Bedtime Prayers: Pray Along and Fall Asleep in Peace

You get into bed tired, and the moment the light goes off your mind starts talking. Tomorrow's list, today's conversations, worries you cannot fix at midnight. You want to pray, but you are too worn out to find the words.

These forty short bedtime prayers find them for you. Each one opens with a gently paraphrased verse about rest, from Psalm 4:8 to Matthew 11:28, then slows into a plain spoken prayer you can pray along with in a whisper or simply listen to as you lie down. Every prayer closes with one thing to leave with God tonight, so the weight you carried into bed does not have to stay there. There is no study and nothing to complete, only prayer and quiet.

Night by night, the dark stops feeling lonely and starts feeling accompanied. Your heart settles, your breathing slows, and sleep comes without effort. Press play tonight, pray along, and let God keep watch.