1 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm Bishop T. D. Jakes, inviting you to unwind your 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: mind and spirit with tonight's sleep. Psalm Let the redeem 3 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,959 Speaker 1: by the Lord say so whom he has redeemed from 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: the hand of the Adversary Psalm one O seven, Verse two. 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: Dear God, as I ease my heavy head into this soft, 6 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: willowy pillow to pray, I humbly ask for your calming 7 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: presence to fill my chaotic soul. My heart is heavy 8 00:00:54,200 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: and my mind is burdened with worries, fears, doubts. Sometimes 9 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: I'm scared a long for your soft touch to soothe 10 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 1: my restless mind and grant me the peace that surpasses 11 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: all understanding. I feel lost in this darkness, and I 12 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: can't find the way out on my own, but I 13 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: know that you are the light that leads me to safety. 14 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: I ask that you guide me out of this storm 15 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: and enter the serenity of your loving embrace. May the 16 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: weight of my troubles be lifted from my shoulders, and 17 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: may I find the rest in You. Give me the 18 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: strip to trust in your in this mercy, and to 19 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: walk with faith through whatever struggles may come. May your 20 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: gentle voice whisper words of grace and love into my 21 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: ear as I rest at your feet. For you are 22 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 1: the sauce of all goodness and truth, and I find 23 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: my peace in you. Thank you Lord for your unending 24 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: love and your faithfulness. May your bright light shine upon 25 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: me and lead me to the quiet rest that only you. 26 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: Can give. 27 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, Amen, thank you for praying with me. 28 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: I'm Bishop td Jakes inviting you to unwind your mind 29 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: and spirit with Tonight's Sleep Song. Prepare your heart for 30 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: this devotional from the Book of Psalms, guiding you into 31 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: a RESTful embrace under his watchful eyes. Thank you for 32 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: joining me, Bishop td Jakes. For tonight's episode of the 33 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: Sleep Songs podcast. If this episode blessed you, follow the 34 00:03:54,800 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: podcast so you never miss a knightly courage. 35 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Grace. For tonight's sleep Psalm by pray dot Com, 36 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 2: we will be meditating on Psalm one hundred and seven. 37 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 2: Take a deep, cleansing breath. Feel the clean, fresh air, 38 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 2: rejuvenate your lungs. Exhale slowly, allowing the air to flow 39 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 2: freely throughout your body, restoring and relaxing. You invite the 40 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 2: presence of God as you sleep. Take another deep breath. 41 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 2: Imagine the light of His presence filling your room, warming 42 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 2: your heart, and calming your mind. Breathe in his peace. 43 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:52,799 Speaker 2: Breathe out your stress and anxiety from today. Surrender all 44 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 2: your fears and worries to the Lord. With your next breath, 45 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,559 Speaker 2: feel God release you from your burdens, relaxing your neck 46 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 2: and shoulders and lightening your heart. Breathe in and out slowly. 47 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 2: Open your mind and heart to hear God's word. Ask 48 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 2: for his truth to comfort you tonight. Allow His voice 49 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 2: to lead you to a safe, secure place where you 50 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 2: can rest peacefully through the night. The Bible reminds us 51 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 2: of all the ways God provides for us and answers 52 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 2: our prayers when we face difficult times. He is always 53 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: there to help us and deliver us. Psalm one hundred 54 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: and seven from the King James version says Psalm one 55 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 2: O seven from the King James version says, Oh, give 56 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 2: thanks unto the Lord, for he is good for his 57 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 2: mercy endureth forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, 58 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,159 Speaker 2: whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy, 59 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 2: and gathered them out of the lands from the east 60 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 2: and from the west, from the north and from the south. 61 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 2: They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way. They 62 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 2: found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their 63 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 2: souls fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord 64 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 2: in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. 65 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 2: And he led them forth by the right way, that 66 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 2: they might go to a city of habitation. Oh that 67 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for 68 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 2: his wonderful works to the children of men. For He 69 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 2: satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness, 70 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 2: such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, 71 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 2: being bound in affliction and iron. Because they rebelled against 72 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: the words of God and condemned the counsel of the 73 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 2: most High. Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. 74 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 2: They felt down, and there was none to help. Then 75 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 2: they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he 76 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 2: saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out 77 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 2: of darkness and the shadow of death, and break their 78 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 2: bands in surrender. Oh, that men would praise the Lord 79 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 2: for his goodness and for his wonderful works. To the 80 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 2: children of men, For he hath broken the gates of 81 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: brass and cut the bars of iron. Insunder fools. Because 82 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 2: of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 83 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 2: Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat, and they draw 84 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 2: near unto the gates of death. Then they cry unto 85 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 2: the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out 86 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 2: of their distresses. He sent his word and healed them, 87 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 2: and delivered them from their destructions. Oh that men would 88 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 2: praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful 89 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 2: works to the children of men, and let them sacrifice 90 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. 