I recently joined my church's softball team or softball ministry as they like to call it. We practice on just about every week at a batting cage not far from my house. At one of the practices there was a woman on the team who asked me to help her learn how to hit like I do. She asked me to explain the mechanics of how I hit the ball so hard and how to get the correct timing; in short she wanted to know how I hit the ball. I look at her and told her I didn't really know. I tried to think about what goes through my mind right before I hit the ball so that I could try to explain the feeling but I couldn't. The more I thought about it the more I realized that my mind is in a state of elevation where everything just feels right so I don't have to think. Most people who are good at something can recall being "in the zone" and not really having to think about anything but the feeling is so right that nothing goes wrong. It's God given talent whether it's playing a sport, doing someones taxes, writing, or even being a parent; you know in those moments that it's nothing that you are doing but something that is already inside that you couldn't have created even if you tried.
I want to feel that with my prayers and in listening to God's voice.
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It is a wonderful experience to be "in the zone" with God when praying to Him and listening to Him. Even when the odds are against you and you have the assurrance and the confidence in what you have spoken to Him and what He has spoken back to you while "in the zone". It doesn't matter what anyone else says or do because if it not lining up with what He has already spoken to you, then their word is just and even our own thoughts are just noise. After coming out of the "zone", we just know all of Heaven is backing us up. When He says swing the bat, swing it. When He says don't worry about the stubborness of people, don't worry. When He says be still and know that I am God, be still. We are in the zone and He is protecting us. There is a inner peace that lets us know we are "in the zone".
I like that "in the zone" :-)
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