KEY SCRIPTURE:1 Kings 3:20 KJV” And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.”

Please read 1 Kings 3:16-28

In the above passage, two mothers brought a contention between them to King Solomon to judge their matter for them. These women gave birth at around the same time to a boy each. They also sleep together in the same room. At night one of them slept on her baby and suffocated him. She quickly went to her friend and exchanged her dead child with. that of the woman whose baby was living because she was fast asleep. Dear one, a lot of evil exchanges and transactions go on while men sleep.

In our previous study, I explained to you the kind of sleep that allows the enemy to do whatever he wants to do without any resistance. It is unfortunate to find Christians who are patrons of pornographic materials. The word pornography is coined from two Greek words. ‘Poinea’ and ‘graphe’. Poinea means evil and graphe means writing. Pornography means evil writings or evil pictures. How can you be watching evil pictures? These practices are demon-influenced and controlled. You admit those demons into your life if you watch it. Any Christian who watches such a thing is seriously sleeping, and demons have the absolute freedom to make whatever transactions they choose to engage in your life.

Certain brethren just realise all the spiritual fire, zeal, and certain gifts no longer function. Certain ministers have entangled themselves in all kinds of scandals because they have been sleeping and snoring in all kinds of fleshly dominances. People’s health has been exchanged for certain diseases because they were sleeping. When Job was confessing his fears in Job 3:25, he was seriously sleeping. Prov 6:2 KJV “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth”. Dear child of God, the Christian is called to show forth the praises of God 1st Peter 2:9.In the light of this he is not supposed to be defeated by the enemy. The Christian shares in the authority of Jesus. Satan whose power is darkness should never under any condition take advantage of the child of God. Satan succeeds when the Christian is sleeping.

Once again, it is time to wake up from every sleep and keep awake. Jesus said, “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. He meant to be, awake spiritually. You can’t be watching while you are sleeping.

CONFESSION

God’s word is my light, and no darkness can overcome it. I live continually in the light, and that keeps me awake all the time.

FURTHER STUDIES

Gal 5:16 KJV” This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”

Rom 8:8 -9KJV “So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”