With eagles we can soar

[irenemcg]

Recently I have heard a few people talk about eagles and I thought I would compile this study. Please add any of your thoughts on eagles to this thread.

SOARING WITH THE EAGLES
Eagles have been classified in the prophetic world as being symbolic of the prophetic.

Isaiah 40:31 KJV
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.

Deuteronomy 32:11-12 NKJV
As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, so the LORD alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.

1} VISION
We have all heard of eagle eyes. Just like the eagle, we as believers must have vision. The eagle's eyes can see great distances. They can also see directly into the sun without being blinded. Our desire should be to look directly at the King of glory to see the God the Son so much more clearly.
John 12:46 NIV
I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
Ephesians 1:18 MSG

your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for Christians,

2} LEARNING FROM PARENTS
Eagles must learn to fly and hunt and are taught by observing their parents. Eagles are born with an instinct called imprinting. Konrad Lorenz first discovered imprinting when he observed ducks and geese hatching out of their eggs. He noticed they would bond with the first moving object they saw, regardless of whether this was their parent. From that first moment of imprinting, they follow their moving parent (or adopted parent) until raised See the words of Paul in the verse below.
1Co 11:1
Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
We do need to be very careful who we imitate though, and particularly new and young believers when it comes to imitating other believers.
Matthew 7:21-23 NKJV

"Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Many will say to Me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

Like the eagles, a Christian’s foundations of learning to fly and hunt must be learned. They need to be discipled by strong spiritual fathers and ministries.
Proverbs 22:6 NKJV

Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.

3} SOARING
We must learn to fly just like the young eagles. Sometimes when a young eaglet is afraid of taking its first flight away from the nest, a parent will withhold food to force it out. This is similar to what happens to those who have been closely mentored and the Lord says its time the "fledglings" got their wings. The fledglings find their mentors increasingly unavailable and or are told to try and hear the Lord for themselves. One month after leaving the nest it has learned to soar and climb with the winds. It takes an eagle 4-5 years after this to become an adult eagle.
An eagle learns to soar by using thermal currents of air. These warm air patterns are created by the surrounding terrain. They will spread their wings and their tail feathers and let the wind carry them to new heights, then glide down to catch another upward thermal. Soaring saves eagles energy because they do not have to flap their wings as often.
Spiritual eagles learn to soar empowered by the Holy Spirit. The wind of the Spirit helps them to soar to new heights. When we move in the might and power of the Spirit in ministry we have our strength renewed constantly and what we do is not in our own strength.
Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.


4} WINGS OF FAITH
Faith is a heart condition where we stretch out and reach towards the Lord believing and doing what the Lord leads us to do through faith, while the winds of His Spirit. He holds us afloat for faith is indeed a gift straight from Him. (Eph2:8) When we soar, we are resting in our trust in the Lord and letting Him carry us amidst the surrounding terrain. The Lord teaches us through faith, how to rise above difficulties and hindrances in our life. We learn how to rise high enough to gain His perspective on what is below. We have to abide in Him to gain that perspective.
Joh 15:4;6;7; 10 NIV
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.....
If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you................

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

5} STABILITY
Looking now at the role of the tail feathers for landing and manouvering in flight. It stabilizes the eagle and is actually used like a brake when landing, just like an airplane. It tilts back and forth, up and down, depending upon the need. We need to walk in stability in our relationship with the Lord. Those who wait upon the Lord shall rise up like eagles. (Isaiah 40:31) If truth be told though this is something most of us find difficult to do. Sometimes He wants us to wait because the timing isn’t right. Sometimes He wants us to wait upon Him because He wants to carry us so we don’t suffer burnout in flapping our wings!

John 5:19 NKJV
Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
6} EAGLES ARE HUNTERS
Eagles are hunters and an eaglet’s first lesson in hunting comes right after hatching. We know that other mother birds will eat the food, then regurgitate the partially digested contents, and individually place the food in the baby’s gaping mouth. However a mother eagle shreds pieces of fresh fish or meat with her beak, then coaxes her young to take the raw morsel. She does not put the food directly into its mouth like other birds, because this is the eaglet’s first lesson in hunting. She offers the food over and over again, until the baby finds the prey, grabs it, then takes it for its own.
The Lord wants us to be like hunters and seek Him out, to seek His face.
Jeremiah 29:13-14 NKJV

And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

2Chronicles 7:14 NKJV
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Psalm 27:8

When You said, "Seek My face,"
My heart said to You, "Your face, LORD, I will seek."



7} EAGLES NESTS

Job 39:27- 29 NKJV

Does the eagle mount up at your command,
And make its nest on high?
On the rock it dwells and resides,
On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.
From there it spies out the prey;
Its eyes observe from afar.

