📖 Reading 1.2: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Fellowship in the Night
📖 Reading 1.2: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Fellowship in the Night
Welcoming Introduction
Night can make everything feel larger.
An unfinished responsibility may feel like a catastrophe. A strained relationship may replay repeatedly. A physical sensation may seem more threatening. A regret from years ago may suddenly feel present again.
The daytime mind has work, conversation, movement, light, and distraction. At night, those distractions become quieter. The organic human may become more aware of thoughts, bodily sensations, emotions, spiritual questions, and unresolved burdens.
Some people respond by trying to control the night:
“I must stop thinking.”
“I must calm down.”
“I must have more faith.”
“I must forgive everything immediately.”
“I must make myself sleep.”
These demands may turn Christian practices into another form of sleep effort. Prayer becomes a performance. Scripture becomes a test. Faith becomes a measurement of whether sleep arrives.
This reading presents another way.
The biblical story of creation, fall, redemption in Christ, and fellowship with the Holy Spirit helps us understand both sleep and wakefulness.
Creation tells us that we are designed creatures.
The fall tells us why the night is often troubled.
Redemption tells us that Christ meets us without condemnation.
Fellowship with the Holy Spirit teaches us to live in God’s presence whether sleep comes quickly, slowly, or not at all.
The goal is not to use theology to force sleep.
The goal is to bring the whole night to Jesus Christ.
Why Theology Belongs in a Course About Sleep
Sleep is biological. It involves the brain, nervous system, hormones, breathing, temperature regulation, circadian rhythm, sleep pressure, physical health, and surroundings.
Sleep is also personal. It is influenced by expectations, memories, fears, relationships, responsibilities, habits, and a sense of safety.
Sleep is spiritual because the person who sleeps is always living before God.
A Christian does not stop being a worshiping, trusting, questioning, hoping, embodied soul when entering the bedroom.
Theology helps answer nighttime questions such as:
What does it mean to be a limited creature?
Is my body good even when it does not cooperate?
Why is sleep sometimes difficult?
Does poor sleep mean that God is disappointed with me?
Must every conflict be resolved before I may rest?
Can I trust God while an important matter remains unfinished?
Is seeking medical care compatible with faith?
What does fellowship with the Holy Spirit look like during wakefulness?
The Christian answer is not that every sleep problem has a spiritual cause.
It is that every part of life—including bodily suffering, medical treatment, emotional distress, relational conflict, work, rest, sleep, and wakefulness—belongs under the lordship and compassionate presence of Jesus Christ.
Creation: Designed for Rhythm, Relationship, and Dependence
God Created Day and Night
The biblical story begins with God bringing order to the creation.
Genesis 1:5 says:
“God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ There was evening and there was morning, the first day.”
Day and night are not mistakes.
Darkness is not automatically evil. Night is part of the ordered creation. Human beings were created to live within patterns of light and darkness, activity and stillness, work and restoration.
Modern sleep science describes healthy sleep as more than merely spending enough hours in bed. Sleep health also involves duration, quality, timing, regularity, daytime alertness, and freedom from untreated sleep disorders. Sleep is a biological necessity rather than an optional luxury. (AASM)
Christian theology adds that this biological necessity is part of creaturely design.
We were not created to be endlessly awake.
We were not created to remain productive at every hour.
We were not created to maintain permanent control over our environment, our family, our future, or even our own consciousness.
Sleep Reveals Creaturely Dependence
When you sleep, you stop consciously managing the world.
You cannot supervise every person you love.
You cannot continue solving every problem.
You cannot protect your reputation, increase your productivity, answer messages, monitor the news, or repair every relationship.
Sleep is therefore an act of creaturely dependence.
This does not mean that falling asleep is always a conscious act of faith. People sometimes sleep without thinking about God at all, and faithful believers may sometimes remain awake for many hours.
Yet the design of sleep still reminds us of a spiritual reality:
We are not God.
Psalm 121:3–4 says:
“He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”
God does not become inattentive when you become unconscious.
God does not need you to remain awake so that he can govern creation.
You may be responsible for many things, but you are not responsible for holding the universe together.
The Organic Human Is Good
Genesis describes the creation as good.
