Recently I learned a little “fun fact”. Eagles do not attack snakes and kill them on the ground; they grab the head with one tallon, and the body with the other and take them up into the air. They fly above something called the “snake zone” in which the snake can no longer live. The eagle never has to “wrestle with the snake”, but when it gets to a higher atmosphere where the eagle soars, then the snake dies.
Translate that to our prayer lives; We can spend all our energies fighting the serpent on his battlefield, the ground attack and come out wounded and bloody, or possibly killed. Or we can do like the eagle, take the battle into our own “neighborhood”, above the place where the enemy cannot live, the presence of God. To do this, we learn to be seated with Christ in heavenly places and agree with what He says about the battle. We find His promises for victory in whatever we are facing and His assurance He is fighting for us. So prayer becomes more about releasing what HE says that what we pray. It takes the burden off of us to “pray the right thing”, or to “pray enough”.
Psalm 27: 4 & 6 puts all this together with this: “This one thing I seek the most, to dwell in the house of the Lord forever; delighting in His beauty….then I will hold my head high above my enemies who surround me. In His sanctuary I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy and singing and praising the Lord with music”.
Renee Hymel
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Fav Scripture: Eph 6:10-11
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the enemy’s schemes”.