The Olive Leaf — A Sleep Prayer for When Hope Returns After the Long Wait

For the ones who have been waiting so long they have almost stopped hoping.

This is a gentle Bible story and sleep prayer drawn from the story of Noah — created for the ones lying awake tonight carrying a wait that has gone on longer than they thought they could bear.

Tonight we sit with one of the smallest and most powerful images in all of Scripture.

Not a miracle. Not a parting sea. Not fire from heaven.

Just a leaf.

One small green trembling leaf that changed everything.

Because what God said when He sent it was this —

Something is growing again. The worst is over. Dry ground is coming.

Your olive leaf is already growing tonight. Beneath the surface of everything you cannot yet see — God is already working.

Scriptures included tonight:

• Genesis 6:5-6
• Genesis 6:8
• Genesis 6:22
• Genesis 7:1
• Genesis 7:11
• Genesis 7:15
• Genesis 7:16
• Genesis 8:1
• Genesis 8:11
• Genesis 8:20-21
• Hebrews 11:7
• Philippians 1:6
• Lamentations 3:25
• Psalm 56:8
• Matthew 10:29-31
• John 10:9

Narrated by Jo-Ann | Sleep for the Anxious Soul Running time: approximately 38 minutes