Happy Wednesday!

I decided to blog from my patio… this is the perfect morning. There is a slight chill in the air, a gentle breeze, the birds are waking. I felt like the time spent outside would be much better on my mind, than to rush off to my office. How right I was!

Momentum: Never Faint, Loosen, or Relax!

Everybody seemed to love yesterdays blog: Guess What? You’re a Guaranteed Winner! From the facebook comments, I could so feel like people were saying, “Please encourage me, build me up!”

Really, when I wrote that message, I had no idea about how many people were right now suffering with a loser spirit. I personally hate it when this happens to me… whenever I’m doing my very best for God, my family, and this world… and my efforts seem to be fruitless.

Galatians 6:9 (Amplified version) And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

1. Don’t lose heart, grow weary, and faint… in acting nobly and doing right!
2. There is a due time, an appointed season when we will see the reward of our noble efforts!
3. We will definitely reap the harvest, only if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint!

Any time you’re acting nobly and doing right… it’s always making a difference! Positive in is positive out! Action causes reaction! But not usually right away… ask any farmer about the time gap between planting and harvesting!

There is a huge KEY to breakthrough waiting to be grasped here in Galatians 6:9… Don’t FAINT, LOOSEN, or RELAX! Read it again, focusing on those three words… and watch what happens!

Forward momentum is always the reward of FAITH and ENDURANCE! Backward momentum is the penalty of FEAR and INCONSISTENCY!

We have to break the destructive cycle of starting up noble and right actions… and then fainting, and loosening, and relaxing every time we encounter opposition and delay!

Do the noble things, do the right things… every day, every month, every hour, every second… without wavering… without fainting, loosening, and relaxing!

We have to believe in our dream before many others believe in our dream… we have to plant our dream and water our dream and nurture our dream… and sacrifice for our dream, long before it YIELDS a harvest! We have to get up everyday and ENCOURAGE OURSELVES in the wee hours of each morning! We have to pray UNTIL something happens! This is the ONLY way we will ever see the big things happen in our lives!

Journal & Announcement

Last Night! The church meeting with Pastor David Kumar from India… it was so beautiful! My only regret is that we were not able to spread the news to enough people before he came. I wish everyone could have attended those two very special meetings! May God bless David as he heads back to India soon.

Tonight! The anticipation has been building around Destiny Family Center for about a month! We’re finally starting a 13 week Wednesday night series: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership! This is a John Maxwell DVD curriculum: a 10 minute DVD for each session, then some additional teaching from ME, and we’ll be breaking into small groups for discussion. I’m beside myself over what this is going to mean to so many of my dear friends! Each night starts at 7pm pronto… see you here?

Thats all for today you guys! I just finished praying for everyone… have a most triumphant day!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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We’re back home and real happy about church at Destiny Family Center this morning! Wow, I have really missed everyone! (photo: Mr. Peelz says goodbye to the beach) 

Todays message is sure to ENCOURAGE and INSPIRE… gonna continue the message I started a few weeks ago: I Still Have a Dream Today!   

More than the message, is the LOVE and FAITH I feel in my heart this morning… it’s so large! I just want to HUG everyone, and let them know how much I appreciate journeying with them!

Romans 1:10-12 One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to SEE YOU. For I long to VISIT YOU so I can BRING YOU some spiritual gift that will HELP YOU grow strong in the Lord. WHEN WE GET TOGETHER, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours.

This is how I feel today… like having a MUTUAL EXCHANGE of ENCOURAGEMENT! 

I LOVE the people I lead at church and over the internet. My family SINCERELY LOVES the people we do life with. We thank God for all the beautiful people here in our hometown and scattered throughout the world who value our leadership… for the people who admire and share our BIG DREAMS… for all the Joshua’s and Caleb’s who without hesitation, they run to the promises with FAITH in every step!

Numbers 13:30 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”  

Yes we can! Yes we are! Yes we will! 