Your body is not a disposable container for your soul. Your brain, nervous system, breathing, hormones, senses, muscles, and need for rest are part of your created life.
An organic human is an embodied soul with spiritual and physical life before God.
This means:
Thoughts may affect bodily arousal.
Pain may affect emotional resilience.
Fear may alter breathing and muscle tension.
Hormonal changes may affect sleep.
Relational safety may help the body release vigilance.
Breathing disorders may repeatedly interrupt sleep.
Grief may be experienced spiritually, emotionally, and physically.
Prayer may bring comfort without replacing medical treatment.
The organic-human perspective refuses to divide the person into unrelated pieces.
The Christian response to sleep difficulty may include Scripture, prayer, reconciliation, practical habit changes, environmental adaptation, medical evaluation, counseling, grief support, or treatment for a sleep disorder.
These forms of care do not compete with one another when used responsibly.
Rest Is Not Laziness
Many people have absorbed a message that worth comes from productivity.
A person may feel guilty for stopping work, taking a break, going to bed, or needing more recovery than someone else.
Creaturely rest challenges the belief that constant output proves faithfulness.
Ecclesiastes 5:12 says:
“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.”
The passage recognizes both the goodness of rest and the way accumulated concerns may trouble the night.
Rest is not the rejection of responsibility.
Rest is one way responsible creatures acknowledge their limits.
There are seasons when responsibilities disrupt sleep: parenting, caregiving, emergency work, illness, military service, ministry, grief, or unstable living conditions. The course does not condemn people whose circumstances prevent ideal rest.
Creation design is an invitation, not another accusation.
The Fall: Why the Night Is Troubled
The Whole Organic Human Has Been Affected
The fall into sin disrupted humanity’s relationship with God, other people, the creation, and the self.
Human life now includes:
Fear
Shame
Guilt
Hatred
Violence
Betrayal
Disease
Pain
Death
Injustice
Exploitation
Addiction
Poverty
Overwork
Unsafe environments
Broken relationships
These realities may enter the night.
The fall does not mean that every difficult night was caused by a particular personal sin. Jesus rejected simplistic explanations that automatically blamed individual suffering on the sufferer’s wrongdoing.
Some sleep blocks involve personal choices.
Others involve illness, bodily change, grief, trauma, social conditions, work demands, environmental disruption, or harm inflicted by someone else.
Christian discernment asks what is actually happening rather than offering one explanation for every person.
Worry and Cognitive Arousal
The mind may continue working after the body lies down.
A person may rehearse conversations, imagine future threats, calculate sleep hours, monitor symptoms, or repeatedly ask whether sleep is beginning.
Research has found that heightened nighttime cognitive arousal is associated with longer sleep onset, lower sleep efficiency, shorter sleep duration, and physiological signs of continued alertness. The study does not prove that every sleepless night is caused by thoughts, but it demonstrates that nighttime rumination and worry can be important parts of the sleep struggle. (PubMed Central (PMC))
This helps explain why commands such as “Stop worrying” are often ineffective.
The worried person may begin worrying about worrying.
The sleepless person may begin fearing sleeplessness.
The Christian response is not denial. It is truthful, compassionate self-conversation before God.
Instead of saying:
“I must not feel this.”
A person may say:
“This is fear. It feels urgent, but I do not have to solve everything tonight.”
Shame and Spiritual Condemnation
Some Christians interpret sleep difficulty as evidence of spiritual failure.
They may think:
“If I trusted God, I would sleep.”
“If I prayed correctly, I would be calm.”
“God gives sleep to his beloved, so perhaps God does not love me.”
This interpretation misuses Scripture.
Biblical promises about God’s care are not mechanical guarantees that every faithful person will always experience uninterrupted sleep.
The apostle Paul experienced hardship, danger, bodily weakness, and nights without sleep. Jesus himself experienced anguish in Gethsemane.
Faithfulness does not eliminate every bodily or emotional struggle.
When Scripture is used to condemn a suffering person, the nighttime burden becomes heavier.
The gospel does not say:
“Sleep well enough, and God will accept you.”
The gospel says:
“You are accepted through Jesus Christ.”
