how far down you’ve fallen; if you’re serious about returning home, this is the moment when God steps in like a superhero to the rescue. He’s been waiting for this moment all your life, and here it is! Father is livid with your enemies! He’s been anticipating the rock-bottom prayers you’re now praying. He’s never forced Himself on you before today, but if you’ll open your heart, He’ll rush in like a gale-force wind! Open the doors and windows as wide as possible—let the fresh, spring air in! This is a new season in your life!

Swooping down out of nowhere, it would seem, with His bare hands He will tear apart everything that has been making you cry. Stop trembling in fear! You’re safe now. You’ve come under the omnipotent protection of God. Just reach out and take your Father’s hand. Be still for a moment and let Him have a look at you. God specializes in fixing broken people and shattered circumstances. God is the restorer of broken dreams and the giver of new ones! No broken person is broken beyond repair. Every person is fixable! Yes, God can fix you!

Your thoughts?

I just prayed for you. With much love…

Dream Big,

Chuck

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From The Video Archives: My 7 Step Best Week Plan!

Monday, March 26th, 2012 By 3 Comments

Are you feeling a little off your game this year? Did you set a few worthwhile goals, and right about now you’re starting to think you were out of your mind for dreaming so big?

It’s only March and there is still time generate some real momentum. But, you have to act soon!

Would you like to take charge of your life and get back on task this week?

Here Is My Seven Step Best Week Plan

  1. Empower yourself during the first hour.
  2. Meditate on one Bible verse all day long.
  3. Resists the dissempowering energies of bad people.
  4. Have a happy, positive, energizing conversation with one powerful peer every day.
  5. Increase your energy and multiply your happy endorphins.
  6. Become a master of balance: allocate time for each of your 9 life equities.
  7. Power yourself down each night with a prayer.

What would happen if you followed this plan every week between now and December 31st? Could you have the happiest, most fruitful, successful year of your life? The answer is YES.

Watch this short teaching video: My Seven Step Best Week Plan

This video was recorded a year ago. I’m not rocking my favorite look here, that’s for sure! lol, but it’s still a powerful teaching.

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I prayed for you. Have a great best week!

Dream Big,

Chuck Balsamo

PS: Get your (second edition) signed copy of Make Me A Legend!

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5 Videos 4 a Great Good Friday!

Friday, April 2nd, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Happy Good Friday!

Such a holy moment. I’ve been preparing to teach on blood covenant today at the 12 noon-1pm Good Friday service at Destiny Family Center… such a holy moment this has become for me.

All I’m doing for this blog, is listing a few very powerful videos about the blood of Jesus and his passion. Please make some time to appreciate what Jesus did for mankind… what he went through to cover the ransom payment for your sins and mine. If you’re looking for something deeper, check out my blog: Paralleling Festivals: Passover & Easter

1 Corinthians 1:18-19 “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: ”I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

Psalm 49:6-8 They trust in their wealth and boast of great riches. Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God. Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough.

1 Peter 1:18 For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.

I just finished praying for you all… that you’ll have the holiest Good Friday of your lives! Maybe I’ll see some of you today at 12 noon, and then again on Sunday at 10am! I hope so! (smile)

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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My 7 Step Best Week Plan P2

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 By 2 Comments

Watch this video AGAIN!

Happy Tuesday!

I bet you’re wonder why I got lazy this morning and reposted yesterdays video instead of making a new video for today!

Here is why I’m asking you to RE-WATCH yesterdays video and RE-READ yesterdays written blog: because it’s too GOOD and too MUCH for any one of us to effectively process in ONE DAY!

Really, when I powered up my computer this morning, that video was still on the screen, staring me down! So I figured, what the heck I’ll watch it again… and WHAM, I realized THAT VIDEO was BETTER TODAY than it was yesterday!

Try it and you’ll see! Watch it ONE MORE TIME! This time, actually intend to follow its suggestions!

For the past two weeks, I’ve been attempting to lead this tribe towards a life of FAITH instead of FEELINGS.

On Sunday, I said the following to the people of Destiny Family Center:

“If you’re looking for another year of hard toil and little results… than BE EMOTIONAL… and keep fighting your own battles, with your two fists and your big fat brain! If you want to try one more year in your own human strength… and you’re not yet sick from all the tossing about… then keep on striving and negotiating!”

I said we have become:

  • Far more spiritually engaged in our circumstances!
  • Far less dominated by our shifting feelings!
  • Far more forward propelled, by learning how to LIVE BY FAITH!

I started to explain HOW a person can actually live by faith on a practical level.

  • By SEARCHING for specific verses concerning your unique circumstances!
  • By MEDITATING on the word of God until these specific verses become a tangible part of your lives!
  • By STANDING on the substance of scripture, despite how you might initially FEEL!
  • By GENERATING emotions out of your spiritual position… to FEEL as you believe, rather than to FEEL as things appear to be going!
  • By HAMMERING through your obstacles with FAITH, and biblically inspired actions… until circumstances shift in your favor!