The eagle makes it’s nest in high places, it builds it’s home upon the rock. We too are to build our homes upon the rock – Christ Jesus. We are to dwell in high places with the Lord- those heavenly places.
Luke 6:48 NIV
He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
Ephesians 1:3 NIV
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
Ephesians 2:6 NIV
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

 

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. Please add any of your thoughts on eagles to this thread.

SOARING WITH THE EAGLES
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Not mine, from the eagle soarer John Gill
about the old English style

Deuteronomy 32:11
As an eagle stirreth up her nest
Her young ones in it, to get them out of it: Jarchi says the eagle is merciful to its young, and does not go into its nest suddenly, but first makes a noise, and disturbs them with her wings, striking them against a tree or its branches, that so they being awakened may be fitter to receive her:

with respect to literal Israel, Egypt was their nest, where they were who were then in their infant state, lay like young birds in a nest; and though it was a filthy one and where they were confined, yet they seemed sometimes as if they did not care to come out of it; until the Lord made use of means to get them out, by the ministry of Moses and Aaron, by suffering their taskmasters to make their bondage heavier, and by judgments inflicted on the Egyptians, which made them urgent upon them to depart: with respect to spiritual Israel, their nest is a state of unregeneracy, in which they are at ease, and do not care to be awakened and stirred out of it; but the Lord, in love to them, awakens them, stirs them up, and gets them out, by sending his ministers to arouse them, by letting in the law into their consciences, which works a sense of wrath, by convincing them by his Spirit of their sin and danger, opening their eyes to see their wretched and miserable estate and condition, and by exerting his almighty power, plucking them as brands out of the burning:
　
fluttereth over her young;
by that means to get them out of the nest, and teach them to fly, as well as to preserve them from the attempts of any to take them away; for though some writers represent the eagle as hardhearted to its young, casting them out of the nest, when they are taken care of by the offifrage; yet this is to be understood of it when tired with nursing, and when its young are capable of taking care of themselves; or of some sort of eagles; for Aelianus testifies, that of all animals the eagle is most affectionate to its young, and most studiously careful of them; when it sees anyone coming to them, it will not suffer them to go away unpunished, but will beat them with its wings and tear them with its nails: Jarchi thinks this phrase is expressive of the manner of its incubation on its young; it does not, he says, lie heavy upon them, but lifts up herself, and touches them as if she did not touch them; but it rather signifies the motion she makes with her wings to get her young, when fledged, out of the nest, and to teach them to make use of their wings, as she does; and we are told that young eagles, when their wings are weak, will fly about their dams and learn of them to fly ; and hence it is that young eagles while they are eating flutter their wings, that motion being so natural to them, and seeing their dams do so likewise: this passage seems to contradict a notion that has obtained with some, that an eagle only breeds one at a time; the philosopher says, the eagle lays three eggs and casts out two of them; according to the verse of Musaeus, it lays three, casts out two, and brings up one; and so, he says, it commonly is the case: but sometimes three young ones are seen together; and the black eagles are more kind to their young, and careful in the nourishment of them; and the same says Pliny; yea we are told, that sometimes seven are seen in a nest:

spreadeth abroad her wings taketh them, beareth them on her wings;
that is, spreads forth her wings when she flutters over her young to instruct them; or she does this in order to take up her young and carry them on them: it is said that eagles fly round their nest, and vary the flights for the instruction of their young; and afterwards taking them on their backs, they soar with them aloft, in order to try their strength, shaking them off into the air: and if they perceive them too weak to sustain themselves, they with surprising dexterity fly under them again, and receive them on their wings to prevent their fal);

thus the Lord, comparable to this creature for his affection to the people of Israel, his care of them, and his strength to bear and carry them, did bear them as on eagles' wings, and carried and saved them all the days of old; even Christ, the Angel of Jehovah's presence, the rock of salvation they rejected, see ( Exodus 19:4 ) ( Isaiah 63:9 ) ; and all this in a spiritual and evangelic sense may be expressive of the gracious dealings of God with his spiritual Israel; teaching and enabling them to mount up with wings as eagles, to soar aloft in the exercise of faith, hope, and love, entering thereby within the vail into the holiest of all, and living in the constant and comfortable expectation of heaven and happiness; and of the Lord's taking his people up from the low estate in which they are, and raising them up to near communion with himself, bearing them on his heart, in his hands, and on his arm, supporting them under all their afflictions, and carrying them, through all their troubles and difficulties, safe to eternal glory and happiness.

 

[toolite]

Recently I have heard a few people talk about eagles and I thought I would compile this study. Please add any of your thoughts on eagles to this thread.

