He could not sleep ( Daniel 4 v 34 - 35 )

I  am sure many of us have times when we just cannot get to sleep, I have,you toss and turn,but sleep won't come..In the book of Esther ,we read how the Persian King, Xerxes could not sleep,so that's,that.no in fact it was very significant. Let me explain, and let me say this actually happened ,the date was about  483 B.C. Many of the Jews had returned from the 70 year exile, but many hadn't,among them was a man called Mordecai,now he had an adoptive daughter called Esther,who became Queen,Mordecai had sent news of  a plot to assassinate the king, to Esther ,the result was the plot was foiled. A record was made of this,and that was it. Meanwhile Mordecai offended a very high official,called Haman, he belonged to a race of people who hated the Jews.The result  was he persuaded the king to pass a law to exterminate all the Jews in the vast Persian empire. Haman also made plans to kill Mordecai,and just before it was about to happen the king could not sleep, so like many of us he started to read,and he read of the event when his life was saved,and what Mordecai had done, he asked his attendants had he been rewarded,and he was told no.Just at that moment Haman came to ask permission to have Mordecai executed. All Haman's plans fell apart, he  was told to reward Mordecai,so his life was saved in the providence of God,all because a king could not sleep,and the God of Mordecai who neither slumbers nor sleep,wonderfully acted to save his Child .Remember child of God,that he is in control ,he is your sovereign God,who can suddenly change events in your favour, no matter how dark they are.