Stage Two: The Flight of the Eagle

So have you begun the process? Are you sitting still before your Father God allowing the Holy Spirit access to those idols in your life? Are you taking a good look at your character recognizing and plucking out the flaws? If you are in this process it might be painful, but remember that our Father God's love pours in like honey filling the hurts and wounds with His love and protection.

Psalm 139:1

Even there your hand will guide me; your right hand will hold me fast.

Joshua 1:5

No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.

Or are you a chicken, earthly bound and tied to iniquity and injustice? Chickens are dirty, narrow minded animals bound to an area producing the same old same old day after day. Are you a chicken? Arise oh man of God. Don't be rebellious.

Hebrews 12:5-8

And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son. Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined-and everyone undergoes discipline-then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

The rebellious eagle who does not want to leave the nest gets a wing beating from its mom. All of a sudden those large warm protective wings of the past become an enemy of that baby chick. Then the babe has no place to go but onto the back of its parent. Then off they go for a ride this babe will not soon forget. When all appears to be going smoothly and the babe is enjoying the ride the parent dives and leaves the chick to fly on its own.

Ephesians 4:13-16

Until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work

As the eagle learns to fly so do we learn how to live by faith. There are times when we are soaring high achieving what the Lord has for us then, whoops like the eagle, it seems as if the bottom has fallen out from under us. But not really as the Holy Spirit is still there allowing us to retreat-to refuel for the new heights that lie ahead This is the process of life until we come into our fullness in Christ Jesus.

Mathew 11:29

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Back to the eagle-the parent continues the process with its chick until learning is complete. If her chick continues to be rebellious and refuses to fly the parent flies high much higher than before and drops the chick one last time. As the parent fly away it cries knowing that the babe might crash to its death onto the rocks below.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.

There are some of us who are rebellious also and we are destined to die and not live. Some of us love the safety of our Father's love but hate discipline. Thank God for His patience and long suffering, for He works them together for our good.

Sometimes you might think it is better to remain a chicken in the safety of the barnyard. For me I choose to soar and I will allow my choices in the circumstance and environment of life to be instruments of testing so that my nature will become more like His. I know my trials will reveal my heart condition and my rebellion and stubbornness must be dealt with.

I might add when an eagle fails all will see, for he falls from a high place when the chicken fails there is nowhere to fall except in the barn yard.

Today I will leave you with these thoughts:

·         Chickens don't fly

·         Chickens are confined to the barnyard

·         Chickens sleep in one place

·         Chickens lay eggs in one place

·         And chickens eat dirt

On the other hand Eagles:

·         No barnyard can hold an eagle down

·         Eagles die if they are not free--alive in the freedom of the heavens just as we are alive in the Spirit of our Father.

·         There is always room where eagles gather

·         They have unlimited revelation and truth flows like a river

·         Eagles have no creeds, by laws, or ridged beliefs

·         Eagles have heavenly worship-where freedom of the Spirit provides deliverance and love

·         Eagles do not fall into a dull boring routine like the "barnyard chicken"

·         Most important when there is a storm eagles do not run around like chickens with their heads cut off. They soar above the storms of life where they are consumed by God's presence.

Romans 8:5

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor's crown.

Have I convinced you? Are you ready to not only soar but see with the vision of the eagle?