Awake, Sleeper

• The life and power comes after we "get up and get going."
• God does not give us overcoming life - He gives us life as we overcome.
• According to our faith, not our need!
• We have to get ourselves up; God will not lift us up.
• We are expected to take the initiative.
• If we will take the initiative to overcome, we will find that we have the inspiration of God, because He immediately gives us the power of life.
• Our Lord said to the man with the withered hand, "Stretch out your hand" (Matthew 12:13). As soon as the man did so, his hand was healed.

• John 10:10 ~ Abundant life!
• John 6:48 ~ Jesus is the bread of life!
• John 7:38 ~ Rivers of living water!
• Matthew 12:35 ~ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things
• Proverbs 4:23 ~ Guard your heart
• Matthew 7:14 "Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."
• Saint Irenaeus "The glory of God is a man fully alive."
• John 10:10 "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

• 642 times the Bible states this invitation
• Luke 14:16-24 = Three Excuses
1. I have things to achieve
2. I have stuff to acquire
3. I have relationships that distract me

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. II Corinthians 5:17