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Devotional for Wednesday, July 20, 2016

“Release Your Cares and He Will Sustain You”

cast your burden on the Lord

by Dona Hake

 

Psalm 55:22 (AMP)

“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).”

 

Release and cast your burdens, and He promises to sustain you.  If we choose to hold on to our cares and burdens, how shall He help us?    How shall He give us the grace and sustenance  in our moment of need?   How shall He bless us with the answers that we need if we choose to try to figure out our problems on our own?  Our human nature will try  to tempt us to think that we are able to do things in our own ability yet once we experience His strength and provision that we need, it exposes how we need Him desperately.   Remember…He wants to be in every detail of our life, no matter how big or small.  Oh how our Lord desires that we permit Him to let Him be all that we need.

 

 

Today I want to encourage your heart to take anything that is a weight to you and just surrender it to Him.  Hold it up to Him and He promises He will sustain you which means that He will support, hold, or bear up from below.  He will bear the weight of whatever you are trying to manage yourself.  No matter how big or how small, take it to Him in prayer!  Corrie ten Boom said it beautifully:

 
 
“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer
is to small to be made into a burden.”
 
 
Lord, today we ask that You would speak to our hearts, and help us to see those areas in which we still try to manage in our own ability.   Help us to see that every detail whether it be big or small is to be met with Your divine wisdom, strength and direction.   We thank You for sustaining us as we truly come to that place that we cast our cares to You and You alone! In Jesus Name! amen.