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Fuel Your Life! Cast It All: Living Free in God’s Care with Jayme Elizabeth · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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  Hey, beautiful friends, and welcome back to She Speaks Like
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  podcast. You are currently listening to
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  an episode out of the Fuel Your Life series, and I am so
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  thankful you've tuned in today because I believe God has a
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  fresh word for us, a word that can lift any heavy burns that
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  may be weighing you down. And I want you to right now
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  think for a moment. Is there anything in your life
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  that seems weighty? Maybe it's the weight of
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  finances, maybe it's concerns of your children, maybe it's about
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  your health, or maybe it's just the uncertainty of the future.
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  If you feel tired from carrying it all, today's verse is a
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  reminder that you were never meant to carry anything that is
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  not of God. And what I absolutely love about
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  God's Word is that renews our mind.
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  It gives us unfailing truth, and it never returns void.
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  In fact, Isaiah 5511 says that God's word shall not return to
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  him boy, but it shall accomplish what God pleases, and it will
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  prosper in the thing which it was sent.
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  This means you can trust God's word to act on whatever it is
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  that you are going through. In other words, God's promises
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  always achieves its intended purposes.
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  God's word will fulfill its function and bring about its
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  desired outcomes. In fact, Jeremiah 112 says that
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  the God says that God is actively watching over His Word
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  to fulfill it. How awesome is that?
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  That the Lord has already given us His promise that when we go
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  to His Word, He acts on it. And in return, we are divinely
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  invited to live with this contentment, knowing that no
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  matter what circumstances are happening around us, as we keep
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  and place our attention on Him, we can walk lighter, freer, and
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  in victory that is already ours in Christ Jesus.
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  So today's verse that we are going to camp out on is taken
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  out of the Serenity Journal in the contentment section of this
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  book. You can find the Serenity
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  Journals on my website. The link is below this episode
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  in the show notes and you can check it out there.
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  So here we are. We are going to break down the
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  burst first Peter 57 and it says cast all your cares on him
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  because he cares for you. It's short just one sentence,
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  but inside this one line of scripture is an ocean of truth
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  that can radically change how we live.
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  So many times we can pass by this verse without really
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  looking at the power that holds. And my prayer each time I do
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  these solos is that the Holy Spirit will give you give me a
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  fresh revelation of plot and and know how to apply it to our
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  lives. Specifically.
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  This verse kept popping up all around me as I prepared and
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  studied up on it. I sensed strongly by the Lord
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  that this verse was needed more than ever to be a reminder that
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  God loves us so unconditionally and wants to be in every detail
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  of our lives lives. It's our job to believe and do
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  what His Word says. So today I want to begin by
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  going deep into the meaning, the promise, and the victory that
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  comes when we truly learn to cast our cares on Jesus.
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  So let's start by looking at the original Greek because it paints
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  a much richer picture. I just love diving into the
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  Greek words. The word cast here comes from
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  the Greek epirifio. It doesn't mean to politely hand
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  something over or cautiously place it down.
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  It means to hurl, to fling, to throw with divisive force.
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  I believe that if you're a mom of school age kids, you've seen
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  your kid just hurled their backpack on the floor, or maybe
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  you've thrown a frisbee and just if there's any delay in
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  releasing the frisbee, it just flops.
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  It doesn't go as far as you wanted it, but if you fling and
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  let go of the Frisbee, it goes as far as you attended it to go.
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  And that's what Peter is saying here.
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  He's saying don't hold back, don't hesitate, don't clutch
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  your worries with half trust. Throw them decisively on to
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  Jesus. Now let's look at the word
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  cares, and that comes from the Greek word marimnia, and it
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  means anxieties, distractions, things that divide the mind.
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  The root of this word means to be pulled apart in different
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  directions. Isn't that exactly how worry
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  feels? One part of your mind is
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  thinking about the future, another part is stuck in the
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  past. That's what anxiety does.
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  It divides us. It distracts us.
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  It pulls our focus away from God.
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  Now notice there are two different times there's care in
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  this verse. So you're probably thinking,
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  well how can one mean divide of mind and the other one mean
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  God's provision, His concern, taking heed or notice?
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  Well, in the Greek there is another meaning of care called.
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  Melo. Which translates to attention,
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  concern, provision, take charge to or give care to.
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  So if we were to put the Greek meaning back in this verse, it
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  would sound something like this. Fling every distracting mind
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  dividing anxiety onto God because He Himself is your
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  provider and He is concerned and attentive to what personally
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  interests you. I mean come on, is that just so
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  beautiful or what? OK so now let's make it even
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  more personal as we take this powerful verse and personalize
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  it. So let's say I'll use my first
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  name here 1st and it'll go. It will go like this.
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  Jamie. Cast all your cares,
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  distractions, and mind dividing worries onto me because I care
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  for you. Now I want you to put your own
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  name in there. Say it out loud wherever you are
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  and say your name. Cast all your cares on Him.