Religious Coping Can Be Secure or Fearful
Spiritual practices may provide comfort, meaning, community, and hope. Yet religion may also be experienced through fear, spiritual conflict, obsessive self-evaluation, or the belief that God has abandoned the sufferer.
A 2024 study examining different patterns of religious coping found that participants characterized by anxious or conflicted religious coping reported worse subjective sleep than some other groups. Because the research was observational and based on self-report, it cannot prove that a coping style caused the sleep difference. It does, however, remind ministry leaders that simply telling someone to “pray more” may overlook spiritual fear, doubt, shame, or conflict. (PubMed)
Healthy spiritual care allows honesty.
A person may pray:
“Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief.”
“God, I feel afraid.”
“I do not understand why this is happening.”
“I know you are present, but I do not feel safe.”
Lament is not faithlessness.
Lament is troubled faith speaking honestly to God.
Social and Environmental Brokenness
Not every sleep struggle begins inside the individual.
People may sleep poorly because of:
Irregular employment
Overnight work
Food insecurity
Shared rooms
Neighborhood violence
Noise
Heat
Unstable housing
Caregiving responsibilities
Limited access to healthcare
Financial pressure
Discrimination
Family instability
Recent research using objective rest-activity and sleep measurements found associations between accumulating adverse social conditions and shorter, less efficient, more irregular sleep. Because the analysis was observational, it cannot establish that every measured social factor directly caused the sleep outcomes. It does show why sleep should not be framed only as a matter of discipline or bedroom habits. (PubMed)
A person cannot always purchase quiet, control a work schedule, move to safer housing, or obtain immediate specialist care.
The church should respond with compassion, advocacy, practical assistance, hospitality, and referral—not blame.
Redemption in Christ: Rest Without Condemnation
Jesus Meets the Burdened
Matthew 11:28–29 says:
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.”
Jesus speaks to burdened people.
He does not speak as a sleep technician offering a guaranteed method for falling asleep. He speaks as the Savior who receives people under the weight of sin, suffering, legalism, fear, and exhaustion.
The rest of Christ begins with relationship.
You do not earn his welcome by becoming calm enough.
You do not earn grace by falling asleep.
You come burdened.
Conviction Without Condemnation
Redemption includes repentance.
Perhaps a person is awake because of deception, destructive behavior, untreated addiction, revenge, or guilt over harm done to another person.
The gospel does not say that sin is harmless.
The Holy Spirit may bring conviction and call the person to confession, restitution, accountability, or changed behavior.
Yet conviction is different from condemnation.
Conviction says:
“This action was wrong. Bring it into the light. Receive forgiveness. Take the next faithful step.”
Condemnation says:
“You are hopeless. You must punish yourself all night. God has rejected you.”
Romans 8:1 says:
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.”
A sleepless night cannot atone for sin.
Replaying guilt for six hours does not repair the damage.
Christ has accomplished atonement. The redeemed person may confess honestly and then plan appropriate action for the daylight.
A nighttime prayer might be:
“Lord Jesus, I have sinned. I confess this without excuse. Thank you for your mercy. Show me what repair, accountability, or changed behavior is required. I will not pretend the matter is resolved, but I entrust myself to your grace tonight.”
Forgiveness Without Denial
Bitterness and offense rumination may keep a conflict mentally active.
A 2022 study comparing compassionate reappraisal with offense rumination found that compassionate reappraisal was associated with less anger, fewer intrusive offense-related thoughts, and better self-reported sleep outcomes. The study was limited in size and design and does not show that forgiveness cures insomnia. It does support the more modest conclusion that repeatedly rehearsing an offense and cultivating a more compassionate response may affect emotion and perceived sleep. (PubMed Central (PMC))
Biblical forgiveness is deeper than a psychological sleep strategy.
Christians forgive because God has forgiven them in Christ.
Forgiveness means releasing personal revenge to God. It does not mean:
Calling evil good
Denying what happened
Removing all consequences
Restoring trust immediately
Returning to danger
Avoiding legal protection
Refusing accountability
Pretending reconciliation has occurred
Romans 12:19 says:
“Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath.”
Releasing revenge may help end the internal courtroom that continues through the night.
But forgiveness should never be used to pressure an abused or endangered person into unsafe contact.
