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 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: mind and spirit with Tonight's Sleep Psalm. I waited patiently 3 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 1: for the Lord. He turned to me and heard my 4 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: cry Psalm forty verse one. Dear God, there was a 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,159 Speaker 1: time when I felt the fear of fire, when my 6 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: eternity was uncertain and my life was slipping away. But 7 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: you delivered me. You took my fainting feet and set 8 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: me on a firm foundation. You placed me on a 9 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: solid rock, and replaced my cries of fear with a 10 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: song of faith. Blessed is anyone who puts their trust 11 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: in You. May all who seek you find peace and 12 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: rest for their wandering souls. Before I sleep, fill my 13 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: heart with gladness. I am redeemed and rescued by caught Almighty. 14 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: That truth it is worthy of a song. I will 15 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 1: love you for the rest of my days and pray 16 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: for many more nights, singing about your grace in Jesus' name. Amen, 17 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: thank you for praying with me. I'm Bishop TD Jakes, 18 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: inviting you to unwind your mind and spirit with Tonight's 19 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: sleep song. Prepare your heart for this devotional from the 20 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: Book of Psalms. Guiding you into a RESTful embrace unders 21 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: watchful eyes. Thank you for joining me, Bishop TD Jakes 22 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: for tonight's episode of the Sleep Songs podcast. If this 23 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: episode blessed you, follow the podcast so you never miss 24 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,399 Speaker 1: a nightly encouragement. 25 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Grace. For tonight's Sleep Song by pray dot Com. 26 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 2: We will be meditating on song forty. Get in a 27 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: comfortable position to listen to God's word. You can lie 28 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 2: down on a bed or on the floor, or you 29 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 2: can sit in your favorite chair. Keep your back flat straight, 30 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 2: relax your neck and shoulders, and rest your hands by 31 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 2: your side or gently on your lap. Once you are 32 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 2: in a position where you can relax, focus on inhaling 33 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 2: and exhaling through your nose. As you breathe in, feel 34 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 2: your stomach expand tighten your abdomen for a few seconds. 35 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 2: Then slowly exhale, releasing the stress and tension in your muscles. 36 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 2: As your body relaxes, control your breathing to clear your mind. 37 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 2: As you inhale, imagine being filled with God's presence. Exhale 38 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: slowly and allow his presence to alleviate your worry and anxiety. 39 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: Continue taking deep breaths as you focus on God's love 40 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 2: and faithfulness. Know he is here to help you and 41 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: deliver you every day and night. Take a deep breath, 42 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 2: open your mind and heart. Exhale slowly. Ask God to 43 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 2: speak to you through his word. Ask for his truth 44 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: to bring you joy and comfort to night. The Bible 45 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 2: tells us those who look to the Lord for satisfaction 46 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 2: are blessed tonight. Let's put our trust in the Lord 47 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 2: and be fully satisfied in him. Psal forty from the 48 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 2: King James's version says, I waited patiently for the Lord, 49 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 2: and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. He 50 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 2: brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out 51 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 2: of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, 52 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: and established my goings. And he hath put a new 53 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,679 Speaker 2: song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. Many 54 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 2: shall see it and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. 55 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 2: Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust, 56 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 2: and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside 57 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 2: to lies many. O, Lord, my God, are thy wonderful 58 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 2: works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are 59 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 2: to us ward. They cannot be reckoned up in order 60 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 2: unto thee. If I would declare and speak of them, 61 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering. 62 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 2: Thou didst not desire mine ears? Hast thou opened, burnt 63 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 2: offering and sin offering? Hast thou not required? Then say I, 64 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 2: lo I come in the volume of the book, it 65 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 2: is written of me. I delight to do thy will, 66 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 2: O my God, YEA, Thy law is within my heart. 67 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 2: I have preached righteousness in the Great Congregation, though I 68 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 2: have not refrained my lips. O Lord, thou knowest I 69 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 2: have not hid thy righteousness within my heart. I have 70 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 2: declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation. I have not concealed 71 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 2: thy loving kindness and thy truth from the Great Congregation. 