TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - July 8, 2025 - Proverbs 6: 8-11 - The Sleep That Steals Your Future

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

In this Morning Manna episode, we examine Solomon’s piercing question: “How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?” (Proverbs 6:9). Verses 9–11 warn us that spiritual laziness opens the door to unexpected loss—poverty doesn’t announce itself; it sneaks in like a traveler and attacks like an armed man. We’ll reflect on the hidden dangers of procrastination, the deception of ease, and why a restful heart still requires a watchful spirit.Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting https://www.FaithandValues.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

Good morning everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. We're glad that you're here today. We are studying the book of Proverbs. We're in the sixth chapter and yesterday we only I think made it like one and a half verses. Right, Doc? So we're going to go back to where we were at yesterday. I'm not gonna cover verse six. We did verse six and started, yeah, I did verse seven. So verse six and seven. But Doc, I'm gonna have you read six through 11 again, because it's a set of verses.

And I'll pick it up at verse eight in our study today. So that's right. That's open. It's open. Bible study with prayer. Almighty God, our Father in heaven, we give you thanksgiving, Father, that are putting into motion your instruction to seek wisdom and to seek you diligently. And your word says that you are a rewarder to those who seek you diligently. So Father, we've come to be rewarded. We're a venue. But we father, you promise to reward us. So we're here to be rewarded. We're going to put into practice what you said, seek you diligently. And we're doing it. And we're doing it with expectation, we will be rewarded. So, Father, teach us today. Holy Spirit, come, take charge of this morning man of class, and teach us the Word of Almighty God. In the name

of Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. Rick, we can just go ahead and finish class right now. That was a good word. I never thought about that before. We're getting our reward right now. That was a good word. I never thought about that before. We're getting our reward, right? Yeah. Promise. That's down in my gizzard right now. Well, praise God. Let's get some more. Yeah, so we are continuing in Proverbs chapter 6. We've been in Proverbs for several weeks now, and so many people have been writing us, messaging us, and letting us know how much they appreciate the study in Proverbs and how they're discovering things that they've never seen before. And let me just share with you, Rick and I experienced the same thing. We've taught from Proverbs before. We've taught internal staff before, and so we've gone through the entire book of Proverbs teaching it, and I'm seeing things from my previous notes that I didn't catch this time, and you know, it's, and this

time seeing things I never saw before. And this passage is a perfect example of that because on the surface it's a passage that everybody is, they think they're familiar with, but once you really start digging into it there's so much that unfolds from it. That is the passage that I'm going to be reading here from Proverbs chapter 6 verses 6 through 11. So if you got your Bibles follow along with me. I'm reading from the King James this morning. Verse 6, Go to the aunt thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise, which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard, when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, yet a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to sleep, so shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and I want as an armed man." God bless the reading of his word today. Amen. I see we have new members of the class today. Welcome. I'm glad to have you. Yesterday, we briefly covered verse 7,

which having no guide, overseer, or ruler. the or no ruler, no supervisor, no manager, no vice president. What's it tell us? That the ant operates without any supervision. That's the lesson here. What the Bible is telling us is that you and I should work for the glory of God without supervision. All work, all honest labor is unto the Lord. All on honest labor. Whether you are the president of a bank or a member of a cleaning crew, it doesn't matter. Your work should be done unto the Lord, and you should not need a supervisor to tell you and to make you be faithful and diligent in your work.

We do our work because our supervisor is the Holy Spirit. So the ant doesn't wait for instructions, doesn't wait for a memo. Doesn't sit there on a ant chair saying, I need a memo. I finished my work two hours ago and I'm waiting on another memo from ant headquarters Now the the ant is self-driven The the ant has an internal sense of duty that guides its behavior

Its behavior is not driven by a fear of discipline or a hope for reward. So moral responsibility and personal motivation can be cultivated within us, not imposed from without. not imposed from without. So there's initiative and internal personal motivation that's being taught here in this verse. The ant's behavior exposes the sluggard's excuse-making. Remember yesterday we talked about the sluggard's excuse-making. Remember yesterday we talked about the sluggard, the lazy person.

And what Proverbs is doing is saying to lazy people, just look at the ant. That tiny little insect outperforms you. And that little insect doesn't have a supervisor. So what's your excuse, lazy man or woman? Are you going to continue through life being outperformed by a little ant? Lazyness is not the result of a lack of leadership. It's a failure of character. The slugger, the lazy man or woman, ignores both God's words and the lessons in nature.

