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

0:47 Speaker 2: the Soul with jo On Gifta podcast. It's such a

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0:51 Speaker 2: continuing the series. We've been learning various lessons from the

0:54 Speaker 2: incident of Jesus coming the storm today. One of the

0:57 Speaker 2: things I want to talk to you today is phone

1:00 Speaker 2: and in the same incident, according according to the Gospel

1:03 Speaker 2: of Luke as well as the Gospel of Mark. First thing,

1:06 Speaker 2: let us look at gospel according to Luke, and I'm

1:08 Speaker 2: reading from the Nalty version. This is what it says

1:10 Speaker 2: in verse twenty three. As they sailed across, Jesus settled

1:13 Speaker 2: down for a nap, But soon a fierce storm came

1:17 Speaker 2: down on the lake and the boat was filled with

1:21 Speaker 2: water and they were in real danger. Understand something, This

1:24 Speaker 2: was a real, big problem, and I really challenged you

1:27 Speaker 2: to go back to understand the reality of the situation.

1:29 Speaker 2: This was not exaggeration. This was not just panic. This

1:32 Speaker 2: was a real danger. They knew what they were saying

1:35 Speaker 2: when they said that we were drowning, we are going

1:37 Speaker 2: 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

1:45 Speaker 2: you see in the Book of Mark as well, it

1:48 Speaker 2: says the same thing in verse thirty seven, but soon

1:52 Speaker 2: a fear storm came when they started out in verse

1:56 Speaker 2: thirty six, verse thirty seven s is us storm came soon. See.

2:00 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand something very important here, right. I

2:03 Speaker 2: think I shared this in I think one of the

2:04 Speaker 2: episodes recently that the journey across would have took them

2:09 Speaker 2: around three hours, let's say two and after three hours, right,

2:14 Speaker 2: 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?

2:22 Speaker 2: And a half or after two hours or while they

2:25 Speaker 2: were almost reaching the journey. No, like the storm came soon.

2:29 Speaker 2: The Bible is saying. That's why I wanted to emphasize

2:31 Speaker 2: that it's not just mentioned in one of the gospel's,

2:34 Speaker 2: but two of the gospels mentioned that word soon, okay,

2:39 Speaker 2: very soon, a storm came very soon, which means, let's say,

2:42 Speaker 2: let's assume like it says that, especially in the gospel

2:46 Speaker 2: according to Luke, it says that they're starting out. Just

2:50 Speaker 2: think of it practically, right, like they're starting out. Then

2:53 Speaker 2: Jesus settled down for and a half that's probably maybe

2:56 Speaker 2: ten to fifteen minutes after the journey, like, okay, guys,

3:01 Speaker 2: let me take some rest. He goes and he wants

3:03 Speaker 2: to take a nap. But the word soon a fear

3:08 Speaker 2: storm came means maybe, just maybe. I mean, I think

3:13 Speaker 2: in a journey of maybe two hours or three hours,

3:17 Speaker 2: soon could not be after one hour, after two hours, right,

3:21 Speaker 2: it would have been something like maybe within thirty minutes

3:25 Speaker 2: of their journey starting, right, maybe in thirty minutes or

3:30 Speaker 2: thirty five minutes is when this storm would have come. Soon.

3:34 Speaker 2: It came, it came soon, right, Why I'm trying to

3:38 Speaker 2: emphasize this is that you know, when they started the journey,

3:43 Speaker 2: Jesus says, let me go and take a nap, and

3:45 Speaker 2: then soon the storm comes. Right, So, I'm trying to

3:49 Speaker 2: help you understand that Jesus would have slept for hardly

3:53 Speaker 2: maybe ten to fifteen minutes, by which the storm has stum. Okay,

3:57 Speaker 2: why am I saying that I told you in one

4:00 Speaker 2: of the episodes that Jesus was not woken up by

4:02 Speaker 2: the storm. He was not woken up by the people screaming,

4:06 Speaker 2: He was not woken up by the tossing of the

4:07 Speaker 2: waves and all nothing. He was woken up only when

4:10 Speaker 2: the disciples ran and woke him up, saying, hey, Jesus,

4:14 Speaker 2: we are going to drown and we're going to die.

4:16 Speaker 2: Right So, which means that Jesus was in deep sleep.

4:20 Speaker 2: And Jesus went to deep sleep in just ten to

4:24 Speaker 2: fifteen minutes time. I'm trying to help you understand this, right,

4:28 Speaker 2: in just ten to fifteen minutes time, Jesus was able

4:30 Speaker 2: to have deep sleep. Think about it, right? Why am

4:33 Speaker 2: I sharing this? A lot of few, including myself, so

4:36 Speaker 2: many times we struggle to have sleep. I'm thinking, honestly,

4:39 Speaker 2: even last night, I think it took me around like

4:43 Speaker 2: an hour or more than two hours. I was not

4:45 Speaker 2: getting sleep. I was like, God, I'm not getting sleep.

4:48 Speaker 2: I'm tired, but I'm not able to sleep. Imagine like

4:52 Speaker 2: we need to be getting good sleep to be productive

4:55 Speaker 2: in life. We need to have good sleep so that

4:58 Speaker 2: our sleep cycles help us to effective in whatever we

5:01 Speaker 2: are called to do. So, you know, today we are

5:04 Speaker 2: living a time when there's so much running in our minds.

