Baseball and the Spirit Realm!

Good Morning Precious and Dearly Saint and Child of Our Abba Father!

There are a lot of lessons we can learn from baseball.   The professional season last about eight months.    Each and every day, they practice skills to hone and create good habits, so that their actions become very natural, almost second nature.   They repeat the same things over and over every day.  In a ballgame, like batting against a pitcher who throws a baseball a hundred miles an hour, you don’t want to be thinking.  They aim to have practiced so much that they are just reacting to the ball without even thinking.  Thinking slows them down.   I understand it is the same way for musicians, they don’t think, they just play! 

 In baseball, if your batting average is over .300, you are considered on e of the greats of the game!  That means that the great ones fail 70% percent of the time!  Many people will say that the difference between the major leaguers and the minor leaguers, is not so much in physical ability, but the really good players have an ability to block out their past mistakes while the lesser players constantly rehearse their mistakes and the mistakes of the people around them!   Like Paul said, “But this one thing I do:  Forgetting what is behind and straining what is ahead, I press on…” Philippians 3:13-14.     

          We are called to view or regard no one from a fleshly point of view. NO ONE!!!!!  This is a very difficult and challenging task and we continue at failing in doing so!   So too, we must forget our failure and others failure to Love us perfectly and infinitely and move on and fix our eyes on the Spirit and not on earthly matters.  “So from now on we regard NO ONE from a worldly point of view.” 2 Corinthians 5:16.            To put this in the positive voice, we are to see every one as they are in the Spirit! 

 In the Spirit, everyone who has accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior into their heart has become a new creation.  They, we, have been completely 100% forgiven of all sins!!!  “He forgave us ALL our sins”, Colossians 2:13;               “Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits—who forgives ALL your sins…”, and “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He REMOVED our transgressions from us. Psalms 103;                 “I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” Hebrews 8:12;                   “To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His Blood.” Revelations 1:5.                   There are many more scriptures about our complete forgiveness of sins!  

  The Bible refers over a hundred times that we are “In Christ”.    We have become One with Him and given His glory, John 17:22; we have been glorified, Romans 8:30;  we have been perfected by Christ’s one sacrifice, Hebrews 10:14; and we “are as Jesus is” 1 John 4:17; and we have already been healed and made whole in every area of our life, 1 Peter 2:24; we have been given the kingdom of God and it is inside of us, Luke 12:32 and Luke 17:21. 

  The Bible says that we are already seated in the heavenly realms and are a member of God’s household right now!  WE have been given the heart and Spirit and mind of Christ!  WE can think, feel, experience and do the miracles that Jesus did because we have been given the fullness of Christ and all of His power and authority!!!!  Not only was Jesus raised into heaven in all of His glory, but we were raised with Him when He was raised into the heavenly realms, Ephesians 2:6 and Colossians 3:1-3!!!!

So back to baseball, as the professionals practice, practice, practice…. So must we!  Every day in viewing ourselves and others in the Truth of the Spirit that the Father is always pouring the full measure of His Love into our hearts and in this Love is the full provision of heaven!!!!   We must become excellent forgetters and learn to live only in the present reality in the Presence of the Holy Spirit! 

  Are you for a new season?   A new season where you forget all failure, yours and the people around you, and live in the fullness of who you are in the Spirit!    In the Spirit realm, we are perfected, glorified and completely whole, prospering in all things in the kingdom of heaven where we now live!  Are you ready for a new season?    Today is the official Opening Day of the Baseball Season.    The ballplayers play every day with the World Series in mind.   How about you, how about living everyday with walking and manifesting the fullness of who you are in the Love of the Father in the Spirit realm and always forgetting when you fail?                     SHALOM!!!!!!!

Jerry Brown        4-1-2013