Reconciliation May Wait Until Daylight
Ephesians 4:26 says:
“Be angry, and don’t sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath.”
This verse teaches that anger should not be cultivated, weaponized, or allowed to become settled hatred.
It does not require an exhausted couple to solve every major conflict at midnight.
Attempting a complex conversation while both people are depleted may intensify misunderstanding.
A wiser application may be:
“We will not abandon this issue. We will stop speaking destructively. We will pray, rest if possible, and return to the conversation at an agreed time.”
Redemption allows unfinished repair without permitting permanent avoidance.
Christ Is Present in Wakefulness
Jesus does not abandon a believer who remains awake.
The person may say:
“This is not the night I wanted, but Christ is still Lord.”
“My body is struggling, but I am not condemned.”
“I may need medical help, and seeking that help is faithful.”
“I can experience quiet wakefulness without treating every minute as an emergency.”
Redemption does not guarantee an immediate change in sleep outcome.
It changes the identity and hope of the person experiencing the night.
Fellowship With the Holy Spirit: Practicing God’s Presence
The Holy Spirit Is Not a Sleep Technique
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, not an energy, relaxation method, or spiritual sedative.
Christians do not summon the Spirit to produce a particular bodily result.
The Spirit already dwells in those who belong to Christ.
Fellowship with the Holy Spirit means communion, guidance, conviction, comfort, transformation, and participation in the life of God.
John 14:26–27 says:
“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you.”
The peace of Christ is not identical to immediate sleepiness.
A person may experience the peace of belonging to Christ while still experiencing pain, grief, bodily arousal, or wakefulness.
The Spirit Helps Us Tell the Truth
Fellowship with the Spirit does not require pretending.
The Spirit may help a person name what is happening:
“This is fear.”
“This is shame.”
“This is grief.”
“This is anger.”
“This is physical pain.”
“This is a possible breathing concern.”
“This is an unsafe situation.”
“This is a responsibility that can wait.”
“This requires professional help.”
Truthful naming reduces confusion. It helps distinguish what should be entrusted to God, what should be addressed tomorrow, and what requires urgent action.
The Spirit Welcomes Lament
The Psalms include fear, grief, confusion, protest, longing, and praise.
Psalm 77:6 says:
“I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires.”
Nighttime fellowship may include questions.
“Where are you, Lord?”
“How long will this continue?”
“Why am I afraid?”
“What do I need to face?”
Lament does not demand a quick emotional resolution. It brings distress into relationship with God.
The Spirit Forms New Nighttime Sentences
Nighttime thoughts often become absolute:
“Tomorrow is ruined.”
“I cannot handle this.”
“This will never change.”
“I am alone.”
“God has forgotten me.”
Scriptural self-conversation does not merely repeat positive phrases. It answers fear with truths grounded in God’s character and promises.
For example:
Fearful sentence:
“Tomorrow will certainly be a disaster.”
Truthful response:
“Tomorrow may be difficult, but I do not yet know everything that will happen. Christ will be present, and I can take one faithful step.”
Condemning sentence:
“My inability to sleep proves that I lack faith.”
Truthful response:
“My sleep difficulty is not a measure of my salvation or spiritual worth. There is no condemnation for me in Christ.”
Controlling sentence:
“I must solve this relationship tonight.”
Truthful response:
“This relationship matters. I can write down the next step and return to it at a wiser time.”
Despairing sentence:
“I will always feel this way.”
Truthful response:
“This moment is painful, but it is not the whole story. God’s mercies are new every morning.”
The goal is not to argue aggressively with yourself.
The goal is to welcome truth gently.
The Spirit May Lead Us to Seek Help
Sometimes the most spiritual next step is professional evaluation.
The Spirit may give courage to tell a physician:
“My partner says I stop breathing at night.”
“I am dangerously sleepy while driving.”
“My legs feel intensely uncomfortable when I lie down.”
“I have experienced a major change in sleep.”
“I am barely sleeping but feel unusually energized and impulsive.”
“I am having recurrent trauma-related nightmares.”
“I feel hopeless and unsafe.”
Seeking treatment is not a rejection of prayer.
