“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him”. Acts 10:38

God is the Source of empowerment and grace, and only those who know how to get into His presence ever get imparted and ‘engraced’. People who flow under fresh oil are those who know how to engage God’s presence. The Bible says:

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light”. Matthew 11:28-30

God’s commandments are not grievous. The way to scaling new heights is not tough; it just requires us to make a discovery of it. Most of the time, people are waiting to be touched and for hands to be laid on them before they are imparted with grace. That is why people miss the opportunities for impartation. Impartations are principally conveyed through words. The most profound impartations of my life didn’t come by laying on of hands, but by the Word. It is written:

“And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me”. Ezekiel 2:2

I was imparted with grace to love God, by His Word. Nobody laid hands on me but the Spirit of love overwhelmed me by an encounter from the book, The Man God Uses by Oswald J. Smith. I got married to Jesus from that encounter and that marriage has been the sweetest experience of my life. Oswald J. Smith was about to die at that time; so, I never saw him.

Also, it was an encounter with the Word of the Lord in T. L. Osborn’s book that caused my spiritual ears to pop open. The Bible says:

“he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back”. Isaiah 50:4-5

Jesus, the Master Eagle said: I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear… (John 5:30). Therefore, if we are unable to hear, we are not candidates for the flight.

In 1982, I encountered the Word of grace that destroyed every trace of poverty mentality and brought me into realms of unspeakable financial fortune, even without having a dime. In 1986, Kenneth E. Hagin was speaking at a convention and I was sitting at the gallery when the power of God hit me. That encounter turned our ministry around.

The Covenant Platform for the Rise of Eagles

“For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock”. Deuteronomy 32:9-13

The above scripture depicts affluence, relevance, dignity, honour and impact. The Eagle’s anointing begins with a revelation of our portion and inheritance in Christ. Our journey to scaling new heights begins with a clear revelation of our inheritances. If that is our portion, how much of it have we discovered? Remember in Matthew 11:11, Jesus said:

“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he”.

In other words, every child of God carries potentials that far outweigh the greatest potentials in the Old Testament. Therefore, within us lie redemptive deposits that make us greater than the greatest names in the Old Testament.

We are ordained for unlimited heights. Therefore, when we see our future through God’s eyes, we cannot be depressed. In 1984, I saw our ministry on top of the world, though there was nothing to show for it at that time. Jesus came and blew it up from John 14:12:

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father”.

That means, we are to exceed where Jesus stopped and He has not stopped manifesting till today. He is still impacting the world in greater dimensions than when He walked the earth, and He said that we will do greater than He did.

We must recognise that we are redeemed to make impact, not just a living. Furthermore, it is not a “now.” Impact, but a generational and trans-generational one. That means, one generation after another will be talking about our impact! 

Therefore, the eagle’s anointing begins with the Spirit of revelation which unveils who we are, what we are worth and what we can do in Christ. However, it takes the leading of the Spirit of God to be empowered to scale new heights. Deuteronomy 32:12 says that the Lord alone did lead him. 

Also, the army of high flyers described in Joel 2:1-11 was an unusual army because it was led by the Spirit of God. The world has never seen its kind and the Bible says that neither will there be any after such until the years of many generations. As it is written:

“A great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations… They shall run like mighty men, they shall climb the wall like men of war, and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks … they shall walk everyone in his path … And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word…” Joel 2:2-11

This is a description of an army of visionaries who are record ‘breakers’ and ‘setters’. Many years ago, one of my friends who had a very powerful ministry in a part of Nigeria said to me:

“Brother David, I’m going to Lagos.” I asked, “What about?” He replied, “All the money in Nigeria is in Lagos.” Eventually, he lost everything to being led by strange gods. It is a sad story. He went to where all the money in Nigeria was, but only incurred the kind of debt that he had never imagined before.

Don’t jump at a job because the offer is attractive; instead, go there because you know that is where you belong. Today, many people have gone out of their countries to various places where they don’t belong.

Remember, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Consider the beauty of Moses’ ministry. It was all about: “And the Lord said unto Moses.” He was perpetually led into strange dimensions of greatness. And Moses was a great man in the land of Egypt before Pharaoh and all his servants In fact, God said to him…

This text is an extract from the book “FOLLOWING THE PATH OF THE EAGLE” written by David O. Oyedepo. 
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