Day Three: Wake Up!

Beloved, Grace and Peace be multiplied to you, through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ. You have made it to Day Three. Congratulations! You are doing it. WOW!!! Celebrate this. I know you have had plenty of opportunities to eat. Nobody would know, but you stayed true. Well done. Today, I would like to go further in the text we looked at yesterday. Let’s look at the text.

KJV
Rom. 13:11 ¶ And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Yesterday we looked at the fact that the Apostle Paul told us that we are people that “know the time”. Today, let’s go a bit further. Today the word of the LORD to us that it is high time to “awake out of sleep”. In other words beloved, “WAKE UP”! The Apostle is speaking here to the church at Rome, which tells me it is possible for me to be saved and asleep. I can be saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, fully functional in my church and asleep. Scholars postulate that Paul’s meaning is the same as Jesus’s meaning in Matthew 24:43

KJV
Matt. 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

In the ESV that text is rendered as:
Matt. 24:43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

So if we are to understand this text, Paul is saying wake up, and don’t allow the enemy to take anything from you. You know the enemy wants to rob you of what God has given you. The last thing you should do is sleep. Wake up and prevent 2016 from being stolen from you. Do not allow your promise, your purpose to be stolen. You are able to accomplish what God has promised you. You have the authority, the ability and right to prevent your year from being stolen from you. Wake up! Don’t sleep now! Your promise is at hand! Purpose is at hand! Your anointing is at hand! You cannot afford to give up now. I decree, no enemy will stop you, prevent you, cause your direction to shift. You will get ALL that God promised you. I decree that in 2016, You will get everything you have lost. Everything that was stolen from you. It is high time for us to “Awake out of Sleep”!

This means everything is different now. I am no one’s push over. I will take what belongs to me. How about you? Start your day on purpose. Know what you want and get it. Today, it belongs to you. WAKE UP!

Remember; take one day at a time. Drink all the water you can. Pray, and make a prayer list. Pray with understanding and with a purpose. Just do today, do not think of the entire journey. You can do this. Also, start to plan now and make plans to bring someone to church with you. If you are not a member of a church currently or are seeking a place God wants you to call home, allow me to invite you to In His Presence Family Worship Center. It’s a good church and a good place to call home. Be my special guest. We would love to meet you. We are at 1673 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY. Our Sunday services start at 8 AM and our midweek prayer and bible study is on Wednesday at 7 PM. Go to our website, http://www.ihpfwc.org. Invite someone to come with you, why? God wants his house filled. He told us that. (Luke 14:23)

Live on Purpose and not By Mistake,
Yours Because I am His,
Leo Colon
pastor@ihpfwc.org
http://www.ihpfwc.org