THE BELIEVER'S INSOMNIA: AWAKE BUT NOT ALERT

There is a particular kind of spiritual condition that no one talks about openly. It is not the dramatic fall from faith. It is not open doubt or declared unbelief. It is something quieter, more insidious, and far more widespread: the condition of the believer who is still showing up, still saying the words, still going through the motions but who knows, in the most honest corner of their soul, that something has gone deeply quiet inside.
Evangelist J.A. Onyeaghala calls this condition spiritual insomnia being awake but not alert.
In this landmark work spanning 15 powerful chapters, Onyeagha...

There is a particular kind of spiritual condition that no one talks about openly. It is not the dramatic fall from faith. It is not open doubt or declared unbelief. It is something quieter, more insidious, and far more widespread: the condition of the believer who is still showing up, still saying the words, still going through the motions but who knows, in the most honest corner of their soul, that something has gone deeply quiet inside.
Evangelist J.A. Onyeaghala calls this condition spiritual insomnia being awake but not alert.
In this landmark work spanning 15 powerful chapters, Onyeaghala draws a clear and confronting distinction between a faith that merely functions and a faith that truly flourishes. With a directness that will sometimes make you uncomfortable and a tenderness that will always make you feel seen, he walks readers through the real, human, honest reasons why believers drift from full spiritual alertness into this strange half-alive condition.
The book addresses fifteen distinct dimensions of spiritual dullness, including:
The Slow Fade How spiritual dullness sneaks in through the back door of busyness, unanswered prayer, familiarity, isolation, and unconfessed sin
The Comfortable Pew When church becomes a routine to fulfill rather than a home to inhabit
Praying without Talking The crisis of empty, performative words before God
Reading the Map but Never Leaving the House Bible knowledge that never translates into life change
The Worship That Went Nowhere Singing songs to a God you have stopped expecting to show up
The Deaf Ear When God is speaking but the noise of modern life has drowned out His voice
Faith on Autopilot When believing becomes automatic and costs you nothing
The Identity Crisis Knowing you are a child of God but living with the anxiety of an orphan
The Crowded Life When busyness becomes the enemy of spiritual depth
The Unhealed Wound When past pain from the church, relationships, or life becomes a present prison
The Comparison Trap When someone else's story becomes your spiritual distraction
The Lukewarm Heart Understanding the devastating warning Jesus gave to the church at Laodicea that had everything except genuine heat for God
The final two chapters Waking Up Fully and Staying Awake turn the corner from diagnosis toward restoration. They do not offer a quick emotional fix or a simple checklist. Instead, they provide a genuine, practical, sustainable path back to the full spiritual alertness that is every believer's inheritance.
Filled with real stories drawn from real lives, rooted in deep engagement with Scripture, and written with the rare combination of pastoral courage and genuine compassion, The Believer's Insomnia is for the enormous, quiet, largely invisible population of believers who are not in obvious crisis and not obviously thriving but somewhere painfully in between.
This book believes in you. Not in a cheerful, unearned way, but in the deep, theologically grounded way that comes from knowing the God who called you has not stopped working in you.
The hour has come. Wake up. Not just awake alert.