Sleeping Giants

This is a call to Sleeping Giants. WAKE UP!!

What is a sleeping giant? A sleeping giant is a Christian who has a godly heritage, but isn't using it. You grew up in a godly home, got godly teaching, know a ton about the Bible, yet you do relatively nothing with it. Now, at this point, I know some people are going to get their guard up and say: "Hey, wait a minute, he's getting all judgemental on us!". Not at all. Actually this is going to be quite an uplifting post! You see, I am one. I have been for a long time. But, I'm waking up and it's really exciting!!! Check it out...


Ok, so you may or may not be associating with what I'm talking about. Let's see if this describes you:

- You call yourself a Christian
- You go to church most every Sunday
- You try to read your Bible on a somewhat regular basis
- You try to have a "Relationship with God", it's tough
- You try to implement stuff you read from the Bible into your daily life, with much failure and frustration
- You long to have a much, much, much, much, much deeper relationship with God
- You feel like a fake
- Quietime is a chore
- You're lucky if you get breakfast in the morning, let alone a quietime

Any of this sound familiar? If I'm all alone on this, I'm ok with that, but I don't think I am and that's why I'm writing this. So if you are like me and this fits you, get ready to rock because I've got good news for you!

Now the idea that I'm excited about goes like this. You are a sleeping giant, a huge spiritual gargantuan, a tower of biblical truth, a hulking muscly mass of devil destroying power............but, you're just laying there, incapacitated by drowsiness, and tied down by little ropes, silly things like TV, facebook, farmville, wii, (I know were getting touchy here!), things that pale in the light of eternity, but keep us in some sort of mystical apathetic slumber.

Is this you? No? Get out of here, I'm so jealous of you : ) (jk, you can keep reading). Yes? Alright, let's do it!


Ok, so if you are sleeping, you need something to wake you up. For me, the alarm clock was Denny Kennaston. Denny Kennaston is fiery farmer preacher and has this wicked 28 part series called the 'Godly Home' that will rock your world! I was about 16 parts in when my world came grinding to a halt. A question hung in the air like a time stopping slow-mo 360 pan in a movie:

"Micah, where is your heart?"

I couldn't handle it anymore, Denny was pounding a bruise with a hammer! Message after message. "Where is your heart?" "Where Is Your Heart??" "Where Is Your HEART???" "WHERE IS YOUR HEART MICAH!!!!????" UNCLE UNCLE UNCLE!!! I GIVE UP!!! I GIVE UP!!! I give up....

Pop (eyes open). "Hey wait a minute... why am I sleeping? Where am I? What time is it? Who are all these little farts tying me up with little ropes?".

So I wake up and have the biggest revelation I've ever had in my life (that was actually useful). The Christian life is not about trying, it's about your heart. Your heart is like the most powerful part of your being dude. Whatever you set your heart on, that is your life, much like Jesus saying that whatever you spend money on, that's where your heart is. You spend money on things that you were already researching and thinking about and looking at when you visit the stores weekend after weekend. You set your heart on it long before you ever bought it.

I'll come at it from another angle and come back to the main point. Remember the game whack-a-mole at the carnival? Hit a mole on the head with a hammer, another one pops up somewhere's else... Same thing with us. "Man, I need more quietime with the Lord", but where will the time come from? "TV is the devil" you say one day after a barrage of disgusting commercials. You decide to not watch it. After a few days though, you find a new hobby...

Free time != Time with God

It's so obvious, but how did I miss it? I don't know, and I don't care anymore! The answer is:

Passion = Time with God

If you want to break the ridiculous little ropes that the devil's minions have bound you with, get up. Just stand up! Say: "Today, I make my new Hobby God". There you did it!

With one decision of the heart, you pick your heart up and put it on God. Just like I can make Macs, or Wii old school virtual console games my hobby, or music, or sports or youtube or movies my hobby, I can make Jesus Christ my hobby.

Sounds funny doesn't it : ) "Micah, that doesn't sound like much fun." Question: "Is practicing an instrument for grueling hours a day always fun?" Question: "Is practicing a sport when you are in pain and tired fun?" Question: "Is it cool when you get Nintendoitis and your thumb is so sore you can no longer use the D-pad?" No, but we do it anyway because we want to be good at it! When we play that piece masterfully, pull off that kickflip, or kick someone's butt at Mario 3, it feels awesome!

How many times have you sat down and read the Bible and it was hard to get into it, but then you are reading it and you are like: "This is awesome! I wish I was digging this more often!!" What about that time when you spent time with the Lord and He said: "I love you and I'm pleased with you and you are my child!" and you just sat there with tears streaming down your face thinking "why don't I do this more often". What about living a victorious life! Is it fun to be conquered by sin? Aren't you sick of kneeling on the floor and repenting for the same old sin, day after day after day?

It is fun!! It is fun to read the Bible and spend time with God and walk a victorious life and see God use us in the lives around us!!! It is fun! We have somehow convinced ourselves that it's not fun because we love other things and we want to get quietime out of the way so that we can get to our other pursuits. Ouch. Forget it, back to the point.

Once you make the decision that God is your hobby, everything changes. You say: "I'm excited about the Bible" "I'm excited about prayer" "I'm excited about Church and being with God's people" "I'm excited about worship music!" It's a little unnatural at first no doubt, but it doesn't take very long before you remember what it's like to serve the Lord with all your heart.... and you get excited : )


It's time to wake up my gigantic brothers and sisters. Let's kick some devil butt : )

PS - If you want the whole Denny Kennaston series (it's life changing, get it!!) I put it in two chunks that you can download here and here. There are 28 mp3s and they are awesome!

PPSS - != means "not equal" in programming

PPPSSS - Better check out my favorite song while you are at it. "Every day with You is getting better!!!"



PPPPSSSS - The giant imagery is from "Gulliver's Travels". Enjoy!