Rising up with eagles wings.
Posted by appolus on October 28, 2020
Neh 8:10 for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
The seasons of God are good and there is a time for weeping and mourning. Yet if that is all that we have, if we live forever in a perpetual winter of weeping and mourning, whether that is in our personal walk or in our ministries, then nothing will ever grow. We will not grow or flourish in the knowledge of God. Yes there is conviction in the presence of God. There is a time to rent our clothes and throw dust on our heads, yet if this one season becomes the whole then we render ourselves weak and ineffectual. Our real strength comes in the Joy of the Lord. If we cannot put on a garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness then we will not stand in the evil day. We will be overcome by trial and tribulation and persecution.
When the Israelites were captured and taken away from Jerusalem, their captors sat them down by the river of Babylon and taunted them. They said to them, “let’s hear your songs of Zion now.” And the Israelites, once famous for their songs of praise to God, hung their harps on the willow trees, unable to sing, overcome in their spirits. The enemy had not only robbed them of their earthly freedom, they had been robbed of their joy. They no longer had a song in the night. The willow tree represents sadness and weeping. Can you imagine how powerful it would have been if the Israelites, trusted in a mighty God to eventually redeem them. This would have been an exercise in faith, the same faith that Abraham exercised when he knew in his heart and trusted that God would provide a sacrifice for Issac.
The Lord inhabits the praises of His people. In His presence there is fullness of joy. The joy of the Lord is your strength. You see how that works brothers and sisters? You see where it starts? Trusting in Him, praising Him even in the darkness and out of that praise comes joy and out of that joy comes strength. Not just spiritual strength in my opinion, but also physical strength. One effects the other. Praise God today, trust in Him and wait upon Him and He will raise you up. You will run and not grow weary, you will walk and not faint and you will rise up with eagles wings in the presence of God.
A Call To The Remnant 
Nina said
Reblogged this on For Such A Time As This and commented:
Apparently, this is something I need to be reminded of as this subject keeps coming up over and over again.
appolus said
Amen Nina……………..bro Frank
Fellowship of St. Peter said
Enforced isolation causes us to review our lives, or at least that is a positive outcome of isolation. This is happening to me. It’s forced me to confront certain aspects of my life. I hope out of that I will emerge a better person by the grace of God. Your post has helped me to concentrate on what is needful in my faith, and the faith of all Christians. So, thank you for that and God Bless you. Colin Markham, FSP.
appolus said
God bless you Colin. The road to sanctification is a long and narrow one that only ends when this corruptible body is raised in incorruption. Yet this does not stop me from my ambitions to be like Jesus, to trust Jesus, to have faith in Jesus. I want o be like a little child who slips his hand into the Hand of his Father. I dont even want to know where I am going, I just want to feel my hand in his and follow Him for He knows and I want that to be good enough for me. We often want to know what lies ahead or simply know things in order to avoid anxiousness, yet often times the “knowing,’ is the source of our anxiousness. ““Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Therein it seems, is the true nature of faith…………………..bro Frank