10 Days of Comforting PrayerSample

Day 4: Praying for Sleep

If you're going through a difficult time and are unable to sleep, that lack of sleep only makes things worse. However, the Lord will help you get a good night's rest if you will ask Him to do so!

After reading today's key Scriptures, pray as follows:

• Confess to the Lord how much you need His help to sleep.
• Repeat God’s promise back to Him: that “you will lie down and your sleep will be sweet” when you have wisdom and discretion.
• Then, ask the Lord for sound wisdom and discretion.
• Confess your faith to the Lord that He will give you wisdom when you ask Him for it. (See James 1:5-8.) And according to Proverbs 3:21-24, He will also give you sweet sleep, along with His wisdom.
• Ask the Lord to show you any changes He needs you to make in your sleep habits. (Don’t be surprised if He puts it in your heart to go to bed much earlier than you expect, or to stop looking at TV and electronic devices before you go to bed!)
• Ask the Lord to help you obey whatever He has shown you He wants you to do in regards to your sleep habits.
• Ask Him to help you love righteousness and hate lawlessness, and to keep you from sinning against Him, so that you will obey Him every day—even in the matter of your sleep habits!
• Ask Him to help you eliminate practical things that are proven to keep a person from sleeping.
• Ask Him to help you go to sleep quickly as soon as you lie down, and to sleep soundly all night long.
• Pray that He will speak to you during the night seasons.
• Ask Him to help you remember and understand whatever He says to you in the night seasons.
• Ask Him to help you feel great when you wake up in the morning.
• Ask Him to help you wake up in the morning feeling alert and excited about your day.

Even in the midst of chaos, Jesus will give you rest.

If you will ask Him to help you sleep, He will help you—and He will show you what to do to partner with Him in your sleeping habits. With a good night's sleep under your belt, you will be much better able to face whatever is happening in your life on a daily basis.