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So I'm chapter four verse eight. In peace, I will both lie down and sleep. For you alone,

O Lord, make me dwell in safety. I know that's a really good verse to memorize. I think about

one of my kids who was having a hard time sleeping, who would be scared, and they're bad at night,

and one night I was talking with them about this verse. I just said, let's memorize it together,

and this child still has that verse memorized and still says it over and over again on some nights.

In peace, I will both lie down and sleep. For you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Isn't that a great verse to lay your head down on a pillow at night in peace and to sleep in peace?

So many times we're restless in sleep with all the things going on in our lives,

the things going on in the world around us, but God intends for us to lie down and sleep in peace.

For he alone, our minds are fixed on all kinds of things in this world. We will be restless in our

sleep, but when we fix our minds on him alone and the safety he gives the security he is,

you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. You are safe in the arms of God.

Secure in the promises of God, and you are able to rest in the peace of God.

Oh, God, I just pray this over every single person who's listening to this right now.

And if they're listening to this at night, may they lie down and sleep in peace,

knowing that you alone, O Lord, make them dwell in safety. Just cover them as they lie down in

their bed and listen to and meditate on this verse and others who are listening to this,

maybe first thing in the morning or somewhere else during the day. God, I pray that they would

look forward to sleep in peace no matter what this day brings, that they would know at the end of

it, that they can lie down and sleep in peace in the safety and security that you make us to

dwell in, that you alone make us to dwell in. Our hope, our peace, our rest, our safety,

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