Welcome to Bible at bedtime, a podcast where I, Amber Lawton, read Bible passages to help you fall asleep.

Tonight, before I jump into the scripture, I wanted to share a few things with you, my listener.

So if you want to go straight into listening to the scriptures,

you'll probably want to fast forward this section.

It may end somewhere between the seven to nine minute mark.

First, I started this podcast back in 2020, and it was during a time where I had started to experience difficulty with falling

asleep again. At a very young age, I had challenges with restlessness, sleeplessness.

There were just a number of issues at night when I would try to go to sleep or stay asleep.

I remember my parents wanting to teach me how to settle in, wanted to choose a way for me to learn how to rely on the Lord.

And it began with me having different teachings that they would put on the TV.

At the time, I had a TV in my room.

And so they would turn on TBN or Christian programming with the hopes of it helping me fall asleep oddly enough there were a number of times that

programming went into a pastor who was praying and I would join along with him.

So then I was up at night as a small child praying for people and nations and just whatever

else was on the list for that night.

And then over time, when the TV was removed from my room,

my parents had a collection of Bible stories or accounts that were dramatized. And so I would listen to these different accounts of

different individuals through the Bible, and that would help me to go to sleep. And I also listened

to scripture, and I also kept a little Bible in the bed with me.

I always share with friends. I didn't have a blankie. I had my Bible. And so at times when I would

wake up in the middle of the night, I knew the first thing that I should do before seeking my parents

was to try to read a scripture,

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