RISE FROM YOUR SPIRITUAL SLUMBER

🍲 *A.G DAILY DEVOTIONAL–EVANGEL DAILY MEAL* 

 Saturday 14th September, 2024

*TOPIC: RISE FROM YOUR SPIRITUAL SLUMBER*

📖 *TODAY'S TEXT:*

1 Kings 3:16-27

🔑 *KEY VERSE:* 

".. The time has come for you to wake up from your slumber .." (Romans 13:11, NIV).

🖊️ *COMMENTARY* 

Here, we see a case of two women dragging over who owns a living child. It happened that one of them had carelessly lain on her new born baby and the child died. Upon noticing her folly, she arose and exchanged her dead child for her neighbour's living baby while she was fast aseep.

Our lesson today reveals that the leeway through which the devil and his cohorts are having access into our treasure chest is our spiritual slumber. Spiritual slumber is the situation in which the believer is weak, weary and worn out. At this instance, he is too lazy to pray, fast or engage in bible study. He finds it difficult and boring to participate in church activities but rather has attractions for the things of the flesh.

One keeps wondering how a woman could be so asleep and snoring that she did not know when her living baby was exchanged for a dead child. A lot of exchanges take place each time we permit ourselves to experience spiritual slumber. It is insightful, however, that this woman eventually got up from her sleep. And when she got up from her slumber, she recognized that there was a satanic exchange. She refused to accept the dead child as hers. She pressed her case until the judgment came in her favor.

Today, God wants us to rise from our spiritual slumber; to reject every negative and dead situation the enemy has placed around us. God wants us to reclaim our inheritance by regaining our spiritual vibrancy. It is important that you pause and do a spiritual check-up. If you have gone into slumber, take practical steps and come back now. You cannot afford to die in this condition. What is ahead of you is greater than what has happened in the past.

📜 *ONE YEAR BIBLE STUDY PLAN*

Daniel 1-3

   

🎚 *CONTROLLING THOUGHTS* 

Spiritual slumber leads to spiritual and physical losses.

🙏🏿 *PRAYER*

Lord restore me to spiritual fervency in Jesus name Amen