On Eagles' Wings Pt 26 — Don Courville

Renewed Strength on Eagles' Wings

Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not. Neither is weary. There's no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint to them that have no might he increases strength.

Even the youth shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as Eagles. They shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint.

We welcome you again to own Eagles wings. We trust this program will be an encouragement to you as God leads us today to cover some truths that I trust will be Liberating to you. You know, we're living in a day of spiritual warfare where the intensity can almost be seen.

I Talk with Christians all the time that are going through battles and they are experiencing conflicts some are experiencing victory and Some are experiencing defeat. I think one of the saddest things Is to be in this day and age a prodigal son of God.

Returning from the Pigpen

When God is wanting us to advance. You're off out in some pigpen somewhere and last time we covered cleansing God cleanses Those that are in pigpens, too. There may be someone listening today That has ran from God.

And you've ran from God a long time back when I was in Bible college We used to go to the rescue missions and sing a song about running from God. You've been running a long long time. It would go Without peace of mind you regret the day you turned away and became a fugitive from God.

Sometimes you might think that nobody cares about you, you know David prayed one time He said in Psalms 31 12, I am forgotten as a dead man out of mine. I'm like a broken vessel. Well, we want to tell you that God loves you and we trust that this program today will encourage you To come back if you've wandered to pray for those that are away from the Lord.

Sometimes God has to break us before he can make us but don't forget that the Bible says the sacrifices of God or a broken spirit a Broken and a contrite heart. Oh God thou will not despise. Sometimes out of broken things God Makes beautiful things.

Broken dreams often crushes sometimes destroy us. How many times has the young lady had her dreams shattered as The reality set in that her night and shining armor Didn't turn out just like she figured things would.

You know, I believe that prodigal son in Luke 15 had dreams of freedom. But when he broke free from the realm of his father's love and Authority he found that his dream to turn into a nightmare and the lessons of life Become pretty hard and I was just wondering if today If the Spirit of God Couldn't encourage us To come back to him We need a turning back to him as a body the body of Christ and as individuals.

You know life without restraints is like driving in a in a city without laws and God's given us the Holy Spirit to restrain us. He's given us the word to guide us and when we break his laws and and we Break loose of his guidelines we get into trouble and I believe a lot of our churches in the land today are in trouble.

The Prodigal Son and the Boundaries of Authority

The Bible said in Luke 15 13 that not many days after the younger son had gathered all together and took his journey Into a far country and there wasted his substance with riotous living. He got his way He went his way wasted his substance.

You're not wasting your life I hope. One thing I've never liked to do is waste time. I get in trouble at home a lot of times because I don't want to sit at the table Any longer and I have to waiting for a meal and a lot of times I'll be late.

They'll end up waiting for me. But we need God's Boundaries and we don't need to be like the prodigal son. Life outside of the boundaries of authority is dangerous. The Bible says that we're not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together.

Basically because we need that fellowship and it's dangerous. I've been thinking about sharing some on on the area of spiritual warfare. It's dangerous to be outside of the authority of the local church.

Even if that local church isn't perfect you still need the authority. You have a pastor there and and the leaders in the church that can pray for you and that Son that ran away from his father the prodigal son.

I really believe that he felt like his father's principles seemed old-fashioned. Many of us may seem like some of the things that that are in the churches today are old-fashioned and it's true. We may have some traditions that are old-fashioned and one of the problems sometimes is that we establish traditions as truth.

When all they are is just a tradition. There's a lot of things that that we do that are not really scriptural they're just traditions. Well the prodigal son found out that his world had turned into a nightmare and There are some today that are willing to confess and admit that their worlds are nightmares that their church is in a nightmare.

And it doesn't take long sometimes to have our world cave in on us and crush us. Because it's in Luke 15 13 he he took off in 14. It says he had already spent all and Then there arose a mighty famine in the land and he began to be in want.

Discipleship, Forgiveness, and Revival

I Believe that we are in a in a destitute and dry day as far as discipleship. Who is making disciples? I've Been personally convinced for many years for over 20 years that I should continually be making a disciple somewhere.

Making a disciple. That's what the Lord said go into all the world. He said we're to teach we're to preach or to baptize, but we're to make disciples. That product and prodigal son had rejected his father's authority.

He ruined his father's reputation, but then in the end he received his father's forgiveness. The church will never get so low nor you can get so low either that you can't be forgiven. There's always room for revival and Our losses can be found again at the cross.

The prodigal son lost his money lost his family he lost his pride he lost his security lost his friends and In the end he lost his dream. Well what forced him back? You know what forced him back? It says that when he came to himself He saw that he was really destitute and empty.

Have you ever looked at your life just to see what's there is there much vitality and joy and power? Do you get up in the morning with some excitement in your spirit? To watch and see what God's gonna do that day, or is it sort of dry?