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  So you might say, Barbara, cast all your shares on him because
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  He cares for you. So see, friend, this isn't just
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  a verse written to the early church thousands of years ago.
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  This is the living Word of God and He is speaking it to you
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  right here, right now. And He wants us to fling every
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  thought or circumstance that causes us to worry, fear, or
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  weigh us down to Him because He's the one that provides the
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  relief, the miraculous, what we see as impossible in our lives
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  to making it possible through His ability, power and strength,
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  His healing power, His peace and joy to live in abundantly.
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  But what's required of us is attaching our faith to what He
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  says He can do and who He says He is.
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  So let's hook up our faith and believe and confess it out of
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  our mouths. That what we just spoke, He will
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  care for us, That what concerns us, He will act on His every
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  word. So part of what's inside this
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  beautiful journal, Serenity, is a place to pause and ask, what
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  does this verse reveal about God's character?
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  And I list a bunch of God's attributes and his
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  characteristic traits. But some of the things I see
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  here is God is caring. He doesn't just tolerate our
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  burdens, He desires to take them.
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  His care for us is not abstract, it's not idea, it's intimate,
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  and it's personal. God is strong.
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  Another characteristic trait I see is that He invites us to
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  throw our cares on Him. It's because His power and
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  strength was built to handle what's going on with us.
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  He's God we are not, and is He? That is the miracle worker and
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  the waymaker. Another one I saw was that God
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  is attentive. He pays attention to our
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  desires. The verse doesn't just say he
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  cares for humanity in a general sense, it says He cares for you.
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  He cares for Amy, Jamie, Barbara.
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  He notices, He leans in. He knows your thoughts before
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  you speak them and your tears before they fall.
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  This means your concerns don't repel God, they draw him near.
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  James, 48, says. As we draw near to him, he draws
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  near to us. And I know I'm picking the name
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  Barbara a lot here. So I just hope there's somebody
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  listening here named Barbara that needs to hear this right
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  now. OK, so application, how do we
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  cast our cares? How do we live this out
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  practically? Name it and cast it.
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  Don't just say God. Take my worries.
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  Be specific. Say Lord.
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  I cast my fear of blah blah blah.
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  I cast my fear of rejection. I cast my anxiety about
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  tomorrow's appointment. I cast the weight of my
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  children's future. Visualize the throw when you do
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  this. Sometimes I literally stretch
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  out my hands in prayer and make a throwing motion just to remind
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  myself that I am brewing this on to him.
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  And once you've thrown it, don't pick it back up.
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  Imagine yourself throwing something so far that you're not
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  even going to bother going and picking that up.
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  When you go and skip rocks in an ocean, do you go and pick up
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  that rock in the ocean? So just visualize yourself
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  throwing a rock in the ocean. You can't just go and pick it
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  back up. So replace with truth.
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  Every time that negative thought tries to creep back in, replace
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  it with God's promises. Say God cares for me.
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  He has not abandoned me, He is faithful.
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  This is not a one time action, it's a rhythm.
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  It can be something that we may need hourly, even not just
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  daily. But each time your faith grows,
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  your peace deepens, and your heart becomes steadier.
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  So a little personal story here. Lately I've felt extremely
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  distracted, divided, pulled apart, just not focused.
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  And then it dawned on me that I need to cast overwhelm on to Him
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  and trust that He will guide me out and give me focused energy
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  and not feel split into all different directions because if
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  you're like me, I just get frozen.
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  I become not productive or proactive.
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  So when I acknowledged what was going on, He met me right there
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  and sent me to specific scripture and a sermon by a
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  pastor that I know to really, really help me sort out what was
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  really going on with me. But what's great about God is
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  that He always shows us the way. He will always encourage our
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  hearts. And it keeps reminding me of
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  this truth that you are not called to carry, you are called
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  to cast. Each time I stop, pray and say
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  it out loud, Lord, I cast this on to You.
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  I can literally feel the weight lift.
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  And every single time His peace washes over me.
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  It's not because I figured it out.
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  It's because I attached my faith to His Word and I let go.
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  I surrendered and trusted the One who who already has the
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  outcome in His hands. So let's declare it in victory.
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  I will not carry what was never mind to hold.
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  I will cast it on to Jesus because He cares for me.
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  So, friend, the enemy wants you heavy, distracted, divided, and
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  anxious, but your heavenly Father wants you light, free,
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  and living in the victory that is already ours by Christ Jesus.
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  The invitation of First Peter 57 is an invitation into freedom.
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  Exchange your concerns for His peace, your fear for His love,
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  your weariness for His strength, your confusion for the renewal
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  of your mind and His Word. So today, let's not carry what
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  was never ours. Let's hurl it onto the shoulders
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  of the One who loves us and let's walk light, freer and
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  stronger in His name. So I hope you found this
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  encouraging. If you did, I would love for you
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  to share this episode to a loved one and shoot me some comments
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  and let me know how this is encouraging you.
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  Until next time, God bless you, friend.
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  Hey. There, thank you for listening
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