KEY TEXT
Proverbs 30:18-19 (RSV)- Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas; and the way of a man with a maiden.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? How do you believe God sees you?
A story is told of a farmer who lived in a remote valley. One day he got tired of the daily routine of running the farm and decided to climb the cliffs that brooded over the valley to see what lay beyond.
He climbed all day until he reached a ledge just below the top of the cliff and there to his amazement was a nest, full of eggs.
Immediately he knew they were eagle’s eggs and even though he knew it was profoundly un-ecological and almost certainly illegal, he carefully took one and stowed it in his pack; then seeing the sun was low in the sky, he realized it was too late in the day to make the top and slowly began his way down the cliff to his farm.
When he got home he put the egg in with the few chickens he kept in the yard. The mother hen was the proudest chicken you ever saw, sitting atop this magnificent egg.
Sure enough, weeks later, from the egg merged a fine, healthy eaglet. And as is in the gentle nature of chickens, they didn’t balk at the stranger in their midst and raised the majestic bird as one of their own.
So, it was the eagle grew up with its brother and sister chicks. It learned to do all the things chicken do- it clucked and cackled, scratching in the dirt for grit sand worms, flapping its wings furiously, flying just a few feet in the air before crashing down to earth in a pile of dust and feathers.
It believed resolutely and absolutely it was a chicken.
One day, late in life, the eagle-who-thought-he-was a chicken, happened to look up at the sky. High overhead, soaring majestically and effortlessly on the thermals with scarcely a single beat of its powerful golden wings, was an eagle.
“What’s that?” cried the old eagle in awe. It’s magnificent. So much power and grace. It’s beautiful.
“That’s an eagle!” replied a nearby chicken. “That’s the king of the birds. It’s a bird of the air…not for the likes of us. We’re only chickens’ we are birds of the earth.”
With that, they all cast their eyes downwards once more and continued digging in the dirt.
And so it was that the eagle lived and died a chicken………….because that’s all it believed itself to be.
The moral of the story is that you become what you believe you are.
Let’s go back to the first two questions I asked you in the beginning. When you look at the mirror, what do you see? Do you see a chicken or do you see an eagle? How do you believe God sees you? How you live your Christian life depends on how you answer those two questions. Your concept of God and your concept of yourself fundamentally determines whether you will go scratching through life like a chicken or soar on Eagle’s wings.
This morning, I would like to share a message which I believe is the calling of God for this church – GOD’S EAGLE CHRISTIANS.
The four gospels of the Bible are represented by four different emblems. The emblem for the Book of John is an eagle because it is the only bird that could gaze straight into the light of the sun. An eagle is an emblem of divinity and the heavenly. God has likened His people to many things and I am glad that it is the eagle and not of the other birds that God has likened us to be because we display many of the characteristics of an eagle.
To be an “Eagle Christian” means to be a partaker of the divine nature of God. Throughout the Bible, God likens Himself and His children to an eagle, and He protects, feeds and teaches His children as an eagle protects, feeds and teaches the eaglets. This is why we should seek to know and understand the life of an eagle.
Exodus 19:4- You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
Psalms 91:4- He will cover you with his pinions, and under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
The word “eagle” is mentioned about 32 times in the Bible. The number 32 in God’s arithmetic means COVENANT. God desires to reproduce Himself in us while showing us His covenant through the hidden life of the eagle. God uses such metaphors and analogies to give us a better understanding of spiritual truths.
In what ways is a true Christian like an eagle? What spiritual lessons can we learn from this noble brood of prey?
There are 12 major characteristics of an eagle, giving us a few spiritual truths we can learn about God and ourselves. Let’s study these 12 characteristics of eagles.
1. EAGLES ARE MAJESTIC AND NOBLE
Due to the way eagles look and act, many people consider them almost majestic and invincible. They seem to have a look of royalty about them.
Lesson: In the same way, we, as Christians, have this same AIR OF ROYALTY about us since we are now considered kings and priests of the Lord due to the sacrifice that Jesus has personally made for all of us with His death on the cross. “But ye are a chosen generation, a ROAYL PRIESTHOOD…” (1 Peter 2:9).
This majestic royalty that we now have operating through us all comes directly from Jesus. It does not come directly from us, or any of the good works that we may have done to-date for the Lord. It all comes to us as a direct result of Jesus dying on the cross for all of our sins.
