Christian Living

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Going to sleep in the midst of a mission
Jonah

Lose sight of what God is saying
Moses and the Israelites

God show you a vision and you run without getting clarity, you lose your way.

Its like mission impossible, you don’t allow all of the pieces to come together. You must consistently be open for the Lord to continue to speak.

Sleeping through a revolution of spiritual downpour can cause you to abort your purpose.

Don’t be as those that sleep, awake its high time.
Romans 13:11, and that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Let’s look at what you believe.
In Genesis 2:21, and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. God caused Adam to fall asleep. He put him to sleep so he could complete his work of creation. Adam did not have sleep apnea, but if he had been awake, he would have interfered with God’s plan for woman. She would have been to his liking and taste, probably malformed and dysfunctional as the beings created in the seed of some men today which; has caused to seed of man to have sleep apnea. Their breathing is cut off by sin; allergies, smoke, and other habits and the breathing stops. There are tow main types of sleep apnea.
1. Obstructive Sleep Apnea or OSA – cessation of breathing due to mechanical blockage of the airway. There are reduced levels of oxygen in the blood.
2. Central Sleep Apnea or CSA – a condition related to a malfunction of the brains normal signal to breathe. Sleep Apnea is a very unhealthy dysfunction to the air that goes into your brain for proper function.

Some side effects of Sleep Apnea is morning headaches, loss of energy, trouble concentrating, forgetfulness, mood of behavior changes, anxiety and depression, lose the excess in your lives to protect you from OSA.

Sin in your life keeps the Holy Spirit out of you. God’s Spirit is clean, pure, and honest and it dwells in clean temples or bodies. Sin blocks your blessings and all the promises he has promised you would inherit if you do not fall off to sleep. A disobedient child sleeping through a revolution is first disobedient to parents and if you disobey them, you know you will be disinherited out of their Will. You are always sleepy, which will cause your throat tissues collapse. We can’t think properly because we can’t wake up. Disobedience is sin and sin is sleepiness to what is right. We can’t awake out of sleep until we learn to obey God and those that have rule over us. As a dead skunk stink worse than a live one, we are a stink to God in the same way. A stink in his nostrils turns God’s heart and mind away from you. He will depart and his Spirit will be gone.


Let’s look at the symptoms:

1. Restless sleep – going to sleep without the Word or Prayer will cause you not to rest well. You keep waking out of sleep because God desires to commune with you. He wants to give you some instructions for your life or prayer to turn away trouble from around a loved one or yourself, but you are restless and cannot comprehend.
2. Loud heavy snoring – once you feel like you are comfortable, you can sleep real good and you get really loud because you are really sleepy. Most people that are sleep without God’s Spirit; there is a spirit of pride that will cause you to be loud. Because his Spirit has departed you don’t realize what is really going on. Once you feel like you are in a silence of a lack of God’s Spirit, you are interrupted mentally, physically and spiritually, you become a noisy and sin rings out loud in you. You began to hear as Eve did, voices from the enemy. The perfect being created by the creator was sleep, dozed off, incoherent when she was faced with Lucifer himself, not a snake as some suppose the serpent to be. She was not awake out of sleep concerning who God really was. Saints we try to play God, the all knowing, all seeing, omnipotent God that sees you when you sleep and when you are working through a different spirit other than his. He will turn you over to a reprobate spirit and you will not realize it. The loud noise you are portraying in you will be the voice of the Devil.
3. Sleep masks – Saints we need to take our sleep masks off. You can’t drive because you’ve fallen to sleep. Oftentimes running into another car or object. When you wake up, you’ve caused a shipwreck. Your life is full of confusion and you can’t figure out why you can sit in a chair and sleep and the day has passed by. Jonah was sleep for 3 days in the belly of a whale when he woke up realizing he almost aborted his purpose trying to run from his mission. I can imagine he had a headache trying to figure out how he was going to get out of the whale’s belly. Granted he was concentrating then and had a new attitude. He had an attitude adjustment and he was no longer ADP. His behavior had changed and he was willing to obey God’s command.
4. The breathing may stop for ten seconds or more, but Jonah’s breathing stopped for three days while he was realizing that he still had breath in him. I can imagine how many times he probably did wake up when he did hit the ground there was no more blockage of the airway. Imagine all of the filth he had to deal with inside the whale’s belly. God put up with all of our mess in our lives too.

