Peaceful Sleep (Daily Devotional)

Welcome friends, thank you for connecting and joining. We are talking about some of the things that the word of God has to say for our encouragement for the exam season. We have talked about different things, we have talked about wisdom, overcoming fear and anxiety, working hard, and working smart. Today, I want to touch upon something that I have heard a few students share that during exam time, some of them are not able to sleep, they are not able to get enough rest. There are many ways to address this issue, we are looking at the simple scriptural way. I have already shared that there could be matters that we may want to take to our parents or teachers and seek professional help even but we are not going into those things. We are just talking about what the Bible has to say, what God’s word has to offer us when we are lacking rest and when we are lacking sleep. Here are some scriptures that I want to share which we can confess, Psalm chapter 4, verse 8 it says, ‘I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; For You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.’ God is promising us a restful sleep where we can lie down in peace and sleep and not just that, ‘for you alone O Lord make me dwell in safety’; God is promising us security and safety. We have peace, we can have a restful sleep, God gives us security, no matter what we are going through, any kind of anxious thoughts, we have talked about this earlier, to train our mind to focus on godly things as Philippians chapter 4 says, to fix our mind on God, as Isaiah chapter 26, and verse 3 tells us to do. As we do all these things, what happens? We know that we can experience the peace of God, the rest of God. Let me share another scripture, this is Proverbs chapter 3 and verse 24, ‘When you lie down, you will not be afraid; Yes, you will lie down and your sleep will be sweet.’ Again, God is blessing us with this ability to rest, to sleep and even have a sweet sleep. So, lets go ahead, you can claim these verses, you can confess these verses repeatedly. There is another scripture I want to share with us, Psalm chapter 127, verse 2, the latter part of it says, ‘For so He gives His beloved sleep.’ We can make this confession that I am God’s beloved, He gives me sleep. So, God can help us walk in peace and even find good rest for our physical bodies and even our soul. Now, some of us maybe disturbed by certain dreams that we have, that we are not studying well enough, or the exams not going well enough, now this can happen because of preoccupation that we all have during exam times. So, you don’t have to read too much into it. But there are times where our dreams are intercepted and influenced. When that happens, all we have to do is, if you have a dream which is not a godly one, that instills fear in your heart, just cancel it in the name of Jesus, go ahead and saying something like, ‘I cancel it in Jesus’ name’ and then go ahead and confess these scriptures that says, God gives His beloved sleep, I am His beloved and I have good rest. Let’s pray together, Heavenly Father, we thank you, for the promises in your word of peace, of security, of rest and even sleep. I rebuke every work of the enemy that disturbs and causes unrest among your children and I continue to affirm what your word says, they have good rest, they have good sleep, their bodies are renewed and their bodies and hearts are strengthened once again, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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