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And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.<\/strong>\u00a0(Romans 13:11<\/a>)<\/p>\n It\u2019s amazing what we can sleep through. God can do an awe-inspiring work among many, but others can sleep right through it, spiritually speaking. In\u00a0Romans 13:11<\/a>, we find out what it takes to keep us awake or to awaken us from our spiritual slumber.<\/p>\n First, Paul wrote about\u00a0knowing the time<\/strong>. Often, when we oversleep it is because we didn\u2019t know the time. We wake up late, and in a panic look for the time, and get a sick feeling \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m late! I overslept!\u201d Spiritually speaking, if we know the time we won\u2019t sleep when we shouldn\u2019t. And when we look around at the world today with open eyes and an open Bible, we see that the time is short. If we really believe Jesus is coming soon, if we know the time \u2013 then we will wake up.<\/p>\n Second, Paul wrote about what would happen at the right time:\u00a0now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed<\/strong>. The coming of Jesus, and the completion of our salvation, are closer than ever. Every day since God worked in your life and you first decided to follow Jesus, the time has become closer and closer, and the finishing of your salvation comes nearer and nearer. When we remember how wonderful it will be to have our salvation finished \u2013 no more sin, no more death, no more of the weakness of this flesh \u2013 that will keep us awake.<\/p>\n Right now, are you taking a spiritual nap? Perhaps there is\u00a0some<\/em> spiritual activity in your life, but you might as well be sleepwalking through it. So, the right prayer for you today is, \u201cLord, wake me up. Help me to know it is time to awaken. Get me excited about the completion of my salvation.\u201d God loves to answer that kind of prayer. (Guzik)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.\u00a0(Romans 13:11) It\u2019s amazing what we can sleep through. God can do an awe-inspiring work among many, but others can sleep right through it, spiritually speaking. In\u00a0Romans … Continue reading “42.x. Wake Up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164209,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164208\/revisions\/164209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}