MAKE THE BEST USE OF YOUR NIGHT-TIME 2

1. ANOTHER parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a MAN who SOWED GOOD SEED in his FIELD;
2. BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS ENEMY came and SOWED TARES [weeds] AMONG THE WHEAT and went his way.
3. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the TARES [weeds] also appeared.
4. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow GOOD SEED in your FIELD? How then does it have TARES [weeds]?’
5. He said to them, ‘AN ENEMY HAS DONE THIS.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’
6. But he said, ‘NO, LEST WHILE YOU GATHER UP THE TARES [weeds] YOU ALSO UPROOT THE WHEAT WITH THEM."
   Matthew 13:24-29 (NKJV)

• Victims of the Night time.

• If you have discovered some strange things in your Life which you cannot explain how they got there.
  THEY may have gotten into your life when you slept, it could be when you slept physically or when you slumbered in the spirit—when you are not up to par, that is, when you are not as good as it should be spiritually.
• Jesus admonishes: "WHEN He came to the place, He said to them, "PRAY THAT YOU MAY NOT ENTER INTO TEMPTATION" (Luke 22:40).
• Things are planted in people's lives through their dreams, some people are even initiated into wizardry or witchcraft through their dreams while they SLEPT (Matthew 13:25).
• Most problems are traceable to the evils of the Night.
• Most of the problems encountered by some Christians are deposited into their lives when they SLEPT: "37 Then He [Jesus] came and found them SLEEPING, and said to Peter, “Simon, ARE YOU SLEEPING? COULD YOU NOT WATCH ONE HOUR? 38 WATCH AND PRAY, lest you enter into TEMPTATION. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Mark 14:37,38).
• Weeds are the problems of life which the agents of the devil put in the Life of People, in order to retard or hinder their progress, and their fulfillment in the assignment given to them.
• The main Purpose of the Weeds is to hinder or retard the growth or progress of any plant, the WHEAT.
• What the enemy deposited in people's lives is to hinder or stop the plans and programmes of God for their Lives. To retard their growths, developments, and progress.
• If you love to sleep, or you sleep too much, then, there is possibility of being a victim of the NIGHT-TIME (Luke 21:36; 22:40,46).
• Your Nights should NOT be for sleeping only, BUT to take control; to take charge and declare, decree what should be the counsel of God for your Life and establish it through PRAYERS (Lamentations 2:19; 1 Timothy 5:5).

"GET UP AND CRY OUT AT NIGHT-TIME, AT THE START OF THE NIGHT SHIFT; POUR OUT your HEART before my LORD like water. LIFT your HANDS UP to HIM for the life of your children—the ones who are fainting from hunger on every street corner."
Lamentations 2:19 (Common English Bible)

• You make things happen through Prayer of faith, nothing happens by chance (1 Thessalonians 3:10).
  GOD'S plans are made real through PRAYERS!
• You determine what happens in the day time; you call forth what God has ordained for you, through your prayers in the NIGHT-TIME (Luke 6:12,13).
• If you actually believe what God has spoken about your life, you will want to make it happen through the Prayer of FAITH: "(as it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations") in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and CALLS THOSE THINGS WHICH DO NOT EXIST AS THOUGH THEY DID" (Romans 4:17 NKJV).
• If you do not want to have sorrowful and disappointed day time, then you have to take control of your Nights.

• Be a key player in the night-time game of PRAYER: "Now it came to pass in those days that He [Jesus] went out to the mountain to pray, AND CONTINUED ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER TO GOD (Luke 6:12).
IF Jesus our Lord and Saviour did need to pray all night, you should know that it is important and imperative that you do the same.

• Remove every social barrier that would NOT allow you to go to bed on time (Hebrews 12:1).
• The common philosophy is: being early to bed is being early to rise. You cannot have a late night and still wake up early to pray: "Early in the morning, WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK, JESUS GOT UP, left [the house], and went out to a SECLUDED PLACE, and was PRAYING there" (Matthew 1:35 Amp.).
• If you want to rise early to pray in the small or the wee hours, Then you have to discipline yourself and sleep on Time (Isaiah 26:9; Hebrews 12:1).
• If you wanted to watch programs on the television or be on line till the late hours of the Night, you definitely cannot take control of the night-time.
• Do not erode your destiny away by staying before the television Set or on social media till the late hours of the Night.
• Deny yourself what could be called socialization or pleasure, and give attention to the SPIRITUAL aspects of life that would help you and make your life meaningful.

"SINCE we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, LET US STRIP OFF ANYTHING THAT SLOWS US DOWN OR HOLDS US BACK, and especially those SINS that WRAP themselves so TIGHTLY around OUR FEET AND TRIP US UP; and let us RUN with PATIENCE the particular RACE that God has SET before US."
Hebrews 12:1 (Living Bible)

• It is my prayer that you will not fail in Jesus' name.
Peace!