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Synergizing 4 Tomorrows Better World

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 By 5 Comments

Happy Tuesday!

Had a nice vacation… and then a nice day off from blogging yesterday. Back to WORK today for little Chucky! We’ll not really… I’m driving to Richmond right after posting this blog to visit my Father in law in the hospital… he’s such a super guy, having a bad few days. Merle has tremendous FAITH and I’m certain he will come through this all right! Thanks for the prayers.

Gonna return calls on the road and multitask as much as possible. Thank God for the AMAZING leadership team we have in our ministry… that so much takes place even while I am out of the office. Being out these past two weeks has shown me the POWER and POTENTIAL of a dream team! One person can only do a few things alone… but when one person is a tiny part of a larger whole, he can create tomorrows better world!

Tomorrows world needs to be CREATED ON PURPOSE. We should not leave her to time and chance. Evil prevails ONLY when GOOD people do nothing. Therefore, we should DO SOMETHING… lots and lots of SOMETHINGS to shape tomorrow!

To best create change… measurable change, we need to work well together in one common purpose. This means that we POOL our time, talents, and resources into ONE PLACE for LARGE SCALE PURPOSES. We assemble around a daring dream… and we aim in a common direction.

This is true of businesses, ministries, families, and even nations. United we stand, divided we fall. The limitless power of ONE COMMON PURPOSE is epic beyond comprehension!

My role in this whole picture is three fold.

  1. Be the very best player for my team… to contribute my personal BEST to something MUCH BIGGER THAN MYSELF.
  2. To COACH well, lead my team in BOLD AND DARING directions, and carry out mandates that matter in the face of eternity.
  3. Be an encourager of other teams and other coaches… to support everyone else aiming to create tomorrows better world.

In ministry, we know that all the little ministry teams belong to Christ, who is the head of his worldwide church. Even though we have so many varying ideas about how we should go about creating change… we are working for a common eternal purpose and that unites us.

This is why I want to be encourager to other coaches and other teams… as much as possible. Sometimes, this is not easy… and so I pray for the GRACE to see beyond the things that divide us, so that I can fully appreciate the things that UNITE us.

I appreciate everyone who appreciates my coaching and my playing. I thank God for my encouragers… for the synergy I draw from other coaches and other players. I thank God for people like Pastor Chris & Sara Whetzel of Believers Victory Center in Moorefield West Virginia… what a coach and what a team! For my dear friend Pastor Bruce Hankee of Greenmont Fellowship, right here in my home county. I am privileged to exchange encouragement with these and so many other GREAT coaches and GREAT teams scattered throughout the earth! We are better together than we could ever be alone!

My team is an AMAZING team! I’m talking about the tribe I’m leading, the team I’m personally coaching! It’s GROWING every day… even every HOUR these days… and thanks to the internet, there are no bounds… there are no limits to HOW EFFECTIVE this team can become! I thank God for the BEAUTIFUL people at Destiny Family Center… and for all the other beautiful people connected to this team through the blog, twitter, and facebook. Let’s keep GROWING… and together we will achieve MEASURABLE levels of change!

If you have a specific talent you would like to dedicate to this tribe… please let us know! Right now, we’re looking for help in graphic design, web development, web broadcasting, social networking expansion, and… oh, finances of course!

I pray that today’s blog adds tremendous value to your amazing lives! Spend some time meditating on YOUR CONTRIBUTION to the team of teams you’re connected with. How can you become a more significant player in the dream of creating a better tomorrow?

Have a super day everyone!

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I Still Have a Dream Today

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 By 5 Comments

Happy Sunday!

Got up early, wish it was earlier… having a phenomenal time with God today… would love to extend it for a few more hours! Yesterday was the biggest Saturday for the blog site ever… thanks for the interest you guys… hope your Saturday was beautiful in every way!

All night long, every time I awoke… the word HOPE was calling out to me!

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I STILL HAVE A DREAM! (The Trumpet of Conscience 1967)

After all you’ve been through, dare to say, “I STILL HAVE A DREAM!” 

I hope to see a pile of you guys at Destiny Family Center this morning… 10am. Guess what I’m talking about?

