Topic:Spiritual Slumber
Text: Psalm 132:1-7

Our text today opens up before us a new wellspring of truth. The subject of spiritual alertness is very crucial in the end times. Spiritual slumber is dangerous. David, a man after God’s heart made up his mind not to go into spiritual slumber.

Specifically, David was saying he would not sleep until he had built the house of God. We all know that you cannot singularly build a house in a day. The building of the temple of God is likely to take several weeks. What David was saying was that he would not rest until he had achieved his goal. In Songs of Solomon 5:2, the Bible says: “I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew and my locks with the drops of the night.” This tells us that you can be physically asleep while your soul is awake.

David was saying in Psalm 132 that his soul and spirit would remain awake until the house of God was built. The Bible also tells us that people “sleep the sleep of the soul”. Soul relates to our ability to understand. Romans11:8 says (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eye that hey should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.” When you preach the gospel to some people, because they have fallen asleep in the soul, they would not understand, no matter how hard you try.

It takes the Almighty God to open the eyes of our soul to begin to understand. That is why Paul the Apostle prayed. Ephesians 1:17-19 says: “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power.” You must devote ample time of praying on spiritual enlightenment. A moment’s spiritual slumber can be catastrophic. Ask God to constantly give you the eyes of an eagle.

Memory Verse: Proverbs 6:4 - “Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.”