FAITH CAPSULE: With understanding, pray the word of God.

In the parable of the wheat and tares, Jesus said, “The kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in His field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.” (Matthew 13:24-25)
How are you sleeping in this wicked world?
Wicked is identified by the word of God in Jeremiah 12:1-2 stating, “Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them yes they have taken root; They grow, yes they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth But far from their mind.”
The wicked is very conversant in the word of God, but the heart is far from God, deep in the world.
How are you sleeping physically and spiritually?
Sleeping consciously or unconsciously can happen all.
Jesus was praying at the garden when His disciples were around Him but they all went to sleep. 
In Matthew 26:45, Jesus woke them by saying, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.”
How are you sleeping physically and spiritually?
Sleeping in the place of praying is walking awake with evil.
Sleeping in the place of watching is opening for the evil to occupy.
In the parable of the wheat and tares, Jesus, “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.”
PRAYER
Ask that wherever you are sleeping, consciously or unconsciously, for the enemy to occupy your life shall permanently cease not to be your potion anymore.
ABOUT GROWTH
Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, what or how is your growth?
Are you growing in the things of this world but growing in the calling of God over your life?
Stagnation is not of God but growing to the glory of God that counts to the glory of God.
Growth in the things of God is crucial not to miss at the time of judgment.
Whoever is around you, growing together with you, demands you to be vigilant and prayerfully not to become derailed.
In the parable of the wheat and tares, Jesus states, “Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” (Matthew 13:30) 
In the parable of wheat and tares, Jesus mentioned the issue of growth, the evidence that some Wasted growth while some are worthy of growth.
One that grows wasted is like one to become burnt, while the worth of growth is like wheat going to His barn.
PRAYER
Ask God to enable you so that you will continually grow in Him.