SOARING WITH THE EAGLES
Eagles have been classified in the prophetic world as being symbolic of the prophetic.

Isaiah 40:31 KJV
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.

Deuteronomy 32:11-12 NKJV
As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, so the LORD alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.

1} VISION
We have all heard of eagle eyes. Just like the eagle, we as believers must have vision. The eagle's eyes can see great distances. They can also see directly into the sun without being blinded. Our desire should be to look directly at the King of glory to see the God the Son so much more clearly.
John 12:46 NIV
I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
Ephesians 1:18 MSG

your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for Christians,

2} LEARNING FROM PARENTS
Eagles must learn to fly and hunt and are taught by observing their parents. Eagles are born with an instinct called imprinting. Konrad Lorenz first discovered imprinting when he observed ducks and geese hatching out of their eggs. He noticed they would bond with the first moving object they saw, regardless of whether this was their parent. From that first moment of imprinting, they follow their moving parent (or adopted parent) until raised See the words of Paul in the verse below.
1Co 11:1
Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
We do need to be very careful who we imitate though, and particularly new and young believers when it comes to imitating other believers.
Matthew 7:21-23 NKJV

"Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Many will say to Me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

Like the eagles, a Christian’s foundations of learning to fly and hunt must be learned. They need to be discipled by strong spiritual fathers and ministries.
Proverbs 22:6 NKJV

Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.

3} SOARING
We must learn to fly just like the young eagles. Sometimes when a young eaglet is afraid of taking its first flight away from the nest, a parent will withhold food to force it out. This is similar to what happens to those who have been closely mentored and the Lord says its time the "fledglings" got their wings. The fledglings find their mentors increasingly unavailable and or are told to try and hear the Lord for themselves. One month after leaving the nest it has learned to soar and climb with the winds. It takes an eagle 4-5 years after this to become an adult eagle.
An eagle learns to soar by using thermal currents of air. These warm air patterns are created by the surrounding terrain. They will spread their wings and their tail feathers and let the wind carry them to new heights, then glide down to catch another upward thermal. Soaring saves eagles energy because they do not have to flap their wings as often.
Spiritual eagles learn to soar empowered by the Holy Spirit. The wind of the Spirit helps them to soar to new heights. When we move in the might and power of the Spirit in ministry we have our strength renewed constantly and what we do is not in our own strength.
Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.


4} WINGS OF FAITH
Faith is a heart condition where we stretch out and reach towards the Lord believing and doing what the Lord leads us to do through faith, while the winds of His Spirit. He holds us afloat for faith is indeed a gift straight from Him. (Eph2:8) When we soar, we are resting in our trust in the Lord and letting Him carry us amidst the surrounding terrain. The Lord teaches us through faith, how to rise above difficulties and hindrances in our life. We learn how to rise high enough to gain His perspective on what is below. We have to abide in Him to gain that perspective.
Joh 15:4;6;7; 10 NIV
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.....
If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you................

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

5} STABILITY
Looking now at the role of the tail feathers for landing and manouvering in flight. It stabilizes the eagle and is actually used like a brake when landing, just like an airplane. It tilts back and forth, up and down, depending upon the need. We need to walk in stability in our relationship with the Lord. Those who wait upon the Lord shall rise up like eagles. (Isaiah 40:31) If truth be told though this is something most of us find difficult to do. Sometimes He wants us to wait because the timing isn’t right. Sometimes He wants us to wait upon Him because He wants to carry us so we don’t suffer burnout in flapping our wings!

John 5:19 NKJV
Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
6} EAGLES ARE HUNTERS
Eagles are hunters and an eaglet’s first lesson in hunting comes right after hatching. We know that other mother birds will eat the food, then regurgitate the partially digested contents, and individually place the food in the baby’s gaping mouth. However a mother eagle shreds pieces of fresh fish or meat with her beak, then coaxes her young to take the raw morsel. She does not put the food directly into its mouth like other birds, because this is the eaglet’s first lesson in hunting. She offers the food over and over again, until the baby finds the prey, grabs it, then takes it for its own.
The Lord wants us to be like hunters and seek Him out, to seek His face.
Jeremiah 29:13-14 NKJV

And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

2Chronicles 7:14 NKJV
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Psalm 27:8

When You said, "Seek My face,"
My heart said to You, "Your face, LORD, I will seek."



7} EAGLES NESTS

Job 39:27- 29 NKJV

Does the eagle mount up at your command,
And make its nest on high?
On the rock it dwells and resides,
On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.
From there it spies out the prey;
Its eyes observe from afar.

The eagle makes it’s nest in high places, it builds it’s home upon the rock. We too are to build our homes upon the rock – Christ Jesus. We are to dwell in high places with the Lord- those heavenly places.
Luke 6:48 NIV
He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
Ephesians 1:3 NIV
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
Ephesians 2:6 NIV
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Great Word!

