Sleeping Time is God’s time to fill your heart up!

Be zealous of the time God’s using to pour valuable goods in you.  When we sleep, we’re on this “unconscious” state, because we are not in control, that’s why when you’re asleep on a friend’s house you pass gas and later on all who heard might tease you.  At this time our mind is available to Him whom we serve, is like being surrendered to HIM, because we are not in control and we are totally at HIS mercy.  That’s why is important to guard this time so GOD can load our minds up with the things that maybe during the times we are awake due to our busyness of that day we do not pay the needed attention, so what a better time than when we are sleeping.  He will pour on us as hard or deep as need it, and because HIS Omnipotence we will get it!  

Seven things to help you sleep “tight”

and ready to receive HIM:

1.     My bedside phone stays off.

Would you BELIEVE if I tell you that if there’s an emergency that you REALLY need to be aware of, or involved in, GOD can and will wake you up? Ask HIM to confirm this to you.  Many times midnight calls if it’s not a wrong number, are mere interruptions that could be talked at another time.  Guard your sleeping time!

2.  Cell phone stays in the kitchen, NOT in my room. 

Cell phones are great in case of an emergency, but truly, if you do not want to turn your cell phone off for the night, DO NOT bring it to the room! We all know that sometimes when people can’t sleep go to the computer to read and answer messages; not to mention the telemarketing companies which LOVE to send messages after midnight. And any time you receive a message from any of these or from any of your social networks you know an alarm will pop and will disturb your night.

3. Before bedtime a shower is always good thing.

Every day we encounter many challenges, and a good shower can cool your brain down or can warm up your soul, depending what you like and the season of the year we are in.   Also, “Shower Time” is a great time for a “deliverance” prayer, you can pray for that water to shower off of you any impure thoughts or feelings, if there’s hurt, you can ask God to touch you, and to let whatever is causing that hurt inside of you to run down and to go down the drain. You can do this for every part of your body, from head to toe! Try it! There’s nothing impossible for my God! 

4.     Limit your room light.

I do not have a small lamp, and what I resolved to do, was to get a channel station where there’s little move on it.  I like the music channels (in jazz or any soft music) usually the light in these channels is dimmed anyway its sound needs to be very low or muted, is just for the light, so you do not break a leg bumping onto any furniture you might have around. 

5.     Avoid electronics.

These can be big time distractions! A radio on a talking station, when the Lord wakes you up to speak to you but when you open your eyes/ears you suddenly hear a radio conversation of an incident in a place where you have loved ones, you will become totally awake in a flash, an you will not realized God wanted to tell you some things. If the radio is on any music that can take you places and moments in your life that you shouldn’t be revisiting and therefore keep you awake for the wrong reasons.  A tablet or a laptop…. I have to keep mines far from bed, because it’s a temptation to go play when I should be praying.  Believe me, there’s time to play, and yes, bed sometimes is a cozy place to just play for a bit, but NOT when it’s time to pray or when in the middle of the night, because when GOD wakes you up at that time, there’s something important, there’s a purpose for it, and the remedy for it is to find out the reason, and pay attention to God’s message!

6.     Have paper and pen available – always!

A journal, or a 99 cents notebook is great to write details of things that come to mind, people God places on your mind to pray for, sometimes HE will give you the reason and/or what to pray for; God can give you ideas or things He wants you to do, or get involved into.   

7.     Your Bible is a MUST!

Why? Because He might wake you up with a Scripture in mind.  In the cases where HE gives you details about things that you might not understand, you can ask Him for a Scripture to support what HE’s trying to tell you.  Sometimes we go to bed troubled for different happenings of the day, and spending time reading the Word like the Psalm 107/108 which gives us assurance of God’s deliverance over our deep troubles, or Psalm 119 that will lead us to meditate on the Excellencies of God’s Word, and we’ll calm down as it soothes our spirit.  I have to testify to you there’s been many times, that after a time of weeping, and praying, hugging The Bible close to my heart had given me the comfort and peace needed to fall asleep.