FAITH CAPSULE: As a church of God, are you sleep active or awake active?

Acts 12

The enemy of man is here to kill and to destroy and when he is privilege to sow, his sowing will yield to pain, sudden or untimely death. Be awake, watch and pray to deny the enemy from sowing evil into your life.
In the parable of the wheat and tares, Jesus mentioned, “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) The point here is that sleeping is what gives enemy the privilege to sow tares (wickedness). When a man is not asleep but awake, it will be difficult for the enemy to sow tares among the wheat.
Living in this world demands to be constantly awake. As an acclaimed believer, are you awake or are you asleep? Just as it is possible to be asleep physically so it is also possible to be asleep spiritually. One that is spiritually asleep becomes spiritually at risk. For one who is at sleep, prayer will cease and enemy shall gain entrance.
Sleeping is not only when eyes and mind are shut; sleeping does not necessary mean when one goes to bed at night. In this world of wickedness, when sleeping takes over at the time of challenging situation, man extends invitation to the wicked one.
The church was at sleep at the time James the brother of John was killed by Herod the king. Acts 12:1-2 recorded about the seed of Herod’s violence to the church, “Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword.” The same hand of Herod sent Peter to prison. It is written, “…but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.  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.  Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly!” And his chains fell off his hands.” (Acts 12:5-7)
Peter’s deliverance was the awake of constant prayer by the church. It is possible that the same church was not constantly prayer but asleep at the time of James death in the hand of Herod. The enemy will sow evil seed only in the sleeping church. As temple of God (church of God), are you sleep active or awake active? Can you afford to sleep when you need to be awake?
Watch and pray is to be sleepless. Church that is not available to be awake in prayer does not prevail against enemy.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of strength on the prayer altar.