Psalm 141:2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before You, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

A husband and wife were awoken in the middle of the night by their little boy. Half-awake and almost hysterical, he threw his arms around his parents and refused to let go. He had experienced a nightmare. As he told his parents what he had dreamed, they quickly realized that bits and pieces of his bad dream were from a movie they had watched before bed. The vivid pictures he had seen right before going to sleep had stayed with him and continued as he slept.

The couple decided that screen time would no longer happen right before bed. The director of their Sunday School program encouraged them to use bedtime as a family devotion time in which they would share about their day, read Scripture, and pray together. There was no promise that this would prevent nightmares going forward, but what the couple discovered was that their children went to bed with their parents' voices in their head, not an actor's. Rather than ingesting sarcastic words from teenage characters, their children went to bed having had God's Word poured over them. Best of all, the last thought of their day was of their Savior, Jesus, through whom they have direct access to God.

While God's people benefit from praying to Him at all times of day, evening prayers bless the hearts and minds of God's children of all ages and provide for them comfort and peace as they close their eyes to sleep. There is no better comfort than that.
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