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627 | God Sustains You - Finding Strength in Psalm 55:22 · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  Where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life. Whether you are listening
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  in our app, in your favorite podcasting app, or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Through every child, in every situation, and in all circumstances,
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  God safely holds the child of God, sustaining them.
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  No burden is too big for God or too small for God. God takes every burden we
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  give him upon himself and fights for us.
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  God sustains his children, holds them uprightly, and invites us to give him
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  our burdens, cares, worries, and problems.
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  Join us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes us on a
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  journey through the Scriptures, unfolding the truths in Psalm 55, 22.
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  Jesus invites all of us to Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.
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  He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55, 22.
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  Hello, and welcome to this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  and what an absolute pleasure it is to be looking at God's Word with you.
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  But especially today, as we're looking at Psalm 55, 22, the three truths that
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  we're going to bring out in that message that the Holy Spirit has just etched
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  upon my heart are life-changing.
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  They're the kind of information that if we take it to our heart.
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  Our lives will be forever changed for the good.
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  And that's what the Word of God does. It points a path for us to walk in.
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  It sheds light in the darkness and joy in the sadness.
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  God's Word is a light unto our feet and a lamp unto our path.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know, and the Bible tells me so.
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  And I'm so excited to be able to just read in your hearing Psalm 55,
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  22, that says, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.
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  He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
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  If you're not in a problem right now, you've either just come out of a problem,
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  or unfortunately, you're just getting ready to go in one.
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  We live in a world that's full of trouble in fact scripture says a man born
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  of a woman in a few days full of trouble,
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  The world is desperately wicked, and the prince of this world is Satan,
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  and he is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
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  But we are to be of good cheer because God has overcome the world, and he lives in us.
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  So we need to keep our eyes focused on the truth of who God is and who God is
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  in our life and who we can be in the center of God's will.
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  I think too often when we hear people talk about walking in the center of God's
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  will, they're looking at it from a perspective of what's God's purpose for me?
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  What am I supposed to be doing? And all of those are incredible truths that
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  are unfolded and revealed to us when we walk in the center of God's will.
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  But I want you to know that in the center of God's will is where his ultimate protection lies.
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  We are safely under the wings of the Almighty.
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  God never leaves us.
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  That means that according to Hebrews 13, 5, which says that he'll never leave
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  us or forsake us, that means that we don't have to face any situation alone.
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  We don't face the bad situations alone, and we don't face the celebrations alone,
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  and we don't face anything in between alone.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so,
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  and he has explained to me that his love for me is so vast, his love for me
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  is so deep that his attachment for me is to be around me at all times.
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  And he accomplishes this through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in every
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  believer walking in the ways of Jesus Christ.
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  Today, I want you to grasp the truth that God sustains you.
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  He's going to fight your battles if you'll just let him.
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  In 1 Samuel 17, verse 45, he says, The battle's not ours. It belongs to the Lord.
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  And this is in the midst of this account where David is fighting the Goliath.
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  And I want you to know that I am aware because I, too, am human and walk in this world.
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  That we are facing giants.
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  We are battling every day.
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  But we don't need to battle it alone. In fact, if we battle the way we're supposed
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  to battle the things of this world,
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  Ephesians 6 says that it's going to be principalities in this world.
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  The spirits, it's not people.
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  People are just being used and lend themselves to be tools of the devil.
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  But your real enemy is satan himself,
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  and when you understand that your real enemy is satan himself and you get the
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  picture that we are told in the scriptures that he's already defeated,
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  in fact we're told in first corinthians 15 57 he says jesus gives us the victory
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  this here's what it reads but
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  thanks be to god who giveth us the victory through our lord jesus Christ.
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  I've read the back of the book. We win. But so often, so often,
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  we throw up this flag of defeat. We surrender.
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  It seems to me that we've forgotten who we are. In 2 Corinthians 4,
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  verses 7 through 9, perhaps one of my very favorite passages,
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  at least in this part of my life, reads like this.
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  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power
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  may be of God and not of us.
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  It's about God.
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  He's going to supply my strength, he's going to supply my power,
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  and he's going to fight my battle.
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  We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in despair.
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  Persecuted, but not forsaken.