Only the blood that Jesus has personally shed for each one of us on the cross is what makes us kings and priests before Him, lest we all get puffed up with our own pride and arrogance, thinking this was all of our own doing and making.
We are called by God to live majestically like an eagle and yet sadly, many of us live like a chicken.
Chicken are CROWD FOLLOWERS. If a chicken sees a bunch of chicken running across the chicken yard, he will take off after them. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t know WHERE they are going or WHY they are going there. He follows along because he doesn’t want to miss out on anything the majority is doing.
Question: Are you following the crowd today? If the trend is tattoo or sex before marriage, do you blindly follow the trend and the fad?
Chicken just naturally SQUABBLE AND FIGHT over things in the chicken yard. If one finds a nice juicy bug to eat, suddenly they all want it. They will chase each other all over the chicken yard, trying to take it away from each other. They can walk all around a bug or grasshopper and not pay any attention to it, but the moment one decides he wants it, at that moment, they all decide they want it and the chase is on.
Question: Are you always squabbling and fighting at home, in school, in your workplace and in church over little things?
Chicken have NO INTEREST IN THE HEAVENLIES. They are content to live in the chicken yard, walking around with their eyes on the ground, scratching in the dirt looking for something to eat. Most of them will never try to fly. They are earthbound birds.
Question: Instead of looking up to God by faith for your life down here, are you settling for the low earthly life? In your romance, do you just grab any guy who courts you or respond to your message in the dating website? Or are you going to take the high road like a king and wait for the King’s provision for this area of your life?
E.g. My daughter Jan asked me in this trip why it was so hard for her to get the right guy. I told her that God has called our family into royalty and our choice of mate must be highly selective and we must not just settle and scrap for any worms the world offers us. I told Jan that if she couldn’t pay the price of this high calling as God’s priest and king, then just marry any guys who are unsaved but forever, in her marriage she will be living in grit-sand and not in the high places of God.
Chicken living is so limited, so confining, so predictable and so boring unlike living the eagle’s life. Eagle living steps out of the comfort zone into the heavenly and dominion zone.
2. EAGLES FLY ALONE AND SOAR AT HIGH ALTITUDE
Eagles fly alone with high altitude and not with sparrows or with other small birds. No other bird can go to the height of the eagle.
When Moses went to commune with God on the mountain, he left the crowd at the foothills.
Lesson: Stay away from sparrows and ravens- those people who aim low in life (like the sparrows) and those people who aim for unclean things in this life like the ravens. Eagles fly with eagles.
Eagles have long, broad wings and tails which easily support their weight when flying and can guide long distances by holding their wings out stiffly, catching the air currents and updrafts, enabling them to SOAR high into the sky.
In Isaiah 40:31 God says, “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall MOUNT UP with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not be faint”
What does it mean to “mount up” with wings like eagles? The Hebrew word is “alah” and it means “to ascend”; “to be high”; “lifted up”; “Arise up” or “carry up” and is used in a great variety of senses.
An eagle “mounts up” as it soars high into the sky, far above the plains below. Eagles are born with big and heavy wings and part of the survival mechanism they are born with is that they have to learn how to fly without actually flapping their big wings. In order to conserve this energy, eagles have to learn to wait for WIND THERMALS to come up on them. A wind thermal is a big gust of wind that will rise up from the atmosphere.
Lesson: We are the eagles. The wings of the eagles represent OUR FAITH AND BELIEF IN GOD. The wind thermals the eagles fly on represent the HOLY SPIRIT.
What God is trying to tell us is this – “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the Lord. All things will get fully accomplished for Him in this life by the power of the Holy Spirit operating through us, and not by our own power or by our own might. Just like the eagle has to learn how to fly on the wind thermals, we as Spirit-filled Christians have to learn how to fly on the power of the Holy Spirits in our lives.
We have to learn how to walk and fly with THE ANOINTING OF GOD. The anointing of God is the power of the Holy Spirit flowing and operating through us to accomplish what God wants us to do for Him in this life. It is God’s power flowing and operating through us, not our own power. Our power is weak and limited but God’s power is pure and absolute.
Just like the eagle has to learn how to CATCH THE WIND THERMAL in order to survive in this world, we have to learn how to LED BY THE HOLY SPRIIT on a daily basis so we can fully accomplish for Him in this life.
