THE EAGLE NATURE IV

An eagle has to have the power of surprise. As I look into my life, I thank God for the people who prayed and interceded for me, but there were times in my life that people did not know where I was or who I was. I did not have a church that stood behind me because I was so contrary to religious ideas, and there was no one that really had a burden for my ministry, and yet, for all these years I survived. How did I do it?

If an eagle loses the power of surprise, he will starve. When God speaks, we often lack the power of surprise because we declare to everyone what we are doing before it happens, and the devil has already placed obstacles in our way. We pray for years, but we cannot act in an instant and move by the Spirit of God. In my early years, when God spoke, I did it, and when I did it, I was there before the enemy could do damage.

Jesus always surprises us, but we do not have any power of surprise. God knows it as well, how we are unable to yield to the Spirit, although, the spirit is supposed to be our guide, and we are supposed to follow Him. Some of us are not eagles, we are chickens; good people but carnal. When we become an eagle, we cannot just live on echoes, and we cannot just echo things we hear, but we have to live it, and make it apart of our lives.

One of the ways that an eagle loses his power of surprise is when his feathers become brittle, and when he comes diving down at high speeds to catch his prey, the wind makes a noise through the feathers and the prey hears it and escapes. God speaks on how we need to renew our youth like an eagle. I live by being renewed by God. All of us grow old, but some of us grow old at a young age and are set in our ways. To renew him, the eagle flies to the highest mountain, and he sits there and plucks out all his brittle feathers. He continues to sit there and waits until new feathers grow, and he can start soaring again where his own strength could not take him.

An eagle learns to be still in the different currents of the wind that his body does not get thrown around. Some times an eagle will have a growth of calcification on his beak that brings an imbalance in the winds, and it will cause his body to be flipped over and be thrown around. When this happens, the eagle will fly to the heights where he feels like he could be torn apart. It is in that moment at extreme heights and extreme pressure that the calcification is broken off his beak, and he is renewed in his youth. Some of us have stone hearts, and religious people can have the hardest hearts. We lose the ability to have flesh hearts, but an eagle is free and God’s people have to become free.

In Colorado, one of the native Indian hunters takes people into the mountains every year to hunt and to see the beauty of the mountains. As he was taking several hunters into the mountains, they saw markers, and asked the guide about them. He said that he marked where an eagle has died. They were curious and asked what he meant. Strange things happen to eagles at times, he told them. They can become depressed, and there is nothing physically wrong with them, and they do not know why. When they are depressed like that, they do not eat; they do not want to fly; they do not want to do anything, and if they do not come out of that depression, they will die. When these eagles have died, it saddened and touched the heart of the guide so much, that he placed a marker as a memorial where they died. The most amazing thing happens at times when other eagles see the depressed eagle just sitting there ready to die. Some of the eagles will tear meat from a prey they have caught with the blood dripping down, and they will fly over the depressed eagles and let that blood drop on the depressed eagle so that they will catch a new scent of life.

Many of God’s people have lost the joy in life. Jesus came and let his blood flow out of His body on the cross, shed for us, that we might have a new desire to live, a new desire to embrace our destiny to know that we are born for such a time as this, to fulfill what God wants in our lives.

Ezekiel saw four faces. There are certain times and certain areas in our lives where God comes to us. Sometimes He helps us to rest in our burden. He became a human because he understood our human frailties. He is a lion because He will reign, but The Church has to be free to break into a level where the burdens of our lives will no longer kill the purpose for which He died. He died not only for us to be saved, but that we might live, and out of our inner most being shall come rivers of living water. We need to birth a new dimension of Christ in our flesh, and grow up into the full stature of Jesus Christ.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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