Prayer for sleep

Contents for Prayer for sleep

• A short prayer :-)
  
• Bible quotes that serve as prayer for sleep
• Hymn for good sleep
• Prayer based on New Testament Bible verses
• A Christian sleep Mantra
• Prayer may lead us to practical guidance
• Don't punish yourself for insomnia
• If you feel desolate when you wake in the middle of the night
• When you are not sleeping and worry about the next day
• Sleep and spirituality - get out of your own way
• My own blessing for you to sleep well.
• Faith articles relevant to prayer for sleep

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A short prayer for sleep

I told you it was a short prayer! :-)

If you had just asked for help with sleep from someone with the power to help you and the desire to help you, how would you feel?
Let yourself rest in a moment of trust.
A moment of trust is powerful as a doorway to give God access.

Additional bible quotes that serve as prayer for sleep

The following bible verses can serve as prayers for sleep.
Choose and recite a bible verse.
Or choose a line to learn by heart so you can say it as you lie in bed ready for a good night's sleep.

“In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.”
AMEN
Psalm 4:8, Bible sleep quote

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“I awoke and was refreshed,
and my sleep was peaceful.”
(Jeremiah 31:26, Jerusalem, prayer for sleep Bible verse)

“Yes, my soul, find rest in God;
my hope comes from him.

Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.

My salvation and my honour depend on God;
he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

Trust in him at all times, you people;
pour out your hearts to him,
for God is our refuge.”

(Psalm 92, Bible verse to help heal insomnia)

Hymn that includes a prayer for sleep

The words of a beautiful hymn which asks for blessing throughout the day.

"Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm,

Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm,

Be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray,

Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day."

Prayer for sleep based on New Testament Bible verses

“Come to me [Jesus], all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.”
(Matthew 11:28-30, Bible prayer for sleep)

Sleep Mantra

My dear Christian friend, Tina, recommends the following prayer for sleep in the form of a mantra.

"I find it helps me to do a body scan, starting at my feet and working upwards, saying to each part of my body
"Relax and sleep in the name of the Lord."
I rarely get as far as my head!"

And this prayer is from Tina too...

A prayer for sleep may lead us to practical guidance

A prayer for sleep opens you to an immediate answer - a good night's sleep :-) 

Please remember the answer to prayer may also be to find something practical you can do to that leads you to sleep well.

Don't punish yourself for insomnia

If you are not sleeping you may be tempted to give yourself a hard time.
You may even feel that insomnia is a punishment.
Let these thoughts be as they are and let new thoughts take their place.

A sleepless night is not your fault.
A sleepless night is not a punishment.
Nothing can separate you from God.

“Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way:
in great endurance;
in troubles, hardships and distresses...
in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger...
with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
through glory and dishonour, bad report and good report;
genuine, yet regarded as impostors;
known, yet regarded as unknown;
dying, and yet we live on;
beaten, and yet not killed;
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;
poor, yet making many rich;
having nothing, and yet possessing everything.”
(2 Corinthians 6:3, NIV, sleep help Bible verse)

If you feel desolate when you wake in the middle of the night

“On my bed I remember you;
I think of you through the watches of the night.
Because you are my help,
I sing in the shadow of your wings.
My soul clings to you;
your right hand upholds me.” (Psalm 63:6-8, NIV)

Trouble sleeping can mean trouble getting to sleep or it can mean waking in the night and having trouble getting back to sleep.
One of the causes of insomnia can be symptoms or pain from chronic illness.
I love that the psalms give us permission to have a moan!

"Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am faint;
O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony.
My soul is in anguish.
How long, O Lord, how long?
Turn, O Lord, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.” 
(Psalm 6, NIV, Bible quote when not sleeping)

When you are not sleeping and worry about the next day

One of the things that  may keep you awake in the night is the worry that you will be too tired to function the next day.

Remember you are not alone in what you do.
Press into God, Love.
You can afford to get tired at times because you are not relying on your own strength.

"Hast thou not known?
hast thou not heard,
that the everlasting God, the LORD,
the Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth not, neither is weary?

(Isaiah 40:28, KJV Bible quote about tiredness)

There is a lovely hymn based on the above. Find the link below. Here are some of the words....

"You are the everlasting God,
the everlasting God,
You don't grow faint
You don't grow weary"

If you feel stressed by not sleeping it is very helpful to remember that rest - lying still and relaxed - gives many of the same benefits as sleep.
You are doing your best.

Move here for prayers for relaxation.

Sleep and spirituality -
get out of your own way

Getting to sleep isn’t something you can make yourself do.
It isn’t something where ‘trying hard’ can help.

Sleep is natural. You can do the following.

• take practical steps to make sleep likely
• let go of ‘trying’
• get out of the way of sleep - one way is to say a prayer for sleep and hand it over
  
• practice the belief ‘Sleep is natural’
  

This has parallels with the spiritual experience. The spiritual experience is natural. We can't make ourselves have a spiritual experience. But we can put conditions in place that make it more likely.
We can engage in our chosen spiritual practice, be it prayer, blessing, forgiveness, or repeating spiritual quotes from a holy book.

God's love is always available. When we get out of our own way, we receive a revelation of this love.

Put everything in place to make sleep most likely, and then hand it over.
Surrender.

The same applies to the rest of your life.

Whether you don’t sleep so well or you sleep wonderfully tonight, love yourself and approve of yourself as you are....
More importantly, stay open to the knowledge that Love itself loves you.

I say a little prayer for sleep for all of you who visit here.
Please say it for myself and others.
(It is also in the image above.)

Katherine

Katherine T Owen, webmaster,
Author of Be Loved, Beloved (Kindle)

Faith articles relevant to Prayer for Sleep

• Finding peace
• Spiritual quotes about rest
• Prayer for rest

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