And just like an eagle has to learn how to RIDE AND NAVIGATE ON THOSE WIND THERMALS once they actually launch onto them, we have to learn how to WALK WITH POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OPERATING THROUGH US so we can fully accomplish the tasks and assignments that God will be calling us to do for Him in this life.
The wings of the eagle represent our faith and belief in the Lord. If we do not have enough faith and belief in God to take flight in the Holy Spirit in order to be led and empowered by Him for service to the Lord, then nothing will ever happen. We will forever stay perched and we will never fulfill the divine destiny that God has already planned out for our lives before we were even born into our mother’s womb. The eagle has to take that big leap off the edge of the cliff in order to be able to fly and soar on those wind thermals. If the eagle does not take flight on those wind thermals when they do come up on him, he will forever stay perched and he will die on the cliff due to starvation. In the same way, if we do not take flight on the Holy Spirit and the divine call that God has placed on our lives, our lives will perish right before our eyes.
Sooner or later, every single Christian will have to make that big choice for their lives. Who will they decide to serve and follow in this life? Do they follow and serve their own self and their own self-interests, doing what they want to do with their lives? Or do they decide to fully surrender every part of their life over to the Lord and go with the divine plan for their lives rather than their own. If you decide to follow and serve the Lord in his life, then sooner or later God will call you and you will then have to take that BIG LEAP OFF the edge of the cliff in order to learn how to soar into the high calling that He has placed on your life. And just as the wings of the eagle are the only thing that will allow them to fly and soar on those wind thermals, in the same way, the only thing that will allow you to fly on the call that God has placed on your life is YOUR FAITH AND BELIEF IN THE LORD.
Many Christians have missed out on their true callings from the Lord because they did not have enough faith in Him to take the flight on the Holy Spirit.
Our Key text mentions that the eagle is among the 4 things that is too wonderful or too great for us to understand. The way an eagle soars in the sky represents the mystery of the Christian who has learned to soar in the heavenlies, far above the winds of adversity and storms of life without any visible human means of aid or support. He has learned to partake of the divine nature, acting and talking like a child of God. He is no longer content to live with mediocrity but begins to act like Jesus and live a DYNAMIC, VICTORIOUS AND OVERCOMING LIFE. He becomes an eagle who mounts up and rides on the air thermals with hardly any effort. You are called to be an eagle, not a crow, nor a sparrow. YOU ARE MADE FOR THE HEAVENS.
3. EAGLES ARE MASTER FISHERMEN
Eagles are considered master fisherman. They are very good in locking in on their prey and then swooping down to catch them.
We, as Christians, have been called by the Lord to be “fishers of men” just like Jesus and the apostles were at the very beginning of the New Testament.
Our number one job in this life is to get as many people saved as we possibly can. Personal evangelism within our own circle of influence is something that each and every Christian can do for the Lord and it is something that we should always keep our radars up for – as you never know when the Holy Spirit will move on you to lead you to someone He will want you to witness to, whether it be someone you might know or a complete total stranger.
4. EAGLES LOVE HIGHER GROUNDS
For the most part, eagles will always be found living on some type of higher ground.
Lesson: As Christians, we are already living on higher ground as compared to the rest of the world as a result of who we are in Christ.
We are now born-again children of the Most High God. We are now kings and priests of the Lord. That is why the Lord is calling all of us to stay in the world but not to be an actual part of the world. We are to keep ourselves separate from the corruption, pollution, vices and sins of this world so God can keep us on His straight and narrow road for the rest of our earthly lives. We live on this higher ground as a result of our POSITION IN JESUS. “He hath made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2:6). “If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above. Set your affection on thins above.” (Col 3:1-2). We need to keep reminding ourselves that we are living on this higher ground, as the world will always do everything it can to try and drag us down into their lower way of living.
5. EAGLES HAVE STRONG VISION
Eagles have two sets of eyes. The first set is their NATURAL EYE which they have when they are in the resting mode.
However, when they start to take flight on these strong wind thermals, they have a second eye that comes in on them. This second eye then enables them to fly on these strong wind thermals without damaging their original eye.
This second eye is also used when they are seen flying through actual storm clouds. The heavy winds from a storm cloud could easily damage their normal natural eye and this second eye gives them a protective covering as they are navigating through these heavy storm clouds.
Lesson: As Christians, we also have two sets of eyes operating in us. The first set is our normal natural eye which we use to see the natural world in which we live in. However, we also have a second set of eyes and that is the EYES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Since we all have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us, we also have His eyes available to us at times to see things from His perspective.
