06/12/2023
DEALING WITH THE SPIRIT OF SLUMBER.
*Isaiah 56:10*
*His watchmen are blind, All of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,*
*Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;*
_Only a dog that sees a coming danger can bark. Blindness is the root of spiritual sleep._
The spirit of slumber is the spirit responsible for spiritual drowsiness and dullness. Blindness and deafness in the spirit leads to physically drain of life and resources.
Do you struggle to pray alone, do you fall asleep too often during prayers and bible reading?
Do you feel off or lost while listening to God in your quiet time? Then know that the spirit of slumber is attacking you.
HOW TO BREAK SPELL OF SPIRITUAL DEEP SLEEP FROM YOUR LIFE.
The Spirit of slumber must depart from your life if you will grow up spiritually. To ascend into the realms of power requires the shading off of the things that weighs you down like
- Sleep,
- Too much eating.
- Indiscipline talking
- Unhealthy emotions like anger, bitterness, jealousy or lust.
Jesus Christ spoke these words to 3 of his apostles in the garden of Gethsemane.
*“Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41)*
Jesus made a deep revelation of the necessity to be watchful and not sleepy in life. Especially when you are facing resistance, battles or oppression, you shouldn't carelessly abandon your life to fate. You can change things if you stay awake, you can resist sleep and heaviness and create new stories about your life.
The devil will suggest to you that you are tired and should sleep while he gains time to tie you down. The adversary plants tares into your life during sleep. *Matthew 13:25-26 says*
_*25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.*_
HOW FASTING AND PRAYERS AWAKENS
- Spiritual sleep gives current momentary pleasure to you but gives future advantage to your adversary.
- Fasting and prayers remain the major key to break out of spiritual deep sleep and heaviness.
- Fasting and prayers remains the easiest way to break the spell of sleep and spiritual weakness.
- Fasting and prayers is one of the basic spiritual disciplines which has to be taught to believers. We live in a spiritual world and unless we are creating the atmosphere that keeps us constantly spiritually awake. We will score zero in the battlefield of life.
- Fasting and prayers will expose every wicked person with evil agenda around you. Your spirit man is the candle of your life, it can only shine when you light it up through spiritual discipline.
Every believer has spiritual eyes but not all see, some see sparingly while others are blinded. But when you engage in a journey of fasting with intentionality and fervency, you activates your spiritual eyes and spiritual life.
Most spiritually blind people can be very proud, the enemy makes them never see their real skeletal spiritual deprivity. They walk based on mental intelligence and understanding. Yet there are many things in life that will seem humanly reasonable but in the realms of the spirit it is nonsense.
When you are in spiritual slumber, you will be in relationship which you were never supposed to be in. You will be relating with who has been mandated to kill you without knowing, you will be eating on the table of death without discerning. You will be in a church where demonic or marine powers are used to manipulate people without knowing.
So dealing with spiritual slumber in your life is a must. *(Jeremiah 33:3)*
SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL SLUMBER.
If you have been unable to keep to prayer times, unable to fast, unable to keep spiritual commitment yet you can be awake to watch movies, awake while reading other books but can read the Bible. You feel bored in church but excited in environment where there is no real spiritual impact?, Then you now know what is keeping you down.
CONCLUSION
Let's fast, let's pray, let's watch and do as he commands.
Apostolic waves
- Noel Nuyebga
Kingdom Restoration Ministries