What about your church, what about your prayer meeting. Is it hum whole dry boring. Do you look forward to praying? Do you have testimonies of God answering prayer working in people's lives. Are most of the prayer meetings for aunt Sue's arthritis?

Are your sore toe? Who's praying for the lost? Whoever isn't is maybe in deep trouble. Well, it was his coming to himself that forced him back, and I believe God works in this way. He ministers to us.

Verse 17 says when he came to himself he said How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare and I perish with hungry. Who's hungry for God today? Who's hungry for God? He saw nothing in himself, and he said I'm perishing.

He was desperate. And it's the desperate that Jesus is seeking. He could he said he came to seek and to save the loss. Well. This is all fine, and maybe you're getting bored. But on the other hand maybe the Spirit of God is saying something to you.

About your own personal life or about your church life or about your ministry, and you're just looking and you're seeing. As Solomon said vanity of fanaties, what's the use of all of this? That's how I got into Jesus Christ anyway.

I got to looking into my life many years ago. And I saw all the church church Yanity all the activity and social things. I said what is all this. I had no love for Jesus. No love for God just love for self, and you know you just like my little two-year-old the more of self He gets the more miserable he is.

He's not happy, and we're like that. We're just not happy when we have it our way. Well the road to repentance and reconciliation is a hard one and the road sign down that road says humility humble yourself.

And he said I'll go to my father, and I'll tell him I've sinned and I'll tell him I'm not worthy. You know one of the things that we've deceived ourselves I think today in the church is to thinking that our works is really pleasing God and So much of it's just like the Church of Laodicea or lukewarm.

Humility Instead of the Praise of Men

We make the Lord sick. It's nauseating because it's all for ourself. We sing a solo, and we got to give ourself a hand. If somebody does something they've got to be praised up one side and down the other and If they don't get it, they're gonna get offended.

Leave the church well wide so-and-so leave the church. Well, they did something for the fellowship and nobody thanked him. Well the point is if you get offended and you feel bad. You wasn't really doing it for the Lord.

He was doing it for yourself. Didn't Jesus talk about some fellows back in the New Testament. About that's all they were going to get. They wanted the appraise of men, and he said they've got their reward.

That's what they wanted. That's all they've got. The Bible says 2nd Corinthians 7 10 for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh debt. Well the prodigal son is going to come back to his father, and he's going to say I've sinned.

I've offended you. I've offended God, and I've offended you. That's what sin is. It's an offense. Jesus died on the cross for sin. It's an offense. Our works in the flesh are an offense. I Rebelliousness is an offense to God.

He hates it. He wants us to come back in Brokenness as the son did and in humility and say I've sinned against heaven and before thee. It's a terrible thing. To be professing to be a godly Christian. But yet at the same time your life is full of full of criticalness and bitterness and anger dishonesty.

Self just oozes out and you're not happy and you make those around you not happy. You want your own way you get it, and you're not happy. The cross will take care of that my friend Paul said I'm crucified with Christ nevertheless.

I live yet not I but But Christ lives in me, and he's saying the life that I live is Jesus. That's life. Anything else is death. Anything else is death? Let me ask you a question are you home? Are you in the pigpen?

Or on you. Are you on the way? Are you on your way back? Back to God we live in a day of rebellion. You know how I know that because the Bible says that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and We have a movement of witchcraft taken over our churches like we've never seen in our day.

We need revival. We have music. That's calling in demons. One missionary Related this story, and maybe you've heard it how when when he was on the field. The natives Came and said how come the youth are calling in the demons, and he said what do you mean?

And he said well that that music is calling in the demons. They knew what they's doing. The natives knew what the music was and what it was was the contemporary Christian music. I'm not saying all of it is but a lot of it is.

We have Rebellion in our youth because we have so much witchcraft abounding. We have so many things in our lives in our homes. We've given place to the devil. I Think maybe here in the next few weeks.

We meet we need to have a little time in the area of Spiritual warfare. Many of us are not even in the in the battle fighting. We've already been taken captive By him at his will. We're not watching and praying.

We're not resisting. We're just sliding along a dangerous place to be. You know Jesus said I will give you rest. Let me ask you a question. Do you have rest in your heart? Do you have rest in your home?

Do you have rest in your church. Is your home a place of rest? Is your heart a place of rest where the Holy Spirit is that complete peace to work and move about? The scripture says that that in him we live and move and have our being and Basically what this means is that the Lord is directing and leading in our lives.

And at your church is there rest? Or is there a group that meets and There's friction in that group. There's not harmony in that church that needs to be dealt with. The church can't move forward as long as one link is disengaged.

Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ to disrupt it bring in Discontentment you need to turn to him at once and ask him to reestablish that restful state Which you received from him the moment you receive Christ don't allow anything to remain which is disturbing your rest.

