MFM Mountain Top Life Devotional 17 March 2021 – The Tragedy of Sleep and Slumber (1)

MFM Mountain Top Life Devotional 17 March 2021 Wednesday Message By Dr. D.K Olukoya

Topic: The Tragedy of Sleep and Slumber (1)

Fire Scripture
Judges 16:15-20

Memory Verse
Romans 12:11 – “Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.”

MFM Mountain Top Life Devotional 17th March 2021  Outline
Men and women who have made the greatest mark in different arenas of life, including the Kingdom of God, are those who succeeded in conquering sleep – they won the battle of the bed. Sleep is good for the health and wellbeing of man. No human being can do without it.

It is theraupatic and essential for the physical, emotional and mental development of man. However, sleep, like every other useful thing, must be regulated or controlled so as to maximise its benefits. It is disheartening that some people do not only oversleep physically but they also slumber spiritually.

Besides, many Christians have failed to fulfil destiny because they are still in bondage to the bed. Samson’s careless sleep led to the shaving of his hair and losing his divine strength, ministry and glory. Jonah’s sleep in the ship landed him in trouble and he was cast into the sea and the belly of the whale.

In the New Testament, Jesus hinted that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares in their wheat. The hour of sleep can therefore be described as man’s vulnerable and unguarded hour. The five foolish virgins who missed the bridegroom were unfortunate because they slept when they should be awake.

Similarly, a man named Eutychus fell and died because he slept off during Paul’s sermon. All these examples are written for your learning. Do you sleep when you should be awake, active and productive? You must turn a new leaf from today. Do you oversleep? Again, that will have negative effects on your spiritual and physical lives.

Let everything you do, including the hours you spend in sleeping, be done with moderation! Many people are also in spiritual slumber. The Kingdom of God does not tolerate laziness and slothfulness. Wake up from your slumber!

Motivational Quote
If you want your dream to come true, don’t oversleep.

Prophetic Word
The enemy will no longer use sleep to short-change you and pervert your destiny, in the name of Jesus.

Hymn – Awake! or the trumpet is sounding!

1. Awake! or the trumpet is sounding!
Awake to its call, and obey!
The voice of our Leader cries,
“Onward! “Oh, let us no longer delay!

Chorus
No truce while the foe is unconquer’d;
No laying the armour down!
No peace till the battle is ended,
And victory wins the crown!

2. Then gird on the sword of the Spirit,
With helmet, and breast plate, and shied;
And valiantly follow your Captain,
Determin’d you never will yield!

3. Then forward! O army of Zion,
With hearts that are loyal and brave!
Stand firm by the Cross and its banner,
And trust in the “Mighty to save!”

MFM Mountain Top Life Devotional 17 March 2021 PRAYER POINTS

MORNING
1. I overcome any form of bondage of the bed, in the name of Jesus.
2. Powers that want to use sleep and slumber to rob me of my blessings, die, in the name of Jesus.
3. Power to spend the hours of the night gainfully in prayer, fall upon me, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING
4. Sleep that leads to poverty and death, I reject you, in the name of Jesus.
5. Sleep that leads to prayerlessness and powerlessness, I reject you, in the name of Jesus.
6. Any evil thing that was introduced into my life during sleep, Holy Spirit, expunge it now, in the name of Jesus.
7. O Lord, make me Your battle axe and prophet in this end time, in the name of Jesus.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Deut. 17-19

MFM Mountain Top Life Devotional 17 March 2021. The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) is a Pentecostal denomination founded in Yaba, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria in 1989, now with churches in several countries. It was founded by Daniel Kolawole Olukoya.