As you start to draw closer to the Lord in your own personal relationship with Him, there will be times that He will allow you to “SEE” things as He sees them. You will start “SEEING” what certain Scripture verses may mean or even a prophetic image appearing in your mind. You will start to ‘SEE” what the real truth is in many of the matters of your own personal life.
When this starts to occur, this is the Holy Spirit Himself allowing you to see things through His eyes and not your eyes. This is highly supernatural event when it starts to occur. The Bible says the truth will set you free. But you first have to see what that truth is before it can start to set you free.
This is why we all need the eyes of the Holy Spirit operating in us, so we can start to see what the real truth is on many of the different matters and issues in our own personal lives.
Just like the eagle needs his two sets of eyes in order to be able to live and survive in this world, in the same way we need both our natural eyes and the eyes of the Holy Spirit operating in us so we can properly work and function for the Lord in this life.
Eagles are said to have the keenest sight of all and can sight their prey while soaring high in the sky. In the book of Job, we read, “Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off” (Job 39:29).
The eagle is noted for its great vision.
Lesson: But what about you and I? Are we like the eagle in being able to “behold afar off” in the distance? Do we have SPIRITUAL VISION? Proverbs 29:18- Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, HAPPY is he.”
The word “vision” here is chazown and it means “a sight (mentally), i.e. dream, revelation, oracle, “from the root word chazah, meaning “to gaze at,” “mentally to perceive, contemplate, specifically to have a vision of, behold, look, prophesy, see.
The word generally refers to a “divine vision” or “oracle” from Yahweh and therefore refers to PROPHETIC INSIGHT and understanding the events happening around us, in the light of the Bible prophecy and therefore perceiving the future and taking warning. Many people lack spiritual insight and understanding. They lack “vision”. They also lack “perception” of the things of Yahweh – the deeper truths and the more profound understandings. They cannot “see afar off”. They are cursed with spiritual astigmatism or even near sightedness.
Are you blind? Or do you possess the keen-eyed vision of the eagle?
6. EAGLES DO NOT EAT DEAD THINGS
Eagles never consume dead things, but vultures do.
Lesson: Steer clear of outdated and old information. Always do your research well. Seek God daily for fresh “bread”- “Give us this day our daily bread” and not yesterday’s bread. Feed on the living word of Jesus and not on dead doctrines or theologies.
7. EAGLES LOVE THE STORM
When clouds gather the eagles get excited. The eagle uses the storms winds to lift it higher. Once it finds the wing of the storms, the eagle uses the raging storm to lift him above the clouds. Other birds hide in the leaves and branches of the trees but not the eagles.
Lesson: We can use the storms of life to rise to greater heights Achievers relish challenges and use them profitably.
8. EAGLES TEST BEFORE TRUSTING
Before a female eagle accepts a male eagle, they both will be engaged in a courtship ritual in the air, called the DEATH SPIRAL.
The pair will fly over with locked claws and then spiral down in a cartwheel manner. And just before they hit the ground, they separate and soar up again to do the acrobatic dance.
When the female intertwines with the male, she is testing the commitment and bravery of the male eagle. In other words, the female is testing the male on his ability and strength to lift her up just before both of them fall to the ground.
Isaiah 40:31- They who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
In Hebrew word, the word “waiting” is not a passive word unlike English word.
In Hebrew word, “waiting” is ‘QAVAH” and it means you intertwin yourself with God’s promise.
Qavah is used as “weaver of cloth” or “tendrils of the plant”.
Lesson: It is referring to an active posture of HOLDING TO GOD, BELEIVING WHO HE IS AND WHO HE SAY HE IS – just like the female eagle holding on to the male eagle.
It is the intertwining ourselves with who God is and who he says he is.
Qavah is used in the mating of eagles by locking the claws between the male and the female eagle.
Lesson: You hold on to God when things spiral down and go from bad to worse. You hold on to God even when you have no strength. And sometimes when you are holding on, you will realize that it is actually He who is holding on to you all the time and not you.
The male eagle is stronger than the female and while both of them are spiraling down, it is actually the male holding on to the female eagle.
Lesson: Unless you hold on to God; unless you QAVAR with God, you will never learn to draw on God’s strength. As you dive down, you must be prepared to hold onto the male eagle, God.