You need to take every element of disintegration is something to wrestle against and not to allow it say Lord. Deal with this show me what to do. We need to beware of allowing self-consciousness to continue.

Self-Consciousness, Self-Pity, and the Life of Rest

Because by slow degrees, you know what self-consciousness will do. It will awaken self-pity and self-pity is satanic. What Judas do. He was filled with remorse. Full of self-pity at what he had done and went out and hanged himself.

You need to watch it. The life of rest and peace is a life of power. You know, I I like the Psalms where David Talks about the times when he would sing songs in the night. He would meditate on his bed.

He had a soul that hungered after God. He sought the Lord and he Craved the fellowship of the Lord. He wanted to spend time with him. He loved music. He loved to let The beauty of the harp and and I switched to using the harp a little bit on how great the art.

But he had those songs in the night that he would sing to the Lord. And all the Psalms are so full of the beauty that came out of his heart the thoughts that God gave For him. He said it is good for me to draw near to God.

I put my trust in the Lord God that I may declare all thy works. I shall guide me with guide me with thy counsel and afterward receive me to glory. Isn't that good? Isn't that beautiful? You know what he said when I complained my spirit was overwhelmed.

Do you have a complaining spirit? One of the things that's good is to let God minister to us in the night. He said I commune with my own heart and my spirit. But made diligent search. Let him minister to you songs in the night.

How the Word of God can minister to us in the nighttime? Jesus said why are you fearful? Oh you of little faith? Chambers shared some words on this. He said when we are in fear. We can do nothing less than pray to God, but our Lord has a right to expect that those who name his name Should have an understanding confidence in him.

God Expects his children to be so confident in him that in any crisis. They are the reliable ones. Our trust is in God up to a certain point and then we go back to the elementary panic prayers of those who do not know God.

We get to our wits end showing that we have not the slightest confidence in him and his government of the world. He seems to be asleep and we see mean we don't see anything but breakers ahead and Jesus says oh Ye a look of little faith.

What a pain must have shot through the disciples. Missed it again. And what a pain will go through us when we suddenly realize that we might have produced Downright joy in the heart of Jesus by remaining absolutely confident in him.

No matter what was ahead. There are stages in life when there's no storm. No crisis when we do our human best. It is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal Upon whom we rely. If we've been learning to worship God and to trust him the crisis will reveal.

That we will go to the breaking point and not break in our confidence in him. Are you at the breaking point? Have you just about had it. Are you ready to resign throw in the towel quit take off leave town run away?

Get a divorce. Quit your job. That's the point to where God can work. When the waves are breaking over and You're at the point and Jesus just steps in. He says why are you so fearful? Oh Ye of little faith.

Or yeah. That's the point to where Jesus can minister to you. Let him do it. He's waiting to step in and put calm seas in In your soul and this is why we call this program on eagles wings. He can lift you up and he can bear you.

He can bear you up on eagles wings. We need to watch out for a breaking up or dividing of our life with Jesus. We need to beware of as chamber said leakage of the dividing up of your life by the influence of friends or of Circumstances.

Beware of anything that is going to split up your oneness with him and make you see yourself separately. Nothing is so important as to keep right spiritually. The great solution is the simple one come unto me.

Coming to Christ for Rest and Victory

Right now. Why don't you just come unto Jesus? Bring your load there. Pray for that friend if you're if you're walking with the Lord and in victory pray for your friend that that's bearing a heavy load.

Coming to me and I will give you rest whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ. Turn to him at once Chamber said and ask him to establish rest never allow anything to remain.

Which is making the dis peace take every element of disintegration as something to wrestle against and not to to allow. We've shared this before and I say it again because it's so important. Beware of allowing self-consciousness to continue.

Because by slow degrees it will awaken self-pity and self-pity is satanic. Self needs to be taken to the cross. Reckon that dead it was At Calvary that Jesus gave us victory over this self-life. So reckon yourself dead to cry to sin and alive to Christ and let him Lift you up and bear you on eagles wings.

Let him be your victory. Well, it's been good to be with you today. There's been a lot of words and some scriptures and I trust that God was able to use something in your life to encourage you. If you haven't received Christ as your Savior yet.

The Call to Receive Christ

Let me let me just strongly urge you to do so today even right now. Just in your heart crowd to God and tell him that you're a sinner that you know. You're lost. You believe that Jesus died and rose again for you and ask him to come in To your life and be your Savior and then learn to let him bear you up on eagles wings.

Well I'm Don Corville been good to be with you today. If I can help you you write to me here at on eagles wings box 1100 Web City, Missouri and I'd be glad to hear from you. Help you out in any way I can that's On eagles wings box 1100 Web City, Missouri 648 70 until next time.

May God richly bless you my friend.