✨ ✨ “Sleep Walking”
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“Sleep Walking”
📝 Their Message (Summary)
I’ve noticed something troubling. When people “leave the church,” many don’t just leave the institution—they leave everything. They walk away from scripture, from prayer, even from Jesus Himself.
Why? Because their relationship with God was tied to the church. When they discover the church’s history is tangled with deception, rather than untie the knots, they throw the whole yarn into the fire. God is blamed as the Author of the mess, and so He is discarded along with it.
But the only lasting gift we can give our children—or anyone—is not loyalty to a program, not trust in an institution, but how to know Jesus Christ personally. His Spirit is the one gift that cannot be counterfeited or stripped away. Without Him, even the “covenant path” is just sleepwalking. With Him, the dead awaken.
Tozer said it plainly:
The Church began in power.
She moved in power.
And she only ever thrived when she had power.
Without the Spirit, she becomes a school instead of a barracks, teaching lessons instead of training soldiers. Without the Spirit, miracles cease, angels are explained away, and saints become mild scholars instead of fiery disciples. With the Spirit, the impossible happens: the dead are raised, the gospel spreads, the world is turned upside down.
Brother Yun (the “Heavenly Man” of China) testified after visiting the West:
“I had presumed the Western church was strong and vibrant… instead I found her spiritually asleep. Many meetings are cold and lack the fire and presence of God. Just because you have a church building doesn’t necessarily mean Jesus is with you.”
In China, where believers have no possessions to weigh them down, revival burns. They pray, they obey, and Jesus moves. Here in the West, abundance has lulled us into a sleepwalking faith. We lean on leaders, handbooks, and safety nets. But revival will never come that way. Revival begins where tears fall, where the Word is obeyed, where the Spirit is trusted more than institutions, and where saints stop leaning on the arm of flesh and abide in Christ alone.
🔥 My Reflection
This post hits uncomfortably close. Am I awake in Christ, or am I just going through the motions, living by habit? Do I study experiences of the past, or seek my own? Do I call myself a saint while living like a scholar?
Yun said it best: “The greatest miracles we see are not healings, but lives transformed by the gospel.” Do I still believe that is possible for me, for my family, for my church? Or am I sleepwalking, content with leaves but no fruit?
🕊️ The Invitation
Ask the Lord: am I alive in You, or am I sleepwalking?
Lay aside church culture and cling to Christ Himself.
Believe that miracles, angels, and power are still your inheritance.
Obey the Word when it comes—don’t explain it away.
📖 Scriptures to Ponder
Moroni 7:35–38 — “If angels have ceased… then has faith ceased also; and awful is the state of man.”
Hebrews 2:4 — “God bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders…”
Mark 16:20 — “The Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.”
John 15:5 — “Without me ye can do nothing.”
🔗 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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