Exploring the Prophetic with Merlinda Balmas (S:4 - Ep 34)
Exploring the Marketplace
Charisma Podcast Network
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today on Exploring the Prophetic, Shawn Bolz interviews Merlinda Balmas. Merlinda works at Warner Bros Theatrical Marketing, is the Co-Director of Hollywood Prayer Network and the President of Open Table Outreach. Merlinda felt God calling her to start 9t5, a ministry whose purpose is to equip and encourage Christiand in their God-given roles to function with a Kingdom mindset and win their sphere of influence for Christ. Tune in as Shawn and Merlinda discuss her background filled with poverty, abuse, and loneliness and how her loving encounter with Jesus as a teenager set the stage for her whole life. Merlinda shares the moment God called her back into the marketplace bringing the Kingdom and the love of Jesus to everyone around her. Merlinda’s desire is to encourage you that you do have a hope, you have a future, and that you are not alone!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season four of exploring the prophetic. We are on a journey of spiritual curiosity. |
| 0:07.6 | This is how God's voice can impact us and the world around us. I interviewed guests from |
| 0:12.1 | every walk of life and background about how their relationship with God and hearing his voice |
| 0:17.2 | has given them different opportunities and for experiences. This season I'm also asking |
| 0:23.2 | every guest how they got through a time when they thought they'd heard from God or they received |
| 0:27.4 | a prophetic word from someone else that didn't happen and how God helped them to resolve that. |
| 0:32.2 | Come join our conversation on exploring the prophetic starting now. |
| 0:40.1 | I love doing this podcast because I get to hear stories from incredible people from all walks of |
| 0:44.4 | life. Today my guest is Merlinda Bommas who I've met through the Hollywood |
| 0:49.3 | wood prayer network and through a couple other things and she ended up having me come speak |
| 0:53.0 | at her nine to five meetings which is people who are in the entertainment industry at their studio. |
| 0:57.4 | They get together for one lunch a week and they just spend time together. Some of |
| 1:01.0 | these are 20 people, some is 120 and so much she'll do a meeting where they'll invite like two or |
| 1:06.4 | three of the groups from different studios together like she did for me and we had a great time at |
| 1:10.9 | Warner Brothers. Merlinda works at Warner Brothers and she does theatrical marketing and it's there |
| 1:15.8 | where she felt God's call to start nine to five ministry which purposes do encourage and equip |
| 1:20.4 | Christians and their God-given roles to function with a kingdom mindset within their spirit |
| 1:25.0 | influence which is so cool. She's also a co-director of Hollywood prayer networks Hollywood chapter |
| 1:29.7 | and the president of open table outreach and organization that serves homeless communities |
| 1:33.9 | and long beach and Hollywood and she's done these things for a long time. I know for Merlinda |
| 1:38.6 | sort of thinks she's worked on she's working on some of the mainstream DC movies in like Suicide Squad |
| 1:44.0 | and you know she worked on the Justice League and all these different movies at the same time she's |
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