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People Wake Up Between 3am & 5AM, But Don't Realize it Might Be God · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  This is a real story, and for me personally, it's one of the most
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  incredible testimonies I've ever heard.
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  In December 2023, I was speaking at an evangelistic meal and a
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  man came up to me and said, would you mind if I shared my
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  testimony with you? The guy, he was quite a big guy,
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  quite a tough guy. And I said, of course, I'd love
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  to hear it. Anyway, Dave told me that he was
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  one of these guys who had lived quite a a wildlife.
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  He was a a motorbiker and he travelled all around.
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  He'd been to Amsterdam, he'd done all kinds of things, got
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  himself into all kinds of trouble.
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  And he said during the lockdown in 2020, he was in his man cave
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  surrounded by his motorcycles, and he felt a certain dread, a
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  fear of God just fall on him. And he found himself just just
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  crying on the floor, just crying and, and and, you know, couldn't
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  get up. He just felt like he was
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  overwhelmed by by God. His wife came into the room at
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  that time and and saw him that what's wrong with you, Dave And
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  his all he knew is that God had met with him and he'd been
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  forgiven in some kind of way for for what he'd done all the wrong
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  things he'd done. That was Saturday night.
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  On Monday nights, okay, he didn't know which God it was who
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  had spoken to him, but he knew God had met with him.
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  Monday nights. At 16 minutes past three, Dave
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  is woken up, looks at his phone 16 minutes past three and tries
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  to go back to sleep. The next night, at 16 minutes
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  past three, again Dave is woken up and he looks at his phone.
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  The next night, again, he's woken up, looks at his phone.
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  What time is it? 16 minutes past three.
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  On the 4th night, he said. It's almost as if God was
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  saying, boy, this man is really, really slow.
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  He's not getting a hint. At 16 minutes past three, Dave
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  was woken up again and just decided to get up, go on his
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  computer and he typed in on his computer Bible 316.
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  And what verse did he find? John 316 For God so loved the
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  world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
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  believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting
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  life. It is incredible, isn't it, how
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  God can speak to us in the middle of the night.
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  And if you're an atheist and you're listening to this right
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  now, you explain to me that coincidence, how Dave was woken
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  up four nights on the trot at 16 minutes past three.
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  Now, if you just joined us and you've never seen one of these
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  videos before, my name is Jo Kirby and I've got another
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  channel called Off the Curb Ministries where I make sort of,
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  how can I put it, shall we say, out there content, you know, big
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  sort of content. The videos that you'll see on
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  Off the Curb are completely different to the videos you'll
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  see on this channel. It's almost as if two different
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  people are filming the videos. But on this channel, I just want
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  to go through the Bible with you, share a few thoughts of
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  you, and have a nice cup of Joe because my name is Joe.
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  So please do stop the video right now.
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  Get yourself a nice coffee, a cup of tea, whatever you want to
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  drink. And we're just going to slowly
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  go through the scriptures and think about this idea of when
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  God wakes us up in the middle of the night.
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  This is particularly on my mind at the moment because actually
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  last night God woke me up at 3:00 AM.
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  So, you know, last night I, I went to bed quite late.
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  I was very, very tired. I'd actually been walking for
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  four hours with my wife. It was her birthday.
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  We'd been up in the mountains walking and walking.
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  We didn't even have a baby carrier on for our for our
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  little baby. So we're carrying our baby.
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  We're taking it in turns on our arms.
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  We're exhausted. So I was really tired last
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  night. I stayed up watching Little
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  House on the Prairie because I like to live life on the wild
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  side. So we're up till midnight last
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  night, me and Emma, and I'm really tired.
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  And yeah, after all this tiredness, I got woken up at
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  3:00 AM in the morning. I've been praying about a
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  certain issue that's been going on.
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  I'm not going to go into details, but when I was woken
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  up, it was almost as if I got an answer to prayer on this
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  particular issue. It was almost as if God was
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  saying to me, Joe, this is a season of pruning.
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  This is a season where you just need to lay aside all of these
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  different things. And with much that is given,
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  much will be required. Now, other Christians, other
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  people, they might be able to do these things.
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  They might be able to have these situations in their life.
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  But I know in my life at the moment, where I am in the season
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  I'm in, I need to lay aside some of these things, cut them out,
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  and have this season of pruning. And I do believe there was no
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  accident that I could not get back to sleep at 3:00 AM this
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  morning. It was on my mind.
