“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you” ( I Peter 5:7)
Worry for sure is one of the most deadly cancers there is affecting any life. While children would worry about the most apparently trivial aspects of life, like missing sugar in a cup of tea, adults are not immune either. Adults would fret over their jobs, promotion, health and adverse relationships that may affect them in any way.
Jesus was not oblivious of our concerns. In one instance he spoke directly to the matter: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life” ( Mathew 6:24-27).
Worry often presents itself through dampening thoughts that leave one restless. Here the most powerful weapon we have is the word of God: “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” ( 2 Cor 10:5). Say, your concern is about your future, only confess the word of God, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” ( Jer 29:11). Is it a concern over some needs, “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus” ( Phil 4:19).
A person maybe inclined to worry because they’re only looking at matters from a physical angle. Moses lost in a desert could have tossed himself down with worry at his lost cause. Yet God was only working something in his life for a greater purpose. At the right time God appeared to him in the desert and said, “So now, go” ( Exodus 3:10). In other words, a dream which Moses thought had been lost, God had a time for it, which was but the perfect time!
Today, if there is any matter causing you to worry, all you need is to surrender it to the Lord, “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you” (I Peter 5:7)
Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, where there is any matter causing me to worry I surrender all to you because you care and take care of my needs, all this I pray in Jesus’s name!
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02/05/2024 - 03/05/2024 All day“That is why for Christ’s sake I delight in weakness, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor 12:10)
We all crave to be blessed in life. But was there a believer who was so blessed beyond any circumstances without experiencing some sort of discomfort, in one way or another! A person may apparently be blessed in every single way yet have one troubling matter that constantly drives him down to his knees.
The one mightily blessed with riches may have a family situation that leaves him ever on edge. Someone who seems to be at the height of his profession may be living with an ailment that keeps him ever on tentacles. The one blessed with abundant health might from time to time be dealing with financial woes.
Why do such troubling situations plague even believers? One explanation could be found in the Apostle Paul’s life. Called into ministry and endowed with many gifts, including amazing revelations from above, yet he had a matter that constantly drove him on his knees. “Therefore in order to keep me from being conceited, I was given a thorn in the flesh, a messenger from Satan, to torment me” (2 Cor 12: 7).
Paul would often cry out to God to free him of this particularly troubling matter. But the Lord came back with, “My grace is sufficient for you. For my power is made perfect in your weakness” (2 Cor 12: 9).
The comfort of this lesson is that God is completely aware of whatever might be ever troubling us. Moreover, it could be purposely there, that we constantly place our faith in Him, other than relying on our strength and resources, especially as He blesses us in other uplifting ways.
Prayer for today: Lord Father in heaven, today I pray that whatever matter is constantly troubling me, I know it is for a purpose and you are in total control, to bless me even more, this I pray in Jesus’ name.
