One evening after a service, a woman came to me and said,
"I want you to agree with me in prayer about something. The
burdens of life—the cares, the worries of life—are just so heavy
I can't bear them."
She began to cry. With sincerity she said, "I want you to
pray God will either give me grace to bear these burdens or else
take about half of them away. I can carry about half of them—I
just can't carry all of them."
"Dear Sister," I replied, "we don't have to pray about that—
we've already heard from heaven. God's Word is our message
from heaven. His Word couldn't be more sure if an angel
suddenly came down here and wrote with his finger on a granite
block: GOD'S WORD IS ETERNAL."
She looked startled.
I opened my Bible to First Peter 5:7 and asked her to read
out loud. She read, "Casting all your care upon him; for he
careth for you." Then I said, "I can't pray God would give you grace to bear
your cares and worries. He doesn't want you to bear them. And I
can't pray God would take away half of them, because He
doesn't want you to carry even half of them. He wants you to
cast all of them on Him."
"I can't do it!" she said.
I said, "Sister, God is not telling you to do something you
can't do. He would be an unjust God to do that. You've been
praying about this for years and have never gotten an answer.
That's not the way to solve this problem. You solve this by doing
what God said to do."
"Yeah," she replied, "but you don't know what I've got to
worry about!"
"But God does," I said. "He knows and understands. And He
said to cast all your cares upon Him." It seemed to me a person would be glad to find that verse in
the Bible and would be thrilled to act upon it. But she turned,
walked away, and said, "I couldn't give up worrying."
Some people are content in the knowledge that God knows
and understands their problems. But still they hold on to their
cares, so they don't get deliverance. It's not enough that God
cares and understands. We must go on and do what He said to do
—cast all of our cares on Him, for He cares for us. This is the
prayer of commitment, of casting or rolling our cares and
burdens on Him.
Psalm 37:5 says, "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also
in him; and he shall bring it to pass."
FFT: 'Casting all your cares on him...' its not just a memory verse but a commitment.
ACTION POINT: Cast all your cares on Him...take your burdens to the Lord, leave it there, don't pick it up again!
INTERACTIVE SESSION: Share practical ways on how to cast all cares on Jesus; (in the comment section below)
When thoughts of doubt crosses ur mind, when it seems the trouble isn't going away, when u feel like theore u trust in God is the more u worry, just say to urself aloud "My God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of love and of a SOUND MIND". Also proclaim that "I know my Redeemer liveth according to Job in the Bible. As I type this, I have a lot of cares from husband to child to marriage issues to spiritual challenge but as I type this I get even stronger trustibg in God coz I know in due time as He has promised me He alone will settle me and I wld live to see those wonderful days Amen!!!
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