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  I was thinking all of these things through and I was praying
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  to the Lord God. And it is interesting because
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  God didn't make an accident when this happened.
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  So on Sunday now I was preaching at another church and it was
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  kind of a modern church and they were singing the, the, the song
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  You're a good, good father. Have you heard of that song
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  before? So we're singing that away and I
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  begin, I begin crying. I know I'm about to get up and
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  preach and I'm like, Joe, pull yourself together.
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  Stop, stop crying. And I thought that that song is
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  beautiful. It's a bit like that, you know,
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  yes, Jesus loves me for for adults.
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  So I decided to buy the CD now. Just let me know in the comments
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  section if you are old school like me and you still listen to
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  CDs. I'm not one of these who has it
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  all on their phone and connects it to the to the car through
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  Bluetooth. I listen to CDs still, so I
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  bought the CD and me and Emma are listening to it and I want
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  to quote some lyrics from the song.
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  It goes like this. But I've heard the tender
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  whisper of love in the dead of the night and you tell me that
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  you're pleased with me and that I'm never alone.
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  And I said to Emma, I wonder, is that theologically correct?
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  You know, we've got to be careful, haven't we, That, you
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  know, all these people who are saying, God told me this, God
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  told me this about this president or God told me this
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  about this month, or God told me that.
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  We've got to be careful, haven't we?
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  Because we do know that there have been false teachers in the
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  past who have said, you know, for instance, Joseph Smith said,
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  I prayed to God and I wanted to know which was the one true
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  denomination. And so God told me to create my
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  own, the Book of Mormon. And so I wrote out this book
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  that contradicts the Bible in many places.
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  And he also Joseph Smith, if you look at his life, he was also
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  said that God told him to leave his wife and marry another.
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  You see, people can say God told me this, God did this, and God
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  spoke to me in this way. But it's very hard to discern to
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  know whether this person has really heard the voice of the
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  Lord. Now, one thing you can be sure
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  of, God speaks to us through scripture.
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  But I'm not going to say that God doesn't speak to us
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  personally. You know, like Chris Tomlin says
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  in this song that we can't hear that whisper.
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  So I'm saying to Emma, should we even listen to this song?
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  Is it theologically correct? And then here I am the very next
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  night at three AMI get woken up and I really did feel like it
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  was the Lord saying to me just answering a prayer that wouldn't
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  necessarily have been answered if I was in the busyness of
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  daytime doing all the things that I'm doing.
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  So we know that nothing is by accident.
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  We know that God is sovereign. But I want to ask you a
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  question. Does God wake you up in the
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  early hours of the morning? Does he wake you up at midnight?
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  1:00 AM, Two AM, 3:00 AM, four AM, 5:00 AM.
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  Is it an accident or is the God who's sovereign over all things,
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  is he trying to say something? Sometimes, there's no doubt
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  about it. Sometimes we might have had too
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  many cups of Joe in the day and that's why we've been woken.
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  Sometimes we're just not a great sleeper.
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  Or maybe you, you sleep next to a railroad or a, you know, on a
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  train or a bus or a busy road and that wakes us up.
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  Or sometimes you might have a little baby and they don't let
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  you sleep. Do they?
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  It could be that, but sometimes, sometimes God does speak to us
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  in the night. You see, spiritual things happen
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  in the night. Watch.
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  That's something I want us to think about and I'm going to
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  give you some proof of it in the Scriptures now.
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  So please, if you've got a Bible, please would you just
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  turn to Genesis 32 verse 26 with me?
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  Genesis 32 verse 26 So here we have in the middle of the night,
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  Jacob is woken up by the Lord himself.
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  He sees the Lord and what does Jacob do?
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  He laid hold of him. He begins to wrestle with him.
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  The Bible says in in Genesis 32, verse 26 and he said, let me go
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  for the day breaks. This is the Lord.
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  Or some would say it's the Angel of the Lord.
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  I believe it's God himself, but he said I will not let you go
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  unless you bless me. So what's the lesson here?
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  Sometimes the Lord God can wake us up so that we might be
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  blessed in the night. Sometimes he might wake you up
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  in the middle of the night so that we might have a blessing
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  that we can tap into. We might be able to find
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  something great in scripture. There might be a time to just be
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  still and know that I am God. It's been a busy day, but just
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  know as I, I lie down on my bed, God is with me.
