KOHINTA - Waiting Upon The Lord!

KOHINTA - Waiting Upon The Lord.

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Kohinta is an Akan² word which means "to hide" and is used to describe a time of waiting before God in fasting & prayer to renew faith, commitment, zeal and also to reconnect with God. It is in these times that Christians receive renewed abilities to mount up wings like eagles.
The Eagle is the king of all birds - strong, aggressive, fearless and with great vision among many other qualities; it is also very skillful and does not eat dead meat!

The Eagle experiences a period when its feathers become weak and therefore makes it weak and unable to act and be like the way it was made to be.

"By the time an eagle reaches the age of 30 or so, its physical condition has deteriorated to the point that survival is difficult: its talons lose their flexibility and cannot properly grip prey, its beak becomes dull and bent, and its wing feathers grow thick and heavy, sticking to its chest and impairing its flight. The bird then retreats to a mountaintop, where over a five-month period it sequentially knocks off its beak by banging it against a rock, plucks out its talons, and then plucks out its feathers, each stage producing a regrowth of the removed body parts that "renews" the eagle and allows it to live for another 30 to 40 years."¹

"Even the youths 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."
Isaiah 40:28-31 KJV

As we carry on with life's activities, there comes a time when we feel so spiritually, emotionally and physically dry and weak. The stress and demands at work, societal and family issues, financial and educational challenges often make us faint and become weary that we are sometimes afraid we would lose all that we might have toiled for! It is in these times that we, like the eagle need to take a break, retreat and seek the Lord to renew our strength and receive more grace and anointing to carry on with life - doing the Master's will; becoming better!

Waiting on the Lord renews strength, improves physical and spiritual vision, emboldens, and make one aggressive for God in winning the lost and doing the work of the King of kings.

Kohinta - Wait on the Lord!

Footnotes
¹ Life of an eagle ( www.snopes.com/critters/wild/eaglerebirth.asp)

² Akan - a tribe in Ghana and a language spoken by the tribe.