Eagels, Turkeys, Grasshoppers & Frogs!
14 Dec 2006

Proverbs 30.18-19 KJV

18 There are three things too wonderful for me to understand--no, four!

19 How an eagle glides through the sky. How a serpent crawls upon a rock. How a ship finds its way across the heaving ocean. The growth of love between a man and a girl.

If you want to soar with the eagles, you can't play about with the turkeys in the barnyard.

I wonder where you are in your faith walk with The Lord today?

Are you an eagle or a turkey?

Eagles soar up on the wind currents high above while turkeys just flap their wings and make a dust in the barnyard.

Psalm 103.1-5 Living Bible

103:1 I bless the holy name of God with all my heart.

2 Yes, I will bless the Lord and not forget the glorious things he does for me.

3 He forgives all my sins. He heals me.

4 He ransoms me from hell. He surrounds me with loving-kindness and tender mercies.

5 He fills my life with good things! My youth is renewed like the eagle's!

Your strength can be renewed so you are not tired and worn out!

Isaiah 40.29-31 Living Bible

29 He gives power to the tired and worn out, and strength to the weak.

30 Even the youths shall be exhausted, and the young men will all give up.

31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Matthew 24.23-29 KJV

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25 Behold, I have told you before.

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

v28 again For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Eagles flying high up in the sky sometimes many miles up can spot a carcase, and swoop down to get fed when it suits them.

Turkeys have to rely on the farmer to feed them!

Where are you today still flapping in the barnyard waiting for a handout from the farmer or are you seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus?

Then in Numbers 13 and 14 there is a story of the spies.

How many spies? 12

10 brought back and evil [negative] report

2 brought back a good [positive] report,

The two heros of the story are Joshua and Caleb.

Chapter 13. 25-33

25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

10 spies saw the giants and felt like grasshoppers but two looked to God and the giants looked like grasshoppers.

Did you know that grasshoppers had five sets of eyes?

Forward, rearwards left and right and down. They have no UPWARD vision!

You see you're not what you think you are but what you think….you are!

Proverbs 23.7 KJV For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:

Numbers 13.33 again And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Then in Exodus 8 we have the story of the plagues sent on the Egyptians when they refused to let God's people go.

Exodus 8.1 Living Bible

8:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go in again to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Jehovah says, "Let my people go and worship me.

2 If you refuse, I will send vast hordes of frogs across your land from one border to the other.

3 The Nile River will swarm with them, and they will come out into your houses, even into your bedrooms and right into your beds! Every home in Egypt will be filled with them. They will fill your ovens and your kneading bowls;

4 you and your people will be immersed in them!"'"

5 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Instruct Aaron to point the rod toward all the rivers, streams, and pools of Egypt, so that there will be frogs in every corner of the land."

6 Aaron did, and frogs covered the nation.

7 But the magicians did the same with their secret arts, and they, too, caused frogs to come up upon the land.

8 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and begged, "Plead with God to take the frogs away, and I will let the people go and sacrifice to him."

9 "Be so kind as to tell me when you want them to go," Moses said, "and I will pray that the frogs will die at the time you specify, everywhere except in the river."

10 "Do it tomorrow," Pharaoh said. "All right," Moses replied, "it shall be as you have said; then you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

Note v9….WHEN?

Note v10..TOMORROW will be fine, I don't mind the frogs for another day in my bed, and my oven and my baking bowl. Every time I turn over there is another set of those beady eyes looking at me! BUT TOMORROW WILL DO!

My question is why would anyone want to keep the curse for another day longer than he needs to?

Get rid of those frogs NOW!

What's your frog?

Sickness?

Worry?

Fear?

Poverty?

Wrong habits?

If you let them go you can soar with the eagles as God intended!

Proverbs 29.1 NIV A man who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed--without remedy.

2 Cor 5.17 Living Bible When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun!

That means the old is gone, all that related to Adam's nature is gone when you join up with Jesus. The past has disappeared you have no past.

The New Creation HAS NO PAST.

The turkeys, grasshoppers and frogs are gone only the eagles remain!

Dr. Norm