Take It To God In Prayer

Apr 18, 2022

‘Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you.’Psalm 55:22 AMPC

After preaching about taking our worries to God in prayer, a lady approached the great preacher G. Campbell Morgan and said, ‘I don’t bother God with little things; I only take the big ones to Him.’ Morgan replied, ‘My dear lady, everything we take to God is little.’

The Bible says, ‘Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you.’ God knows you’re not built to carry the weight of worry, so He invites you to give it to Him today. Anything that’s big enough to be a source of anxiety should be turned into a prayer.

Peter writes: ‘Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.’ (1 Peter 5:7 AMPC) Note the word ‘casting’. That’s the opposite of ‘carrying’! The moment you recognise that a worry is beginning to weigh you down, ‘cast’ it on the Lord, knowing ‘He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.’

Now if He was a distant God who didn’t care about you, you would have reason to worry. Or if He was a weak God who couldn’t do anything about it, you would equally have reason to worry. The truth is, it’s as you give your worries to God that you discover how big He really is.

The songwriter Joseph Scriven put it this way: ‘Oh, what peace we often forfeit, oh, what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.’

SoulFood: Dan 5–7, Mark 2:23–28, Ps 103:1–12, Pr 10:13
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2022

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