Seven Dangerous Spirits: Series 2

Introduction

In our previous post, we examined in great detail the spirit of poverty as one of the seven dangerous spirits that have rained havoc in your life and in your walk with Christ and has prevented you from actively participating in the things of God hence, making you an ineffective Christian. The effect of being an ineffective Christian is lack of growth in the church ministry and in your personal life because you can longer obtain and enjoy God’s rest and promises in your life. This post is the second series and it analyzes the spirit of deep sleep. Please read on and be free of this dangerous spirit.

The Spirit of Deep Sleep

As discussed in series 1, one of the characteristics of the seven dangerous spirits is that they seem harmless and innocent.

Ø  No other spirit among the seven dangerous spirits shrewdly operates as harmless and innocent as the spirit of deep sleep.

Ø  It is important to note that when speaking of the spirit of deep sleep, we are not speaking of physical sleep (although the spirit of deep sleep sometimes present as such) but of spiritual blindness, where as a believer, you are not aware of who you are in the kingdom of God, what you ought to be doing as a Christian and primarily, you are not cognizant of your position and rights as a heir in the kingdom of God.

Ø  In Isaiah 5:13, the bible talks of the spirit of ignorance where as a believer you are subjected to suffering, oppression, death, hunger and thirst (both spiritual and physical) because of ignorance.

Ø  Simply put, the spirit of ignorance is the spirit of deep sleep.

Ø  As a Christian believer you may be quick to console yourself that what you do not know cannot kill you. Well, you could not be further from the truth my brethren! What you do not know especially as God’s son and heir will not only kill you but also send you to hell! Imagine what could have happened if Jesus did not know what the Bible say about trying His God when He was tempted by the devil?

Ø  Under the strangle-hold of the spirit of deep sleep, you are unable to achieve God’s promises in your life and you continuously suffer as a Christian. This is because you are ignorant of what your rights are, you do not know what you don’t need to beg from God and you are ignorant of what you need to petition God for as a born again, baptized and Holy Ghost filled Christian! How sad is that? That your financial woes, sicknesses, loneliness, family breakdowns and failures are (not because God has not answered your prayers and not even the devil has hijacked answers to your prayers) but simply because you are under the attack of the spirit of deep sleep and you ignorant of what God requires of you and says about you and your life

Ø  It is not until you begin to understand and know what God requires and says about you that you can unshackle yourself from the spirit of deep sleep.

Ø  Spiritual immaturity is a favorable environment for the spirit of deep sleep to thrive. When it came for the children of Israel to enter the promise land, they did not depend on manna to fall from heaven and hit rocks to fill their tummies and quench their thirst respectively, they had to toil, go to wars with various native tribes in order to expand their territories, plant and harvest. In the same way, as a mature believer, break free from expecting miracles every time you hit a snag. You need to sweat and fight for your blessing through your giving, service to God and seed sowing. Simply, GROW UP!

Ø  Once you begin to mature in the things of God, you begin to know how God operates and you begin to understand that you receive from God through obedience and not miracles. Miracles to mature believers are just but incentives from God after you have received His blessing.

How To Overcome The Spirit of Deep Sleep

How can you counter what you do not know? Well, by knowing it first. The simplest way to defeat the spirit of ignorance, which is the spirit of deep sleep is to know what God says about you and what He requires of you by studying the word of God and being filled with the Holy Spirit.

Ø  Joshua 1:5- you must be willing to be the fool in the things of God, doing and following precisely what God requires of you

Ø  You must be strong and courageous in following God’s word. Its only then that you will rid yourself the spirit of deep sleep and prosper

1 Corinthians 1:18-31, sums it up ¹⁸For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

In 1 Cor 2:12, it is written ‘We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.’

Through the Holy Spirit, our ears are attuned to spiritual words and eyes are opened to spiritual truths. This is because for a man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Now that you are free from the spirit of poverty and now wealthier and the spirit of deep sleep and now wiser, why not check out Series 3 to learn about the spirit of disobedience and become an obedient, wealthy and wise Christian believer?