Its time to take flight and Soar...no more chicken like flapping.

Recently,despite the 'turmoil' that I was going through, God did speak, amidst the storm. Let me share this article with you which I found online and which I believe was definitely, an encouragement, assurance and guiding from GOd.

Excerpts from an a radio programme in alifethatmatters.org:

Isaiah 40:30-31 , "Even youths grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall. But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and now grow weary; they will walk and not grow faint."

These great soaring birds are ultimately not sustained in flight by the flapping of their own wings but by the currents that carry them. That's why they can go so far and so long. God is inviting us here to a new kind of soaring - it's for those who hope, who trust in the Lord - because they realize their wings can't do it for them. The King James Version says it's "those who wait on the Lord." It reminds me of (those)turkey vultures; they wait for those thermal currents to carry them before they even tackle their day.

...a lot of us are instinctive, addicted wing-flappers!...I can get it done if I make a good plan, motivate the right people, work enough hours, sacrifice enough sleep, have enough control. Listen to those wings flapping wildly in the wind! I'm flying as high and as long as my resources can carry me.

For too many years I settled for that altitude and the stress of trying to make things happen

myself.

But I'm learning something about waiting for God's thermals - to not push to make things happen, but to wait until the Lord does it in His way, in His time.

This doesn't mean that you're totally passive sitting there doing nothing.

You still plan, and prepare, and work hard, but only after seeing what God wants you planning, and preparing, and working on.

The issue is this: do you think it's just your wings flapping that will get you there?

No, it will be finding where God's current is going, and then you spread your wings to be carried that direction that day. That's what Jesus meant when he said "follow Me," checking with Him to see where He is taking you instead of trying to take Him where you want Him to go.

When you're totally riding on God's provision, you can fly when you have no fly left(AWESOME!!!).

I'm broke, but God isn't.
I'm exhausted, but God isn't."
I'm out of answers, but God isn't.

It's at that point where you experience the promise of Isaiah 40:29 -
"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak."

I watched those soaring birds and I asked God to help me fly as they do. Not carried by the flapping of my own wings, but only by those warm currents of God.