How many of you have ever driven
a car and you become so sleepy that you either need to pull over and sleep or
you will crash or you continue to drive only to find yourself swerving to avoid
a car that comes upon you or even worse find yourself in a crash.
The other day I had a vision
where I was preaching and the whole back row in the gathering of men were
asleep while I was preaching.
And today I had another vision of driving a car while so sleepy that it
was going to cause an accident.
This is what is like for many in
our spiritual walk in the Lord, we are going around in our lives spiritually
asleep and if we continue to do so will have a serious crash at some point not
only causing damage to yourself but to other people who you may not even
know.
Men particularly I challenge you
to take a look at your lives to see whether you are hearing from the Lord,
whether you are responding truthfully to the Holy Spirit and living as He would
ask you to live or whether perhaps you are going ‘dull’ to the voice of the
Lord and suggest that you take some time to seek His face above the other
things that want to be first before Him.
Matt 25:5 “The bridegroom
was a long time in coming and they all become drowsy and fell asleep…v13 Therefore keep watch, because you do
not know the day or the hour”.
Prov 6:4-5
“Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the
hunters hand and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.”
We were praying on Thursday in
the prayer room and a picture that someone saw was of a lamp that was no longer
plugged into the power.
Rev 2:4 “You have forsaken
your first love. Remember the
height from which you have fallen!
Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your
lampstand from its place.”
Do you feel/know the anointing of
God still, do you feel His power flowing through you, His anointing changing
lives around you and so Rev 2 is always a good reminder and I know for myself
to continually remember my ‘first love’ where it was ‘easy’ in the Lord, it
wasn’t a chore to live the Christian life, it was what I wanted to do. Sometimes
we get so busy in the ‘doing’ that we forget our first love, forget the reasons
as to why we do what we do, forget the joy of serving and so to take a step
asking the Lord to show you where perhaps you have fallen asleep, where you are
not walking in the power of God as we ought, to remind you of your first love in
Christ and what that looks like or should look like is always a good thing.
May the Lord bless you as you
seek His face.