THE LORD'S BASEBALL GAME

Freddy and the Lord stood by to observe a baseball game.  The Lord's team was playing Satan's team.

The Lord's team was at bat, the score was tied zero to zero, and it was the bottom of the 9th inning with two outs.

They continued to watch as a batter stepped up to the plate named 'Love.'

Love swung at the first pitch and hit a single, because "Love never fails."

The next batter was named Faith, who also got a single because Faith works with Love.

The next batter up was named Godly Wisdom. Satan wound up and threw the first pitch.

Godly Wisdom looked it over and let it pass: Ball one.

Three more pitches and Godly Wisdom walked because he never swings at what Satan throws.

The bases were now loaded.

The Lord then turned to Freddy and told him He was now going to bring in His star player.

Up to the plate stepped Grace.  Freddy said, "He sure doesn't look like much!"

Satan's whole team relaxed when they saw Grace.

Thinking he had won the game, Satan wound up and fired his first pitch.

To the shock of everyone, Grace hit the ball harder than anyone had ever seen!

But Satan was not worried; his center fielder let very few get by.

He went up for the ball, but it went right through his glove,

hit him on the head and sent him crashing on the ground;

The roaring crowds went wild as the ball continued over the fence. . For a home run!

The Lord's team won!

The Lord then asked Freddy if he knew why Love,

Faith and Godly Wisdom could get on base but couldn't win the game.

Freddy answered that he didn't know why.

The Lord explained, "If your love, faith and wisdom had won the game,

You would think you had done it by yourself.

Love, Faith and Wisdom will get you on base but only My Grace can get you Home:

"For by Grace are you saved, it is a gift of God; not of works,

Lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

Psalm 84:11, "For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory;

No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly."

WHY WOMEN CRY

A little boy asked his mother, 'Why are you crying?' 'Because I'm a woman,' she told him. 

'I don't understand,' he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, 'And you never will.' 
Later the little boy asked his father, 'Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?' 
'All women cry for no reason,' was all his dad could say. 

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. 
Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, 'God, why do women cry so easily?'

God said: 

'When I made the woman she had to be special. 

I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, 
yet gentle enough to give comfort 
I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children. 

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue with out complaining. 

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly. 

I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart. 

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly. 

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.' 

'You see my son,' said God, 'the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. 

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides.' 

SIN IS - SIN ISN'T

How is everyone today?

 The Lord woke me up early this morning and placed His Word in my spirit…………..

Thank you Father for using me to speak to your children, in Jesus name………………….

I am feeling a lot uncomfortable this morning. I am being led to teach. I have been fasting and praying.

 I have been doing the will of God for my life.

And you, child-of-God…………What have you been doing? You’ve been sinning……..

Instead of drawing closer to God…………You’ve been hanging out…………………....

Well the good Pastor is about to snatch you off the street………………………………..

First points that we are going to cover:

1.      Stop living in the past………..My brother, my sister when you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, you were hidden in Christ with God……......

I said, you were hidden with Christ in God…….and when you hide something that means that you can’t find it………so stop throwing pity parties because you are hidden in Christ with God. Child-of-God, I taught this before but you aren’t receiving it in your spirit. Stop receiving the things of God in your flesh……….

Because your flesh can’t understand the things of God…….only your spirit can.

2.      Stop intellectualizing God……Family, when you got saved you took on the mind of Christ; the wisdom of God and the Holy Spirit, who never loses His power. Now since you have the mind of Christ (who is God), His wisdom and the Holy Spirit omnipotent power………..Why do you resist…….You don’t have to think, worry or wonder………God will do it all for you………….

      in your spirit.

3.      Negative by nature… ………Child-of-God, face it, you don’t want ME, you want to control me. If I ask you to do anything you resist. You want me to bless you but when I ask you to do something your positive because negative……….

Why? Because the flesh is negative by nature. I repeat, the flesh is negative by nature. You can not serve God in the flesh. God can only be served in the spirit.

 My brother, my sister, the positive lives in your spirit…………………

 Read/Study/Meditate/ Pray/Apply: Romans 6 v 1-6 

                                                            Romans 13 v 1

                                                           Romans 8 v 11

BUT ALL I HAVE IS RELIGION (S-I-N)

Do you know someone who claims to be born again,

 but their lifestyle has not undergone any changes?

Do you wonder if that person is really saved?

Do they continue in a lifestyle of sin?

What changes occurred in your life when you accepted Christ?

Why don’t you take the time to write them down?

Now will everybody please turn to last week’s assignment?

 How many people completed reading Mark Chapter 17? (a few hands go up) 

Put your hands down! 

There is no Chapter 17 in the Book of Mark!  (Can I get a witness)

(Silence-Please)………….If you found yourself raising your hand, it’s time to get your hearts’ right with God! This question is too serious for you to make a mistake. I want you to take the time and let the Holy Spirit speak to your heart and tell you the truth.

Are you saved?........................If you life gives proof that you are saved, then make some noise and rejoice! But if all you have is religion; then maybe, just maybe you are not really saved, just because you been to the pool, maybe you just might have to reconsider your salvation! (Am I talking to someone here?)

Many people claim to know Jesus…………but the Bible says that Jesus said,  I never knew you even though you did mighty works in my name!  Are you righteous?

Then why do you party on Saturday night and come to Sunday morning meeting?

If you are really a child-of-God; Why do you play church? This is not make-believe!

Church attendance does not make you born-again?  You can’t claim to have the re-birth and habitually sin....I said, Stop It Now!

1 John 3 v 9 says:  Whosoever is born of God simply cannot go on continually sinning for God’s seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Allow the Holy Spirit to teach: In other words, God injected His own seed into you the day you gave your life to Christ! (now follow me; I need you to understand this, clearly) Just as a human father’s seed has DNA; God’s Seed/DNA was implanted inside of you. The very life and nature of God is now in your spirit! (what does this mean, Pastor?)  It means, that according to Genesis 1, God established a “Spiritual Law”…………Do you quack?............I said, “Do you quack?”…………..Do you produce fruit?................Do you live underwater?......No, no, no………

Why?......Because God made man in His image! God placed His spiritual seed inside of you. The day you got saved and born again, God’s nature was placed inside of you, into your spirit! God’s expectation was that His very life and nature would be reproduced inside of you……..................

(Are you getting this?)

Did you experience a change when you were born again?  Your desires suddenly didn't matter anymore? Things that never bothered you, start to bother you?

Suddenly, you want to be more like Jesus! God’s nature is in you!  You have a deep desire to be Holy; to be more like Jesus…………Take the test……………………….

Do you claim to be born-again and continue in sin?

Do you go to church and use that as proof that you are saved?

Do you know the lingo of the church?

Have you read John Chapter 3 ?

Sin is a lifestyle.  1 John 3 v 6 : he who abides in Him does not go on continually, habitually sinning as a way of life; he who continually goes on routinely sinning as a way of life has not seen Him, neither known Him.

If this is where you are living at right now; I encourage you to make your heart right with God. Do not make the mistake that so many church folk do; don’t let pride hold you from becoming really born-again.