I hope that you all had a tremendous Thanksgiving celebration and the thankfulness you operated in yesterday will become an ongoing and active part of your daily lives! Maintaining a grateful heart is vital to staying in position to receive God's very best for you and your loved ones! Today's devotional from Jerry Savelle's website coves an essential part of keeping our hearts grateful! Casting our cares!
Casting Your Care
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. (1 Peter 5:6-7 NKJV)
The word cast means to “throw off.” It is a decisive and deliberate action.
Casting the care of your problems on the Lord (and not taking it back) isn’t always an easy thing to do. However, if you fail to cast your care on God as the Word instructs, you will hinder Him in exalting you above your circumstances or problems.
The Bible says the evil one seeks those he may devour, meaning those who allow him to do so. One of the ways you can allow the devil access to your life is by taking on the care of your situation to the point that you are consumed by it.
Casting your care upon the Lord activates the power of God to work in and through your situation; it allows Him to bring miracles and victory.
God isn’t asking you to pretend your problems don’t exist; He just doesn’t want you to take on the care of them. To take on care means to constantly talk about the problem, think about the problem, and worry about the problem to the point that it appears there is no way out of the problem.
God is a loving Father who is ready to help you in your time of need. Make the decision to cast your care upon the Lord today, knowing that He will exalt you at exactly the right time.
Confession: Father, I come boldly to Your throne of grace today and I cast every care that I have been carrying onto You. I humble myself now, trusting that You care enough about me to work everything out.
AMEN! We are NOT meant by our Father to carry care! He never designed us to do so! HE has given us clear and powerful instructions concerning casting our care, and it will completely open up some things that we have been believing God for when we do this! Here, to help with this, is Hillsong Worship with "I Will Boast In Christ":
Now and forever
All I have because of Jesus
All this promise
Won for me
When He paid the highest ransom
Once for always
For my freedom
I will boast in Christ
alone
His righteousness
Not my own
I will cling to Christ my hope
His mercy reigns
Love will never lose its
power
All my failures could not erase
Now I walk within Your favour
Grace unending
My salvation
What can wash away my sin
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
O precious is the flow
O precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
Shalom in Him!
