THE EAGLE STORY

Faith in the Night Seasons by Chuck and Nancy Missler begins with a story about a wounded eaglet that was rescued by a kind farmer. He found the bird in one of his fields and so took him home, tended to his wounds and then placed him outside in the barnyard to recover.
Strangely enough, the young eaglet soon adapted to the habits of all the barnyard chickens. He learned to walk and cluck like them. He learned to drink from a trough and peck the dirt for food, and for many years he peacefully resigned himself to this new life on the ground.
But then one day, one of the farmer’s friends spotted the eagle and asked, “Why in the world is that bird acting like a chicken?” The farmer explained what had happened. Even so, the man could hardly accept the situation.
“It’s just not right,” said the friend. “The Creator made that bird to soar in the heavens, not scavenge in the barnyard!” So he picked up the unsuspecting eagle, climbed onto a nearby fence post, and tossed him into the air. But the confused bird just fell back to earth and searched for his feathered friends.
Undaunted, the man then grabbed the eagle and climbed to the top of the barn. As he heaved him off the roof, the bird made a few halfhearted squawks and flaps before falling into a bale of hay. After shaking his head a few times, the eagle then made himself comfortable and began mindlessly pecking at pieces of straw.
The friend went home that night dejected and could barely sleep as he remembered the sight of those powerful talons caked with barnyard mud. He couldn’t bear the thought, so the very next day, he headed back to the farm for another try. This time he carried the eagle to the top of a nearby mountain where the sky unfolded in a limitless horizon.
He looked into the eagle’s eyes and cried out, “Don’t you understand? You weren’t made to live like a chicken! Why would you want to stay down here when you were born for the sky?” As the man held the confused bird, he made sure the eagle was facing into the brilliant light of the setting sun. Then he powerfully heaved the bird into the sky, and this time the eagle opened his wings, looked at the sun, caught the updraft rising from the valley and disappeared into the clouds of heaven.
God’s children were born to fly. They were created by a loving God to soar. He has called them to live in the heights, yet too many have huddled together in the barnyard and become content and comfortable with crumbs.
Helen Keller once said, “One can never consent to creep when he feels an impulse to soar.” God’s people need to cultivate and exercise that impulse. If we do, we will one day soar like eagles (Isaiah:40:31).
credit- Author Raphl Antwi

THE PROPHETIC ANNOITING AND THE EAGLE- SIMILARITIES

 

The strike of the eagle talon is so powerful that it's force is twice that of a rifle bullet.

• Sub adult eagles that have not yet made a breeding territory are believed to wander more.
• Adult eagles usually stay near their nesting territory as the supply of food and weather conditions will allow.
• Eagles have great eyesight that helps them see for one to one and a half miles away. (Thus the term eagles eye) They can dive at 100 miles per hour. Their eyesight and diving ability help them catch food.
• Bald Eagles help man by catching rodents and rabbits that destroy grain fields.
• Bald Eagles can fly with 8 pounds of food.
• Bald Eagles normally eat fish. Sometimes they will eat snakes and smaller birds.
• There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle. What I personally call divine covering and protection.
• Pound for pound, an eagle's wing is stronger than the wing of an airplane. My God!!
• An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. Don’t mess with the prophetic anointing.

·         Eagles have great binocular sights....I activate the nature of the EAGLE in my Spirit.

·         Eagles  are very clean birds. The prophetic anointing is a very clean gift.

• There are more than 60 different species of eagle.
• Eagles are different from many other birds of prey mainly by their larger size, more powerful build, and heavier head and beak. Most eagles are larger than any other raptors apart from vultures.
• Eagles have unusual eyes. They are very large in proportion to their heads and have extremely large pupils.
• Eagles’ eyes have a million light-sensitive cells per square mm of retina, five times more that a human’s 200,000. While humans see just three basic colours, eagles see five. These adaptations gives eagles extremely keen eyesight and enable them to spot even well-camouflaged potential prey from a very long distance. In fact the eagles’ vision is among the sharpest of any animal and studies suggest that some eagles can spot an animal the size of a rabbit up to two miles away!
• Many eagle species lay two eggs, but the older, larger chick frequently kills its younger sibling once it has hatched. Adults do not intervene.
• The Harpy Eagle and the Philippine Eagle have wings that spread 2.5m across and use their massive, sharp talons, to kill and carry off prey as large as deer and monkeys.
• In Greece, Golden Eagles eat turtles, dropping them from great heights onto rocks to break open their armoured shells.
• Although most eagles are carnivorous the African Vulturine Fish-Eagle is primarily a vegetarian, feeding on rich oil palm fruits.
• Some eagles are built with short wings and long tails enabling them to hunt in the tight confines of a forest, while others are have short tails and broad long wings allowing them to soar high above open plains and water.
• Eagles are admired the world over as living symbols of power, freedom, and transcendence.
• The spot on which an eagle landed dictated to the ancient Aztecs the place where they were to build a city.
• In some religions, high-soaring eagles are believed to touch the face of God. 
• I pray for you, that the grace and annoitning of the eagle shall fall on you in Jesus name! 
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