QAVAR IS……. 1) Believing the Father
2) Believing the promise
The Father Spirit is waiting to come into your life to QAVAR WITH you. The strength is never yours but God’s. The strength that God will give you is INWARD STRENGTH (renewal of your inner substance of the inner spirit); OUTWARD STRENGTH (regaining of outward strength to mount up) and the ONWARD STRENGTH (reviving of our strength to run and not be weary; walk and not faint).
E.g.- I obeyed the prophetic sermon that I heard at Pastor Yang’s church last Sunday and I went back to reading and meditating on my very first rhema which I received from God 31 years ago concerning God’s first calling upon my life to be a missionary. For the last 3 days, I have been chewing on Isaiah 49 and God spoke to me again that “I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has become my strength” (verse 5). As I reflected over my 31 years and especially for the last 5 years, when it seemed my life and ministries were spiraling down and almost hitting the ground, I realized that God had always been with me. He -being the STRONGER ONE had been holding on to me and all I had been doing for the last 5 years was simply to believe that He is the Stronger One and to believe His promises. I had been intertwining myself with Him and His Words and as a result God had become my inward strength, outward strength and onward strength. Praise God!
9. EAGLES CARE AND TRAIN THEIR FAMILIES WELL
Once eagles mate with their partners, they will stay true and loyal to that other eagle for life.
Lesson: – In the same way, once God leads us to the mate that He will want us to marry in this life, He will expect us to stay true, loyal and faithful to that mate literally to the day we die.
Both male and female eagles participate in raising the eagle family. She lays the eggs and protects them; he builds the nest and hunts. During the time of training the young ones to fly, the mother eagle throws the eaglets out of the nest. Because they are scared, they jump into the nest again.
Next, she throws them out and then takes off the soft layers of the nest, leaving the thorns bare. When the eaglets jump into the nest, they are pricked by thorns. Shrieking and bleeding they jump out again this time wondering why the mother and father who love them so much are torturing them. Next, mother eagle pushes them off the cliff into the air.
As they shriek in fear, father eagle flies out and catches them up on his back before they fall and brings them back to the cliff. This goes on for sometimes until they start flapping their wings. They get excited at this newfound knowledge that they can fly.
Lesson: The preparation of the nest teaches us to prepare for changes. Nothing is static in our Christian journey except the character and the faithfulness of God. The preparation for the family teaches us that active participation of both partners leads to success. The being pricked by the thorns tells us that sometimes where we are may result into our not experiencing life, not progressing and not learning at all. The thorns of life come to teach us that we need to grow, get out of our comfort zone and soar. We may not know it but seemingly comfortable and safe haven may have thorns. Sometimes a holy discontent is put there by God in us in order to kick us out of our comfort zone.
The people who love us do not let us languish in sloth but push us hard to grow and prosper. Even in their seemingly bad actions they have good intentions for us.
Eagles train their children to maturity and so must we as earthly parents.
10. EAGLES’ NESTS ARE BUILT IN THE WILDERNESS
When the eaglets are first born, the mother eagle will build the nest in which to raise up her newborns in the wilderness, away from mainstream society. This is done so she can safely raise them up without any type of harm coming to them.
Lesson: In the same way, the Lord will sometimes build up His eagles in a wilderness type setting. Moses was in the desert for 40 years before God used him as the mighty deliverer of Israel. David was in the cave of the wilderness for maybe 13-15 years before he was called out by God to become the greatest king that Israel has ever had.
Maybe some of you are in the wilderness setting now where He is raising you up in your calling for Him. It is sometimes in these wilderness type settings that your greatest stride in spiritual growth are actually made in Him.
11. EAGLES HAVE CONTRASTING COLORS
Many creatures that God has created have color patterns that blend in with their natural habitat in order to protect them.
Not so with the eagles. The American bald eagle has dark brown skin with a white colored head.
As a result of this contrasting color, they can be easily seen from quite a distance.
The dark skin on the eagles lines up with our flesh colored skins and the white color on the head and the face of the eagle line up with the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit living in us. In other words- it is symbolic of the anointing that we have operating in us through the Holy Spirit.
Lesson: People who walk with a very strong anointing from the Lord are very noticeable from a distance. You can “see” the anointing of God all over them. You can “see” the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit in the form of a transparent glow radiating out of their faces. These people have developed very strong personal relationships with the Lord over a number of years and they are walking very close with Him in working out their own personal calls for Him in this life.
