Sleep as we all know is good for the body.
Sleep enables you to rest from your daily activities, relaxes your body, refreshes your brain, and generally refreshes and prepares you for a new day.
8-10 hour sleep is recommended as appropriate for an adult.
However, sleep is a major inhibiting factor to success.
How can this be? How can a supposedly good thing be a hindrance to another good thing? Friend, you've got to wake up from your sleep.
If you are to become a truly successful and fulfilled person in life, then you have to minimize the number of hours you sleep.
Yes, you have to minimize the number of hours you spend sleeping.
It is said that "While their mates slept, great men toiled at their experiments and came out with inventions that change the world.
" Look, if you sleep for 8hrs/day, it means you have spent one-third of your life sleeping on that particular day.
Let's take a look at this simple arithmetic.
We want to consider the life of a man who slept for 8hours/day from the age of 20 to 50.
So, we are taking into consideration, 30years of his life.
Recall that: 1year = 365 days 30 years = 30 x 365 = 10, 950 days Since the man slept for 8hrs in each day, it therefore means that the total no of hours he slept in 30years (10, 950 days) = 8hrs x 10, 950 days = 87, 600 hrs We therefore want to know the equivalent of the number of hours he slept in days.
Recall that: 24hrs = 1 day 87,600 hrs = 87,600hrs/24hrs = 3, 650 days It means the man slept for 3, 650 days out of the whole 10, 950 days.
Let's do this last calculation.
Since 365 days = 1year Therefore, 3,650 days = 3650days/365 days = 10 years.
From the above calculations, it shows that out of the 30yrs of the man's life taken into consideration, he has spent 10yrs sleeping.
Don't be amazed! Your case is even worse than him.
If your own life is taken into consideration, only God knows how many years you would have spent sleeping.
Friend, it is time to deny the eyes of sleep.
You've got to remain dogged and determined to reach the end of your goal.
It however takes the "abundant grace of God" to be able to accomplish this.
Your power can do but nothing.
You need to rely on God to enable you crucify sleep on the altar of grace.
Sleep is a killer of destiny and glory.
No matter the volume of potential that resides in you, once you are sold out to sleep, you can never and I repeat, you will never amount to anything in life.
Proverbs 20:13 has this to say about sleep - "Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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Sleep can become a curse rather than a blessing..
Proverbs 6:9-11 reads, "How long wilt thous sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
" If sleep takes hold of your life, you are done for! So many people are under the excruciating pains of the arrow of the enemy fired into their lives to make them sleep anytime, any day.
The enemy knows that if they are awake, they will strive to fulfill their destiny.
Another area where the enemy is cheating us as children of God is in the area of waking up in the middle of the night to rise up and pray.
The bible says; 'when man slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.
' If you are a child of God and you find it difficult to rise up and pray in the middle of the night, you have made yourself a cheap article in the hands of the enemy.
The enemy will plant things God never planted into your life and make you a laughing stock in the eyes of everyone that sees you.
Why are you where you are? It's simply because you love sleep, it's because the arrow of sleep shot by the enemy has settled comfortably in your life.
Do you want to be free? Yes, you can be free if you will be willing and ready to pay the price..
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God bless you.