{"id":2104,"date":"2022-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2022-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:00:00","slug":"the-importance-of-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/the-importance-of-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is get to bed earlier and wake up refreshed and ready to fulfil God\u2019s purposes for the day. When you constantly run on empty, it shows up in your attitudes, relationships, performance, and health. That\u2019s why the Bible talks about the importance of sleep. <\/p>\n<p>(1) \u2018<i>It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to His loved ones.<\/i>\u2019 (Psalm\u00a0127:2\u00a0NLT) <\/p>\n<p>(2) \u2018<i>In peace I will lie down and sleep, for You alone, O Lord, will keep me safe<\/i>.\u2019 (Psalm\u00a04:8\u00a0NLT) Sleep is an act of trust: when you go to sleep, you acknowledge that the world is in God\u2019s hands, not yours. And it will get along very well, even if you\u2019re not awake to control things. And when you awaken tomorrow morning, just like God giving Israel fresh manna, He will provide what you need for the day. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018<i>I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very sweet<\/i>.\u2019 (Jeremiah\u00a031:26\u00a0NLT) Have you ever tried to pray when you were suffering from sleep deprivation? It\u2019s hard to do. Before Elijah was able to spend prolonged time in prayer, the angel of the Lord made him take not one but two long naps. Contrast that with the disciples in Gethsemane who couldn\u2019t pray because they kept falling asleep. It\u2019s hard to think, feel, and act like Jesus when you\u2019re lacking sleep. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the Bible says, \u2018<i>God gives rest to His loved ones<\/i>.\u2019 (Psalm\u00a0127:2\u00a0NLT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is get to bed earlier and wake up refreshed and ready to fulfil God\u2019s purposes for the day. When you constantly run on empty, it shows up in your attitudes, relationships, performance, and health. That\u2019s why the Bible talks about the importance of sleep. (1) \u2018It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}