24th January 2014
Vision: Eagle Bridge
Men, women and children in obedience to the Lord’s instruction were fleeing this remote high place, where they had been brought to, years before, by the chieftain of this desolate place.
At that time, these people had fled from the Lord as they did not want to do His Will, and landed right into the arms of this crafty chieftain and his cohorts.
Having suffered unbearable torment, they remembered the Lord and repented of their ways.
In answer to their cries, the Lord commanded them to flee from this high place. They climbed all the way to the top only to find more treacherous and wild terrain. There was no land in sight just the rough sea with not a boat upon it. They were exposed on every side and the chieftain and his cohorts were in hot pursuit.
Eagles flying in groups of threes and fours, were watching what was going on below. They saw how brave the people were and how full of faith that the Lord would provide a way to escape.
They heard the people praying for a bridge to take them to the other side.
The eagles looked around and saw that the nearest inhabitable land fit for such a vast multitude was thousands of miles away.
So filled with compassion, they too prayed that the Lord would send the people a bridge, and quickly.
The air was filled with prayer. People were praying in one accord, “Lord send us a bridge quickly”.
Seeing the enemy closing in on the people, and no bridge in sight, their hearts filled with concern, the eagles turned to God and asked, “Lord, do you plan to send them a bridge?”
“Yes”, came the reply.
“Then where is it?” the eagles asked.
They heard the Lord say to them, “You are the bridge.”
The reply they received shocked them. How could they be a bridge? They’d never heard of such a thing before. And even if they wanted to, they were at present, only three groups totaling ten in number. As they wondered, they heard a sound of a multitude of eagles’ wings, coming from every direction.
Eagles world over, had heard the Lord Say, “You are my bridge”, and immediately their hearts responded and they were divinely transported to this desolate high place.
There was a great stirring. The sky was filled with eagles. These majestic birds quickly knitted themselves together and formed a bridge. As they raced to their places, they were surprised to find eagles come forth from areas they least expected.
Not far from the edge of these remote cliffs, the people now kneeling, bowing their heads, rapt in fervent prayer, suddenly heard the youngest amongst them cry out excitedly, “Look, Eagle Bridge!”
The multitude arose with shouts of acclamation, praising God with so loud a voice that the enemies pursuing them reeled backwards and fell headlong into the ravine.
I saw that not a single eagle needed to instruct another. There were no leaders there. The eagles' hearts were so stirred to obey this command of God that they united with the others that came from world-over, and merged in fully to form a sturdy bridge so that the people may cross over, to the place God had prepared for them.
With hands lifted high in praise and glory to God, they headed to the ‘Eagle Bridge’.
Never in their lifetime had either these multitudes of people, or the large convocation of eagles seen such a phenomenon.
The air was filled with a bridge-full of praise!
Bombay-India
Swarna Jha
2 comments:
Our Model Intercessor
By A.W. Tozer
Two other considerations may help us here. One is that our Lord did on at least one occasion pray for sinners. "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing," was a request made to God on behalf of evil men. Is it not reasonable that if Christ prayed for sinners once, He may be expected to pray for them again? Also we must remember that Jesus was a Son of man and frequently referred to Himself by that title. As such, He had and has a relationship to the whole human race. Is it thinkable that He would not pray for the race to which He belonged?
I realize that we are on holy ground right here, and common modesty would urge us to withhold any dogmatic judgments. But I believe that the question, Does our Lord pray for the unsaved? may be answered truthfully as follows: (1) As High Priest of His own redeemed people, Christ prays an efficacious prayer of intercession which avails only for those who trust Him as their Redeemer and Lord. This prayer is found in essence in John 17. (2) As Son of man and Savior, He prays for the lost world as well. Unless His prayers for the world were ascending to heaven, the judgment of God would not be withheld for a moment from the earth.
Vicarious Intercession
By Oswald Chambers
'Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.'
Hebrews 10:19
Beware of imagining that intercession means bringing our personal sympathies into the presence of God and demanding that He does what we ask. Our approach to God is due entirely to the vicarious identification of our Lord with sin. We have "boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus."
Spiritual stubbornness is the most effectual hindrance to intercession, because it is based on sympathy with that in ourselves and in others that we do not think needs atoning for. We have the notion that there are certain right and virtuous things in us which do not need to be based on the Atonement, and just in the domain of "stodge" that is produced by this idea we cannot intercede. We do not identify ourselves with God's interests in others, we get petulant with God; we are always ready with our own ideas, and intercession becomes the glorification of our own natural sympathies. We have to realize that the identification of Jesus with sin means the radical alteration of all our sympathies. Vicarious intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
Am I stubborn or substituted? Petted or perfect in my relationship to God? Sulky or spiritual? Determined to have my own way or determined to be identified with Him.
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