Ohh… my birthday party celebration is tonight at 5pm… details and directions in the Destiny Times… HOPE you can make it! Have a super day everyone!

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Learning How To Dream

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 By 6 Comments

Happy Wednesday!

FYI: I’m preaching at Trinity Harvest Church in Pikeville, Kentucky Friday night at 7pm… if your close to Pikeville, see you there?

Hows life for you guys today? Things going well? I really care and I’m really praying for God to help you into the victories you desire! Everyone has dreams… you have dreams of being and doing so many things! Hold on to those dreams… and never let them out of your sight! Anything is POSSIBLE… and your DREAMS, no matter how BIG they may look from where you are standing today… they are POSSIBLE! 

Most of the time, dreams take a very long time growing up into living realities. A dream is a PICTURE of what is POSSIBLE. 

Hebrews 11:1 Now FAITH is the substance of THINGS HOPED for, the evidence of things not seen. 

Dreams are the THINGS HOPED FOR in this faith formula! Without THINGS HOPED FOR, our FAITH has nothing to go after! 

So, in order to live a miraculous kind of existence… in order to live by FAITH and not by SIGHT… in order to fully experience the super amazing destinies God has for you and me… we MUST GET BETTER AT DREAMING! 

For most people, their tiny dreams are not much more than an impression in their heart. For others… a mental photograph. There are some people who carry around mental PHOTO ALBUM of their various dreams. And then there is that very small elite group of DREAMERS out there who DREAM SO WELL they have actually GONE INTO THE FUTURE AND LIVED THEIR DREAMS ALREADY!

AGAIN… Hebrews 11:1 Now FAITH is the substance of THINGS HOPED for, the evidence of things not seen. 

FAITH is the VEHICLE that transports a person from the LAND OF HOPES into the LAND OF DESTINY. Faith CREATES SUBSTANCE out of the things WE HOPE FOR… or DREAM ABOUT!

HOPE has its very necessary purpose… hope cannot do what ONLY faith can do. Hope says, maybe someday. Hope says, that sure would be nice. Hope says, here are my dreams… my possibilities… this is my potential. 

Then, once we have HOPE… once we have a CLEAR DREAM, faith steps up and says LET US GO UP NOW, AGAINST ALL ODDS IF NECESSARY, AND LET US TURN THIS DREAM INTO A LIVING REALITY… FOR THIS DREAM IS AS GOOD AS DONE! 

If I can SEE IT, I CAN HAVE IT! Therefore, I must become an expert at DREAMING the DREAMS of God for my life! I have to stop reducing the size of my dreams down to the size of my human capabilities. I must not filter my dreams through the vastness of my obstacles… instead, I have to BELIEVE that with GOD all things are possible… to them that BELIEVE!

Are you good at DREAMING the DREAMS OF GOD? Maybe you should consider starting a DREAM JOURNAL… a place where you can doodle pages and pages of DREAMS… a place where you can DREAM WITHOUT LIMITS… DREAM as if your FATHER IS THE ONE WHO CREATED EVERYTHING AND CAN DO ANYTHING! Sounds like a good plan to me!

Have fun you guys: DREAM ON… DREAM ON… DREAM UNTIL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUUUUUUUUUUUE! I pray this blog adds tremendous future value to your amazing lives! Please leave your comments… I love to read them all! Come to church tonight at Destiny Family Center… see you there!

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One of the Realest Dreams of my Life

Thursday, June 4th, 2009 By 7 Comments

Good Thursday!

Last night I had another significant dream… two nights in a row! This one was so REAL… I drifted back and forth between sleep and wake, wondering if it was really happening.

The dream took place in the EXACT setting of my bedroom… I was wearing the exact boxer briefs I was actually sleeping in. Emily was laying beside me exactly the way she actually was… same sheets… same EVERYTHING! 

Since we slept with the window open, I could hear the waterfall from our pond… again, there was NO DIFFERENCE difference between the dream and the real waterfall. In the dream, I woke up and looked through the window. The patio light was on, partially lighting the section behind my bedroom… and as I looked, I saw a hand raised in the air. I could make out who this was… just that a hand was raised… I saw the fingers pointing upward.  

