Is there a Christian prayer for Release Anger Before Sleep?

Q: Is there a Christian prayer for Release Anger Before Sleep?

Evening Prayer to Release Anger Before Sleep is a Scripture-based prayer in the Evening Prayers series from Ambient Bible. When you're lying in bed and the anger is still hot. Someone wronged you and your jaw is clenched and sleep feels impossible while you're this wound up. A prayer for letting go of what you want to hold onto.

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Evening Prayer to Release Anger Before Sleep

When you're lying in bed and the anger is still hot. Someone wronged you and your jaw is clenched and sleep feels impossible while you're this wound up. A prayer for letting go of what you want to hold onto.

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Psalms 4

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¹[To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.] Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

²O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

³But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

⁴Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

⁵Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

⁶There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

⁷Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

⁸I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

God, I'm angry. And I need to say that out loud before I try to sleep on it. Because if I push it down it's going to come out sideways tomorrow. On someone who doesn't deserve it. In a tone I'll regret. At a volume that doesn't match the situation. I'm angry about what happened today. I'm angry about how I was treated. I'm angry about what was said. I'm angry about what wasn't said. I'm angry about the unfairness of it. The way people can just act like that and walk away fine while I'm lying here at midnight still carrying it. And honestly part of me doesn't want to let it go. Part of me wants to hold onto this because it feels justified. Because I was wronged. Because they should have known better. Because anger feels like power when everything else feels out of control. But I know where this goes. I've held anger overnight before. It doesn't stay contained. It leaks into everything. My sleep. My mood. My relationships. My health. It promises to protect me and then it poisons me. I don't want to pretend I'm not angry. You can handle my anger, God. You're not fragile. But I am asking you to take the heat out of it before I sleep. Don't let me go to bed with this burning in my chest. Your Word says something about this. Something I need to hear right now. Psalm 4 says In peace I will lie down and sleep. For you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety. In peace. Not in bitterness. Not in rehearsal of what I wish I'd said. Not crafting the perfect response I'll never deliver. Peace. I'm choosing to lay this anger down tonight. Not because the person deserves my forgiveness. Some of them don't. But because I deserve to sleep. I deserve to wake up tomorrow without this weight on my chest. Holding onto anger is like gripping a coal. And I'm the one getting burned. Take the heat, Lord. Take the replaying. Take the fantasies of confrontation. Take the bitterness that's trying to set up camp in my heart. I don't want to be a bitter person. I've seen what that does. Not tonight. Give me peace where there was fire. Give me rest where there was restlessness. Let me sleep clean. In the name of Jesus, I pray.

Amen.

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