Just like Johan we as Christians run rampant in our lives and we abort our purposes. We will begin to build a home in our marriages and we get sidetracked. The home becomes empty and fruitless and eventually causes a divorce, annulment or separation. One of the main reasons this is so, is because of the seeds laid in the marriage through premarital sex. You have already sown seeds of sleep apnea. You listened to the voice of the enemy and didn’t know that you were sowing seeds of whoredom into your relationship.

You were sleeping through a revolution because you went to sleep concerning God’s Word concerning abstinence and being a virgin until marriage. And virgin don’t mean here having a hymen and never being touched, but it means cleanness and purity from sin, you are breathing and breathing the righteous air. Your brain is receiving the right signal to breathe. God forbid you default on your purpose. Job in Job 17:11, says my days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

When you think about same sex marriage or homosexuality, you know you are reprobate. You have gone away from God’s ordinances and his command to man. God made what man needed, a woman as a helpmeet. Then he took the woman out of man, so there is no more, woman in man and no more man in woman. God separated them. They have fallen to sleep, broken off their purpose and even the thoughts of their hearts are deceived. Those who have fallen prey has been consumed in a drought, and when and if they wake up out of sleep they will confess as Jacob did in Genesis 28:16, and Jacob awaked out of his sleep and he said, surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not.

Too many of us really do not know that God is in our lives to the full essence of our purpose. We sleep concerning things that matters. In the instance of what Abraham did through disobedience, Genesis 15:12, and when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram and lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. He sinned and found himself breathing outside of God’s will, which made his way dark. His sleep means his lamp went out. The brightness of God’s glory catches us up in debt, because we leave God, don’t take care of our Financial responsibilities to our families, neglect our obligations, get more in debt, and thereby go to sleep with a bankrupt estate. When God’s lamp go out in man or woman, it brings about struggle, the ark or purity, cleanness, and covering has left the marriage or family.

We have to shake ourselves loose from the bondage of spiritual sleep apnea. Sometime we breathe right, and sometime we don’t. We don’t know if we want to be with the Lord or without him. God cannot talk to us in a lukewarm state, either you will be hot or cold, but lukewarm he will spit you out. God made us to the praise of his glory. He desires to commune with his creation, but because of our sleep condition, we do not realize his presence. God wants to talk to you, but when you fail to heed to the call of God, his spirit departs and you develop sleep apnea. Your deep sleep state could be that God wants to show you a vision. On the other hand you have shut him out.

When we sleep, we want to sleep with peace and know that we are dwelling in the safety of God’s will. In Esther 6:1, on that night could not the King sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the Chronicles, and they were read before the King. The King heeded the call and no longer had sleep apnea. A light came on and he realized that God wanted to commune with him. God wanted to reveal something to him. He had no peace until he received what he needed. His spirit was vexed. So many of us are spiritually vexed because of sleep apnea in the spirit. We are starving our spirits of what it need. A submitted will to God will tie him back to our souls, a place where you and only God dwells.

How can a person with sleep apnea be responsible for anything that matters? How can any one that falls asleep any and everywhere build God a house? They are financially irresponsible, their addiction will carry them off in other directions, away from God and they have no stability at home, work or in any area of life.

Many of us have fallen asleep, have spiritual as well as natural sleep apnea and missed our purpose. Some of our children have to complete our work, as Solomon did with David, because David kept falling asleep in the wrong places. He would lose sight of God, sin, and then find God again. Yet he was a man after God’s own heart. A leader that has sleep apnea, will never build God a house, he will miss God when God calls every time. His vision is blurred and he can’t see anything because he has no spirituality.

