Happy Monday Everyone!

Hope you all had a super amazing weekend!

On Saturday, we did a waterfall hike, then hosted Coree and Heavens friends for the first patio party of the year… went to bed late, lost an hour… and woke up EXHAUSTED Sunday morning!

On Sunday, church was OUTSTANDING… then we hosted a group that comes to our church from Richmond (a church ALIVE is worth the drive)… we all had lunch on the patio! (loving the beautiful weather) After that, Emily and I went to Bible College… all I had to do was administer an exam and introduce a new instructor! Then I wrote in my book while Emily finished her classes… then we went home and RESTED until “The Celebrity Apprentice” and LOVED every minute of that! The day ended praying with Coree and Heaven… and drifting off into the land of DREAMS! (except I didn’t have a single dream last night… highly unusual)

I woke up feeling really confident today… almost like a few thousand angles moved onto my property and they are awaiting my orders! I felt this yesterday while I was in my office getting ready to preach… and then in a BIG way while I was preaching… and this confidence still remains almost 20 hours later! Hmmm… there must be something going on. Feels to be something GOOD.

Proverbs 29:25 NIV “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.”

Psalm 3:5-7 NIV “I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me. I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side. Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.”

My own fear of peope and circumstances seems to be going away these days… I have never in all my life felt this secure in who I am! I have never in all my life felt this INDESTRUCTABLE! I have never in all my life felt so guaranteed of success! I almost wonder if I’m going to look out the window and see a pen of 777 chickens laying golden eggs! If I look hard enough… I see warrior angels with swords drawn against all intruders! My car looks safer than President Obamas new missile proof Cadillac! I feel a new divine FAVOR in my life… with God, angels, and humans!

All of these things I am experiencing today can be experienced by all of us in varying degrees throughout our lives. While I believe that some of my experience is attributed to the current prophetic assignment on my life… I also believe that much of this is the result of having FAITH for it!

Every biblical promise is accessed and enjoyed through FAITH. If we need healing, we believe in the biblical promise healing and we stand IN FAITH until the physical symptoms recede! If we need a restoration in one of our relationships, we STAND IN FAITH that God is able to work out all things for his glory… and we STAND BELIEVING until the relationship is restored!  

When it comes to having favor and achieving success… we must BELIEVE like this! Because as long as we live under the fear of people and circumstances, we will always come up short. We become what we believe we SHOULD become… nothing more than that!

So, today… change how you believe about your current situation! Start to believe God that there is an ASSIGNMENT on your life… and you cannot fail as long as you go forward! Rise above the low expectations of others… climb up over every disempowering voice… the real ones, and the ones whispered from demon spirits in dark places. Believing like you are a CHAMPION is the biggest hurdle to becoming a CHAMPION!

I pray that each of you get a little caught up in my personal experience today… I pray that you also rise above your fears to be MIGHTY throughout this next decade! God bless you all… leave your comments… let’s chat throughout the day!

Its Saturday Everyone!

Something is wrong with my blog site… I’m not able to add photos until our tech people fix the glitch… sorry. I wanted to include a smokin hot picture of my wife yesterday (LOL) to go with my blog about how great she is… and I wanted to include a picture of LILLY the piggy today as a tribute to her time with us! (fixed since this post)

A guy from Roanoke came and picked Lilly up yesterday at 5:30pm… a very very sad moment at the Balsamo home. She was grunting and faintly squealing… pushing her wet nose up under my chin as if to say, “Please Dad, don’t do this to me… please don’t just sell me off like I’m a barn animal… I’ve become your daughter over the past few months… I’m scared to go live somewhere else… how can you be so cold and heartless!” Wow… it really took the life out of me. Coree and Heaven went to the movies last night and it was just Emily and me watching CSI with no Lilly… I woke up with no new hoof wounds today… very sad! And if you think I’m bad… you should chat with Heaven about it.

Ok… I must talk about something else before I stoop into a deep state of depression. Hmmm… Well church is going to be amazing tomorrow. Our worship leader, Michelle Powers informed me about the new song were doing… a remake of a rock and roll classic. I heard them in practice and I can’t wait!! You guys coming to Destiny Family Center at 10am? I hope so! Bring Heaven and me some kind of “cheer up” gift if you can… it could rescue us from the depths of despair. LOL

It’s going to be warm today… we might go on a hike! What are you guys doing with this beautiful Saturday? Whatever it is… make it FUN and EXPERIENTIAL… don’t be BORING… don’t be lazy… get your blood flowing… breathe the mild winter air… oh, and spend some time praying for Heaven and me, that God would comfort us in this time of loss!

Enough about me… I need to push my pains aside now and minister to my dear bloggers! Here’s a spiritual thought to bless your weekend!

2Corinthians 4:16-18 “That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.”

As we walk with God, our spirits are being renewed day by day… and even though life can be troublesome, and situations may seem to get the best of us at times… our present troubles are not as big as they may come off… they never really last very long either. So a big key to living an amazing life is to remember this: What’s happening IN US is far more significant that anything happening TO US.

Whenever we become overly focused on this physical world and our temporary physical circumstances, we can feel like life is not good, or fair. This is why it’s so important to remain ever conscience of the BEAUTIFUL THING HAPPENING IN OUR HEARTS! All hell may be breaking loose all around us… but God has promised that he will never leave us alone! And if he is NEAR, then he is working in our favor and we are not failing like it may seem to everyone else. We FIX OUR GAZE ON THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SEEN with the naked eye… the things that really matter… things that last forever!

Even though traffic is usually way down on Saturdays, I always try to write as if this one blog is someone’s lifeline! Today’s blog is VERY GOOD… I hope it blesses you all in a very big way! Chat with you later or see you tomorrow! Goodbye for now my friends!