20/02/2026
Topic: The features of being sober; concept of relationship.
- If you are sober you can’t experience relationships with anyone.
- Seek the person as yours; when you are sober you are ready to forgive
1 peter 5:8, Amos 3:3
- Sober:Avoiding intoxication, self control, spiritual eruptness,
- The fact you are sober does mean you are afraid but watching carefully.
- Sobriety: allowing peace to reign, clarity under pressure
- Not allowing the devil to devour you, you remain constant
Features of being sober:
- Clear minded: only the things that make a man glorious is clarity. When you are operating you would think straight. 1 Peter 1:13. Loins of mind….It means a life that is not sober will accommodate things that are unnecessary, dirt. When we fail to be sober we have subjected over self to redicle
- Not just jump into conclusions: not considering to panic. Does not allow emotion to cloud the truth instead will ask what is truth? What is God saying? Could it be real? And what is God trying to communicate in this matter. A sober disciple his to your thoughts, ability to reconsider events
- Spiritually watchful: 1 thes 5:6…. Sleep-Spiritual carelessness, you are aware of the spiritual reality and realise temptation early.
- A sober person does take any thing for granted but spiritually conscious. Be alert! Eph 6:11-13. Strategies of warfare.
- Self control: 1 Tim 3:2, Titus 1:8 doesn’t react recklessly, it speed your sense of humour as against anger. It help to make steady decisions.
- Sober person is always prayerful.: 1 Peter 4:7. When you are focused/ sober the first thing is to take it back to God, it is not self reliance, it is the awareness of our dependency in God. When you are sober you will be vigilant so you will be able to discern and not be deceived
- It held you from spiritual decision, emotional deception, a sober life is a guided life
- If you are not sober you will not know how to differentiate infatuation from real love, you will have regrets,
- Be sober don’t be foolish
- When you fail to be sober destiny can change