✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 44 ✨ Sleep Walking

✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 44 ✨
Sleep Walking

📝 Their Message (Summary)
Something heartbreaking is happening in our day: when people leave the LDS Church, many leave Jesus too. Because their faith was tied to polished narratives and institutional promises, when they discover deception, instead of wrestling it out with God, they throw the entire bundle into the fire. The Author of truth is blamed for the mess, and they walk away not only from the church — but from Christ Himself.

This is why the greatest gift we can give our children is not loyalty to an institution, but intimacy with Jesus. If they learn how to have His Spirit with them always, they will never walk alone, even if all else fails.

But what is missing in so much of our modern religious life is power. A.W. Tozer warned that without the miraculous element of the Spirit, the church becomes an organization, not a living body. The early Saints moved with fire, signs, wonders, and conversion. Today, without power, we are only sleep walking saints — busy with motion, but not awake in Christ.

🔥 My Reflection
Tozer’s words pierce me: “The church began in power, moved in power, and moved just as long as she had power.” If the priesthood is real, then where is the power? If we boast of “keys” but never see angels, miracles, or the mighty change of heart, then we are left clutching titles with no voltage in the wire.

Brother Yun, the “Heavenly Man” from China, shook me awake when he said the Western church is rich but asleep. “You don’t need more buildings,” he told us. “You need the Word of God and obedience to it. Revival begins with tears.” His people fast for weeks to obtain a single Bible. We stack them on shelves and scarcely crack the cover. No wonder he found our worship cold.

It hit me hard: if saints under persecution cannot fall asleep, why are we so drowsy in a land of ease?

🕊️ The Invitation
Ask yourself:

• Am I awake in Christ, or am I sleep walking in religion?

• Is my relationship with Jesus alive in prayer, miracles, repentance, and joy — or is it routine, second-hand, and safe?

• Have I sought the Spirit’s power like Brother Yun sought a Bible — with fasting, hunger, and tears?

The Book of Mormon promises that angels must minister if there is faith (Moroni 7:35–37). If there are no angels, no power, no life, then unbelief has crept in and all is vain.

The time is short. The King is calling. The Spirit is pleading for His people to awake.

🌿 Scriptures to Ponder

• Moroni 7:37 — “If these things have ceased… awful is the state of man, for they are as though there had been no redemption made.”

• Acts 5:32 — “The Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.”

• John 15:5 — “Without me ye can do nothing.”

🙏 Prayer
Lord, shake me awake. Let me not live on secondhand faith or lean on another’s light. Fill me with Your Spirit until my soul burns, until angels minister, until Your power flows again. Let me walk as a living branch in You, the True Vine.

 

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🔗 Walking with Jesus — A Family’s Story
This is part of a series sharing the six-year testimony of a family walking daily with Jesus.

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