5:07 Speaker 2: Maybe you want to sleep, you're lying down physically or tired,

5:11 Speaker 2: 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

5:17 Speaker 2: you're not at sleep. You're not getting that good sleep,

5:21 Speaker 2: the deep sleep that you need to get. But you

5:23 Speaker 2: see from Jesus that in just ten minutes he was

5:26 Speaker 2: able to get into the face of deep sleep that

5:29 Speaker 2: he had to be woken by the disciples. He was

5:34 Speaker 2: not in just like oh, you know, casual sleep. He

5:37 Speaker 2: was in deep sleep. If he was in casual sleep,

5:39 Speaker 2: he would have woken up. He would have woken up

5:42 Speaker 2: when he heard the commotion, when he saw that wind

5:46 Speaker 2: goes tossing, he would have no he was in deep

5:48 Speaker 2: sleep in just ten minutes or fifteen minutes. Make me

5:52 Speaker 2: think about this, guys, like I want you to understand this.

5:55 Speaker 2: So this is a word I want to pray for

5:58 Speaker 2: and release over each one of you, roading myself because

6:00 Speaker 2: this is something that I'm praying for, especially because we're

6:03 Speaker 2: in a time where maybe worries and anxieties are causing

6:07 Speaker 2: us to not get sleep, or maybe there are lifestyle

6:11 Speaker 2: changes that need to be made. Like one of the

6:12 Speaker 2: things that I need to be better disciplined act is

6:17 Speaker 2: you know, people typically say avoid the blue screen before

6:19 Speaker 2: you sleep, like avoid the phone, the cat's laptop and

6:23 Speaker 2: all these things, maybe at least for an hour before

6:26 Speaker 2: you sleep. But for me, it's a struggle because I'm

6:28 Speaker 2: managing a work and the ministry posting, and then I mean,

6:33 Speaker 2: like it's not easy. I must have struggling in that

6:36 Speaker 2: area and pray that God will enable me to get

6:38 Speaker 2: that balance. But I pray over each one of you.

6:41 Speaker 2: Maybe there are lifestyle changes that you need to make.

6:44 Speaker 2: Maybe put off your phone in a different room when

6:47 Speaker 2: you go to sleep, avoid using the phone for the

6:50 Speaker 2: next one hour before you sleep, or maybe you're just

6:55 Speaker 2: doom scrawling or maybe you're just watching something on Netflix, know,

7:00 Speaker 2: every night, and I know people who do that, like

7:02 Speaker 2: every night they have to watch a movie or a

7:04 Speaker 2: serial for hours together, binge watching. And probably those are reasons.

7:10 Speaker 2: Or maybe you're having unhealthy food habits. And see, I

7:15 Speaker 2: pray that God will give you the grace to make

7:17 Speaker 2: the changes that require so that God would can bless

7:20 Speaker 2: you with good sleep like Jesus. See, I want to

7:23 Speaker 2: share a few more scriptures with you. If you look

7:25 Speaker 2: at Psalms one seven, verse two, it says it is

7:28 Speaker 2: in vain that you rise up early and go to

7:31 Speaker 2: go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil,

7:35 Speaker 2: for God gives his beloved sleep. In one of the translations,

7:41 Speaker 2: it says, sleep is like a gift for you. Okay, Now,

7:44 Speaker 2: sometimes I mean we are toiling. We are, like, you know,

7:49 Speaker 2: rising up early, you know, like you know, putting in

7:52 Speaker 2: effort and effort and anxious toil. And toil is not

7:56 Speaker 2: from God, right, See, hard work is from the Lord.

7:59 Speaker 2: But toiling came because of the fall. Right, we're not

8:02 Speaker 2: called it till we're called to work hard. Right. Here's

8:04 Speaker 2: the thing. So you rise up early and then you

8:09 Speaker 2: go to bed very late. You're having no balance of life.

8:14 Speaker 2: But God is saying that is not going to help you.

8:16 Speaker 2: But when you trust in the Lord, what happens. He

8:19 Speaker 2: will give his beloved sleep. Okay, if you look at

8:23 Speaker 2: Proverbs three, verse twenty four, this is what it says.

8:26 Speaker 2: When you lie down, you'll not be afraid. When you

8:28 Speaker 2: lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Your sleep will

8:32 Speaker 2: be sweet. Psalms four, ards eight. In peace, I will

8:37 Speaker 2: lie down and sleep. See, I want to pray over

8:40 Speaker 2: each one of us that the Lord will grant us

8:43 Speaker 2: could sleep, that we will have the right rhythm of

8:47 Speaker 2: life when we operate from the place of rest and sleep.

8:51 Speaker 2: When we lie down, we will have sweet sleep. It's

8:55 Speaker 2: not we lie down and then we are rolling on

8:58 Speaker 2: the bed waiting for or as the opportunity to sleep,

9:02 Speaker 2: or we lie down and we are like reading when

9:05 Speaker 2: we'll we sleep. No, in preace, I will lie down

9:07 Speaker 2: and sleep. When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

9:11 Speaker 2: So I pray that the Lord will bless each one

9:15 Speaker 2: of us with that deep sleep and help us get

9:18 Speaker 2: that rhythm of life where we balance, so that we

9:23 Speaker 2: have good sleep and we are able to be productive

9:27 Speaker 2: 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

9:33 Speaker 2: really challenge you to make this intentional step that you

9:38 Speaker 2: I know, sometimes weekends can be that moment when you're like, oh,

9:41 Speaker 2: you know what, let me put sleep off the radder,

9:43 Speaker 2: let me go wind, watch something I want to, you know,

9:46 Speaker 2: do this, do that? No, that's all great, you know,

9:49 Speaker 2: doing something for fun or something good for a while, enjoyable, create,

9:54 Speaker 2: but make it an intentional step to take care of

9:59 Speaker 2: yourself and have good sleep. Emmen. God bless you guys.

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