91 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 2: They that go down to the sea in ships that 92 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: do business in great waters, these see the works of 93 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 2: the Lord and his wonders in the deep. For he 94 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 2: commandeth and raiseth the stormy winds, which lifteth up the waves. 95 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 2: Thereof they mount up to the heaven. They go down 96 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 2: again to the depths. Their soul is melted because of trouble. 97 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 2: They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man, 98 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 2: and are at their wits end. Then they cry unto 99 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 2: the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out 100 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 2: of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so 101 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad 102 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 2: because they be quiet? So he bringeth them unto their 103 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 2: desired haven. Oh, that man would praise the Lord for 104 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 2: his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children 105 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 2: of men. Let them exalt him also in the congregation 106 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 2: of the people, and praise him in the assembly of 107 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 2: the elders. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the 108 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 2: water springs into dry ground, a fruitful land into barrenness, 109 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 2: for the wickedness of them that dwell Therein, He turneth 110 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 2: the wilderness into standing water, and dry ground into water springs. 111 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,719 Speaker 2: And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they 112 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 2: may prepare a city for habitation, and sow the fields 113 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 2: and plant vineyards which may yield fruit of increase. He 114 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 2: blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and 115 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 2: suffereth not their cattle to decrease. Again they are minished 116 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 2: and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. He poureth 117 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 2: contempt upon princes and causeth them to wander in the 118 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 2: wilderness where there is no way. Yet, setteth he the 119 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 2: pour on high from affliction, and maketh him families like 120 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 2: a flock. The righteous shall see it and retur choice, 121 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 2: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. Whoso is wise 122 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 2: and will observe these things, even they shall understand the 123 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:15,079 Speaker 2: loving kindness of the Lord. In your distress, you can 124 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 2: cry out to God and he will deliver you. Know 125 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 2: you are never alone. The Lord is always with you, 126 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 2: rescuing you and restoring you with his power and strength. 127 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 2: Find comfort in the mighty hands of the Lord tonight, 128 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 2: take delight in the word of the Lord. Know his 129 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 2: word fills you with his provision and refreshes you with 130 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 2: his eternal springs of salvation. Know his truth can bring 131 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 2: you out of the darkness and into the light. Know 132 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 2: his salvation breaks you free from the chains of sin 133 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: and destruction and into his freedom. Take a deep breath, 134 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 2: be filled with the goodness of the Lord. Exhale slowly 135 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 2: and release any stress and tension in your body. Take 136 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 2: another deep breath. Be filled with the courage of the Lord. 137 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 2: Exhale slowly and feel his courage empower you to face 138 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 2: life storms in his sovereignty. He has the power to 139 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 2: silence the wind and waves, allowing you to rest quietly 140 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 2: and safely, even during the darkest of nights. Acknowledge any 141 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 2: unconfessed sin before the Lord. Acknowledge any doubts about putting 142 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 2: your trust in him. Ask for his forgiveness. Ask for 143 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 2: him to remind you of his goodness and faithfulness during 144 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 2: times of difficulty. Take a deep breath, Allow his perfect 145 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 2: love and grace to wash over you. Hail slowly, and 146 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 2: surrender any struggles, shame, and skepticism to the Lord. Know 147 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 2: he is faithful to save you and strengthen you. Rejoice 148 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 2: in the power and strength of the Lord. Praise his 149 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 2: mighty deeds. Thank him for the ways he has provided 150 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,839 Speaker 2: for you. Thank him for the times when he has 151 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 2: protected you. Think of a person who needs God's provision tonight. 152 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 2: Pray the Lord will turn their time of need into 153 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 2: an abundance as he showers them with his blessing and favor. 154 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 2: Pray they will find rest and satisfaction in him. Tonight, 155 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 2: cry out to the Lord. Lift your troubles to him. 156 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 2: Ask for him to help you and deliver you. Know 157 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:55,199 Speaker 2: he hears your prayers and responds to your cries for help. 158 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:01,199 Speaker 2: Put your trust in Him to night. Pray for God 159 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 2: to give you the opportunity to share your story with others. 160 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 2: Pray your story will bring joy and comfort to those 161 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 2: around you. Pray for God to fill you with wisdom. 162 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 2: Pray you will follow Him all the days of your 163 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 2: life and find peace on his path. Pray for God 164 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 2: to give you the courage in the midst of the 165 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 2: storms of life. Pray He will protect you and preserve 166 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,439 Speaker 2: you as you rest in him. Take a deep breath, 167 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 2: Exhale slowly and relax your body. Close your eyes, and 168 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 2: lie down flat on your back. Take a few deep 169 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 2: breaths each time your lung fills completely with air. Hold 170 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 2: your breath for a few seconds, then exhale and let 171 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 2: go of any stress and anxiety that is still lingering 172 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 2: from to day. As your body relaxes, allow God to 173 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 2: fill your heart with his joy and peace and refresh 174 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: your mind, body, and soul as you sleep.