Salt and Light

  I was reading Psalm 91 about taking shelter under God's wings and I started to think about eagles of course Isa 40:31 is one of my favorite verses but we have also been studying the book of Revelation and one of the four creatures around God's throne is eagle-like. The Eagle Analogy Eagles are born with big and heavy wings, and part of the survival mechanism they are born with is that they have to learn how to fly without actually flapping their big wings. Eagles have to learn how to do this in order to conserve energy. Eagles can literally die if they expend too much energy flapping their wings during flight versus soaring. As a result, what eagles have to learn to do this very early on in order to be able to soar without flapping, to do this they need to learn is to wait for what are called wind thermals to come up on them. A wind thermal is a big gust of wind that will rise up into the atmosphere.   Sometimes eagles will remain perched for days before they catc...

  You know when something happens that you know will be transformational, you just feel it in your bones? The day you were saved? A graduation? A wedding? Well for me in the last year I have had two. The first was 21 days of prayer and fasting which is a ministry of Church of the Highlands in Alabama, but a second was the purchase of a book called Fervent by Priacilla Shirer . I have already ordered copies for friends. This is a little break from recent posts about Living Water, soil and mountains but I feel compelled to share. God has been really working on my prayer life in the last 18 months. I often prayed Eph 6:13-17 about the armor of God but while reading today I realized I had missed the significance of vs 18.  "Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints. " I have often thought only the Sword of truth (the Bible) was our offensive weapon but that's n...

                                                 It only seems natural to follow the Living Water to its head waters are located - mountains. Jesus likes mountains especially the Mount of Olives. He often retreats to mountains to be by himself, sometimes he will take a few disciples. (Jn 6:3, 6:15, 8:1) Mountains are often associated with God like the mountain where God gave Moses the 10 commandments or with faith as in faith to move mountains. (Matt 17:20) It is from the mountains that our soil and water come. You can learn more about those in previous posts. Where do mountains come from? The earth’s crust is made up of large plates called tectonic plates that fit into each other. These plates keep moving a few centimeters every year. Mountains for...