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  I'm saved, I'm washed in the blood of the Lamb.
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  I know that I'm forgiven and a blessing can come upon us.
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  Another example of something spiritual that happened in the
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  night is in Acts 12. You know the story well.
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  Peter is in prison and the Saints, they're worried about
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  him. Oh, we want you to be free,
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  Peter. So they decide to organise a
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  prayer meeting. They're, they're in the night
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  watch, they're praying. Lord, God, please free Peter.
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  What does the Lord do? He sends an Angel to come and
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  set Peter free. And Peter's amazed.
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  I've been set free. So he decides to go to the
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  brethren. And there he, he knocks on the
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  door and a young girl called Rhoda.
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  I love that name, Rhoda. If there's anyone called Rhoda
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  watching, just please let me know.
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  But Rhoda, Rhoda answers the door and she sees Peter, or she
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  looks through a hatch. I can't remember exactly.
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  Maybe someone will correct me. But she looks through and she
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  knows it's Peter. And instead of opening the door,
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  she leaves Peter outside. And she goes into the Saints and
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  says, Peter's here, he's been freed.
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  And what do the Saints do? The Christians start saying no,
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  no, no. Maybe it's a, a, a version of
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  Peter. Maybe it's Peter's Angel.
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  Or maybe it's, it can't be Peter.
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  There's no way he'll be freed from prison.
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  And yet they're praying for Peter to be freed.
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  In other words, they're lacking in faith for the very things
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  they're praying for. And eventually they do answer
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  the door. They do bring Peter in.
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  And the word in the Scripture, it says they are astonished
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  there Peter is. So what can we also have in the
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  middle of the night? Sometimes the Lord can free us
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  in the night. Sometimes there, there are
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  shackles there there are bonds, there are things that that hold
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  on to us. And the Lord might wake us up in
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  the night to pray about a particular sin, about a
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  particular thing that's got a hold of you, a grip of you.
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  And tonight you need to pray for that.
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  You need to pray. Set me free, God, let this not
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  hold me anymore. And who knows in the night
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  watch, that might be the very night that you've been set free
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  from this sin that's held you for so long.
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  You must forgive me. As you know, this is very
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  unscripted, these messages and I'm full of allergies at the
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  moment. So please forgive me for my my
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  blocked nose. But here's another example.
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  Joseph, which Joseph am I talking about?
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  Joseph who was married to Mary. Joseph was warned in a dream,
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  you need to take your child, the Lord Jesus Christ, and you need
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  to take him to Egypt because Herod has got a plan that he
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  wants Jesus. He does not want there to be
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  another king in town. He wants to be the only king and
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  he's coming for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And not only that, if you remember the wise men as well,
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  they also heard a dream in the middle of the night.
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  They were going to go back to Herod and, and tell Herod all
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  about this Kingdom where they could find him and, and where
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  Herod could come and worship. But Herod, again, he was being a
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  bit crafty because he wanted Jesus.
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  He wanted to take Jesus out and remove him from the scenes that
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  he would be the only king. So he was warned in the night.
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  And that could be exactly the same for us, that there may be a
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  warning for you and I that we are to be warned of something.
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  Maybe it is a person that doesn't have the best interest
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  for us. Or maybe we're just to wake up
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  and read the scriptures and remind ourselves of the coming
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  judgement and that we are to to tell as many people about the
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  gospel. I don't know what it is, but
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  sometimes God does wake us up to to warn us of something.
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  So just to recap your mind, sometimes the Lord wakes us up
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  to bless us in the night. Sometimes he wakes us up to free
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  us in the night from a particular sin.
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  Sometimes the Lord wakes us up to warners in the night.
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  What's the fourth thing he does? Sometimes the Lord wakes us up
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  to be persistent in the night. Jesus Christ tells a very
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  interesting parable that is a picture of why we should pray
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  and not give up. One day one of a neighbour in in
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  town, he's woken up in the middle of the night by another
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  neighbour who says, our old friends, please, please wake up,
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  please wake up. I've got a friend coming over to
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  stay and we've got no food in the house.
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  Could you just lend ME3 loaves of bread?