So in creation, God built instinctive order and diligence into even the lowliest creatures to teach us men and women who have been made in the image and likeness of Almighty God, the Creator. We ought to be teaching the ant. Yeah. It ought to say to the ant, look to man, made in the image and likeness of God. Instead, the Creator's telling us to look at the little,

only ant. Why? Why does the Creator have to tell mankind to look at the ant? Because of the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. That's right. The ant never sinned. Nope. He's smarter than us or she's smarter than us. That's right. There's no sin in an animal. So, the ant is our silent teacher. Sin has made our silent teacher. Sin has made ants our teacher. Because of the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we have been reduced as a race, as a species, we have been reduced to being taught by ants. That's enough right there, just, to make me mad, Doc.

It just makes me mad to think as humans, we have lowered ourselves so much over thousands of years that we have to look at a bug to know God's design. to look at a bug to know God's design. See the bug is aligned with the divine plan. It's that simple. The ant is in alignment with the divine plan. The aunt doesn't need sermons, doesn't need motivational talks, doesn't need an employee manual. Okay, man. It doesn't have to go through HR training.

Yeah. It doesn't have to. No drug rehab. You just, oh, the human race, we are a pathetic mess. The best of us is pathetic. The best, the best of us is pathetic. Pathetic in what? Compared to what?

The way we were made in the garden. That's our standard. See, Jesus, the Son of God, was brought to earth and placed in a human body and born of a woman and lived on earth for 33 years to show us the way Adam was supposed to live. That's why Jesus is the last Adam, and he undid the curse. And he undid the curse. He died on a cross. He was buried. He rose again. He ascended to heaven. He undid.

He rescinded the curse. Praise God. Yes. And the only thing you have to do is believe on his name and be baptized into his church. And you are now without the curse. Praise God. Hallelujah.

Uh, so this, this verse also teaches us that faithful work unto the Lord does not require being watched. Yes. It says the Ant's diligence is independent of an audience. The end has. Think about this. The ant has inward integrity. The end has more integrity than a lazy man or woman That's just that other that just should insult every lazy person on earth That ought to be enough to get them to come up off their sofa and go what did you just say Yeah, that's what it says. The ant has more integrity than you.

Rick, I'm reminded of a story about a CEO that was touring one of his factories are out out in the Midwest. And so while he's touring, he's talking to workers on the assembly line. And he was talking to this one worker on the assembly line and he was talking to this one worker on the assembly line and was impressed by how hard he worked and everything and said to him, oh, I really am impressed by how hard you work and everything. How long have you worked here? He said, ever since they threatened to fire me. I like that. It's a good story.

But I mean, the principle is in there, and a lot of people won't do anything unless there's some pressure that put on them, external pressure or threat. That's the way human nature is. Human nature tends toward the easiest way, the shortcut. Yes. So verse 7 says,

which having no guide, talking about the ant, which having no guide, no overseer or ruler. The ruler carries the connotation of ultimate authority. The one who commands, the one who enforces, the one who governs. The ant has none of this.

There's no king ant. There's no ant queen. They don't have a palace. There's no queen ant that rides around in a carriage with a crown. There's no commander in chief. There's no ruler. But ruler means ultimate authority. But humans require rulers. See, there was not supposed to be government on the planet. That was not God's plan. He was supposed to be our king, and we would discipline ourselves to obey him. That was the original plan.

But because of the fall, we have government. But it's not God's original plan. So the ant never fell, so the ant doesn't have government. And yet the ant governs itself. And the ant society regulates itself. They have no Congress, no Parliament. They don't have election day. No election. They don't have election day. No election. So what's the principle here?

The aunt's absence of a ruler shames the sluggard. The sluggard has teachers, parents, leaders, but most of all, the Word of God, and still resist labor. And so the sluggard is shamed by an aunt. So creation exposes human excuses. That's the moral of the story here. That's the moral of the story. Creation exposes human excuses. God designed little insects to teach us a lesson. Verse 8, the human excuses are the moral of the story. God designed little insects to teach us a lesson.

