The document discusses factors that can cause sleep issues like allergies, sickness, injury, hormones, irritants, lack of sleep, screen time, worry, stress, sorrow, loss, hardship, heartbreak and betrayal. It then recommends sleep hours needed for different age groups from newborns to adults. Finally, it discusses the benefits of sleep like consolidating memories, processing emotions, balancing hormones, refreshing brain cells, clearing waste and rejuvenating muscles. It also includes biblical references about God resting on the seventh day and choosing Zion as his resting place.

3. • Allergies
• Sickness
• Injury
• Changes in hormones
• Environmental irritants
• Lack of sleep
• Screen time

4. • Allergies
• Sickness
• Injury
• Changes in hormones
• Environmental irritants
• Lack of sleep
• Screen time
• Worry
• Stress
• Sorrow
• Loss
• Hardship
• Heartbreak
• Betrayal

8. Newborn = 14 to 17 hours
Preschool = 11 to 14 hours
Elementary = 9 to 11 hours
Teens = 8 to 10 hours
Adults = 7 to 9 hours

10. • Memories are consolidated
• Emotions are processed and sorted out
• Hormones are balanced out
• Brain cells are refreshed
• Waste materials that can slow or damage
brain function are cleared out
• Muscles are rejuvenated

12. Genesis 2:2-3 - By the seventh day God completed His work that He had
done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had
done. God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He
rested from His work of creation.

13. Psalm 132:7-8, 13-14 - Let us go to his dwelling place;let us worship at
his footstool!” Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place,you and the
ark of your might. For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for
his dwelling place: “This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell,
for I have desired it.”

16. Isaiah 66:1-2 - Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth
is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what
is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all
these things came to be,” declares the Lord.

18. God rules