How Did JESUS Fall Into Deep Sleep So Quickly? | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching

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0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with jo On Gifta podcast. It's such a joy for me to be with you as even we continuing the series. We've been learning various lessons from the incident of Jesus coming the storm today. One of the things I want to talk to you today is phone and in the same incident, according according to the Gospel of Luke as well as the Gospel of Mark. First thing, let us look at gospel according to Luke, and I'm reading from the Nalty version. This is what it says in verse twenty three.

1:11 Speaker 2: As they sailed across, Jesus settled down for a nap, But soon a fierce storm came down on the lake and the boat was filled with water and they were in real danger. Understand something, This was a real, big problem, and I really challenged you to go back to understand the reality of the situation. This was not exaggeration. This was not just panic. This was a real danger. They knew what they were saying when they said that we were drowning, we are going to die, right, This was not exaggeration. This was real problem.

1:42 Speaker 2: And one more thing I want to remind you if you see in the Book of Mark as well, it says the same thing in verse thirty seven, but soon a fear storm came when they started out in verse thirty six, verse thirty seven s is us storm came soon. See. I wanted to understand something very important here, right. I think I shared this in I think one of the episodes recently that the journey across would have took them around three hours, let's say two and after three hours, right, And if you say three hours, what does soon mean?

2:19 Speaker 2: Like the storm didn't come after maybe after an hour? And a half or after two hours or while they were almost reaching the journey. No, like the storm came soon. The Bible is saying. That's why I wanted to emphasize that it's not just mentioned in one of the gospel's, but two of the gospels mentioned that word soon, okay, very soon, a storm came very soon, which means, let's say, let's assume like it says that, especially in the gospel according to Luke, it says that they're starting out. Just think of it practically, right, like they're starting out.

2:53 Speaker 2: Then Jesus settled down for and a half that's probably maybe ten to fifteen minutes after the journey, like, okay, guys, let me take some rest. He goes and he wants to take a nap. But the word soon a fear storm came means maybe, just maybe. I mean, I think in a journey of maybe two hours or three hours, soon could not be after one hour, after two hours, right, it would have been something like maybe within thirty minutes of their journey starting, right, maybe in thirty minutes or thirty five minutes is when this storm would have come.

3:34 Speaker 2: Soon. It came, it came soon, right, Why I'm trying to emphasize this is that you know, when they started the journey, Jesus says, let me go and take a nap, and then soon the storm comes. Right, So, I'm trying to help you understand that Jesus would have slept for hardly maybe ten to fifteen minutes, by which the storm has stum. Okay, why am I saying that I told you in one of the episodes that Jesus was not woken up by the storm. He was not woken up by the people screaming, He was not woken up by the tossing of the waves and all nothing.

4:09 Speaker 2: He was woken up only when the disciples ran and woke him up, saying, hey, Jesus, we are going to drown and we're going to die. Right So, which means that Jesus was in deep sleep. And Jesus went to deep sleep in just ten to fifteen minutes time. I'm trying to help you understand this, right, in just ten to fifteen minutes time, Jesus was able to have deep sleep. Think about it, right? Why am I sharing this? A lot of few, including myself, so many times we struggle to have sleep. I'm thinking, honestly, even last night, I think it took me around like an hour or more than two hours.

4:45 Speaker 2: I was not getting sleep. I was like, God, I'm not getting sleep. I'm tired, but I'm not able to sleep. Imagine like we need to be getting good sleep to be productive in life. We need to have good sleep so that our sleep cycles help us to effective in whatever we are called to do. So, you know, today we are living a time when there's so much running in our minds. Maybe you want to sleep, you're lying down physically or tired, but mentally you're still on you know, right, running running, running, running, running.

5:15 Speaker 2: You're not in a mental risk. So what happens is you're not at sleep. You're not getting that good sleep, the deep sleep that you need to get. But you see from Jesus that in just ten minutes he was able to get into the face of deep sleep that he had to be woken by the disciples. He was not in just like oh, you know, casual sleep. He was in deep sleep. If he was in casual sleep, he would have woken up. He would have woken up when he heard the commotion, when he saw that wind goes tossing, he would have no he was in deep sleep in just ten minutes or fifteen minutes.

5:51 Speaker 2: Make me think about this, guys, like I want you to understand this. So this is a word I want to pray for and release over each one of you, roading myself because this is something that I'm praying for, especially because we're in a time where maybe worries and anxieties are causing us to not get sleep, or maybe there are lifestyle changes that need to be made. Like one of the things that I need to be better disciplined act is you know, people typically say avoid the blue screen before you sleep, like avoid the phone, the cat's laptop and all these things, maybe at least for an hour before you sleep.

6:26 Speaker 2: But for me, it's a struggle because I'm managing a work and the ministry posting, and then I mean, like it's not easy. I must have struggling in that area and pray that God will enable me to get that balance. But I pray over each one of you. Maybe there are lifestyle changes that you need to make. Maybe put off your phone in a different room when you go to sleep, avoid using the phone for the next one hour before you sleep, or maybe you're just doom scrawling or maybe you're just watching something on Netflix, know, every night, and I know people who do that, like every night they have to watch a movie or a serial for hours together, binge watching.

7:08 Speaker 2: And probably those are reasons. Or maybe you're having unhealthy food habits. And see, I pray that God will give you the grace to make the changes that require so that God would can bless you with good sleep like Jesus. See, I want to share a few more scriptures with you. If you look at Psalms one seven, verse two, it says it is in vain that you rise up early and go to go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for God gives his beloved sleep. In one of the translations, it says, sleep is like a gift for you.

7:43 Speaker 2: Okay, Now, sometimes I mean we are toiling. We are, like, you know, rising up early, you know, like you know, putting in effort and effort and anxious toil. And toil is not from God, right, See, hard work is from the Lord. But toiling came because of the fall. Right, we're not called it till we're called to work hard. Right. Here's the thing. So you rise up early and then you go to bed very late. You're having no balance of life. But God is saying that is not going to help you. But when you trust in the Lord, what happens.

8:18 Speaker 2: He will give his beloved sleep. Okay, if you look at Proverbs three, verse twenty four, this is what it says. When you lie down, you'll not be afraid. When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Your sleep will be sweet. Psalms four, ards eight. In peace, I will lie down and sleep. See, I want to pray over each one of us that the Lord will grant us could sleep, that we will have the right rhythm of life when we operate from the place of rest and sleep. When we lie down, we will have sweet sleep.

8:55 Speaker 2: It's not we lie down and then we are rolling on the bed waiting for or as the opportunity to sleep, or we lie down and we are like reading when we'll we sleep. No, in preace, I will lie down and sleep. When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. So I pray that the Lord will bless each one of us with that deep sleep and help us get that rhythm of life where we balance, so that we have good sleep and we are able to be productive and fulfill the purpose that God has in store for us.

9:30 Speaker 1: Amen.

9:31 Speaker 2: God bless you guys. Even though over this weekend, I really challenge you to make this intentional step that you I know, sometimes weekends can be that moment when you're like, oh, you know what, let me put sleep off the radder, let me go wind, watch something I want to, you know, do this, do that? No, that's all great, you know, doing something for fun or something good for a while, enjoyable, create, but make it an intentional step to take care of yourself and have good sleep. Emmen. God bless you guys.

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