“Consider and hear me, O Lord my God:
lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death.”
Psalm 13:3
Jesus speaking of this day declared:
“…the love of many will grow cold.
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.”
Matthew 24:12-13
The spirit of slumber is accompanied by those who have become complacent with a dull Christian experience. This slumber fills the heart with a deceptive comfort that numbs the soul from the fire of His Spirit. Spiritual slumber is a state into which one drifts unconsciously.
“…our lamps are gone out.”
Matthew 25:8
When the heart no longer feels the press of the Spirit to make Jesus known, the Lamp of the Lord within has gone out.
(Mark 13:10, 1 Corinthians 9:16-18)
When fervent desire for true fellowship with exhortations unto love and good works no longer stirs the heart, the Lamp of the Lord has gone out.
(Hebrews 10:24-26; Jude 1:18-23)
When morning devotions become a duty rather than a passion of the soul, the Lamp of the Lord has gone out.
(Psalm 5:3)
When concern for the welfare of our brothers and sisters places no claim upon us, the Lamp of the Lord has gone out.
(Colossians 1:28-29)
When our world shrinks, and the scope of our affections focuses on a select few, the Lamp of the Lord has gone out.
(1 Corinthians 3:1-9)
Let us Take Heed
“And it shall be in that time, I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
and punish the men being settled on their lees …”
Zephaniah 1:12 (LITV)
Notes on the Hebrew phrase “being settled on their lees…”
Albert Barnes commenting on the Hebrew phrase “settled on their lees”: “- Stiffened and contracted.”
“Zephaniah speaks of those persons who are congealed on their dregs (Zep 1:12), who won’t act, have no conviction, do nothing, and are “stagnant in spirit” (NASB).”
The Hebrew-Greek Word Study: by Dr. Spiros Zodhiates and Dr. Warren Patrick Baker D.R.E.
Stir us afresh, invigorate our souls with the Fire of Your Spirit to rise in this dark hour of obscurity and slumber!
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot.
Would that you were either cold or hot!
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold,
I will spit you out of my mouth.”
Revelation 3:15-16
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The Trumpet is Sounding
God is speaking in this hour; there is a trumpet sounding the alarm to those who have “ears to hear”.
“Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower,
eat, drink: arise, ye princes,
and anoint the shield.”
Isaiah 21:5
“My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.”
— Horace Bushnell
“Consider and hear me, O Lord my God:
lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death.”
Psalm 13:3
Staying Awake
Is the warfare of the faithful.
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This message came to me the other morning by the impress of His Spirit. It is one that I hold dear to my own heart. There is a Trumpet sounding as God seeks to awaken us in this Day of slumber.
Brian Troxel
Remember commenting on this back in 2023?
Complacency
Delilah is known as an anointing robbing spirit. Complacency is how it operates against the Ekklesia in the vision I saw.
I had a vision/ word, 02/28/2023, while driving. In the vision I saw an individual, representing the Ekklesia, with their head on the lap of a woman who was stroking their hair lulling them to sleep. The, “sleep”, here is the sleep of complacency and the woman is the spirit of Delilah. If you remember when Samson laid on Delilah’s lap he gave no thought of his Nazarite vow, willingly revealed the secret of his strength, i.e., anointing, and was subsequently robbed of it. When his enemy then attacked he “presumed” that everything was as it was but had not realized that the Spirit had left him thus allowing the enemy to bind and blind him.
We must guard our relationship with Jesus and never take for granted that His Holy Spirit will be with us if we, by becoming complacent, allow the fire  to go out.
Matthew 24:12 (TPT) 12 There will be such an increase of sin and lawlessness that those whose hearts once burned with passion for God and others will grow cold.
The Greek word for cold is (Olive Tree Enhanced Strong’s Dictionary)
psychō which means:
(Olive Tree Enhanced Strong’s Dictionary)
to breathe, blow, cool by blowingto be made or grow cool or coldmetaph. of waning love
Guard your relationship with Jesus well. Don’t take it for granted
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