Employ practical helps. It’s hard to be awed when we’re sleepy or distracted. Getting enough sleep, choosing a more wakeful time of day, taking a shower or doing a few minutes of exercise first can help us be more alert. Removing distractions as much as possible helps: turning off th...
“Our friendLazarus sleeps,but I go that I maywake him up.”Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps he will get well.”However,Jesus spoke of his death,but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.Then Jesus said to them plainly,“Lazarus is dead.” Why di...
the comparison of sleep with death, and the resurrection, just as Paul instructed in 1 Thess 4: 18 (Comfort one another with these words). They, indeed, found comfort in God’s word. With a hopeful voice, I described going to sleep in death, but, in a flash, our next view would ...
4But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you[a]like a thief;5for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;6so then let us not sleep as[b]others do, but let us be alert and[c]sober.7For those who sleep do...
More at Christian Life With Michael Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.—...
This nether world is the abode of demons: Guard yourselves from approaching them. By demons is meant those wayward souls who, with the burden of their evil deeds, slumber in the chambers of oblivion. Their sleep is preferable to their wakefulness, and their death is better than their life....
Rest, then, O soul, for thou hast all things. Yet we toss to and fro unless the LORD Himself gives us not only the reasons for rest but rest itself. Yea, He doth this. Jesus Himself is our peace, our rest, our all, On His bosom we sleep in perfect security, both in l...
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5) Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to sha...
8In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety. Read ChapterAll Versions 2 Thessalonians 3:16 16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you. ...
8In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety. Read ChapterAll Versions Psalms 3 1LORD, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! 2Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.” ...