I hope todays blog rouses up some FAITH in you guys today! Maybe you’re down at the moment… but this is only TEMPORARY… because you and I were BORN TO TAST THE GRAPES OF PROMISE! We’re doing something historical with our lives… yes we are! 

Please click on to the 10am broadcast… leave your comments… and have a super duper Sunday!

Journal: Lovely weekend. Saturday… we made two birthday parties and a graduation party… and I still managed to blog and write in my book and sermonize and hang out with my family! Yesterday was a BEAUTIFUL DAY! We had the biggest technology glitch of our lives at Destiny Family Center… STRESS CITY for about 10 minutes… a PILE of kids we’re on the platform ready to sing songs they learned at vacation bible school… and no sound on the video! It was SUPER embarrassing… I think a few tech team members might have had an ACCIDENT or two! I know I did! LOL 

The service turned out PHENOMENAL… life changing for EVERYONE! The message, “I Still have a Dream” really seemed to RESONATE with so many people! The feedback was instant and keep coming throughout the entire day! 

My birthday party was UNREAL! So MANY people showed up… the food was DELICIOUS… everyone was SMILING and interacting… new friendships were formed… people were catching fish… and boating… and playing horseshoes… and! Wayne Howard, one of our newest DFCers… he’s the manager of Smoothie King and brought free smoothies for EVERYONE at the party… I had TWO!

Great day… the LOVE was therapeutic! 

Monday is my day off… today should be an interesting one! First, I’m planting my beautiful birthday plants! Then, I’m visiting two guys in jail… short of a miracle, one of them is looking at something like 25 to life… and depression seems to be taking over his heart. I pray that I’m able to give both these guys LIFE TODAY! Then, over to Charlottesville so I can pray for a man that’s having a pace maker installed. The day ends with a dear friends birthday party at Cheeseburger Paradise… FISH TACOS BABY!

Oh, and I think we’re planing to free Coree’s pet Red Fox at some point… that should be fun! And I hope to squeeze in a few hours of writing… an hour of swimming… and a few potty breaks! LOL

I feel so much anticipation this morning… like my life is building up into a GIANT QUANTUM LEAP! These have been months of change… aggressive CHANGE! And whenever I try to figure it all out, I get confused… it doesn’t really make sense. It’s so easy to wonder where God is and what God is up to. I’m tempted to make some crazy moves… to act aggressively… to take matters into my own hands.

And then I realize that God is so brilliant… his ways are so much higher than my ways! So I resolve myself to BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD! I keep meditating on his LOVE FOR ME… I spend hours thinking about how good he has been to me these past 38 years! And as I TRUST, his peace calms my agitated heart…

My fears FLEE AWAY… and my CONFIDENCE RISES! New visions come… and HOPE FILLS MY HUMBLED HEART. From the ashes, I see NEW LIFE and BETTER IDEAS… I climb up to my knees and then to my feet… with a message he has given me… a feeling really… a feeling that becomes a message… as I let the message in, it takes over my life… and I am UPGRADED… I am TURNED INTO ANOTHER MAN… a BETTER MAN… a SUPER MAN!

Oh, the pleasures of walking with God… the PEACE of knowing that ALL THINGS work together for our good! Sometimes, life doesn’t make sense… and in those times, we must TRUST GOD even when we he does CRAZY THINGS WITH US! 

These are my random journal thoughts for the day… I hope you’re inspired to TRUST GOD WITH YOUR OWN LIFE… on a much higher level, to ANTICIPATE something EPIC! 

Please leave a comment before you leave… it will only take a minute! I just prayed for you guys… so have an AMAZING DAY!

Got home from Vacation Bible School last night to find a surprise pool set up on my patio! Not a little inflatable one… it’s 15 x 4 you guys! Ok, so Emily asks me yesterday if she can get a small pool from WalMart and put it on the patio… and I just kind of looked at her like, “I think it’ll look a little tacky, but if that will make you happy, go get one.”

