40Days Of Gratitude With Bev Allen - Day 29: Restful Sleep

GNO!Hanging our with my
girl Rose at her lovely home

Welcome to 40 Days Of Gratitude day 29!  Thank the Lord, we are starting of week 5, what an adventure! We are entering 5 weeks of focusing on our blessings and not our problems and it has ignited something wonderful in me!   Thank sharing this awesome experience with me. I am looking forward to reading your comments and sharing your stories:  Revelations, problems solved, ideas conceived and birthed etc.

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At the end of the devotion I invite you to do a short quiet reflection of 5 - 10 minutes. Breath deeply and focus on your breath - inhalation and exhalation.  If your mind is "busy" repeat the gratitude of the day or your own personal gratitude that comes to mind.  This quite time will allow you to hear from God.

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TODAY'S DEVOTION:

Today I am grateful and thankful for restful sleep.  When I was younger I took this privilege for granted.  As a matter of fact I used to boast that I only needed 3 - 4 hours sleep and for many years that's what I ran with.  Then mid-life hit and I got a wake-up call, pardon the pun.  Stresses of life combined with the onset of menopause threw me in the no sleep zone.  That was more than a long nightmare, I could actually empathize with Michael Jackson for taking the extreme (ill advised of course) measures which ended up costing him his life.  I didn't have Michael Jackson's money so I had to seek out methods that would give me better results at minimal costs.  Since then I have seen Arianna Huffington, founder of The Hoffington Post, wrote a book sharing her experience of sleep deprivation and started a whole new successful business enterprise on the subject of sleep,  spinning it out to a whole new industry.

THOUGHT TO FOCUS ON:

My rest and my sleep are precious and therefore I will not let anyone or anything rob me of either one of them.

SCRIPTURE:

Psalm 4:8 (AMP) - In peace [and with a tranquil heart] I will both lie down and sleep, 

For you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety and confident trust.

PRAYER:

O Lord, Jesus, thank you for the privilege of laying down to sleep in a safe and peaceful abode; I can put my head down knowing my security and protection rest with you.  When sleep failed me you showed me what to do; you put the right people with the right information in my path so I would be guided back to wholeness. I thank you for the professionals who take the issue of sleep as their area of focus and work diligently to help those who suffer from maladies that affect their sleep.  I pray that you will have mercy on those who struggle to get a good night's rest.  In Jesus name I pray, AMEN 🙏🙏🙏

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My favourite activity
since childhood

To have a restful sleep we need to have a peaceful day.  We need to do the things

and think the thoughts throughout the day that will lead to a restful night.  There have 

been quite a few books and other publications on the topic since Arianna Huffington's 

book, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life One Night at a Time, came out.

Guard your sleep and protect your peace for your life depends on it.

Have a restful & blissful weekend,

Beverley