Casting Your Cares

All of us in the Body of Christ have a command from the Lord Jesus Himself to cast all our cares upon Him and leave them there. He commands us to stop worrying and being anxious for anything. These are commands, not just little suggestions. He also calls worrying a sin. When I finally got this a couple of days ago, I did some repenting. I had asked the Holy Spirit to show me areas where I was carrying concerns for myself and others. He showed me and I realized the fullness of what I had been doing by carrying concerns.

Actually carrying worries and concerns and cares means that we are placing ourselves in the position of God by attempting to figure out some way to take care of situations over which we actually have no control. As we take on these cares, we block the Lord from handling the situations and bringing solutions to the problems about which we are worrying.

Let’s look at some scriptures today regarding casting our cares.

Start with 1 Peter 5:7 Amplified Bible
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.

Here is a command. We are to cast all of our anxieties, all of our worries, all of our concerns once and for all over on Him. Why? Because He cares for us with great love and affection and He watches over us to perform His Word over us. He carefully watches over us.

How about Psalm 55:22, Amplified Bible, in the Old Testament?
Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail).

Wow! Would you look at that! We are to release the weight of the cares and burdens that we are attempting to carry. We are to give them to Him and He will sustain us, take care of us. He will NEVER allow us to fail. That is some pretty powerful language. Do you believe the Bible? There it is for anyone who will dare to believe it personally for himself.

Now, look at Hebrews 12:1 in the Amplified Bible
Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us.

There it is----we are to strip off and throw aside every encumbrance or unnecessary weight (such as worry and care) and that sin which so clings to us and entangles us. Why are we to do this? So that we can complete the course or plan of our lives that God has set before us.

Follow this verse with John 16:33, Amplified Bible
I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world, [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]

The above scripture speaks for itself.

And, finally let’s end with Matthew 6:25-34 with Jesus telling us to take no thought for our life; stop being perpetually uneasy, anxious and worried. Do not worry about what you will eat or wear, but seek FIRST the KINGDOM of GOD (God’s way of doing things) and all these things will be added to you.