72 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 2: Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord, 73 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 2: Let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve me. 74 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 2: For innumerable evils have compassed me about mine. Iniquities have 75 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 2: taken hold of me so that I am not able 76 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 2: to look up. They are more than the hairs on 77 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 2: my head. Therefore my heart faileth me be pleased, O Lord, 78 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 2: to deliver me. O Lord, make haste to help me. 79 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,679 Speaker 2: Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after 80 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 2: my soul to destroy it. Let them be driven backward 81 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 2: and put to shame, that wish me evil. Let them 82 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 2: be desolate for a reward of their shame that say 83 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 2: unto me, aha Aha. Let all those that seek THEE 84 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 2: rejoice and be glad in THEE. Let such as love 85 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 2: thy salvation say continually the Lord be magnified. But I 86 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 2: am poor and needy. Yet the Lord thinketh upon me. 87 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 2: Thou art my help and my deliverer. Make no tearing, 88 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 2: Oh my God. In his word, God reminds us of 89 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 2: our great need for him in our weakest moments. He 90 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 2: lifts us out of the slimy pit full of mud 91 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 2: and mire, and gives us a firm foundation on which 92 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 2: we can securely place our feet and rest. We never 93 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 2: have to worry about his foundation shaking or crumbling. The 94 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 2: same hands that build the foundation of the world are 95 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 2: the same hands that give us a firm foundation in 96 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 2: our lives. Rest tonight, knowing you are safe and secure 97 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 2: in his strong, loving hands. Breathe in and out slowly, 98 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 2: close your eyes and imagine being surrounded by His love 99 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 2: and faithfulness, protecting you and keeping you safe through the night. 100 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 2: Know his mercy will always help you. Take a deep 101 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: breath as you inhale, feel his mighty hands lift your 102 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 2: burdens from your shoulders. Relax your neck as you exhale. 103 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 2: Surrender any fears and doubts to Him. Release any tension 104 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 2: in your body. Take a deep breath and reflect on 105 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 2: the wonderful deeds the Lord has done. Rejoice in the 106 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 2: wonders of his love. Take delight in his word. As 107 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 2: you listen to his word, feel your heart overflow with 108 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 2: joy and delight. Put your trust in the Lord, and 109 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 2: you will find satisfaction for your soul. Breathe in and out. 110 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 2: Think of a time when you allowed your worries and 111 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 2: anxiety to distract you from doing what God was calling 112 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 2: you to do. Ask for his forgiveness. Ask for his 113 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 2: help to keep your eyes on Him even when you 114 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 2: are waiting for your prayers to be answered. Breathe in 115 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 2: and out slowly. With your next exhale. Let go of 116 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 2: any shame or guilt you may have from confessing your sins. No, 117 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 2: He will never withhold his mercy and love from you. 118 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 2: Thank God for the wonderful things he has done life. 119 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 2: Thank Him for the prayers he has answered. Faithfully in 120 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 2: your life. Think of someone who is struggling with waiting 121 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 2: for an answer to prayer. Pray God will give them 122 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 2: hope and patience in their struggles. Pray they will find 123 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 2: rest tonight. Cry out to the Lord. Lift up your 124 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 2: requests to him. Be patient and wait expectantly on the 125 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 2: Lord to answer. You know he is your helper and deliverer. 126 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 2: Pray God will guide you along his path and help 127 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 2: you put him first in your life. Pray God will 128 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 2: give you courage to share what He has done for 129 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 2: you with others. Pray his love will be evident in 130 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 2: all that you do and say. Pray God will protect 131 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 2: you as you sleep. Pray you will experience deep, peaceful 132 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: rest that will rejuvenate your mind and soul. Take a 133 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 2: deep breath inhale and exhale slowly, relax your body, rest 134 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 2: your fingers and toes, and be still before God. Allow 135 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 2: His mercy and grace to wash over you. Allow His 136 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 2: love and faithfulness to bring you joy and comfort. Rest 137 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 2: in His presence and sleep peacefully through the night.