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SimonArizona
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I need a sure fire way to stay awake! I’m falling asleep all over the place. The enemy is in my own home. I’m not in any habitual mortal sins. I need help right now.
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nfreak141
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What’s your work schedule like? Have you had these problems before? Any allergies?
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Tantum_ergo
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Simon, I suggest you call your doctor and ask him to refer you for a sleep study. There are many potential causes for excessive drowsiness and many possible treatments but you should be diagnosed and treated only by a qualified professional. Otherwise you could wind up in a worse situation than you are now.
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SimonArizona
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I am speaking spiritually.
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nfreak141
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How is that experience for you? If you want help from people, you really need to give more details, no offense.
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Ignatius
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Sleep apnea is a very serious condition. Better go see your doctor.
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jochoa
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I hope this helps:
My friend, keep in mind that Heaven is a place of Unbreakable Peace and Limitless Happiness for every person, who freely chooses perfecting patience, kindness, and motivation for God equally towards others and the self as his/her moral standard.
If you are experiencing difficulties being patient and kind in the face of unjust impatience and meanness, become one in spirit with Christ during His Crucifixion. I recommend Nancy’s Fowler’s “The Way of the Cross”. If you need a kick start on mastering Patience and Kindness, I recommend “The Love Dare”. I especially recommend the first ten days.
If you are experiencing difficulties avoiding temptations, become one in spirit with Chirst by pondering and finding the only solution to the following:
Given ALL the following:
-You, as a thinking, feeling, acting, living being exist in solitude (Hint: It is best to think of yourself existing as a single-celled being, similar to how you first came to be).
-There is nothing else in existence.
-The only method to create something, living or non-living, is to first think of it.
-You want to experience a limitless happiness without ever losing peace.
How do you make that happen? Here is a good starting question: What are some requirements to make that happen?
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TimothyH
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Have you simply asked God to help you with this?
Sometimes we miss the obvious, and do last what we should have done first.
But you may want to fasten your seatbelt. You may get what you ask for and it might not be easy.
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on_eagles_wingz
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Have you tried to determine the cause of your sleepiness? There are many things that can cause a person to be sleepy a lot. Overworked, stress, depression, excess weight (which is my problem), low thyroid, etc… Prayer may help but if you can determine the cause it will really help.
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Aussiegal
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The OP has said his drowsiness is spiritual and the enemy is in his own home.
I am making a guess that you are losing your faith and getting attacked spiritually. Is it possible to give a bit more information so people can help or direct you ? You sound like you need prayer.
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SimonArizona
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Thank you for the replys.
What is happening is I have been awakened to spiritual realities. St. Paul said let us stay awake, vigilant, and not sleep like some in the Church do. Sleeping Christians are not staying vigilant. I suspect the light of Christ is not shining into the world when we are spiritually asleep or unaware of the spiritual warfare that is going on all around us. Souls being mastered by the devils spirit. He speaks through them, and depending on the person they are aware of it more or less, some are working for Satan and are very awake to it, some have no idea because they are not alert to it probably the state of Simon Peter when Jesus rebuked Satan speaking through Simon.
I was asleep for the past 5 years unknowingly and He came into me powerfully and woke me up again to see the spiritual warfare. The Light of Christ blinds and illuminates people and they are all actually physically squinting when they look at me when I am awake, but when I sleep I know it because they can look right at me and I can no longer see nor hear the devil at work in them. The devil has blinded my eyes from the truth. The Fathers called this seeing the eye of the soul.
What is happening is I have been awakened to spiritual realities. St. Paul said let us stay awake, vigilant, and not sleep like some in the Church do. Sleeping Christians are not staying vigilant. I suspect the light of Christ is not shining into the world when we are spiritually asleep or unaware of the spiritual warfare that is going on all around us. Souls being mastered by the devils spirit. He speaks through them, and depending on the person they are aware of it more or less, some are working for Satan and are very awake to it, some have no idea because they are not alert to it probably the state of Simon Peter when Jesus rebuked Satan speaking through Simon.
I was asleep for the past 5 years unknowingly and He came into me powerfully and woke me up again to see the spiritual warfare. The Light of Christ blinds and illuminates people and they are all actually physically squinting when they look at me when I am awake, but when I sleep I know it because they can look right at me and I can no longer see nor hear the devil at work in them. The devil has blinded my eyes from the truth. The Fathers called this seeing the eye of the soul.
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AlanFromWichita
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You are at a very important place, and I think are crossing an important boundary, and my personal prognosis is that your chances of success are very high because I don’t think you have to “make” a transition as much as getting used to the transition you’ve already experienced.
First of all, about the being awake – St. Paul didn’t have the luxury to describe to simple people that there are many modes in which one can be awake, and they do not necessarily correlate with physical sleeping in the conventional sense. So the first thing I want to assure you that St. Paul is not advocating losing physical sleep. After all, Jesus was sleeping in the boat and even asked His people why they woke Him up – that’s because their faith wasn’t strong enough to realize that Jesus was, in fact, paying attention and was in control of the situation before they woke Him up. Maybe the seas wouldn’t have been calm, but Jesus didn’t care about that. He only calmed the seas because his friends were afraid – not because they needed calming – and more importantly planted strong seeds in their minds that He was, in fact, God.
Mark 4:38
Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
Note they didn’t just say, “Teacher we’re in trouble,” but “… we ARE perishing.”
So really they are questioning God’s concern for them, in addition to just being afraid of the storm. What’s worse, is they are accusing Jesus of being unconcerned with them WHEN HE WAS ASLEEP and wouldn’t have even mortally known of the storms. Moreover, by saying “they are perishing” they are actually telling God what’s what.
I’ll answer more in another post, hopefully. I have to end this one now and take a productivity break.
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AlanFromWichita
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That may be true, but let me give you another level to consider. Some people work for Satan, some for God, and most people do plenty of both in any given day. The devil’s spirit does tempt them to act badly, but the Holy Spirit, through the power of the cross, is in charge of all spirits. Jesus said He saw Satan fall like lightning. Satan is the ruler of the world, but the Holy Spirit is the ruler of all spirits, including his. Problem is the HS and Satan, being spirit, cannot break through the Free Will of people who have been brought up in any civilized society – so that’s where the “surrender” comes in.
So those of us who are aligned with the Holy Spirit just need to trust that all this is under control.
I’m curious how you could be blinded from the truth. Are you convinced you know the groaning of the HS and follow them, or are you concerned the spirit of satan and others might have too much influence at this time? If the former, just carry on and things will sort themselves out. If the latter, we can talk about it more if that’s how you feel.
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SimonArizona
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The Holy Spirit is not the master of all souls. The devil is the spirit at work in the children of disobedience. Who the soul submits to makes the soul a slave to him whom one obeys. The devil is their father and ruler and they will do his will. Submitting to sin is handing the devil mastery of ones soul.
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SimonArizona
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Blinded from the truth by thinking over all these lies. My shield of faith is small and I get stuck with arrows.
Thanks for your reply.
Thanks for your reply.
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AlanFromWichita
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I don’t say the HS is guiding each and every soul. I’d say the HS knows enough strategy that those He does guide, He guides in a way so that ALL things work for good for those who believe, even those things that are “bad.” I believe God’s will is being done, whether those not following the HS know it or not. If that isn’t the case, then we need to put qualifiers on the Word.
Alan
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