Verse 8, which, oh, I already did verse 8, move on. Verse 9, provided her meat in the summer and gather her food in the harvest. She prepares her food in the summer. She gathers her provision in the harvest. So this teaches us that the ant not only responds to whatever situation that the ant colony is in, but the ants anticipate need and work, the ants work before the problem arises. Just think about this, a little ant. The Bible says she, talking about it, is a female ant. She prepares her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest. The ant has more sense than a lot of humans.

Yes. Look right outside my office, if I turn right outside these windows in the studio, there's a small city park and there's a lot of homeless people in it and they're looking for food. What they should do is look down at the ground and look at the ant. Is that harsh? No, it's not harsh at all. This scripture is telling you, this scripture is telling homeless people, look down, see that little ant? That ant has food.

Why does this ant have food? This ant works. End of discussion. We make too many excuses for people. We make far too many excuses. We justify disobedience. We call it humanitarianism. We call it welfare.

What are we doing? We're justifying disobedience to the word of God. Oh, it's not your fault. You're disobedient. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. My disobedience to the word of God is not Doc's disobedience, and Doc's disobedience is not your disobedience. We own our own disobedience. So it says this ant provides, she prepares. That implies that the ant has a deep sense of intentionality and foresight.

Again, as I said yesterday, try to think about the size of an ant brain. That little tiny little ant brain has enough wisdom to prepare food for the winter. And yet we got people that you can't convince them they should store some food for, they're having enough food for an emergency. Right, think about that. I know, I don't wanna think about it, I get frustrated. I mean, generally think about it, don't ponder on it too hard. You'll get frustrated.

But the ants, no. Ants? No, go ahead. The ant understands cycles. Yes. Yes, the ant understands cycles. Thank you, Doc. I could give a cycle seminar to a colony of ants

and have more understanding than giving it to- You get more amens. And to a group of people. Yeah. Winter's coming. We got to get ready. Yeah. So ants have a mindset of preparation. You don't have to convince ants to prepare, but you have to convince humans. Ants have a sense of personal stewardship. Notice it's her food. If you don't work you don't eat. Right? I think Paul said that.

Apostle Paul said it. The ant is preparing her food. The ant is preparing her food. The ant is taking responsibility to gather food for herself and to store it and prepare it for the coming season. So the ant's foresight is a rebuke to those humans who ignore opportunities. And they leave their lives to chance. That's where most people are living today. Just leaving it to chance. You know, you talk to people, what if the food supply was cut off for a year? Do you have enough food? Let me think about it. That wouldn't happen. I don't even put it out for a year. I just ask, what about for a month?

What if you could not go grocery shopping for one month? Just one month. I mean, somebody commented on our live chat. Most people are nine meals away from catastrophe. I've never thought of it in those terms. I always thought of one or two paychecks away, but most people, most families are nine meals away from catastrophe. But I've never seen a starving ant. Three days. Yeah. I've never seen a starving ant though. Ants are always finding food. They find food, you know, that you won't eat.

Try to find an aunt holding a sign today on the street saying, we'll work for food. You know, every time I see, every time I see someone holding a sign saying we, I know this is where I'm going to work. Yeah, that's why I'm going into my office. I work for food. What are you doing out here on the street holding a sign, telling me something I don't know? I'm not going to work.

I'm not going to work. I'm not going to work. I'm not going to work. I'm not going to work. I'm not going to work. I'm not going to work. I'm not going to work. I'm not going to work. I'm not going to work. I'm not going to work. I'm not into my office, I work for food. What are you doing out here on the street holding a sign, telling me something I don't know?

And yet all around are businesses with Windows signs saying, now hiring. You gotta stop making excuses for people who are willingly disobedient. They'll put in eight to 10 hours a day standing in the sun begging, having no guide overseer or ruler, provide her meat in the summer and gather her food in the harvest. In the summer. Why does it mention summer?

There's a reason. Summer is the season of growth, access, ease. Summer. Summer is a time that a lot of people just kick back and don't do anything. Not the ant. The ant knows when to act. The ant doesn't delay until circumstances change and worsen. The ant works when the conditions are favorable. So it's teaching us timely obedience, doing what must be done when the time is right.

So God gives each of us windows of opportunity. God gives each of us windows of opportunity. Doc and I have this conversation often. Have we missed opportunities? And we know we have individually and corporately as an organization. And what can we do the next time an opportunity comes by to discern whether it's from the Lord and how can we seize that opportunity and act on it? I will tell you right now, and some of you are going to be, you're going to recoil and

go, no, no, don't say that. Okay. But I'm going to say it anyhow, no, no, don't say that. Okay. But I'm going to say it anyhow. Buckle up, buttercup. Okay so we have an AI, artificial intelligence revolution taking place right now in 2025. Whether you like it or not. You can't stop it. I don't care what you can oppose at all you want. It is changing the world.

