FAITH CAPSULE: HOW MUCH ARE WE GIVING TO SLEEP IN THIS 

Matthew 25

Challenges are mounting with evidence of believers sleeping the way it pleases acclaimed believers.
God is not talkative but actively truthful in His word.
God is coming to judge the world, if ready or not, at His appointed time.
Sleeping in the place to be awake is a sleep of death and shall not be your portion.
The Parable of Ten Virgins is a secret, not just an allegorical story, to point out what is to come on the appointed judgment of God over the word.
SLEEPING
Matthew 25:1-3 documents, “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
6 “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut.
11 “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ 12 But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
13 “Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
The majority answered that believers are flooding in the name of God as they please, sleeping or awake. 
Also, they are equipped with things of God or not.
The ten virgins in the parable are composed of five wise equipped with lamps and oil, while the five foolish with no oil for lamps.
As the bridegroom delayed (but not to deny) all, slumbered and slept.
Which speaks to you? 
A wise one or a foolish one?
The bridegroom arrived at his appointed time.
All woke up, but the foolish one had no oil, pleading to get from the wise with oil.
As the foolish went to buy, the bridegroom entered for those ready to go for the wedding.
The foolish called out to be allowed into the wedding but disallowed.
The foolish were not PREPARED, not READY for the bridegroom’s arrival.
How are you waiting for God?
Sleeping of carelessness is not giving regard to God to live a wasted life.
Every standard living life should be prepared, ready for the return of God, not to miss heaven.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to be shut out to miss His presence.