God commonly provides care through human knowledge, medical assessment, community support, medication when appropriate, counseling, sleep treatment, and practical assistance.
A Four-Part Night Practice
This practice follows the course’s creation, fall, redemption, and fellowship framework.
It may be used silently, spoken aloud, or written briefly.
1. Creation: Receive Your Design
Say:
“Lord, I am an organic human created by you. I am not a machine. I have limits, and my body needs care.”
Notice one bodily reality without judgment:
Fatigue
Tension
Pain
Warmth
Cold
Hunger
Breathing
Alertness
Hormonal change
Do not demand that the sensation disappear.
2. Fall: Name What Is Troubling the Night
Say:
“This night is being affected by…”
Name what is present:
Worry
Conflict
Shame
Grief
Fear of sleeplessness
Noise
Caregiving
Physical symptoms
Financial pressure
An unsafe situation
An unfinished responsibility
Naming is not blaming.
3. Redemption: Receive Grace and Choose Truth
Say:
“Jesus Christ, meet me with truth and grace.”
Ask:
Is there something to confess?
Is there revenge to release?
Is there a boundary to establish?
Is there repair to begin tomorrow?
Is there condemnation to reject?
Is there professional help to seek?
Choose one gospel-shaped sentence.
4. Fellowship: Entrust the Outcome
Pray:
“Holy Spirit, remain with me in sleep and wakefulness. Bring Scripture to mind without turning this prayer into a performance. Show me what to release and what faithful step belongs to tomorrow.”
Then say:
“I can prepare for sleep without forcing it.”
A No-Cost and Globally Adaptable Practice
This reading does not assume access to a private bedroom, quiet neighborhood, climate control, special bedding, wearable technology, or a paid application.
A no-cost practice may include:
Writing one unfinished concern on scrap paper
Repeating a short Psalm silently
Lowering light when possible
Asking household members for a brief quiet period
Using a familiar hymn or prayer from memory
Turning a visible clock away
Planning one next-day conversation
Asking a trusted person for practical support
Seeking daylight after waking when safely possible
For someone working nights, “nighttime practice” means the period before the main sleep opportunity.
For someone in a shared space, the practice may be entirely internal.
For a caregiver, success may mean receiving available rest without condemning oneself for interruptions.
For someone living in danger, safety planning takes priority over relaxation.
Circumstances are not moral failures.
Organic Male and Female Considerations
Men and women share the same need for grace, truth, sleep, safety, and wise care.
Their nighttime experiences may nevertheless be shaped by different bodily transitions and social burdens.
A woman may experience sleep disruption related to menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum changes, perimenopause, menopause, caregiving, or symptoms of sleep apnea that do not match commonly recognized patterns.
A man may experience sleep-disordered breathing, work-related fatigue, reluctance to seek help, substance-related sleep disruption, or pressure to remain emotionally silent.
These are possible patterns, not stereotypes.
The Christian response is mutual honor.
A spouse or ministry leader should ask rather than assume:
“What is this night like in your body?”
“What responsibility are you carrying?”
“What makes release difficult?”
“What support or evaluation might be appropriate?”
What the Evidence Does and Does Not Show
The Evidence Supports
Research supports the understanding that:
Sleep is biologically necessary and multidimensional.
Thoughts, worry, and cognitive arousal can be associated with disturbed sleep.
Social and economic conditions may shape sleep opportunity and sleep health.
Patterns of religious coping are associated with differences in subjective sleep in some studies.
Rumination about an offense may affect emotional and sleep-related experiences.
Serious or persistent sleep problems may require clinical evaluation.
The Evidence Does Not Show
Research does not establish that:
Prayer guarantees sleep.
Strong faith prevents insomnia.
Religious attendance directly causes better sleep.
Forgiveness cures a sleep disorder.
Every restless night is caused by worry.
Every sleep problem has a spiritual explanation.
A peaceful spiritual experience rules out a medical condition.
A difficult night means that Christian practices have failed.
Association proves causation.
Theology should not be built on one sleep study.
Science should not be used to prove a Bible verse.
Scripture gives the governing Christian account of creation, sin, redemption, and life with God. Research helps us observe patterns within bodily, psychological, relational, and social life.
