When It's Hard · Fear & Worry
Can't Sleep
For when you feel: insomnia, 3am, racing thoughts at night, restless
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
The MinuteSermon
It is three in the morning and everything looks bigger in the dark, the way it always does at this hour. David knew the feeling. He wrote Psalm 4 with real enemies circling, and still the psalm ends with his head on the pillow: "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep." His secret was not that the problems vanished by bedtime. It was one small word, only. "Thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety." Sleep is an act of trust. For the next few hours you resign as manager of the universe and hand the night shift to the God who was going to keep it anyway. The Keeper of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps, which means tonight you can.
By the MinuteSermon editors
A prayer for this moment
Father, I hand You the night watch. Quiet my thoughts, guard what I cannot, and let me sleep in the safety of You. Amen.
Songs for this moment
“Abide” · Aaron Williams / The Worship Initiative
a lullaby-slow prayer
“Still” · Hillsong Worship
hiding beneath His wings
One small step
Put the phone in another room and pray the verse once for each slow breath, ten times.
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