You better figure out what it is and how to use it. Because it is a tidal wave. You better learn to surfboard on that thing. Because it is a tidal wave, a tidal wave. And you better learn to surfboard on that thing, because it's changing everything. I read a report last week. I put it in my newsletter. It's not last week. The projection is that in 2026, that's like next year, six million secretarial jobs will disappear.

Six million secretaries will lose their jobs in 2026. Now, you can just sit there as a secretary and say, well, I'll just take my chances. Or you can say, hey, there's something big happening. There's something huge taking place in the world right now. I better figure out a way to ride this wave. And if you're a secretary and you're going to lose your job to AI, how would you ride the wave? I'll tell you how.

You take the opportunity right now in July, 2025, to teach yourself to learn all you can about agentive AI about how humans will supervise non-human digital assistance because the secretarial jobs are going to be replaced by digital non-human assistants. You better learn how to supervise those bots, because the people who know how to supervise them will be the ones who keep their jobs. So the ant sees the seasons, prepares. Yes. There are spiritual and practical reasons, excuse me,

there are spiritual and practical seasons where failure to act ensures future scarcity. And I'm telling you right now, Failure to act ensures future scarcity. I'm telling you right now, if you do not act to learn all you can about this AI revolution and how it's going to impact your career, then you are facing scarcity in the near future. In the next one to three years your job is probably going to disappear this is your season this is your summer season this is your summer season to gather Food being information.

Wisdom. How do I make changes? There are so many job categories that are going to disappear. Bookkeepers, CPAs, even lawyers. Everybody better pay attention to what's going on uber drivers they're gonna disappear to yes autonomous driven cars managed by what digital assistance okay so what's the what's the lesson see I don't like any of this I wouldn't I'm not cheering this on I just dealing with reality. Right. I'm like, I'm here on this planet till Jesus Christ comes, or he takes me out of here. All right. I can't do anything about where the world is going. But I'm in the program with the Lord until I'm not here anymore. And I'm going

to have to make adjustments. So the principle in this verse is we are to work diligently while we can. Make hay when? When the sun shines. Right. You can't make hay when the rainy season arrives. Solomon told us there's a time for everything. The ant is teaching us the rhythm of divine timing. There's a time to plant, a time to grow, a timeuggard, violates this divine rhythm. It's disobedience, it's rebellion.

Laziness is rebellion against God. So summer, summer is the metaphor in this verse for the productive phases of life. in your summer guarantees famine in your winter. You get to your winter and you have nothing it's because you didn't do anything in your summer. The lazy person ignores the divine seasons of life, the rhythm, the cycles. The lazy person acts as if time is unlimited. But the ant teaches us that opportunities are fleeting. There's a time when you've got to take advantage of the opportunity to gather. Amen.

And gathereth her food in the harvest. The ant doesn't just prepare, she follows through. She completes the cycle. The ant provides consistent effort to the end. Not just a burst of energy in the summer, but the ant stays with the program. So the harvest is not in the summer. You don't harvest in the summer. The summer is the time of growing.

Spring is the time of planting. Summer is the time of growing. Fall is the time of harvest. And winter is the time of living on what you grew and harvested. Right. And folks, winter's coming. So harvest is the season of reaping. But even in that season, the ant continues to work. She doesn't assume her work is finished until the harvest is secured.

And she's not relying on some other ant to do it. No. You know, go to the ant once again. Have you ever seen a group of ants and one ant just sitting over by himself watching everybody else? No, that just doesn't happen. Every single one of those ants, it's like they're in a race to outwork one another. and they don't clock in, right? There's no time clock. And they don't need a, they don't need software on their computer to monitor their activity.

A lot of employers have to install software on computers so that they can monitor the activity of the employees using the computer. So as disciples, where we are expected to persevere, not stop that preparation or partial effort. We are expected to show diligence until the job is completed and the job is completed

and the provision is stored. So there's organization, effort, readiness. Diligence is not a sprint, it's a lifestyle. It's a lifestyle. I'll put it like this, preparation is godly. Okay, I own American reserves. I've had Christians tell me, it's not spiritual to tell Christians to stockpile food. You're not trusting Jesus.

