The Father's Menu
Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
TOO MUCH SLEEPING IS HARMFUL
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep…, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Acts 6:9
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Researchers report that sleep deprivation can double the chances of early death through a cardiovascular trauma, meaning, when the heart function is affected. However, too much sleep appears to be even more dangerous for us, more than doubling the likelihood of dying from other causes. In a research project headed by Professor Francesco Cappuccio this fact was established after thorough investigation from the University of Warwick Medical School.
In life, the most unsafe time is when we’re sleeping. A sleeping man is at the mercy of enemies, as in the case of David against King Saul in I Sam 26:7-12. A sleeping man can lose something very precious. Samson lost his hair, and later on, his eyes, when he was sleeping and his power left him (Judges 16:19-20).
Some people slept to death. Cissera was killed by Jael while he was sleeping (Judges 4:17-21). Thank God for Paul who revived Eutychus who had fallen off and died from the third floor of a building sleeping at a vigil (Acts 20:6-10). In I kings 3 the woman that overslept laid on her baby until the baby died such that the other woman stealthily changed the living baby for the dead; thank God for Solomon’s wisdom. There are many such changings of destinies today in hospitals, at birth. There are many today whose destinies had been swapped when they overslept; imagine a person destined to become an engineer ending up as a scavenger, or a professor of physics who ended up solving arithmetic mathematics with market women! Wonders will never cease!
Excess sleep breeds poverty (Prov. 20:13). When we sleep too much the enemy comes to sow rubbish in our lives (Matthew 13:24-25). A sleeping believer will not please God no matter what!
Prayer: Deliver me from the sleep that will kill me O Lord
Further Reading: 1 Samuel 26: 7-12
Read through the Bible: Numbers 24 & Psalm 66-67