As you can imagine… this sent shivers all over my body and I jumped up! I think I really did jump up… because in the dream I heard the laser light Ryan gave me fall out of the bed and hit the floor… and when I got up this morning it was on the FLOOR! 

As the dream went on… I got out of bed and went out side through my kitchen door. I saw Shannon Isaksen on the patio… she was standing outside our window PRAYING for us as we slept! As she was praying, she gazed over to the neighbors house… and I saw a light on in their carport, so I walked toward the light. 

At the neighbors carport, facing the direction of our house… the entire intersessory prayer team was sitting in a circle of chairs WIDE AWAKE, and they were PRAYING FOR US WHILE WE SLEPT! I asked Kristin why they were all still awake… and she said, “go back to sleep, we have you COVERED!”

I didnt even talk to anyone else… because they were so focused and so PEACEFUL… almost like a group of campers sitting around a campfire in the wee hours of the morning. I just looked over the team with a smile of appreciation and left for my house. It looked and FELT like the roundtable of the JEDI KNIGHTS!

As I got back into my bedroom, I noticed that it was 3:17 AM… and when I WOKE UP and looked at the clock with my eyes… it was 3:17 AM! 

John 3:17 For God sent NOT his Son into the world to CONDEMN the world; BUT that the world THROUGH HIM might be SAVED.

As I meditated on John 3:17… I was impressed with two other verses: 

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but AFTER THE SPIRIT.

Isaiah 54:17 But in that coming day NO WEAPON turned against you will succeed. You will silence EVERY VOICE raised up to accuse you. These benefits are enjoyed by the servants of the Lord; their VINDICATION WILL COME FROM ME. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Two prophetic dreams in two nights! Is this a sign of AGING? 

Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS.

Have a super day everyone! I just prayed some amazing things over each of you… so anticipate victory and HAVE IT, all day long! Please leave your comments… chat with you later.

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Guard yourself and your leaders in prayer and action

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 By 4 Comments

Written by Jonathan Woodard,  guest blogger for Pastor Chuck during temporary break.

Rarely do I have dreams. Don’t know why; guess I’m too busy sleeping. But this morning, I had a preposterous dream. In it, my wife asked about a sorceress standing in the distance, wanting to know if she could use the sorceress’ services. So I, being a helpful and guarding person, went up to the sorceress and first prefaced our conversation with a greeting, and then cautiously asked about what would be involved in my wife using her services.

“On a scale of 1-10, I’m an 11 in this not applying to me,” I told her, “but I was just wanting to know times, what occurs, etc.” She was offended at that statement, but still gave me a short pitch of her services, then leaving me with the phrase, “let this be a seed in your mind.” Well, I didn’t want anything in my mind from her, but somehow, she convinced me to demonstrate.

I let her lay her hand on my shoulder as she closed her eyes. Suddenly, my spirit reacted to the Holy Spirit battle inside me, and shot my hand in the air, and violently praised the Lord, swaying and thrashing back and forth, with her hand still on me. “Praise the Lord, glory to God in the highest, Holy is the Lord” I yelled.That went on for at least 20-30 seconds, but I don’t know because the dream ended.

Waking with the obvious thought that I’d never let someone working for the enemy like that lay their hands on me, I thought of the verse in Timothy about “Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourselves pure.” I felt guilty even after the dream for letting myself allow the ends (simply getting information) to justify the means (allowing myself to closely interact with demons in a vulnerable position).

Several Wednesday nights ago,  Pastor Chuck individually and briefly prayed for each of us, then asked us to gather around him to pray for him, his family, his ministry, etc. During that, I had the distinct feeling that in the days ahead, there were going to arise a few mighty male body guards around Pastor Chuck, guarding him from the press of the enemy, kind of like David’s mighty men. This would be like intercessors, a band of brothers, holding him up in prayer. (I don’t mean to be sexist, and woman are more than welcome to do that too; I’m just reporting)

I’m feeling impressed that we need to very careful to guard ourselves and our leaders in prayer and action. Pastor Chuck may not be your pastor, but right now please apply this to your own situation personally and with your leaders.  Not only guard who lays hands on them and you, but also guard what we see and hear. “Lord, deliver us from evil. Help us to not be foolish in what we allow to get close to them. Help us to be wise and skillful armorbearers…”

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