Well, I'm going to tell you, an ant is smarter than you. I'm going to tell you right now, preparation is godly. God expects us to be smarter than ants. When you see the world as unstable as it is right now and we're in a war season, to continue to say I'm not preparing, I'm not doing anything. You're foolish. The food supply of this country could cease overnight. Yep. In one week, people would be starving. One week. Less than a week. So we get to verse 9. How long will you sleep, oh sluggard? Oh Lord, here it comes. When will you arise out of your sleep? So verse 9 opens up with a strong, direct, almost exasperated rebuke. How long?

It isn't how long are you going to sleep? It's not talking about physical slumber. So again, on surface level, you think, oh, this is about, you know, don't sleep late. Get up early. Yeah, it does mean that but that's not the full meaning of it Walking through life. There you go. Doc. You sleepwalking through life How long are you gonna continue sleepwalking? You don't have a plan you don't have a destination you don't have a purpose it you just sleepwalking Wake up! Wake up!

So it's the question, how long are you going to sleep, is talking about a state of spiritual and vocational lethargy. The sleep is not talking about, well, should I sleep seven hours, eight hours, nine hours a night? That's not what this is about. This is about prolonged inactivity, procrastination, a deliberate neglect of your responsibilities,

both earthly responsibilities and spiritual responsibilities. You got a lot of people who are, in terms of their earthly responsibilities, they're not lazy at all, but they're lazy about their spiritual responsibilities. You have to do both. By saying, oh, sloggered, it's just cutting through any pretense.

It's like immediately identifying the recipient of the sharp rebuke. I'm talking to you, lazy man, lazy woman. I'm asking you this question. So again, this is not talking about temporary rest, not talking about taking a nap, it's talking about habitual ingrained patterns of avoidance of activity, and responsibility. Amen. There are people in marriages that could be the husband or the wife, the father or the mother, who just go through life ignoring their responsibilities as a parent.

You just don't wanna be bothered with it. Just let the kids grow up, okay? Well, that's how you get weeds Um When will you arise So now the question challenges the sluggard just when are you going to wake up and get out? When are you going to snap out of this? First of all, how long are you going to sleep?

But when are you going to wake up? I mean, if you got a teenager that sleeps in, you know, 12, 13 hours a day, the mother or father standing at the bed saying, how long are you going to sleep? When are you going to wake up? Are you going to stay in bed all day? Right. You stay. Yeah.

Well, God is saying to people, are you going to stay in bed all life? We don't wake up. I gave you a life. You sleepwalking through the life I gave you. So when is a call to action? Arise means awakening, active movement out of this stagnant condition. Snap out of it. Get out of your laziness.

Get moving. Find something meaningful to do. Again, if you're out of work, honestly, there's no reason you're not at work tomorrow somewhere. You say, what's available is not my skill level, not that much. Well, staying home, that's not at your skill level either. Find something to do, and while you're doing something that's less than what you're qualified to do, God will bring you to what you're qualified. Right. Because you're doing, you're being obedient. Staying home saying, I don't have a job, that's disobedience. Then you need to treat looking for a job like a job. Yes. I, I, and you know, and I, I could give all sorts of advice on this. Why? Because I've learned from my mistakes. But, boy, if you're out of work, you need to treat being out of work like a job.

You've got to have a plan. You're going to work 8 to ten hours looking for a job they're not coming to find you I guarantee it no one's out looking for you you gotta go look for the work and so when you're work see when you're unemployed you can pray with confidence saying father your word says I should work. Therefore, I know you will lead me to a job because that's your will. You don't have to ask God, is it your will that I get a job? It may not, it may be that he doesn't want you to get a job, but he wants you to start some business that he's given you a skill to do, and you've not activated the gifting that's in you. So the message here is that each of us has the power

to choose our state of being. message here is that each of us has the power to choose our state of being. We're in charge of that that state of being. The question challenges us to end procrastination, to make an immediate definitive break from laziness, to take the first step. When God sees you taking a step, He acknowledges it and He meets you there. You know the old saying, you can't steer a parked car. The steering wheel is locked.

