6TH NOVERMBER, 2024

PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON

PRAYING WHILE SLEEPING

Job 4:12-13 (KJV)
Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it. Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men.

Many times God speaks to us while we are sleeping.

Why does God do this?
He does so because many times when we are awake and our minds are active, the un-renewed carnal part of our thinking, which is enmity against God, will not allow us to receive what God is saying to us.

So God waits until when we are sleeping: when the carnal parts of our minds are inactive, to drop His thoughts into our minds, which we can then receive when we wake up, before the devil, through the carnal parts of our minds, can interfere.

After we get born-again, we renew our minds by feeding our minds with the Word of God and process our thoughts using the principles revealed in the Word (Rom. 12:2; 2Cor. 4:6).

Since this process takes time, the carnal, unrenewed part of our minds (which is in enmity against God: Rom. 8:7), is what Satan uses to cause us to reject God’s counsel to us in areas we do not have the light of revelation on.

To circumvent this, God sometimes will speak to us while we are sleeping (Job 33:14-16)

A good example of this is God speaking to Joseph about Mary’s virgin conception. This is totally contrary to carnal or physical thinking, so obviously, Joseph did not believe Mary had not been unfaithful to him. However, while he thought on this, God during the night while he was sleeping, was able to get the truth of God’s Word from Isaiah 7:14 in that situation over to him (Matt. 1:18-24).

The more of the Word of God we put into our minds, the easier it will be for God to speak to us, even when we are sleeping (Prov. 6:20-22).

So feed daily as a habit on the written Word and learn to get up early in the morning to pray, so you can receive whatever God has put into your mind while you were sleeping (Psa. 63:1).

Psalms 16:7(KJV)
I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.

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