Lessons From Geese and Ducks in their Seasonal Migration

Many land birds migrate long distances involves flying north to breed in the temperate or Arctic summer and returning to wintering grounds in warmer regions to the south. Many of the larger birds fly in flocks. Flying in flocks helps in reducing the energy needed in a V-formation. God's creation continue to amazes me.

Without modern calendar alarms and accurate compass, the birds are able to take-off and land base on their "intuition" to the nature - seasonal change and landscape formation. How we long for the intuition to align our life focus in family and jobs according to His will!!

Abba Father, we thirst for the spiritual intuition of your will in our life. Guide us to take up and release the responsibility you wish us to engage in the right seasons. Grant us the wings and wind to fly higher and farther in whatever we do to glorify your name. Sharpen our vision so we can see the promising land even in the heavy cloud and storms. Humble our hearts to help others who are lost during the journey. Thank you Lord for granting our desire to be a more spiritual intuitive marketplace practitioner. Amen.

Jairus Spoke the Solution

Mark 5: 22-24  And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him (Jesus), he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly saying. My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live. And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.

 

Here Jairus has made a great faith statement. His daughter is not dead, but she is at the point of death. Jairus establishes that when Jesus lays His hands on his daughter, she shall be healed and she shall live. He established this by his faith-filled words. It is this faith which caused Jesus to leave the multitude and follow Jairus.

 

But on the way, a woman with an issue of blood comes on the scene. She touches Jesus' garment, receives her healing, then gives her testimony. All this could have taken an hour. Meanwhile, Jairus is still waiting for Jesus to heal his daughter. There has been a delay - a costly delay - and I'm sure that Jairus was getting quite anxious!

 

Then Jesus explains to the woman that it was her faith which made her whole, v35 While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?

 

Thy daughter is dead. The very thing that Jairus knew could happen had happened! It couldn't have been any worse. His daughter was dead! Regardless of all he had believed, regardless of all the faith statements and confessions he had made, he gets the bad news.

 

Though Jairus had spoken good things, bad things had come his way. v36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afrid, only believe. Jairus was obedient to the instruction of Jesus.

 

If Jairus had allowed fear to come and had spoken what was on his mind, he probably would have said, "Jesus, if You hadn't stopped to heal that woman, You would have been there in time to heal my daughter!" Jairus would have gotten into strife, and they would have held a funeral a few days later.

 

But notice that Jairus didn't speak a word. Not one word proceeded from his mouth. We can learn from this. When things go wrong, when it looks like it's not going to work, when your faith is low, when all hell has broken loose against you and against your confession of faith, just zip your lip!

 

That is not the time to try to make some faith confessions. It is the time to rest in what you have already said - the words you spoke a few days before when your faith was high, when your Word level was high, when it looked like it was impossible for you to doubt that what you were saying would come to pass.

 

When the pressue is on, when the trouble and bad news have come, when it looks  like nothing will help, when it seems that all hope is lost - that is the time to exercise the vocabulary of silence. Speak nothing! More than likely, if you try to make a confession at that point, you will speak words of fear instead of faith.

 

Jairus, a few hours before, had his mouth filled with the solution - the answer to his problem, he had established it in faith, But by this time, if he had asked somebody, "What will I do now? What's your opinion of this situation?" they would surely have told him, "It's too late, Jairus. Forget it! You've lost the battle, It's all over!"

 

But thank God, Jairus didn't ask for anyone's opinion. Anything that he spoke in his situation would have been to affirm the solution instead of the problem. But the prople around him wouldn't have understood, so he chose to be silent.

 

The end result of the whole matter was that his daughter was raised to life again. The words Jairus established in the beginning were fulfilled to the very letter!

 

When you speak the solution, calling those things that are not as though they were, people in the wolrd won't understand. Just keep your eyes on Jesus, not on people's opinions. Disregard people's opinions and continue to speak the solution.

 

Shalom
Shan Chi

 

 

Speak to the Problem

Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, be thou plucked up by the root and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you

 

The sycamine tree in this scripture is the problem, the circumstance, the situation that stands between you and your destination.

Jesus and the apostles were probably walking down a trail or a pathway and came upon a sycamine tree in the middle of the trail. It was an obstacle before them which they has to deal with in some way. Jesus used it as an object lesson.

He did not say, "If you had faith as a seed you would pray that God would move that obstacle before you. Then if you pray and cry and beg long enough, if you promise to be good and pay your tithes, then God will pluck it up for you and cast it into the sea."

No, He said, "Speak to it, and it will obey you"

The King James version says, "You might say to the tree .." The Greek New Testament says, "You would say". A stronger word is used in the Greek version, and it is the mopre accurate rendering in this instance. If you had faith as a seed, Jesus said you would speak to that sycamine tree [to that obstacle, that problem, that difficulty, that financial crisis you have been begging God to do something about]. So quit begging and crying, and speak to that thing. Say what you want done with it. Tell it to be plucked up by the root!

Jesus said it would obey you!

There is no great theological reason why Jesus said to speak to the tree; he simply said to do it! He is telling you exactly how to get the Kingdom principles to work for you. Your voice is the voice of authority in your part of the earth. Whatever you bind will be bound. Whatever you loose will be loosed. The power of binding and loosing is on earth. It is a Kingdom principle [Matt 16:17-19]

 

Shalom
Shan Chi

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