Open Heaven Revival Tabernacle Assembly

2024 : Year of Harvest, Lord give me one soul.

An Eagle agle molts to renew itself.

The story of how an eagle renews itself has been told even preached. It goes like this, due to various circumstances, age, storms, battle, eagles feathers get broken, the beak and claws overgrown such that an eagle can not catch prey or eat anymore. It is said the eagle finds a quiet place by a stream where it will pluck all it feathers, break its claws and break its beak remain there for week until it grows new ones. During this time an eagle can't fly, can eat, it is weak and vulnerable. It remains in this secluded place for weeks or months, only drinking water, till it grows new feathers, beak and claws. A parallel is often drawn between an eagle and a Christian's life.

However, a number of scientists have disputed this story saying it is not true, it is a myth. On the other hand scientists agreed that an eagle like most birds go through a period of molting. And that a powerful eagle's survival is linked to its plumage, as its feathers function to insulate, protect, transport, and identify it, therefore molting is a necessary process.

Molting for an eagle begins at age four or five. An eagle molts every year for the duration of its life span of 30 years plus. An eagles may descend for a molt, usually to a safe refuge in a hidden low place on the forest floor, or in the cleft of a rock, or crevice. During molting it will lose all of its plumage, or feathers in patches starting from the head. The feathers are shed in pairs to sustain balance. The shedding and regrowth process take on average 6 weeks.

Some cycles of the molt render an eagle very weak. Most cannot fly or hunt because they have lost vital primary and secondary feathers and it takes a great deal of energy and body resources to grow feathers. An eagle uses the energy stored in fat to grow feather. At this stage in time, an eagles is in greatest danger, it is unable to fight disease or stress, in this weakened state, it is also in danger from predators and the elements of nature.

Interestingly, some experts report that an eagle loses the ability to produce tears, which diminishes its sharp vision. It is also said that calcium accumulates on its beaks, further hindering the eagles ability to survive.

At some stage of the molting process, an eagle especially mature ones lose "meat" to replenish energy. Eventually, the eagle gains enough energy/ strength to fly to a mountain or a high place and to beat or scrape its beak against a rock to break off the calcium. With renewed strength, the eagle soars against the wind to stimulate the flow of tears,. Once vision restored; an eagle flies higher and faster than ever.

Whichever version of the story you want to believe, it comes to the same thing, , every eagle goes through a molting process which every Christian needs to go through. You have a choice of sitting by the streams of living water, drinking the Word of God, allowing the Holy Spirit point out to you area of your life you need to break or cut off and regrow. Allowing the Holy Spirit cleanse your sight and vision to see more clearly, to receive new insights and revelation.

Unfortunately some eagles do not make it through to the end of the molt; others do not endure through the regrowth, those that do bear the process of transformation, rise again, stronger than ever before, their youth renewed, and they soar into higher realms than before.

What shall it be in 2024?

Vision our great asset

An Eagle uses its great vision to know when to fly in to capture its prey. Eyes are a great asset to an eagle. An eagle does not approach any object that it has not seen or spotted from afar. Therefore, an eagle with an eye or vision problem will have difficulties hunting for its preys. In many instances such an eagle will starve to death.

An eagle is a visionary birds, thus it does not venture into anything that is unachievable.

Similarly a Christian who has so much potential and zeal but does not have a vision and plan will perish for lack of wisdom, even though he or she is very knowledgeable about the scriptures.

In the coming year let us be so visionary that we does not venture into anything that is unachievable.lWe, tneed to have strong and tangible visions about our lives, our service to God. The absence of a vision will result in our inability to seek God in prayer, because we have no plans to commit to God. We need to come up with strong personal vision, rather than to just have desires and resolutions.

The description of the characteristics and activities of an eagle should challenge us to seek God who created the eagle.

An eagle is a bird with great foresight, it has a foreknowledge of things before they happen. It is patient and it has the ability to spy on its prey before going after it .

When adverse or unusual circumstances arise, we should not looking at them as they seemed to appear because there are many things we do not know about the situation. Instead, we should with the help of the Holy Spirit we ought to searches out a thing before it even happens. As Christian, you are capable of seeing things in the spirit before they happen. The Holy Spirit lives in us so as to reveal all things to us.

Visionaries don’t look at spiritual matters from the surface, neither do they use natural eyes. They make it their responsibility to search them out, search out scripture so as to discover what is really behind what they are looking at. By praying in the spirit or in other tongues they are able to search out the mind of God and find answers. Our spirit man cries out to God in our heavenly language, which the enemy does not understand as we are praying.

Meditation on God’s promises is a unique way by which we discover, what was going on in the realm of the spirit concerning our situation.

To soar on wings of an eagle
A well seasoned experienced pilot explained how an eagle flies. He said that eagles must face into the wind to experience lift. The air currents flow over and under their uniquely formed wings, creating an air pressure difference. As the higher pressure below tries to equalize the lower above, the gliding bird is lifted up. Gradually, though, the eagle will lose altitude, forcing it to land, if not for the added boost of rising air currents, such as warm air and updrafts, or increased wind. When assisted by these air currents or winds, a gliding eagle can then soar. The Eagle is the only bird that embraces the turbulence to push itself higher, when other birds flee from the weather. That means eagles fly nearly as high as commercial jetliners, and that is also without the benefit of a pressurized cabin or supplemental oxygen.

An eagle flies alone, hunt independently, yet it IA a social animal. It flies alone to avoid distraction from the other eagles due to the noise and the movement around, for which they can miss the target. They concentrate on every move and sound made by their prey for a perfect attack that cannot be done in a group.

If we do not learn from an eagle to separate ourselves from the distraction of family, friends colleagues we will be distracted. And if we do not allow the Holy Spirit for that lift, upthrust,, we shall remain on the ground defeat beaten by the storms of life. Success, victory in the coming year will depend on us choosing to be led by the Holy Spirit, the storm will not kill us. The Holy Spirit will regulate the storm, He will use the very storms to lift us higher until the turbulence, the rain, and the wind, all these will remain beneath us.