Yesterdays 7 Step Best Week Plan was a practical follow up to that teaching. It’s a simple 7 step formula for getting into a position of FAITH.

This morning, I wrote the following Facebook status update… and received a very powerful reply from Jamee Rae Pineda! Check it out!

Chuck Balsamo Using the principles I’ve been teaching to remain in forward momentum! Living every day by faith instead of my shifting feelings. Let’s have a great day everyone!

Jamee Rae Pineda

Jamee Rae Pineda

“That’s the challenge … practical application of the principles. We are allowed our feelings and initial reactions, but our responses must be aligned with Biblical teachings. It’s not always easy, but it’s how Christians are to live.”

Great reply Jamee!

Let’s pray that more and more people benefit from this teaching!

Dear reader, has your life been positively affected by these recent blogs? Are you SPECIFICALLY putting some of this into action? Please comment with your stories, if you get a chance… I love hearing from you all!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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Tomorrows Washington DC Homeless Outreach

Friday, February 19th, 2010 By 2 Comments

Todays VIDEO!

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Happy Friday!

What a schedule I have today! Really, this could be the busiest day, and then the busiest weekend of my life… the busiest of 2010 FO SHO! I woke feeling very stressed this morning… hmmmm, I better pray until this emotional slump recedes…

Did I tell you guys, tomorrow is our annual Washington DC Feed the Homeless Outreach? We’ve done this EVERY YEAR for something like the past 17 years… one of my favorite things to do in this life! Here’s a photo of some of the packages we’re taking on the tomorrows outreach!

gerald & phyllis mayhan

I thank God for Evangelists Gerald & Phyllis Mayhan… that they keep on leading our teams every year. There is not another man in all the earth more adequately equipped for such an outreach!

Gerald was a point man in Vietnam, two purple hearts… lived 18 years addicted to heroin and cocaine, living on the streets of Washington DC… and his wife waited for him and PRAYED for him until GOD reached down and pulled Gerald out of the lowest gutter.

Gerald is one of my very best friends and the greatest evangelist I have EVER MET! Check out his ministry website when you get a chance!

If you would like to make a donation to Gerald Mayhan’s Ministry, you can give today, here on this website by clicking the donate button… and we will bring Gerald a check tomorrow! There is no greater cause I can think of!

inspirational stories from last year!

Here’s a clip from last years homeless outreach blog… you can check out the entire blog and all the comments with photos by following this link: From the Streets of Washington DC

This year (2009), even more than previous years… I really experienced the enormity of what took place! There are so many hurting, lonely people in our earth. And while so many well to do humans point the finger down at these bleeding ones, God compels us to come to their aid!

God cares about each one of them… not desiring to lecture them about the series of wrong turns they made that led them down into the gutter… He possesses us with his compassion and sends us to kneel down beside them… He gives us a message to speak… He asks us to read them a love letter… And we go with his love and his tears. He embraces them with MY ARMS… and I can feel HIM IN ME making his appeal through MY HEART.

This year, we took a team of 35+ into the frigid streets of our nation’s capitol. All day long, we gave HOPE to the HOPELESS. Even more than the message we gave them was the message we asked them to tell us. We gave them our ears… we listened to them like they mattered… and they FELT OUR LOVE FOR THEM! Their tears and ours flowed like rivers all day long.

  • One man, “Alfrado”, explained how he came to America from Elsalvador… it took him 3 months to get here, dreaming that this would be a place of new life for him. And there he was sleeping on park benches and eating food from the trash containers. Alfrado said that some nights, it’s so cold he is scared to fall asleep… that he may freeze to death and not wake up.
  • Another lady, “Pricilla”, said that she just got released from prison a year ago after being stabbed in her spine during a prison brawl. She grabbed me and made a puddle on my shoulder as she wept about how scary it is living on the streets at night! She talked about being raped and beaten over and over… and told me that she is not built for this kind of life!
  • Then there was “HANK”… the happiest homeless man on the face of the earth. We all left Hank wondering if we had met an angel! Just like Hank, so many of these destitute men and women gave us back so much more that we gave to them!

Throughout this day, we distributed hundreds of sandwiches, care packages, sweaters, sweatshirts, blankets, and everything else we could get into their hands. More than these… we gave them Jesus… and they took him happily into their hearts!

Every single person on our team stepped out with a fearless kind of faith… they shared their personal life stories, prayed like seasoned ministers, and gave LOVE as if God himself was right there in physical manifestation!

Please pray for this same level of success at tomorrows outreach! That it’ll be like Jesus himself is walking through the blistery winter streets of Washington DC. God bless you all with a most triumphant Friday… thanks for being here… please leave a comment and help us expand this tribe in every creative way you can dream up! Love you all…

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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