Just like the eagle stands out in his environment as a result of his might, prowess and contrasting color pattern in the animal kingdom – in the same way, highly anointed Christians also stand out in their surrounding due to the presence and power of God Almighty Himself radiating out of them. We are to let the light of Jesus shine through us so we can reach the rest of the world with His message of eternal salvation.
12. EAGLES RETIRE UNTIL NEW FEATHERS GROW
When an eagle grows old, his feathers become weak and cannot take him as fast as he should. When he feels weak and about to die, he retires to a place far away in the rocks. While there, he plucks out every feather on his body until he is completely bare. He stays in this hiding place until he has grown new feathers, then he can come out.
Lesson: We occasionally need to shed off old habits and items that burdens us without adding to our lives.
I began my sermon with the story of an eagle who has lost its identity.
Let me use the same story line again but with two twists:
The 1st twist- instead of the famer taking one egg and letting it nest in a chicken nest- let’s change the story line of this farmer capturing two baby eaglets and raising them with great care in a cage. They grew to be fine specimens of this noble bird until one day the door of their cage was left open by accident and the birds escaped. One flew to a nearby tree where it roosted on a low branch for it could not use its wings, never having learned to fly except in the close confinements of its cage. It was not until it met an untimely death by the gun of a hunter. The other eagle fell or was knocked into a swift flowing river and was drowned. Both of these eagles missed God’s plan for their lives. They were created to live in high places and to soar aloft in the sky but instead they were doomed to live on the ground and to meet an early death.
Application: God created you and me to live on a high plane like the eagle and to carry out the great divine plans He has for our lives. May we have wisdom to yield our lives to Him so that the forces of sin and this world will not take us captive and cause us to miss His will and fog our lives or to die a premature death.
The 2nd twist in the story of the eagle:
Let’s go back to the first story again about the eaglet growing up with the chicken and thinking it was a chicken until one day he was in the barnyard and a huge shadow passed over him. It was the Father eagle soaring high above. Father eagle looked down and saw the little eaglet. Seeing it was one of his own kind, Father eagle swooped down giving a loud screech. The young eaglet looked up. Father eagle said to the eaglet, “What are you doing down there? You’re not a chicken. You’re an eagle. Eagles aren’t made for barnyard living. The heavens are your domains. Come up here.” Now the little fellow wondered what to do. Up to now the barnyard had been home to him but he really hadn’t been happy there. He just didn’t seem to fit in with the barnyard living. All of a sudden, the truth of who he was hit him. He discovered his true identity. HE WASN’T A CHICKEN. HE WAS AN EAGLE. Down deep inside him he felt the urge to respond to Father eagle but when he tried, he couldn’t seem to get off the ground.
Father Eagle screeched again, “Just make a jump and flap your wings. You can fly if you try.” The little eaglet made a feeble jump, and flapped his wings and landed on top of the barnyard fence post. Father eagle screeched again, “Child, jump higher, try again. Make the jump and I’ll sweep under you and carry you under my wings.”
Little eaglet did what Father eagle asked him to do and Father eagle did what he said he would do. A mighty jump of faith and little eaglet was riding on Father eagle’s wings on his first solo flight into the heavenly realm
Application: My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, we are called to be God’s eagle- Christians but many have been content to live the chicken life, confined to the barnyard limitation in their spirit. A barnyard to the believer is any attitude, any mindset, any lifestyle that restricts us from being or accomplishing all that God has purposed for us to be or do in life. Our barnyard is that comfort zone we like to live in because it makes no demands of us that will challenge us to change. Yahweh Father eagle is calling to us in our barnyard now and is challenging us today to spread our wings of faith and come up higher. Some respond and get as high as the barnyard post and settle there feeling that they have really accomplished something. But they need to make another jump of faith and set their wings in the promises of God’s word and let the wind of the Holy Ghost lift them up.
God is calling us to be eagle Christians and not chicken Christians.
Be Majestic
Fly alone and soar high
Be a Master fisherman
Live on higher ground
Have a strong vision
Watch your spiritual diet
Love the storm
Care and train your family
Welcome wilderness setting
Qavar with God
Be noticeable from a distance
Refire in your retirement
End of sermon
PRECHED AT ETAB 1ST ENG SV ON 23 JULY 2017
