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Text: Proverbs 6:9–11

“How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.”* 

This passage is a direct and urgent call to awake, not just physically, but spiritually and purposefully. 

Our text today confronts laziness with a piercing question: How long? This is a reminder that delay has consequences. This is a wake up call to the fact that, comfort can quietly become a trap.

 *It’s easy to remain in a state of complacency, putting off what God has called you to do till later time* . Whether it’s our spiritual growth, personal responsibilities, or divine assignments, procrastination robs us of progress.

The verse 10 of Proverbs 6 paints a subtle picture: “a little sleep, a little slumber…” It doesn’t seem harmful at first. But that’s how decline often begins,: small compromises here and there, when repeated over time, it brings fatal failure. Spiritual dullness rarely happens overnight; it creeps in gradually.

Verse 11 delivers the outcome: poverty and lack arriving suddenly, like a thief or an armed man. This isn’t just about financial poverty, it can also mean spiritual emptiness, missed opportunities, and unfulfilled purposes.

Are there areas in your life where you’ve become spiritually sleepy? What have you been postponing that God is urging you to act on? It's time to wake up from your slumber, deliver yourself now from laziness and procrastination before it's too late.

God wants us to be diligent in all that we lay our hands to do, and He promised to bless the works of our hands. 

As you awake from your slumber today, hear the pronouncement of God upon your life - 
*The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.* Deuteronomy 28:12.

 *BIBLE READING:* 

Proverbs 6:6-11.

 *PRAYER FOCUS:* 

Father LORD, please, awaken my heart from every form of laziness and procrastination. Give me discipline, diligence, and a sense of urgency to pursue Your will in Jesus name.


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