Stay In Your Seat

When I played college baseball I had the opportunity to be around an amazing hitting instructor who could transform hitters very rapidly. 

His number one verbal cue for hitting with power was “ STAY IN YOUR SEAT.”

He had a way that he taught his hitters to use their hips and legs to transfer the power of the swing by keeping their hips in an imaginary chair. When the hitter left his seat he lost the connection with his power.

This is our number one cue in the mechanics of transferring God’s power into the world “STAY IN YOUR SEAT.”

We have been seated in heavenly places with Christ at God’s right hand where he is working for our good. Staying in our seat is the source of power. Just like a pitcher tries to negate the hitter's power, life is trying to pull us out of our seat. Life is throwing demands, needs, and issues at us all the time and we must make contact with them by staying in our seat. When we stay in our seat God’s power is backing us, but when we leave our seat we are doing things in our own strength rather than God’s. Staying in our seat is how we transfer God’s power into the world and we stay in our seats by winning the battle in our minds and staying at rest.