FAITH CAPSULE: One that is not awake is not watching and praying.
Acts 12
Sleeping in the spirit is as dangerous as fasting from the word of God.
One sleeping is not watching and praying.
Praying and not watching is not complete to prevail in the world of wickedness. 1 Thessalonians 5:6 admonishes, “Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.”
The devourer of all, the father of all lies, is the number one enemy for all and no exception.
The weapon of the number one enemy of your life is your inability to please God.
The inability to please God can be rooted in sleeping in the place of watching and praying to live life for God, denying the enemy from having a place in one.
Sleeping at the wrong time opens the door for the enemy.
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares testifies that sleeping opens up for the enemy to scatter where it is supposed to be gathered.
Matthew 13:25, “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.”
One that sows and falls asleep makes self the enemy of self, not pleasing God.
One that is not awake is not watching and praying.
Watching and praying before God is connecting with God for direction.
Are you awake or asleep in your prayer before God?
Luke 21:36 warns against not watching and praying, “Watch, therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Watching and Praying before God is having communion all day with God, not sleeping spiritually.
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares said, “but while men slept, his enemy came…” (Matthew 13:25)
Stop sleeping wrongly to seal up to deny the enemy from taking over.
Watching and praying before God in this wicked world is the will of God for all.
Are you sleeping, not knowing that you are slipping off for the enemy to gain into your life?
The summation of the consequence of sleeping is captured in the parable, “So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this…” (Matthew 13:27-28)
Stop deceiving yourself to know if you are sleeping and not awake before God.
Learn from it that, in the parable, sleeping allowed the enemy to do evil with no remedy against the enemy until the day of harvest when God will separate good and evil.
Wake up from sleeping, stop slipping off the presence of God for deliverance and preservation over your God-given life.
Prayer for today: Ask before God, “Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death.” (Psalm 13:3)