He is abusive, and he is transferring his sleep apnea like a sexually transferable disease. The abuse comes in because he will use the people for filthy lucre to promote his pockets, over tax them to keep the church running, while his bills is paid and the church members is bankrupt.

Sleep apnea is a spiritually transmitted demon. Except these demons are realized and dealt with they will forever destroy your life and in Hell will you lift up your eyes. They cause your days to past, your purpose to be broken off and event the thoughts of your heart cause it to miss a beat. You are a dead man or woman and while you live you are an accident waiting to happen. By the time God has already proved your heart, he has already visited you in the night, he has tried you and found nothing. He sought to bring purpose to your life, but all you wanted to do is transgress. God wanted to keep you.

When your enemies and wicked ones came to destroy your purpose, but because of your spiritual sleep apnea, your purpose was overthrown. Without counsel, purposes are disappointed, but in the multitude of counselors you are established. It is high time that we awake out of sleep.

Because of our conditions, we sleep when we should be awake.

Because we have been breathing in the wrong poisons and pollutants, we miss our season with God, his promise and his purposes.

Us having that condition are not an excuse to keep us out of Hell. God shall judge the righteous and the wicked for there is a time there and for every purpose in our lives and every good work. Sleep apnea is not an excuse not to serve God, but it is a spiritual hindrance to get to God in Heaven.

Lamentations 3:56 say thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. How can you hear if you are asleep? The Lord breathes life into us. Do you know who he is, do you heed his call, or do you make threatening against God because of your sleep condition, or his people as Paul did when he was Saul. While he was carrying on he had sleep apnea. He had not realized his purpose yet. He was sleeping through a revolution in his life. His mission was to kill the Christians, but God put him in a spiritual sleep and blinded him on the road to Damascus. He could only see God because he was blind, no man could he see. God filled him with a new purpose and vision. God cured his condition and he began to walk in the light, was taught for three years. Some of us don’t want to be taught, we just want to go. God gave him instructions, he followed them and he awake out of sleep and he ran for Jesus the rest of his life. He lost his life at the hands of Nero for what the world called betrayal of your purpose, but Paul had changed dance partners and he would no longer be the same. Paul wasn’t like some of us. God wake us out of sleep, we hear the word, heed to it for a moment for whatever purpose and then turn around.

God in Genesis 28:16 woke Jacob out of his sleep, and Jacob said, surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not. A lot of people don’t realize God is here now. You minds are off in left field somewhere. Because Jacob awaked and recognized it was God who had blessed hem he went on to his inherited land.

Because Samson went to sleep with the enemy, he awake to defeat. He had given up his anointing and his power of prayer because he disobeyed God. He fell asleep spiritually as well as naturally. Him falling asleep spiritually because of vexation of his soul by the woman who claimed she loved him so much, sold him out for money, he lost his sight also; for the Philistines put his eyes out. The bound him with fetters and he did grind in prison. He caused the Philistines to mock God, be he came to himself and in the midst of their sleep. They were partying and celebrating God and his defeat and Samson called on God to strengthen him one last time to lift the pillars where they were from the ground that they may be destroyed, and not only that, but that he may die also with them. God granted his plea, not because he wanted to avenge them for his eyes, but because God wanted to get the glory out of a messed up situation. Samson’s disobedience brought him to lose his eyes, for God’s spirit departed him. He was sleeping through a revolution. He should have been home with his wife. God allowed him in death to slew more men than he did while he lived. That’s what God will do for you when you wake up.