Eagles are the ones who can fly above any storm. We are like eagles spiritually. We just have to seek the Lord to bring that eagle out of us. Passing all trials & tribulations and learning the lesson we are suppose to learn so that we might benefit the Kingdom of God. Stay Blessed!

All The Glory Belongs To God Forever!

 

[irenemcg]

Not mine, from the eagle soarer John Gill
about the old English style

Deuteronomy 32:11
As an eagle stirreth up her nest
Her young ones in it, to get them out of it: Jarchi says the eagle is merciful to its young, and does not go into its nest suddenly, but first makes a noise, and disturbs them with her wings, striking them against a tree or its branches, that so they being awakened may be fitter to receive her:

with respect to literal Israel, Egypt was their nest, where they were who were then in their infant state, lay like young birds in a nest; and though it was a filthy one and where they were confined, yet they seemed sometimes as if they did not care to come out of it; until the Lord made use of means to get them out, by the ministry of Moses and Aaron, by suffering their taskmasters to make their bondage heavier, and by judgments inflicted on the Egyptians, which made them urgent upon them to depart: with respect to spiritual Israel, their nest is a state of unregeneracy, in which they are at ease, and do not care to be awakened and stirred out of it; but the Lord, in love to them, awakens them, stirs them up, and gets them out, by sending his ministers to arouse them, by letting in the law into their consciences, which works a sense of wrath, by convincing them by his Spirit of their sin and danger, opening their eyes to see their wretched and miserable estate and condition, and by exerting his almighty power, plucking them as brands out of the burning:
　
fluttereth over her young;
by that means to get them out of the nest, and teach them to fly, as well as to preserve them from the attempts of any to take them away; for though some writers represent the eagle as hardhearted to its young, casting them out of the nest, when they are taken care of by the offifrage; yet this is to be understood of it when tired with nursing, and when its young are capable of taking care of themselves; or of some sort of eagles; for Aelianus testifies, that of all animals the eagle is most affectionate to its young, and most studiously careful of them; when it sees anyone coming to them, it will not suffer them to go away unpunished, but will beat them with its wings and tear them with its nails: Jarchi thinks this phrase is expressive of the manner of its incubation on its young; it does not, he says, lie heavy upon them, but lifts up herself, and touches them as if she did not touch them; but it rather signifies the motion she makes with her wings to get her young, when fledged, out of the nest, and to teach them to make use of their wings, as she does; and we are told that young eagles, when their wings are weak, will fly about their dams and learn of them to fly ; and hence it is that young eagles while they are eating flutter their wings, that motion being so natural to them, and seeing their dams do so likewise: this passage seems to contradict a notion that has obtained with some, that an eagle only breeds one at a time; the philosopher says, the eagle lays three eggs and casts out two of them; according to the verse of Musaeus, it lays three, casts out two, and brings up one; and so, he says, it commonly is the case: but sometimes three young ones are seen together; and the black eagles are more kind to their young, and careful in the nourishment of them; and the same says Pliny; yea we are told, that sometimes seven are seen in a nest:

spreadeth abroad her wings taketh them, beareth them on her wings;
that is, spreads forth her wings when she flutters over her young to instruct them; or she does this in order to take up her young and carry them on them: it is said that eagles fly round their nest, and vary the flights for the instruction of their young; and afterwards taking them on their backs, they soar with them aloft, in order to try their strength, shaking them off into the air: and if they perceive them too weak to sustain themselves, they with surprising dexterity fly under them again, and receive them on their wings to prevent their fal);

thus the Lord, comparable to this creature for his affection to the people of Israel, his care of them, and his strength to bear and carry them, did bear them as on eagles' wings, and carried and saved them all the days of old; even Christ, the Angel of Jehovah's presence, the rock of salvation they rejected, see ( Exodus 19:4 ) ( Isaiah 63:9 ) ; and all this in a spiritual and evangelic sense may be expressive of the gracious dealings of God with his spiritual Israel; teaching and enabling them to mount up with wings as eagles, to soar aloft in the exercise of faith, hope, and love, entering thereby within the vail into the holiest of all, and living in the constant and comfortable expectation of heaven and happiness; and of the Lord's taking his people up from the low estate in which they are, and raising them up to near communion with himself, bearing them on his heart, in his hands, and on his arm, supporting them under all their afflictions, and carrying them, through all their troubles and difficulties, safe to eternal glory and happiness.

Thanks for this it also made me think of nurturing children and young people as well as new believers in the faith and surely eagles must show the love and affection and help to those they mentor.