SOARING LIKE THE EAGLES
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isa 40:28-31 KJV We are living in of the MOST EXCITING times in the history of the WORLD. There are 3 major characteristics of the times that we are living in:
- Young People are FAINTING (getting weak and loosing inner strength) - Young People are becoming WEARY ( tired out and worn out)
- Young People are utterly FALLING (diminishing and decreasing)
In the midst of this STORMY SITUATION, GOD is raising up a COMPANY of WORLD CHANGERS who will SOAR VERY HIGH; I call them the HIGH FLIERS.
High Fliers are young men and women with UNCOMMON VISION, STRENGTH, STAMINA and CAPCITY for exploit. They can best be understood by studying the lifestyle of the EAGLES from which I will be extracting my key points.
LESSONS FROM THE EAGLES
There are few LESSONS that you need to learn and understand about High Fliers by studying the EAGLES:
Lesson 1: Baby Eagles must grow up
Baby eagles are usually born high in the mountains. There are two things that baby eagles love to do: eat and sleep. However, after a moment of comfort, the mother eagle comes flying over and later descends into the comfortable terrain of the Eaglet and shakes it up. In order to be released, the eaglet must accept training and take the responsibility to fly. At about the fourteenth to fifteenth trials with Mother Eagle, the eaglet begins to fly.
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High Fliers do know that comfort can become the greatness enemy of progress. They are ever ready to be trained and are always willing to take responsibility.
Lesson 2: Eagles Are Made For The High Places
Unlike other birds that fly in the lowlands, eagles are made to fly in the high places, out of sight of the naked human eye and out of range of the hunter’s rifle.
High Fliers, do know that God has designed them to fly in the high places, free from the world’s control.
A bird-keeper once said that: “When eagles are in freedom, they are the cleanest birds. But when they are in captivity, they are the dirtiest.” God is expecting you to FLY IN THE HIGH PLACES by operating with the HIGHER PRINCIPLES of the KINGDOM. Dream big and do big things for God!
Lesson 3: Eagles Do Not Fly, They Soar
Eagles usually look for and Fly into the Storms. As storms approach, lesser birds head for cover but, the might eagle spreads its wings and with a great cry mounts upon the powerful updrafts, soaring to
unprecedented heights of glory. Eagles use the storms that other birds run from to soar to great heights.
Eagles do not fly like other birds, flapping their wings profusely and using their own strength. Instead, eagles SOAR majestically, making use of the wind currents to gain height. What makes the eagle so special is that she sits on the rock and reads the wind and when the time is perfect she takes off and soars upward with her great wings.
High Fliers don’t struggle or go undercover, they learn to SURRENDER TO GOD in other not to STRUGGLE in life. They Follow GOD’S PERFECT TIMMING for their lives and thereby provoke the WINDS OF FAVOR to come beneath their WINGS. They don’t rely on their human abilities but on the faithfulness of God.
Lesson 4: Eagles Go Through Specific Periods Of Renewal
When they are about 60 years old, eagles go through a period of renewal. An eagle would find a secret place up in the mountains and RETREAT TO REFRESH AND BE RENEWED. It would start to claw at its face and tear out the feathers that have been damaged over the years due to over activity. As a result, it would bleed badly. The eagle would then wait patiently for the rays of the sun to heal it. Through this, the eagle renews its strength by getting rid of the unnecessary things otherwise, it would not be able to live till 120 years that it normally does.
High Fliers make retreat and personal renewal a divine principle. During this retreat, they look back to see how far they have come, where they are and where they are going to. At such a time they cut off every unfruitful and unprofitable thing that is attached to their lives. They come out with new skills, strength and speed.
Lesson 5: Eagles look up to the sun for Healing
When an eagle gets sick, it does something unique. It simply finds a favorite spot in the mountains and awaits the rays of the sun to heal it. The sun plays a major role in the life of an eagle and as such, is a major source of healing too.
High Fliers look to JESUS as their SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. They look up to him for comfort during seasons of EMOTIONAL or PHYSICAL CHALLENGES. He is their Healer.