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  No, this neighbour, he's saying it's the middle of the night, my
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  children are sleeping, the doors locked, no, go away.
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  But this neighbour doesn't give up, he keeps knocking.
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  Does the man get out of bed just because he's his friend though?
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  He gets out of bed to give him the three loaves, just basically
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  to get rid of him. Because the man is so
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  persistent. And God is telling this picture
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  that even a nuisance of a neighbour, if that person will
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  get what he wants, will not the Lord God who's good in all of
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  his ways, if we are persistent in prayer, will he not give us
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  what we ask? Sometimes the answer's no, but
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  He will answer prayers if we're persistent.
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  And sometimes, sometimes, why might God wake you up?
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  The answer is he might wake you up.
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  So you have a bit of extra time to be persistent in prayer, a
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  bit of extra time to seek His face again because you've been
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  busy in the day. He wants that extra time for you
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  to lean into Him and let Him speak to you that that quietness
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  in the dead of the night. If you've got a Bible there,
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  please would you turn to Acts chapter 16, verse 25, because
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  I've got another one for you. Acts 16 verse 25 But at
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  midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to
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  God, and the prisoners were listening to them again.
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  We find 2 precious Saints, Paul and Silas.
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  They're in prison. And instead of being, you know,
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  down and and sad and thinking, woe is me God, why have you
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  allowed this to happen? We were just trying to be your
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  faithful servants. What are they doing in the
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  middle of the night? They're rejoicing.
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  They're singing hymns to the Lord God.
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  They're they're calling out the Lord's mighty name in the prison
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  and all the prisoners can hear, the prison guards can hear.
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  And what does the Lord God do? He shakes the ground and
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  suddenly their shackles are broken free.
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  The the prison door is open and Paul and Silas are free.
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  So why do you think? What do you think I'm going to
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  say next? Why does God wake us up in the
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  night? Sometimes He wakes us up so that
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  we might worship him. Can I ask you a question?
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  When was the last time you sang a song of joy to the Lord?
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  When was the last time you put on a worship song?
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  Or you sang one that you know of by heart and began singing a
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  hymn to the Lord God? And I'm not talking about when
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  you're at church, just you on your own, in private.
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  You see, we're commanded to be singing every day, and yet so
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  often we neglect this joy because it is a joy.
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  So maybe God might be waking you up in the middle of the night.
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  If you don't know what the reason is, maybe it's just
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  simply to get up, say a prayer, sing a hymn, and then maybe go
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  back to sleep. They do say as well, I have
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  heard this before that and you know, the, the professionals,
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  the experts, they say if you can't sleep, instead of just
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  laying there trying your best to fall back asleep, if it's, you
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  know, been 5-10 minutes, get out of bed for 20 minutes, just do
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  something and then go back to bed and you're more likely to
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  fall asleep. Well, could it be in those 20
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  minutes that you just read a few scriptures, sing a little hymn,
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  not too loud, so that you wake up the rest of your family and
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  then go back to bed? Maybe that's just a little
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  thought, a little tip for someone today who might struggle
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  with with sleeping. And then also, can we also just
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  flick a little bit further into the New Testament, into Matthew
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  13, please? Matthew 13, And we're going to
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  read verses 24 to 25, another parable he put forth to them
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  saying the Kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed
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  in his field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed
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  tares among the wheat and went his way.
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  Can you hear that? Does that make sense?
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  What is Jesus warning us of? He's warning us that sometimes
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  when we sleep, that's when the enemy comes.
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  That's when the enemy comes to to sow discord.
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  The adversary comes. And sometimes we might be woken
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  in the night because something bad has happened to us perhaps.
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  Or sometimes while we're sleeping, if we stayed up and
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  prayed, we could pray that we would be kept safe from the
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  wrongdoings of the evil one who is trying to take us out, who is
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  trying to to hurt our faith. So what might we be called to do
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  in the night? I say this very gently because I
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  do not know the situation you're going through, but some of us
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  might be called to to grieve in the night, whether it's the loss
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  of a job, the loss of a business, or perhaps the loss of
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  a loved one, someone we're dear and.
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  Dear and near to us who we miss greatly, perhaps God's calling
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  you to to just pray. Just pray and seek His face for
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  comfort after losing such a precious one to you.
