Tuesday June 23rd, 2026
« 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 »
10 For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.
11 The whole vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is literate, saying, “Read this, please.” And he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
12 Then the book is delivered to one who is illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.” And he says, “I am not literate.”
13 Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,
14 Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
« ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me »
You are in a state of spiritual sleep when you profess to love God with your mouth, but your heart is far from Him.
You are sleeping spiritually when you are no longer excited to spend time with the One you call your Father.
David prayed to God to restore unto him the joy of his salvation.
This means he had lost the joy he used to feel as a child of God, Psalm 51:2.
When material things become more important than the spiritual,
- when you believe natural laws more than the word of God, then you are sleeping spiritually.
I believe God that you will awake from every spiritual slumber today, in Jesus’ name.
« For the LORD {YHWH} has poured out on you? a spirit {ruach} of deep sleep. He has shut your? eyes, O prophets; He has covered your? heads, O seers »
When you see someone who keeps trying to cope with a problem instead of praying,
it means he or she is already sleeping spiritually because the individual cannot see what the devil is doing.
If you make a decision when you are spiritually asleep, that decision is likely to be wrong because you would be spiritually blind.
Before you decide on whom to marry or enter into a business venture with, make sure you are spiritually alert.
When you sleep spiritually, you cannot discern spirits correctly.
You would believe any false prophet who says things that appeal to you;
you would embrace a wolf in sheep’s clothing and hand over your pearls to pigs.
- A leader in the Church cannot afford to sleep spiritually because the devil can attack the people under his or her leadership and God says their blood would be on that leader’s head, Ezekiel 33:6-7.
Therefore, if you are a leader in the house of God, more than anyone else, you must be spiritually alert.
God forbid someone dies and goes to spend eternity in hell because of your spiritual negligence.
Prayer focus – Father, awaken me from every spiritual sleep today, in Jesus’ name.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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