Friday September 15th, 2023
« Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations »
24 Here is another story Jesus told: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field.
25 But that night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away.
26 When the crop began to grow and produce grain, the weeds also grew.
27 “The farmer’s workers went to him and said, ‘Sir, the field where you planted that good seed is full of weeds! Where did they come from?’
28 “‘An enemy has done this!’ the farmer exclaimed. “‘Should we pull out the weeds?’ they asked.
29 “‘No,’ he replied, ‘you’ll uproot the wheat if you do.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest. Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.’”
The night-time is a major time when enemies attack.
Mathew 13:25 Majority Standard Bible says
« But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away »
When everyone else is sleeping, witches and wizards are holding meetings at night and launching attacks on souls and destinies.
It would be dangerous for you to be sleeping at that time; rather, that is when you should be fighting.
That is when you should be firing arrows at the kingdom of darkness.
In the Bible reading for today, the servant of the house owner slept all night, during which time the enemy was able to come and sow tares. It was in the morning that he realized that the enemy had tampered with his work.
Many people wake up in the morning only to realize that the enemy had tampered with their work, lives, or destinies in the middle of the night.
Not I!
I will fight at night and not allow the devil in at all.
When the servant went to report to his master that someone had tampered with his work, the master told him not to remove what the enemy had planted immediately.
He had to live with the tares that the enemy planted until the day of harvest.
He now had more work to do to ensure that he had a good harvest at the end of the day, and of course, the tares must have also affected the yield of some of his crop negatively.
You work less in the daytime when you pray at night.
It is better to stop the enemy from sowing tares at all than to engage in damage control after the tares have been sown.
Some people wonder why we hold programs in the middle of the night. When we conduct those vigils, we are engaging in warfare.
In Matthew 26:41, the Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples to watch and pray.
He gave the instruction at night.
Have you ever wondered why, in Acts 16:25-26, Paul and Silas waited until midnight before they began to pray and sing praises to God?
They knew the effectiveness of midnight prayer and praise.
Learn to pray at night.
Application: Make it a custom to pray regularly at night.
Author: Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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