Ministry Role Clarity
Ministers, chaplains, Christian life coaches, Soul Coaches, and group leaders may:
Listen compassionately
Pray with permission
Help a participant distinguish conviction from condemnation
Encourage honest lament
Discuss Scripture-shaped nighttime sentences
Help identify relational burdens
Support forgiveness together with truth and boundaries
Encourage practical support
Recommend medical or mental-health evaluation
Respond appropriately to danger or abuse
They may not:
Diagnose insomnia
Diagnose trauma or a psychiatric condition
Promise sleep through prayer
Require forgiveness as proof of course completion
Pressure unsafe reconciliation
Tell someone to discontinue medication
Interpret a sleep study
Prescribe supplements
Treat severe sleep disorders
Treat suicidal thinking as a spiritual weakness
Suggest that poor sleep proves hidden sin
A ministry leader can accompany a person without claiming clinical authority.
Medical and Safety Note
Persistent or severe sleep concerns should receive qualified evaluation.
Seek professional assessment for concerns such as:
Loud, persistent snoring
Witnessed breathing pauses
Gasping or choking during sleep
Severe daytime sleepiness
Drowsy driving
Persistent insomnia with daytime impairment
Recurrent nightmares
Dangerous sleepwalking
Acting out dreams
Persistent pain
Uncomfortable urges to move the legs
Sudden changes in sleep
Medication or substance concerns
Severe pregnancy or postpartum sleep concerns
Serious mood changes
A greatly reduced need for sleep together with unusual energy, agitation, impulsivity, or risky behavior
Immediate help is needed for suicidal intent, self-harm risk, severe breathing difficulty, chest pain, seizures, dangerous confusion, violence, abuse, or immediate danger.
Prayer and emergency action are not opposites.
When danger is present, seek safety.
Reflection Questions
What does sleep reveal about the difference between God and human creatures?
Which part of creation design is hardest for you to receive: bodily limits, dependence, unfinished work, or lack of control?
What effects of the fall most often enter your night?
Do your nighttime thoughts sound more like conviction or condemnation?
How does redemption in Christ change the way you interpret a difficult night?
Is there an offense you repeatedly replay? What would releasing revenge while preserving truth and boundaries look like?
How might prayer become a performance rather than fellowship for you?
What Scripture-shaped sentence could you welcome without using it to force a sleep outcome?
What concern belongs to tomorrow rather than tonight?
Is the Holy Spirit leading you to confession, lament, forgiveness, a boundary, practical support, or professional help?
Closing Prayer
Lord God, Creator of heaven and earth,
You made the light and the darkness, the day and the night. You created me as an organic human with spiritual and physical life before you.
Teach me to receive my creaturely limits without shame.
I confess that I often want control. I want every problem solved, every relationship settled, every danger removed, and every bodily process to obey my demands.
The fall has touched the night. Fear, sin, grief, pain, illness, conflict, injustice, overwork, and difficult circumstances trouble your creatures.
Lord Jesus Christ, meet me with redemption.
Where I have sinned, lead me to honest confession and faithful repair. Where I have been harmed, give me protection, wise boundaries, and freedom from revenge. Where I feel condemned, remind me that there is no condemnation for those who are in you.
Holy Spirit, fellowship with me in the night.
Bring Scripture into my thoughts without making prayer another performance. Help me lament honestly, receive grace, tell the truth, and recognize when I need wise help.
I release the demand to control the exact moment when sleep comes.
I entrust unfinished work, unresolved relationships, tomorrow’s responsibilities, and the people I love to you.
Whether I sleep quickly, awaken during the night, or remain awake for a time, keep me near Jesus Christ.
Give me peace without denial, rest without striving, courage without panic, and hope for the morning.
Amen.
Academic and Ministry References
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Scripture References Used
Genesis 1:1–31
Genesis 2:1–3
Psalm 4:8
Psalm 77:6
Psalm 121:3–4
Psalm 127:1–2
Ecclesiastes 5:12
Matthew 11:28–30
Mark 9:24
John 14:16–27
Romans 8:1
Romans 12:17–21
Ephesians 4:25–32
Philippians 4:4–9
1 Peter 5:7