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Psalm chapter 3 verse 5.

I lay down and slept.

I awoke again for the Lord sustained me.

What a great verse.

Now David, the context here,

David writes the Psalm, he's fleeing

from his son Absalom like things are not going well and so he is

desperately in need of sustenance of strength of if his life to be preserved.

And he writes,

verse 5, I lay down and slept.

I woke again for the Lord sustained me.

David realizes the only reason he wakes up in the morning is God bed at night the next morning after hours of unconscious sleep that he is now

conscious again and breathing and living is because the Lord sustained him

and the same reality is true for every single one of our lives.

This morning I woke up, you woke up today for one reason.

The Lord sustains you. You would not have woken up if the

Lord did not sustain you. I would not have woken up if the Lord did not sustain

me. I wouldn't have life today if God hadn't sustained me through the night

and woken me up in the morning. This is not, sleep is not a natural process.

Sleep is dependent on supernatural provision. Only God can when we close our eyes at night and

drift off into unconscious sleep and then we wake up we need to realize as

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