Pastor Deborah
SOARING-
flying or rising high in the air.
increasing rapidly above the usual level.
1. (v. i.) To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.,
2. (v. i.) Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
3. (n.) The act of soaring; upward flight.
Strong's Definition
H5927 עלה ‛âlâh
to ascend, (be high) or active (mount);
Our spirit man is not to walk on the ground but to soar above the physical that we are in.
DEUTERONOMY 32:8-9 MSG
When the High God gave the nations their stake, gave them their place on Earth, He put each of the peoples within boundaries under the care of divine guardians.
But GOD HIMSELF took CHARGE of HIS PEOPLE, took Jacob on as HIS PERSONAL CONCERN.
When God chosen a people, He personally takes charge of them.
DEUTERONOMY 32:10- 14 MSG
He found him out in the wilderness, in an empty, windswept wasteland.
God found Jacob in the wilderness.
God takes everyone out to the wilderness to speak to them.
Cut off all the noises and thoughts so that God can speak to us.
God has to bring us to the place of wilderness.
He has to allow that to happen in order to speak to us.
He THREW his ARMS AROUND him, LAVISHED attention on him, guarding him as the apple of his eye.
He was like an eagle hovering over its nest, overshadowing its young,
The apple of God’s eye is the pupil of God’s eyes.
When someone is the apple of God’s eyes, whatever happens to them, enemy comes against them, God is there to protect them.
Wherever we go, angels guarding each one of us.
Whole process of God guarding his people is like an eagle hovering over its nest, overshadowing its young.
Then spreading its WINGS, LIFTING them into the air, TEACHING them to FLY.
DEUTERONOMY 32:11 NKJV
As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,
H3671 wings
Original: כּנף
Transliteration: KÂNÂPH
Phonetic: kaw-nawf’
BDB Definition:
wing, extremity, edge, winged, border, corner, shirt
skirt, corner (of garment)
Strong's Definition: From H3670; an edge or extremity ; specifically (of a bird or army) a wing, (of a garment or bed clothing) a flap, (of the earth) a quarter, (of a building) a pinnacle: - + bird, border, corner, end, feather [-ed], X flying, + (one an-) other, overspreading, X quarters, skirt, X sort, uttermost part, wing ([-ed]).
כּנף kânâph wings
כָּ - pictograph of the Hebrew letter “kaf” is a wing or open hand that symbolizes 1) to allow 2) to cover 3) to open.
נָ - pictograph of the Hebrew letter “noon” is a fish darting through the water that symbolizes 1) action 2) life.
ף - pictograph of the Hebrew letter “pey” is a mouth.
It symbolizes 1) to speak 2) to open 3) the beginning, like a river.
[1] Wings are the beginning of covered (enthroned, kingdom) life and action.
[2] Wings speak of kingdom life and action as well as open things up to it.
[3] Wings open things by speaking life. (enthroned, kingdom) life and action.
Kingdom of God is accessible to those who believe in Jesus.
Spirit wants to be in the present of God.
MALACHI 4:2 NKJV
But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
MATTHEW 9:20-22 NKJV
And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment.
For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.”
But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.”
And the woman was made well from that hour.
Just a little faith to believe God is already good enough to receive healing.
DEUTERONOMY 32:12-14 MSG
God alone led him; there was not a foreign god in sight.
God lifted him onto the HILLTOPS, so he could FEAST on the crops in the fields.
When God wants to do something in our lives, He lifts us up.
He fed him honey from the rock, oil from granite crags,
Curds of cattle and
the milk of sheep,
the choice cuts of lambs and goats,
Fine Bashan rams, high-quality wheat, and
the blood of grapes:
you drank good wine!
EXODUS 19:3-6 MSG
As Moses went up to meet God, God called down to him from the mountain:
“SPEAK to the House of Jacob, TELL the People of Israel:
‘You have seen what I did to Egypt and how I CARRIED you on EAGLES' WINGS and brought you to ME.
God’s word will touch our spirit that caused our spirit to jump up and be alive.
Look at God’s word and let God speak to our heart.
We will be one to bring the word and life of God to others.
First, experience God speaking to us personally.
Egypt - Enemies where Satan uses the Egyptians to be against the Jews.
Until Jesus’ second coming, there is still Devil running around.
Take a flight to Christ today
If you will listen obediently to what I say and keep my covenant, out of all peoples you’ll be my SPECIAL TREASURE.
The WHOLE EARTH is MINE to choose from, but you’re special: a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.’
“THIS is what I want you to tell the People of Israel.”
God is possessor of Heaven and Earth.
We are special.
Like an eagle who rouses his nestlings...
Rashi on Exodus 19:4:3על כנפי נשרים UPON EAGLES’ WINGS — as an eagle which bears its fledglings upon its wings.
Scripture uses this metaphor because all other birds place their young between their feet since they are afraid of another bird that flies above them,
but the eagle fears none except man — apprehending that perhaps he may cast an arrow at it — since no bird can fly above it; therefore he places it (its young) upon its wings, saying, “Better that the arrow should pierce me than my young!”
(Mekhilta d'Rabbi Yishmael 18:4:3).
Rabbi Nelly Altenberger
So how can we understand the metaphor of God as an eagle? Back in the Book of Exodus, God used the image of an eagle who carried us on its wings to freedom.
And now that same image is used, but this eagle has returned to stir the nest, to send the fledglings on their - our - way.
