High Lights of Gathering of Eagles 2008

Friday Night—Going for the Gold
2 Timothy 2:19 – 21
Your destiny or choice of destiny is in your hands, it is a choice. We get to choose a life for noble purposes or ignoble purposes. How we were born or why or what bad things have happened to us to this point does not matter to God. What really matters to God is will we choose him and his ways, will we choose noble over ignoble, obedience over disobedience.. It is up to us, we may have been born clay but we can choose to be gold.. But we must change how we think in our heart.
Proverbs 23:7
As a man thinks in his heart, he is… Think Gold and Noble purposes…
Saturday Night – We have a Kinsman redeemer
Ruth 2:20
Kinsman Redeemer, a close family member who buys back, you, your debts, and gives you an heir for your name and inheritance and allows the name of the husband to live on. It is a provision God made for the people, for widows. He is our avenger our Kinsman’s Redeemer
A closer look at Ruth, she was….
2. Willing --- A. to humble herself
B. to work and put Naomi above herself
C. to do what ever was needed of her.
3. Patient
She trusted Naomi and waited patiently for the out come, even though these were not her customs or her ways, still she waited and trusted in God who was not the God of her people but of Naomi.
Then after a time she was rewarded:
1. husband—a covering
2. made rich – provision
3. a child for Naomi- blessings and inheritance
4. she was of the lineage of Christ Jesus our Kinsman Redeemer
Hebrews 2:14-18
We are children of the free woman not the slave so choose freedom and live for the King.
We too have to become:
1. Willing--- Romans 12: 1
2. Obedient--- Romans 12: 2a
3. Patient ----- Isaiah 40: 31-32
Sunday----- led into the Desert
James 1:-2
Matthew 4:1
We all have to cross the desert to reach our inheritance the Promised Land, the very reason for which we were created. Do not hate the desert but embrace her and her lessons, learn and see Gods great provision.
Even Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to the desert to be tempted and tried.
5 Reasons or Purposes of the Desert
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1. Exodus7:16 So we can serve him in the desert. Worship him in the desert as free children.
2. Deuteronomy 8:2 ---- To humble us.
3. Dueteronomy 8:2 ---- To teach us what’s in our hearts- to see if we will be faithful.
4. Deuteronomy 8:2---- To teach us obedience.
5. Deuteronomy 8:3---- To teach us there is more important things then food for the stomach. Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
Jesus is the bread of life. God Spoke and Mary conceived and Jesus was born. He is the word that came from Gods mouth.
(Matthew 4:4)
The desert is a geographical location and does not have to be a Spiritual condition!
Thanks for coming to 2008 Gathering of Eagles and we loved having you and are looking forward to seeing you all again next year.
Jeanine Barnet