{"id":121166,"date":"2025-05-16T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=121166"},"modified":"2025-05-16T03:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T08:11:30","slug":"blessed-sleeplessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=121166","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Sleeplessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: Our May 2025 mini&#x2d;series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses the topic of sleep and insomnia. In this final article, Joy Forrest discusses God&rsquo;s purpose in our sleeplessness. In other contributions to the series, Betty&#x2d;Anne Van Rees shares biblical wisdom for setting ourselves up for good sleep, and Caroline Newheiser offers thoughts from the Psalter regarding sleep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2025\/05\/16\/blessed-sleeplessness\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that periods of missed sleep, redirected as occasions to seek the Lord, can be as effective to our spirits as fasting from food. There is something powerful about denying self and seeking Him wholeheartedly. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":121168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[3773,5361,936,708,3634],"class_list":["post-121166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-insomnia","tag-mini-series","tag-people-in-need-of-care","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-sleep","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-8.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121169,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121166\/revisions\/121169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}