OT DAY 506 - "Don't Quit" Rule No. 2: Sweet Sleep (Please click here for English podcast)

Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

      Blessed be the Lord!
       For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.

                                     Psalm 28:6

Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html)

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (1 Kings 19:4-5)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=列+王+紀+上+18&version=ESV

4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” 
5 And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. 

                                         1 Kings 19:4-5

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

    My Listening

           "Don't Quit" Rule No. 1 is to talk to God. Then, if you really talk to God, He is going to give you a big gift and that is sweet sleep!

            Usually, lots of people cannot sleep when they are in distress. They cannot sleep even they have sleeping pills! Because there are so many things talking to them inside their heads, their souls!

             When you talk to God, pray to God, God has a way to grant you sweet sleep. 

    Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 

     (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) : 

      After another day, for the first time he stops for breath, and for the first time he talks to God. God does not respond to his desperation except by providing him with sustenance.

John Goldingay. 1 and 2 Kings for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.90.

           And, sustenance begins with sleep, good sleep, sweet sleep!

           What I receive from Abba, our Heavenly Father now is to give you confirmation of what He promised:

        It is in vain that you rise up early
     and go late to rest,
  eating the bread of anxious toil;
    for he gives to his beloved sleep.    Psalm 127: 2
   If you lie down, you will not be afraid;
    when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.    Proverbs 3: 24

 Yes, God will provide you with sustenance and the first of His sustenance is to grant you sleep, not only normal sleep but sweet sleep!

           By faith, you talk and pray to God now. Say this prayer:

           "Abba Father, forgive my sins. I come back to you now. Lead me as my Lord and King. I claim your promise of granting me sleep and sweet sleep. In Jesus Name I pray. Amen."

Reflect on these questions:

    1. Do you believe God grant sleep, sweet sleep to His beloved children? Are you willing to claim His promise?

2. How do you feel after you say the prayer I teach you? 

    3. What have you got from Jesus today?

10,000 Reasons

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