Lesson 6: Eagles choose their mate carefully
Eagles don’t RUSH into marriage; they use MATURITY and RESPONSIBILITY to determine preparedness. The male Eagle takes interest in the female Eagle around the age of three years old. The female Eagle takes a stick the size of her weight up in the air, approximately 8 to 10 thousand feet in a three dimensional figure eight pattern, and she then requires the male Eagle to catch the stick before it touches the ground. The male Eagle has to then return the stick back to the female Eagle. Then the
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female Eagle, each time, flies a little lower and faster with a larger stick. The game climaxes when the female Eagle is less than five hundred feet from the ground and she releases the stick. At this point, the male Eagle has to catch the stick before it touches the ground or the female Eagle will chase the male Eagle off. The marriage vows of the Eagles are made while being suspended 10 to 15 thousand feet in the air.
High Fliers don’t rush into marriage. They take their time to check the background, purpose, values and commitment of an individual before they settle for marriage. They always look out for responsible and matured individuals. Maturity is not advancement in age, it is the ability to delay gratification, control reaction and keep your emotion under control.
Lesson 7: Eagles are Visionary
“Does the Eagle mount up at your command and make his nest on a high inaccessible place. On a cliff he dwells and remains securely upon the point of the rock and the stronghold. From there he spies out the prey and his eyes see it afar off. “Job 39:27-29 (Amp. Version)
From the scripture above, there are 3 visionary Characteristics about Eagles:
• They don’t build ANYHOW
• They don’t BUILD for NOW
• They don’t miss OPPORTUNITIES
• They are VISIONARY
High Fliers see very far. They see opportunities where others see crisis. They see possibilities where others see actualities. They are revelation driven and not situation driven. The mount up with wings as eagles. They soar where others struggle.
Becoming a high flier for a life time will demand that you embrace the extraordinary life that Comes from a definite encounter with Christ. Do it right now.
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Eagle
As eagles fly high and are sharp-sighted, they signify rational things. That this is the case may be seen from many passages in the Word, of which in confirmation we may adduce the following. First, where they signify true rational things; in Moses:--
Jehovah found His people in a desert land, and in emptiness, in wailing, in solitude: He led him about, He instructed him, he kept him as the pupil of the eye; as the eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth out her wings, taketh him, beareth him upon her wings (Deut.
32:10, 11).
Instruction in the truths and goods of faith is what is here described, and is compared to the eagle. The very process until man becomes rational and spiritual, is contained in the description and comparison.
The comparisons in the Word are all made by means of significatives thus here by the eagle, which is the rational.
[2] In the same: Jehovah said to Moses:--
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and bare you up upon eagles wings, that I might bring you unto Myself (Exod. 19:3, 4);
denoting the same. In Isaiah:--
They that wait upon Jehovah shall be renewed in strength, they shall mount up with strong wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint (Isa. 40:31);
to be renewed in strength is to grow as to the willing of good; and to mount up with strong wing as eagles is to grow as to the understanding of truth, thus as to the rational. The subject is set forth here as elsewhere by two expressions, one of which involves the good which is of the will, and the other the truth which is of the understanding; and the case is the same with the expressions, they shall run and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint.
[3] In Ezekiel:--
Speak a parable about the house of Israel, and say, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, A great eagle, with long pinions, full of feathers, that had embroidery, came upon Lebanon, and took a twig of the cedar; he carried it into a land of traffic, he set it in a city of spice merchants. It grew, and became a spreading vine. There was another great eagle, with great and many feathers; and behold this vine did bend its roots toward him, and sent forth its branches toward him, that he might water it from the beds of its plantations in a good field, by many waters; but it shall be laid waste. He sent his ambassadors into Egypt that they might give him horses and much people (Ezek. 17:2-9, 15).
The eagle first mentioned denotes the rational enlightened by the Divine; the eagle mentioned in the second place denotes the rational from what is man's own, afterwards become perverted through reasonings from sensuous things and memory-knowledges. Egypt denotes memory-knowledges, (AC 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462); horses the intellectual from them, (AC 2761, 2762, 3217).