Thinking back on that conversation, I remember her saying, “Charlie, can I get one of those SMALL 12 foot WalMart pools and put it RIGHT HERE on the patio?” (hand motioning that the pool she had in her devious little mind was going to fit into the LITTLE area she was suggesting… and even though she said TWELVE FOOTER, my mind caught the key words SMALL and a mental picture of the THREE FOOT area she was claiming for this TINY project.

I didn’t even really think she was serious until I got home at 9:30pm last night… and there it was… a BIG BLUE… FIFTEEN FOOTER, WalMart pool. EMILY BALSAMO!

Of course, Cole Moore had helped her and Heaven put it together… and as I began to resist, they all gave me this look like, “PLEASE DAD CAN WE KEEP IT… we worked so hard in the BLAZING SUN… ALL DAY LONG… to give you this amazing FATHER’S DAY PRESENT!!!!

Actually, after I got past the initial SHOCK, I was quite happy she took INITIATIVE and made this happen for our family! So, I did some finishing touches to the liner while Cole and Heaven installed the filter system… and we turned on the water hose! Eight hours later, we have a functioning POOL!

Pool party anyone?

Matthew 7:12-14 The Message Bible: “Here is a simple, RULE-OF-THUMB GUIDE FOR BEHAVIOR: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then GRAB THE INITIATIVE and do it for them. Add up God’s Law and Prophets and this is what you get.”

Same verse in different translation: “DO TO OTHERS whatever YOU WOULD LIKE THEM TO DO TO YOU. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.”

Is this what Emily was doing with the pool… did she GRAB THE INITIATIVE and do for me, WHATEVER she WANTED me to do for her? Awww, thats so nice Emily… so Christian-like my dear dear wife! LOL

Initiative: The power or ability to BEGIN or to follow through ENERGETICALLY with a plan or task; enterprise and DETERMINATION; a beginning or introductory step; an opening move.

Seriously, I have to ADMIRE the INITIATIVE of this tiny gal… she has always been a TAKE ACTION kind of lady… NEVER lazy, never afraid to take on a challenge, never hesitant to GRAB THE INITIATIVE! Emily has way to much POWER and ability for making those INTRODUCTORY MOVES… with ENERGY and DETERMINATION… she doesn’t linger for perfect conditions!

It’s scary at times, but a VERY ADVENTUROUS 19 years!

Initiative is a vital part of turning HOPES into REALITIES. “Faith is the substance of things HOPED for, the evidence of things NOT YET SEEN.” Faith takes HOPES (dream, visions, promises, and prophecies) and manifests the power and ability to BEGIN… or to FOLLOW THROUGH energetically with a PLAN (the thing hoped for)… with ENTERPRISE and DETERMINATION… faith takes the introductory step… faith makes the opening move!

By faith, Peter JUMPED OUT OF THE BOAT when Jesus invited him out on the waters! By faith Noah started building an ark! Faith is never lazy… faith does not linger for perfect conditions… faith always says LET’S GET THIS STARTED… LET’S DO THIS NOW… LET’S TURN EVERY ONE OF THESE EXTRAVAGANT HOPES INTO LIVING REALITIES!

I pray that todays blog adds tremendous value to your amazing lives! I love you all… praying your day is filled with many BLESSINGS! Please leave your comments… tootaloooo!

Since I’ve been blogging so MANY WORDS lately… I thought to give you guys a REST today! I’m working on my fathers day message right now, writing in my book later this morning, doing a wedding at 2pm, and hosting 20 teenagers for dinner… to honor high school graduation. Then tomorrow is FATHER’S DAY… and hey! I’m a FATHER!

I sincerely pray that each of you have a BEAUTIFUL weekend. Let your worries go and your faith rise. You are LOVED of God and your future is safe and lovely. Come to church at Destiny Family Center tomorrow… worship God with all my beautiful friends… I just have a feeling, that this is going to be a rare service. Hope you can make it. I love you guys… thanks for all your beautiful comments and your amazing love. Truly, you are the salt of the earth…   

Check out this worship video by Kari Jobe… Beautiful. Hit play, close your eyes, and think about the Beauty of the Lord… wow, what a beautiful experience! Grace and Peace…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Jv1Hf2oCw