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Just Five More Minutes

Sleep, Rest, and Putting the Phone Down

by Kimani Upshur, M.Ed.

You said "just five more minutes" at 11:00 — and somehow it's 2 a.m., you're wired and exhausted, and tomorrow already feels lost. Just Five More Minutes tells teenagers the truth nobody preaches: rest is God's design, commanded in the Ten Commandments, modeled by God Himself, and given as a gift to His beloved — not a reward for finishing everything. Built on the triad Rest. Release. Renew., its twelve chapters expose what steals the night — the glow that tells your brain it's noon, the 2 a.m. worry committee, and the fear of the dark — and build a holy bedtime in its place: the charging station, the handoff prayer, five minutes of stillness, and Jesus' own rhythm of withdrawing to refill. Readers meet Elijah under the broom tree, where God's prescription for burnout is sleep first, then everything else, and hear the invitation underneath it all: come to Jesus, and He will give you rest.

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