Awake and Arise

For at least a year this phrase has come to me often…”Awake and Arise.”  I think of 9/11.  There was a brief period of awakening because of the alarm.  But then it seems people just went back to sleep, kind of like hitting the snooze button on the alarm, which I tend to do quite frequently.   God is looking for His people to awake and arise, not keep hitting the snooze button on the alarm and roll over and go back to sleep or just lay there in bed kind of half asleep, half awake. It is time for the people of God to awake and arise and to move forward into the fullness of the Spirit.  We are moving into a time when we will not be able to slumber and sleep any longer.  But now is the time to awake and arise in order to be prepared for what is coming.  It is important to awake and arise to move with God in what He has planned for the coming days.  It will be the best of times and the worst of times.  For those who are prepared and walking with God, I believe it will be the best of times. Now is the time to awake and arise into what God has for you.

Ephesians 5:13-19  But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. ¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. ¹⁵ See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, ¹⁶ Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;