[4] In Daniel:--
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The vision of Daniel: Four beasts came up out of the sea, diverse one from another; the first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon its feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it (Daniel 7:3, 4).
The first state of the church is what is here described by a lion that had eagle's wings; and the eagle's wings here are rational things from what is man's own, on the taking away of which they were given rational and voluntary things from the Divine, which are signified by its being taken up from the earth, and made to stand upon its feet like a man, and having a man's heart given to it.
[5] In Ezekiel, in the description of the likeness of the faces of the four living creatures, or cherubs:-- They had the face of a man, and they four had the face of a lion on the right side, and they four had the face of an ox on the left side, and they four had the face of an eagle (Ezek. 1:10).
As for the wheels they were called Galgal, and everyone had four faces; the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle (Ezek. 10:13, 14).
In John:--
Round about the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind; the first living creature was like a lion; and the second living creature was like a calf; and the third living creature had a face as a man; and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle (Rev. 4:6, 7).
That the living creatures thus seen signify Divine arcana, is evident; and consequently so does the likeness of their faces; but what arcana in particular are signified cannot be known unless it is known what in the internal sense is a lion, a calf, a man, and an eagle. That the face of an eagle is
circumspection and consequently Providence is manifest; for the cherubs represented by the living creatures in Ezekiel signify the Providence of the Lord lest man should enter into the mysteries of faith from himself and his own rational (AC 308). This shows that when it is predicated of man, the eagle is in the internal sense the rational; and this for the reason that the eagle flies high, and from above has a wide view of the things that are below.
[6] In Job:--
Does the hawk fly by thine intelligence, and stretch her wings toward the south? Does the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? (Job 39:26, 27);
it is evident that the eagle here is reason, which is of intelligence. Such was the signification of the eagle in the Ancient Church; for the book of Job is a book of the Ancient Church (AC 3540). Almost all the books of that period were written by means of significatives; but in process of time the significatives have become so completely forgotten that it is not even known that birds in general denote thoughts, although they are so frequently mentioned in the Word and it appears quite plain that they have another meaning.
[7] That in the opposite sense an eagle signifies rational things that are not true, and thus false, is evident from the following passages. In Moses:--
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nation whose tongue thou hearest not, a nation hard in faces (Deut. 28:49, 50).
In Jeremiah:--
Behold he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are laid waste (Jer. 4:13).
In the same:--
Thy boasting hath deceived thee, the pride of thy heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill; because thou makest thy nest as high as the eagle I will bring thee down from thence. Behold he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings above Bozrah; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs (Jer. 49:16, 22).
In the same:--
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles; they chased us upon the mountains; they laid wait for us in the wilderness (Lam. 4:19).
In Micah:--
Make thee bald, and poll thee for the sons of thy delights; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee (Micah 1:16).
In Obadiah:--
Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence (Obadiah 1:4).
In Habakkuk:--
I am stirring up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, that marcheth through the breadths of the land to inherit dwelling-places that are not theirs. Their horses are swifter than eagles ; their horsemen come from far, they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour (Habakkuk 1:6, 8).
[8] By eagles in these passages is signified falsity induced by reasonings, which is induced from the fallacies of the senses and external appearances. That by the Chaldeans in the Prophet last cited are signified those who are in a holy external, but interiorly in falsity, may be seen above (AC 1368); also that they who vastate the church are like Babylon (AC 1327); that the breadths of the land denote truths (AC 3433, 3434). Vastation is signified by marching through the breadths of the land. Their horses are their intellectual things, which are similar (AC 2761, 2762, 3217). What the eagle hastening to devour signifies, is thus evident, namely, the desolation of man in respect to truths; for the desolation of the church is there treated of. Comparisons are here made with eagles; but as before said, the comparisons in the Word are made by means of significatives. From all this we can now see what is signified by the comparison with the eagles that will be gathered together to the carcass.
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