Sometime the Lord will cause your enemies to sleep while he does what he has to do. David could have killed Saul in I Samuel 6:12. Sometime God will allow sleepy time situations to come in your life to see whether or not you will take things in your own hands to avenge a situation or will you allow him to be God. David had many opportunities to kill Saul and Saul was an enemy to David, but David loved God and had respect for the office that Saul walked in. He was not a coward that he would take advantage of a sleepy situation. Unlike some of us, he liked a lively fight. We seek an opening, just like the Devil to stomp on our enemies while they are unprepared to fight.

The Shunammite son fell asleep dead. Now God had blessed this barren woman with a son, then he would die? Elisha has passed through Shunem, and was constrained by this great woman of God. She was not asleep concerning the things of God and she obeyed when God spoke to her. She and her husband fed him and even made a place for him to sleep as he passed through taking care of God’s business. You can’t be anything other than blessed, when you bless the man of God. In turn the man of God didn’t pay her, but he blessed her to receive of the Lord the thing that bothered her most. She wanted a child. I am sure she fell asleep, but she went to sleep believing what the man of God had told her. She bares a son at the same season that he told her she would deliver. Some of us need to wake and obey the man of God, what he tells you and your lives would be so much better. Now some thing happened, the child fell asleep unto death. The spirit had departed his body. But his mother held fast to what God had said. When a man or woman of God is real, you can stand on what they say, it shall come to pass unless you go to sleep first. This child wasn’t a lazy child either. He worked with his dad and the reapers, but one day he fell sick. His head hurt, the lad that his father bid to take him home to his mother took him and she held him until noon until he died. She went up and laid him in the man of God‘s bed, shut the door and went out. She again was not sleep, but moved according as she believed the spirit led her. She went out to the man of God on an untraditional day. We have to be untraditionally awake to move out when God say move to receive what it is that we need. Now Elisha told Gehazi in 2 Kings 4;31 to go on before them and Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, the child is not awake. Some things we need to leave alone when we are sleep and powerless. Some things are meant for a time and a particular vessel to do. Every body cannot do what the Lord deemed for another to do. Elisha went into the room, closed the door and found the child dead, but he knew that God can resurrect dead stuff for his purpose and he believed that this was not the way that this child would go in, therefore he prayed unto the Lord. He then lay upon the child, put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. Not being satisfied he walked to and fro and went and stretched himself upon him again and the child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. What are you anointed to do and what are you doing about it? Are you sleeping through a revolution going on around you or are you using what you have to bring glory to God.

If you are pure and upright, God will awake you out of your sleep and make your habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. The Lord will sustain you in your sleepy times because of the weaknesses of man. The spirit is surely willing, but the flesh is weak. It’s time to run and prepare for the journey. Awake out of sleep for the time is shorter now than it was when we first believed. Stir yourself up, know that judgment is soon to come and if we are sleeping through a revolution we will be caught with our work undone.

We have been taught for a long time through the gospel that we are to be teachable, submitted to the Word, quiet in spirit so that we may hear what is required of us as Christians. Where pride and a carnal mind is there is sleep. Spiritual sleep apnea, only cause us to murmur and complain and we are never contented in the things of God. We sleep as the foolish do, not avoiding foolish things, foolish gesturing, and foolish talking, but we waste our resources that God bless us with and conceive debt that we should not owe, and have no power to refute it. The power comes when we obey what the Word says concerning our giving of Tithe and Offerings. We often neglect to bring God of the first fruit of our increase because we are sleeping through the debt war.

A saved sinner sinning in the church is sleeping through a revolution going on in their minds. A full commitment is a gradual growth. You must be a teachable vessel, willing to submit to that which God place in stewardship over you. There are too many retarded Christians that don’t grow because of the sin of not letting go or giving up of their own circle of a mind. This can only allow sin to continue in you and it becomes a part of you. You are sleep because you don’t realize yet that God has to make you over in his will, not yours. If I will the Lord will. That’s a no know mind. You lose because you won’t allow God to have free course over every area of your life, let him into your heart, your mind and your soul. Search for him, seek for him until you find him and don’t let Go.

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