Beyond negative circumstances (Part 3)
As I said in the beginning of this teaching, the choice of the eagle as illustration is very significant because it is biblically used to manifest the divine power that works through believers who trust in the Lord. It is written in Isaiah 40: 31: "Those who wait on 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".
The eagle faith is the faith of putting all the trust in the Lord leaning and totally relying on Him. The eagle faith is needed when we face a dangerous or an impossible situation. The problems we pass through are like clouds over the earth, that’s why we need the eagle faith in order to fly above the clouds (problems) because if we place our complete trust in Lord, the door is open for God to intervene in our situation.
In the second part, I talked about the best attitude to take when we are facing negative circumstances. There are five major groups regarding the reaction of Christians when facing any danger and I talked about the first group of those who struggle with all their strength to find the solution but today I will talk about the second group.
2. Those who flee from problems because of the fear that invades their hearts
Fear is the workhorse of the devil. Once fear invades your heart, it is often difficult for God to intervene in your problem because fear is the enemy of faith. Fear and faith are like light and darkness for one chase out the other. As long as fear invades your heart, faith has no room. If you want your faith to grow up in your heart, you have to find out how to kick out fear. The Bible says in Hebrews 11: 6 that it is impossible to please God if there is no faith. God wants to do great things in your life but He will do so through your faith in prayer in the name of Jesus. However, if you let fear entering in your heart and dictates you what to do, faith has no room.
Fear is a natural feeling and it is not a sin, but you must be able to say NO to fear and the best way to drive out fear is to open the door to faith in the Lord. If you deprive any living being to eat, you can be sure that it will eventually die. Likewise, if you decide to feed fear by thinking of the consequences and meditating day and night about the disaster that could happen, fear will only grow in you and more than that, it will give birth to decisions that push you to run away from the problem.
Instead, if you decide not to feed fear by developing faith in the Lord, fear will eventually die and the field will be free for faith which will allow God to intervene.
To be continued in the fourth part.
Chris Ndikumana