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  So what am I trying to say here? The goal of this video is not to
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  turn everyone into, you know, night owls and to say you must
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  all stay up late and you must all, you know, never sleep
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  because the holy man of God, he's he never sleeps because we
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  know that's not true. The Scripture talks about sleep.
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  What a precious gift it is. The Bible says that God knows
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  our frame, that we're made of the dust, we're weak.
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  And if you believe that you do not need sleep, which some
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  people rather proudly do, there is a generation that's saying is
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  all we do is we work really, really hard.
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  We work so hard. We bring up our own success by,
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  you know, getting up early and staying up late.
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  Actually, you're being arrogant there and you're pretending that
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  you're like God, that you, you have endless reserves of energy.
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  But actually, no, the truth is we're made of dust.
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  We need to humble ourselves and we need sleep.
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  And actually one of the disciplines, I would argue, of a
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  godly man or woman is someone who goes to bed at a reasonable
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  time and rises early because they've had enough sleep before
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  midnight. As you know, that's not
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  something I manage to do often and it's something I long to do
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  is to just go to bed at 10:00 every night.
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  But very chaotic and and very disorganised at times.
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  I don't manage that. But the point is this, the Bible
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  says that He gives his beloved sleep.
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  So sleep is a precious gift from God and we ought to think that,
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  you know, we can build our own house.
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  You know, unless the Lord builds a house, the workers labour in
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  vain. So we must make sure that we
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  lean into Him and seek his face and get proper sleep.
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  So what am I trying to say? What I am saying is there are
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  times, there are seasons where God may, like my friend Dave at
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  the beginning, wake us up every night or just one night.
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  But he wakes us up for a very specific reason.
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  He wants to speak to us. So how should we react if we're
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  woken up in the middle of the night?
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  What is the biblical, the godly way to act?
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  Well, you're probably thinking, Joe, why have you not turned
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  here yet? Well turn with me to One Samuel
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  chapter 3 and we'll finish with this thought.
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  One Samuel chapter 3 and verse 10, verse 10.
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  Now the Lord came and stood and called other times, Samuel.
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  Samuel and Samuel answered, Speak for your servant he is.
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  You know the story. Well, Eli is an old priest, and
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  he's brought under his wing a young priest, a young prophet,
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  Samuel. And Samuel hears a voice in the
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  night saying Samuel, Samuel, and he thinks it's Eli calling him.
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  And so he keeps going into Eli. Eli, what do you want?
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  I'm here and Eli doesn't realise what's happening at first.
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  And as the night goes on, suddenly Eli realises it's the
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  Lord who's calling Samuel's name.
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  And he says, next time when the Lord calls Samuel, Samuel say
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  speak Lord, for your servant hears.
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  And that's what we are to do. If perhaps you can hear the
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  voice of the Lord, not saying audibly necessarily.
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  It wasn't audible for me last night.
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  I just had a sense that this was a real answer to prayer because
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  I've been so confused about this situation.
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  But when we sense that the Lord is speaking to us, let's just
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  say speak, Lord, for your servant hears.
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  Let's be quiet and think, what is the reason why God's woke me
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  up? Is it to bless me in the night?
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  Is it to free me from a sin? Is it to warn me?
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  Is it so that I might be persistent, have a little bit of
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  extra time in prayer? Is it so that I might worship in
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  the night? Is it so I might grieve?
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  Whatever it is, let's just have all of our ears open to hear the
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  voice of gods. So as, as you know, these
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  videos, they are unscripted. I just sort of talk from my
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  heart. I write a few notes that don't
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  take me very long versus the other videos that I make on Off
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  the Curb Ministries. But I hope you found it helpful.
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  And if you are new to the channel, I'd really appreciate
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  it if you did consider subscribing.
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  And I am hoping to try and get more and more of these videos
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  out. At the moment, we just do them
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  every two weeks. Today it's a little bit early.
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  It's come on a Wednesday, but normally we do it every other
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  Thursday at 4:00. I, I release a video on this
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  channel, but I'm hoping in the future we'll be able to go every
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  week, but we'll just see if the Lord grants time.
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  If I am disciplined with sleep so I can get up earlier, then
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  maybe we'll be able to do those things.
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  But thank you so much for listening and I really do
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  appreciate your fellowship. And if you'd like to see another
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  video where we sit down and have a nice cup of Joe, just click
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  here. God bless you all and thank you
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  for watching.