Father God,

Today, I pray for the provision of sleep and rest for Your children in spite of the storms and trials of life which so often steal and threaten those times of refreshing rest. We walk through days filled with one challenge to peace after another. We are dependent on You to press peace into our thoughts and feelings even while we are awake and commanded to fear not.

Then we lay down at night and there are no more activities to distract such that our thoughts and concerns begin to flood in. In those times when the lights are off and our head lies upon the pillow, we need Your Spirit to work out faith that You will provide even as we sleep.

So often, when we try harder to sleep in peace, we lie awake struggling to find the peace that leads to peaceful sleep. We pray that You would cause Your peace to rest upon us such that our sleep turns from something we dread trying to do into something that we are refreshed by. Drive back the voices of the enemy which try to insert themselves into our nights. Drive back our own heart struggles which try to scream at us in the night.

Give Your children refreshing sleep by the power of Your Spirit working in our spirits.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.