Cars got to move. Then you can turn the steering wheel. How is God going to guide you if you're sitting at home? You have to be in motion for him to guide your life. He likes that word go. It's the first two letters of his name God. He likes G-O. I'm not in it. That's right. So the sleep is the sluggards chosen state. Therefore, awakening must be the sluggards chosen state. I'm going to stop being a sluggard. I make a decision not to be a sleepwalker. I'm going to change my life. The question is, when will you arise out of your sleep?

When will you come out of your stupor? When will you break away from this unproductive condition of your life? When will you shred or when will you walk away from lethargy? Idleness. Because your sleep, in life, I'm not talking about your bedtime sleep, hinders your ability to provide for yourself. your ability to provide for yourself. The message here is look at the ant. The ant is working in all the seasons. The work changes season to season. There's planting, growing, harvesting, storing.

So coming from exiting from sleep signifies a move to vigilance, to awareness, to active engagement in the affairs of life. I'm going to move on because I'm down to about four minutes here. Let's see, next one. I got more notes than I could use. Verse 10. You had a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. You just see a little sleep, a little folding of the hands, and I lay my head on my hands and take a little nap. Okay?

That's the image it wants to give you. It is showing us the deceptive rationalization of lazy people. They rationalize their laziness. They make excuses for their laziness. It signifies a false promise of an imminent awakening. I'm just going to take a little nap. I'm going to get up soon. This is just a little nap. You know, what do we say in the morning? The alarm clock goes, oh, it's another 10 minutes.

I'll get up in 10 minutes. Okay. I've learned, I, for me, I have to get up right away. If not, I go back to sleep and I can sleep another, I can sleep another two hours. I, I have to get myself up. I have to make myself get up. to get myself up. I have to make myself get up. Because what a little folding in the hands, I'll just sleep here another 10 minutes. No, I'm going to go back into a deep sleep. And that that's what this is saying. The lazy person says, I just a little sleep is a little slumber. I promise I'm going to get up soon. No, you're not. You're going to sleep another decade. Because this isn't talking about taking naps of a couple minutes or an hour. This is talking about sleepwalking for decades.

So the slogger has an unwillingness to make a definitive break from their lethargy. It's simply unwilling. And so what they're doing is that they are opting for continuous small delays in waking up. You get their eyes open. They're looking up at you. They're rubbing their eyes. They're trying.

You're getting it. Are you gonna get up? Just let me sleep a little bit more. Five minutes. Yeah. You're back to sleep. I wake up, back to sleep, wake up, back to sleep. Anybody have a teenager like that?

Don't let your teenagers be that way. I'm telling you, if you love your teenager, make them get up. You're allowing them to develop a pattern of laziness. Oh boy, it's gonna be trouble in some homes. Okay? If you love them, don't let them be lazy, because they're going to take it all the way through life. We're being taught with the scripture that small insignificant acts of procrastination

compound into significant spiritual and practical failures in life. That's why I love the morning manna class. Amen. You know what? Everybody else in the world is spiritually sleeping right now. Oh, they might be at work. They might be driving down the road. Absolutely.

They're doing things, but spiritually, there's a little folding of the hands. I'll study the Bible tomorrow. And tomorrow comes a little folding the hands. I'll study it the next day. And they go through life like that and they never. Diligently seek the word of God. That's just a spiritual lesson, because We can be lazy in spiritual affairs. But you know what, here's something interesting, Rick, about people that are sleepwalking. My

brother used to sleepwalk when he was a kid, and if you tried to wake them up while they were sleepwalking, they'd fight you. They'd attack you. You know, it's not like they, you know, you know, suddenly, oh, I was asleep. Now I'm awake. You know, it's like they start fighting you. My brother was notorious for that. And that's the same way with people today if if you try to wake people up out of their slumber that some some will fight you on it. They they want to stay asleep. They desire to stay asleep. It's easier to be asleep. I was a sleepwalker as a child. I remember my parents telling me that I was sleepwalking. as a child, I remember my parents telling me that I was sleepwalking.

Um, I don't remember anybody fighting me to get out of it. All right. I don't, you know, when you sleepwalking, you don't know you're doing it. That's right. That's that. That's right. You don't know you're doing it. You don't know you're doing it. I remember my mom, I was probably, you know,

I don't know, five, six years old, but I remember her telling me, do you remember getting in the bathtub last night wearing your pajamas? I go, no. She said, I found you sitting in the bathtub in your pajamas and you were pretending you were taking a bath. I remember that, you know.

