SLEEPING?
Matthew 25:1-13

There is only one way to heaven. It is not possible to walk two ways at the same time. No one can walk as a sinner and be righteous; or walk as righteous and be a sinner. As a believer who wants to stand on the ground of calling, it is impossible to be asleep and be alive at the same time. Whenever a believer is spiritually asleep, there is great tendency to be spiritually at risk. To be spiritually asleep will cause prayer to cease and entering into failure will become active. The ten virgins were all purposeful in their agenda. They all went out to meet the bridegroom. Matthew 25:3-5, “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.”Having gone that far in their pursuit to see the bridegroom, sleeping should have been avoided by getting busy in their waiting. They fell asleep and foolishness became their identity. How are you waiting? Can you tell if and when your oil is running out? You have come too far in this journey to begin to entertain foolishness. How would you have known that your oil is running out when you are asleep and not awake? A believer that goes down and away from prayer is having a sorrow sleep. At Gethsemane, where Jesus went to pray, “When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”(Luke 22:40) They all slept and could not hold on in prayer as requested by Jesus. He came back and questioned them, Luke. 22:46, “…Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.” Are you awake? The only way for you to avoid temptation is to be awake in the Lord. The life of Peter reveals how sleeping can be dangerous for a believer. Peter slept on when he was with Jesus on Gethsemane and he slept in the prison when his life was at stake in the hands of Herod. Acts 12:5-6, “Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church. 6 And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.”It does not matter how long you have been walking in the Lord, you need to stay awake and alive.
Prayer for today: Deliver me O Lord from sleeping my life away.