Day 6 - Friday, August 12, 2022 Exchanging Our Burdens For His Care
Psalm 55:22 (ESV) Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you;
he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Thinking and sensing the weight that many people carry. Many of us need a breakthrough for what we carry.
Prayer is many things: intimacy, communication, intercession, warfare and also a place of exchange.
It is like we have suitcases that are full of burdens that we accumulate and we carry them along with us.
We are carrying weight we don’t let go of.
But we can remove our burdens to Him for His care. We can exchange the weight that we are carrying for peace, joy, faith and confidence. Prayer is a place of exchange.
There’s one action piece we can tap into and that is to cast those cares upon Him.
Like fishing, we cast or throw out bait. For prayer, we throw out burdens, but the problem is, we keep reeling them back in.
Biblical casting is more like hurling or flinging. Like throwing a discus. There is no string attached and it is gone forever. We can let go of that weight, leaving it with Him and it will not be with us any more.
So no matter our situation, we must acknowledge that we need to put our burdens in God’s hands. We need to throw it to Him and leave it. We must no longer keep reeling back in these burdens and letting them stack up.
Jesus shared this truth in Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG)
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
