Monday September 16th, 2024
« Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour »
7 On the first day of the week, we gathered with the local believers to share in the Lord’s Supper. Paul was preaching to them, and since he was leaving the next day, he kept talking until midnight.
8 The upstairs room where we met was lighted with many flickering lamps.
9 As Paul spoke on and on, a young man named Eutychus, sitting on the windowsill, became very drowsy. Finally, he fell sound asleep and dropped three stories to his death below.
10 Paul went down, bent over him, and took him into his arms. “Don’t worry,” he said, “he’s alive!”
11 Then they all went back upstairs, shared in the Lord’s Supper, and ate together. Paul continued talking to them until dawn, and then he left.
12 Meanwhile, the young man was taken home alive and well, and everyone was greatly relieved.
Apostle Paul was preaching while a young man named Eutychus was sleeping.
Our attention however is not on Paul but on Eutychus.
Here was a greatly anointed man of God preaching and he was sleeping.
It may look like something to judge him for, but there are many like Eutychus in the Church today.
- Many people go to the Church today and sleep throughout the service.
They may not be closing their physical eyes, but their spiritual eyes are closed.
Some workers are sleeping spiritually while the anointing is flowing. John 7:38-39NKJV says
« He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified »
The rivers referred to in the Scripture above is the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit flows like a river.
When He is moving, if you are not conscious of His presence and paying attention, He will flow past you and you would miss your miracle.
Anyone who saw Eutychus and the others leaving the service the next morning would have thought that they were all blessed and fully charged spiritually, not knowing that some of them like Eutychus slept off during the meeting and were leaving just the same way that they came.
This is why many people keep attending powerful crusades and life changing services but their lives have remained the same.
Sometimes, the organizers of these services are the ones who actually make it easy for people to sleep when they should be fellowshipping.
When you decorate the Church and make it look like an art gallery, people would be appreciating the art rather than connecting with the Lord.
The Church is a place of intimate fellowship with God so let the environment foster that more than anything else.
That is why we decorate our Church auditoriums in The Redeemed Christian Church of God with Scriptures. Everywhere you turn, there is a Bible verse that will catch your attention because we want you to be focused on God and nothing else.
Application – Church services play a major role in equipping you for all-round success; don’t sleep in training.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Edited by Naomie Joseph
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