I'm sleepwalking. But you don't know you're doing it. That's the scary thing about it. People are going through life sleepwalking and they don't know they're doing it. You know what? See, the little sleep is their comfort zone of inactivity. It's their snuggle spot. I'm just going to get in this nice comfortable position and just take a little rest. But they stay there. They wake up, they go back to sleep. They wake up, they go back to sleep. They wake up, they go back to sleep. They wake up, they go back to sleep.

So this little sleep, little slumber is a constant pattern in their life. And their life slowly wastes away without purpose, productivity. They get to the old age and they die and they've got nothing to show for what they did in 70, 80, 90 years. One more verse here. I got so many notes here today. all right? The little sleep,

it represents a chosen, a decision to postpone responsibility. It is the first step in a gradual drift away from diligence and productivity. is the first step in a gradual drift away from diligence and productivity. Amen. It becomes a lifelong pattern. Procrastination rarely starts with somebody announcing, I am lazy. No, it sneaks in through small compromises, delays, rationalizations, procrastination.

The danger is not in just sleeping, but in discounting the cost of it. Yes. Because the idea that a little sleep won't matter. What this scripture is doing, it's exposing that as a lie. That if you continue with that attitude attitude eventually your life will collapse. A little folding of the hands. It represents a gesture of disengagement. A peaceful surrender to inactivity.

Well, certainly you're not going to disturb me as I'm taking my little nap, are you? I got my blankie with me. I got my favorite little pillow, I'm just going to fold my hands a little bit, maybe for a year or two, and then I'll wake up and I'll do something when I'm a year from now. See, it becomes a lifestyle. Here's the kicker. So shall your poverty come as one that travaileth, and your want as an armed man. You will be robbed by want. Like someone put a gun to your head. Yep. And rob you.

Poverty will come to you like a robber. And do a stick up with a weapon. Poverty will take everything from you. Poverty is the inevitable consequence of a lifetime of lethargy, inactivity, laziness. Poverty is the direct result of a person's choices over many years. And it's not just financial lack, it's spiritual lack, spiritual dryness. You can be financially prosperous and spiritually bankrupt. There's decay in your life. There's emotional emptiness.

There are all kinds of things that take place when we are inactive as one that travail of this is saying a robber comes upon you unexpectedly suddenly without warning there's loss the robber with a gun has appeared who is the robber with a gun has appeared. Who is the robber? Poverty. It's like, you know, poverty saying put your hands up. This is a stick up. My name is poverty. Give me whatever you've got.

I'm taking all. I noticed you were sleeping. Yes. Yeah, the door was unlocked. It was easy for me to get in. And you were sleeping anyway. Yeah, I walked around in your house and you didn't know I was here. If you notice, I've carried off everything. But now I'm going to wake you up before I leave with everything

you had. See, it's poverty. Laziness, the consequences of laziness gain momentum. The less we act, the faster the collapse draws near. And thy want as an armed man. Want represents not only the absence of resources, but the presence of urgent unmet needs. An armed man, once he comes, he takes what he desires, whatever he sees. He's holding a gun to your head. Hey, I'm taking your TV, taking everything in your safe,

I'm taking your car, all right, why? I have a gun at your head, you can't do anything about it. So it's telling us this is the inevitable consequence of a lifetime of laziness. You will end up poor. You will end up broke. Laziness is expensive. Laziness is expensive. It has a cost. The universe, the books balance every day in the universe. The divine order, the books balance. Laziness has a cost. But God's wisdom protects us from ruin.

All right, that's it. We're 11 minutes over the time. Sorry. Yeah, a great lesson today. And I'm sure that folks took what the Word of God is saying to heart today and are, you know, I guess the one question that keeps coming back is, how long are you gonna sleep? How long are you gonna sleep? I'm reminded my dad when I was a teenager, hey boy, how long are you gonna stay in bed? How long?

Of course, he had ways to motivate me to get out of bed. Word has shown a lot more grace. So, praise God. Well, we appreciate you being here with us today on Morning Manna. We are live weekday mornings at 8 a.m. here on faithandvalues.com, and we invite you to join us as long as with several hundred people that join us from all over the world for the live edition of Morning Manna. But if you do happen to miss an episode, you can always catch us. We have repeats on faithandvalues.com, but we also share our content on various social media platforms throughout the day,

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Let's go be busy. Be productive today. All right. God bless. We'll see you on the Wednesday edition of Morning Manor.