Jesus as the mother eagle comes to help us to fly.
We are entering the promised land - we just did teshuvah, the promised land of our renewed soul opens itself before us.
This is freedom.
Moshe's words want to remind us of our potential: we are not limited to either Heaven or to Earth.
We are blessed with the ability to soar between them.
How?
The promises are meant to bring us freedom from sin, condemnation, guilt, sickness etc.
All that is the result of sin.
Someone who is not free is someone who is enslaved to sin.
Freedom from fear; fear of no one taking care of us.
Ability to soar between Heaven and Earth; spiritual and physical realm.
With words of Torah.
"I bore you on eagles' wings."
Here we find God depicted as an eagle,
a metaphor that evokes the way this majestic bird protectively carries its young while training them to fly.
We need to have the words of Torah so we can fly from physical to spiritual.
Only His Word tells us about spiritual realm.
While we are learning to fly, we have God carrying us through His Word.
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Miberditchev:
The Jewish people can be compared to an eagle.
The feathers of the eagle fall off at the end of each year and are replaced by new feathers, thus the name Nesher from the Hebrew ‘to fall’.
Hashem gave the Jewish people the characteristic of the eagle; we have the ability to renew ourselves, to change our ways, to become better.
We have the ability to put the past behind us and strive towards the truth.
When we worship we are adoring God.
Develop the intimacy and relationship with Him.
Every part of our body is created and meant to worship and praise God.
“I bore you on eagles’ wings.” The effect of the image is, of course, to convey intimacy, protection, love, speed;
but also, the enormous power of the adult eagle, effortlessly carrying its young through the air.
In other words, it engenders in the people a sense of their own lightness.
It deflates their grandiosity and evokes a relation to God, in which their kavod, their weightiness, becomes insignificant.
Simplicity is Freedom (Mary Oliver)
When I moved from one house to another, there were many things I had no room for.
What does one do?
I rented a storage
space.
And filled it.
Years passed.
Occasionally I went there and looked in,
but nothing happened, not a single
twinge of the heart.
As I grew older the things I cared about grew fewer, but were more important.
So one day I undid the lock
and called the trash man.
He took everything.
I felt like the little donkey when
his burden is finally lifted. Things!
Burn them, burn them!
Make a beautiful fire!
More room in your heart for love, for the trees!
For the birds who own nothing – the reason they can fly.
MATTHEW 6:21-22 TPT
For your heart will always pursue what you esteem as your treasure. “The eyes of your spirit allow revelation-light to enter into your being. If your heart is unclouded, the light floods in!
MATTHEW 6:23-24 TPT
But if your eyes are focused on money, the light cannot penetrate and darkness takes its place.
How profound will be the darkness within you if the light of truth cannot enter!
“How could you worship two gods at the same time?
You will have to hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.
You can’t worship the true God while enslaved to the god of money!”
“This is why I tell you to never be worried about your life, for all that you need will be provided, such as food, water, clothing—everything your body needs.
Isn’t there more to your life than a meal? Isn’t your body more than clothing?
MATTHEW 6:25-27 TPT
“Consider the birds—do you think they worry about their existence?
They don’t plant or reap or store up food, yet your heavenly Father provides them each with food.
Aren’t you much more valuable to your Father than they?
So, which one of you by worrying could add anything to your life?
The love of money, the attachment on physical things of this world is the only thing that can enslave us.
MATTHEW 6:33-34 TPT
“So above all, constantly seek God’s kingdom and his righteousness, then all these less important things will be given to you abundantly.
Refuse to worry about tomorrow, but deal with each challenge that comes your way, one day at a time.
Tomorrow will take care of itself.”
PROVERBS 23:4-5
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, cease from your consideration of it.
When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings [k’naphim] like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
PROVERBS 23:4-5 NLT
Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich.
Be wise enough to know when to quit.
In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle.
PROVERBS 23:4-5 TPT
Don’t compare yourself to the rich. Surrender your selfish ambition and evaluate them properly.
For no sooner do you start counting your wealth than it sprouts wings and flies away like an eagle in the sky— here today, gone tomorrow!
God made us rich in the spirit.
His interest is much higher than the physical bank can give us.
Whatever we do is based on God’s Word.
It is God who promise us.
Act by faith means act by what God says.
It is written and it is proven.
PROVERBS 23:4-5 EASY
Do not work so hard to become rich that you make yourself ill. Be wise and rest when you need to.
Your money can disappear very quickly.
It may seem to grow wings and then fly far away like an eagle.
WING, EDGE, CORNER: kanaph. Feminine noun. (Strong’s 3671).
Root: כָּנָף
KANAPH is the wing – or wings of the two cherubim that cover the Ark – a double KAF that symbolises the palms of God’s Hand as KAF, His anointing.
PSALMS 91:4 TPT
His massive arms are wrapped around you, protecting you.
You can run under his covering of majesty and hide.
His arms of faithfulness are a shield keeping you from harm.
Mercy seat - the throne of God where it’s full of mercy; ten commandments inside the mercy seat.
Sheltered by the presence of God.
Under the wings of the Almighty.
PHILIPPIANS 3:14KJV
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Boast about how much Jesus loves us.
How good God is.
In resting, we will fly.
Fly to the high calling.
High calling to the outward call of God in Christ Jesus.
The more we have what God says, we will be able to rest.
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