Well, again this early morning I awoke and the same routine began happening. Then I was reminded about "casting my cares upon the Lord." I begin to think about the verse that says, "Take my yoke upon you, for my burden is light..." So I pulled the covers off and went to my place to read, study, and spend time with the only One that can carry these cares and burdens.
I prayed for a few minutes, turned on worship music very softly, and opened my Bible. As I went through my tagged scriptures that I declare, I came across 1 Peter 5:6-7, I've read it many times but today it stood out to me, and touched my hurting soul.
"Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you (me)." 1 Peter 5:6-7
Even now writing this it brings tears to my eyes. Take a moment and just re-read this verse. I have been so accustomed to caring for myself and those around me. How about you?
Psalm 37:5 "Commit your way to the Lord (roll or repose) your load on Him (be confident, rely on).
This is what stood out to me:
- Humble yourself: then there must be pride there if God is saying "humble yourself" Thinking I can handle and fix the situation that is so heavy. Trying to find a solution with out seeking God is prideful.
- Casting - to violently throw or fling something with great force.
I have learned in studying the Bible to read looking for God's response and then what my response is to be.
- My response: Is to have faith in God
- My response: Speak to the mountain and tell it to be removed, cast it into the see and do not doubt in my heart but believe only that what I said will be done
- God's response: To back up my faith words and my belief in my heart
- Outcome: I shall have what I said.
So I am to say to this mountain, not whisper. With authority and confidence my words will be obeyed because I have faith in God to back up my words and I won't doubt in my heart.
The Amplified Version says: Mark 11:22-23
And Jesus, replying, said to them, "Have faith in God (constantly). Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him."
Its up to us what we receive. What are we saying? Are we saying what the situation is? Or are we talking about the situation or to the situation?
Philippians 4:6: Don't be full of care for anything, but with prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God!
God tells us "don't" be full of care for anything - laying in bed thinking and mulling over circumstances is caring. Praying for wisdom, casting the care upon God is my response to this scripture. Doesn't mean I don't do anything, I pray, with supplication and thanksgiving, and then wait for God to respond with direction. My response, listen and wait for direction and then follow the direction. Doesn't mean that the enemy of my soul won't try to get me to take the care from God, or reason out the direction that God gives, this is the fight of faith - I only do what I hear from the Lord and I complete the direction to the end.
Be confident and He will bring it to pass.
Matthew 11:28: Come to Me (humble yourselves my insertion) all you who labor and are heavy laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest (I will ease and relieve and refresh your soul (mind, will, and emotions) my insertion).
Matthew 11:29: Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment, and recreation, and blessed quiet) for your souls.
Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my Shepherd....Is He?
He leads me beside green pastures (a good shepherd takes his sheep early in the morning when there is still dew on the grass and takes them to pasture to feed early in the morning, they get both the fresh grass and water.) The picture that comes to mind of our Shepherd doing this for us, because He is a good Shepherd, heart warming, like a warm hug and a great cup of coffee.
When we get up early and sit with our Shepherd in the morning before the day begins, and eat from His word and drink in His Holy Spirit in prayer, we are humbling ourselves and will find rest, relief, ease, refreshment, recreation and quiet for our mind, our will, and our emotions. This is offered to us every morning.
Our response: Lead me Shepherd, I set my alarm to wake up earlier than necessary so I can spend time with you. I humble myself first thing in the morning.
God's response: Rest, relief, ease, refreshment, recreation, and quiet to my mind.
Matthew 11:30 (amp) For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good, not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light (easy to carry, not heavy) and easy to be borne.
Yoke = commandments, assignments, daily instruction..
2 Commandments:
1. Love the Lord God with all your hear, with all your mind, and with all your soul.
2. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Where do you stand on these commandments? If you have missed it, or are struggling to forgive someone then allow the Lord to Shepherd you to green pastures. Get refreshed in His presence. Humble yourself and come to Him, with the pain, disappointment, betrayal, cast them on Him for He will care for you.
2 Corinthians 4:17 (amp)
For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly prospering and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory (beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease).
Humble yourself and come and trust God.
Speak confidently and with the authority God has given you and throw those circumstances into the sea, and believe and don't doubt in your heart, it didn't say in your mind, you may have thoughts that will come to tell you its not working, because the battleground is in our minds. That is the only place the devil can come and whisper lies of doubt and unbelief, but as long as you don't take them and say them then you are in faith. Cast those thought down, take captive any thought that would try to uproot your trust or your words, and the knowledge you have gained, God said for you to be care free, and with this situation you cannot be carefree if you are still caring about it . But if you cast it on God, and cast it into the sea, you don't have a care. You've let go and let God care for you. Just like Abraham waited for his promise child, sometimes we have to wait. But let's wait in faith believing, thanking and glorifying God for the answer now. For the deliverance now, for the healing now, for the money now, for the relationship now, for the salvation now.
God's yoke is easy, He is not teaching you a lesson with sickness or anything that falls under what Christ redeemed us from on the Cross. We have an arch enemy who wants to destroy our faith and trust in God. We must fight the good fight of faith. We have been given authority to cast out whatever or where ever the curse is trying to infiltrate in our lives. We have the power of God to back us up when we take Him at His Word and do what He says for us to do. With God all things are possible.
Cast all your cares upon the Lord, for He will care for you. In due time He will exalt you! What a promise. I can feel my shoulders relaxing as I've cast all my care upon the Lord, He'll take care of them for me. He will exalt me in due time. Thank you my Father, you are so precious. Only You are able to meet the care and take the care. Plus you just don't care for me, You say You will also exalt me in due time. I need to look up that word and study it out.
God Bless you over abundantly above all that we could ask or think. To God be the glory!
Susie B.
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