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  Cast down, but not destroyed. I've got good news for you. You are a winner.
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  You are victorious. Nothing can take you down.
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  But often we throw up the white flag and we look like we've been baptized face
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  forward in pickle juice.
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  We walk around miserable, a walking billboard for what you don't want to be.
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  And then we try to go up to somebody and tell them, hey, you want what I got.
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  And they're looking at you going, no, no, I don't want what you got.
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  But it doesn't have to be that way. because the child of God has been promised
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  not only to be delivered, but to be sustained.
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  But it requires that we let him do it.
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  And that's how we open up in Psalm 55, 22, when he says, cast thy burden upon
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  the Lord. That's an action of choice.
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  That is a free will decision.
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  That is a demonstration of pure faith.
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  When you throw your hands up, say, Lord, save me. Here it is. Help me, as I need you.
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  And this, as is all things, is in your wheelhouse. That's what we're talking about.
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  No one can pluck you out of his hand, according to John 10, 28.
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  So when you're feeling persecuted, downtrodden, betrayed, disappointed, or forgotten.
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  I encourage you, look at Psalm 55, 22.
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  In this passage of Scripture, we are given the recipe for joy unspeakable and
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  full of glory, for a peace that passes understanding, for the way through this life that we would end,
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  up living the intended life,
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  the intended abundant life that we are told is ours in John 10, 10.
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  In Psalm 55, the psalmist David is living life in its woes.
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  He's stressed. He's betrayed. He's been disappointed.
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  His friends have forgotten him. He's threatened by the enemies that are chasing him.
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  And if you ever saw a man that was depressed and defeated.
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  Who was downtrodden and out for the count, that's what King David is facing
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  and looking like for the moment in Psalm 55.
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  That's the environment he's sitting in. But King David's life from beginning
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  to end is one that reveals the importance of repentance and the value of surrender.
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  And the incredible forgiveness of God.
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  David is sliding all over right most of the time.
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  But God himself said that King David's heart was after his. He was a man after God's own heart.
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  He was seeking to be in the center of God's will.
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  He was seeking to please the Lord. He was seeking to love the Lord with his
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  whole heart, soul, spirit, mind, and being.
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  And for that, we find that every time that David slips and slides,
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  every time that David makes a misstep, he finds himself running back to the
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  Lord, asking for forgiveness.
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  And we read in his scriptures that the Lord forgives those who ask.
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  In 1 John 1.9, he says, if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive
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  us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  So in Psalm 55, David finds himself in a very difficult predicament.
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  His situation is grave.
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  Instead of letting his emotions control him and allowing himself to be fully
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  consumed by fear, David purposely chooses to rely fully upon God.
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  David is staking his claim in the Savior he loves and trusts.
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  In your situation, in your circumstance, perhaps in your dire need,
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  Where are you staking your claim?
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  Where are you placing your faith? Who's fighting your battle?
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  Are you trying to fight it alone?
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  Have you taken the reins out of God's hands?
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  And you're relying upon your own capabilities, intellect, strength, connections?
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  They're going to all fail. But King David refuses to surrender to fear.
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  And he refuses to let his fleshly emotions control his actions.
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  Instead, David chooses to exchange his fear and his anxiety for the gift of God's peace.
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  This, my friend, is what we read in Psalm 55, 22.
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  But we also see this same principle, this same process, explained to us in 1
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  Peter 5, 6, and 7, to humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,
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  that he may exalt you in due time,
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  casting all your care upon him,
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  for he careth for you.
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  God not only sustains you, but he also cares about you, and he cares for you.
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  You are sustained by God, and every thought that is contrary to that is a lie
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  straight from the pits of hell.
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  And I need you to fully comprehend Psalm 55, 22.
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  I want you to etch it in your heart, to put it across your mind,
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  to put it where you can see it frequently, to have it on the ready when you
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  are feeling stressed or distressed,
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  when you're afraid, when the devil comes lying and something about your flesh is just a little off.
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  And so you're starting to remember it. I want you to remember that you've been
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  asked to cast your burden on the Lord.
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  That God will sustain you.
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  And he's never going to allow or permit you to be overtaken, destroyed, or moved.
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  These are the promises we see in Psalm 55, 22.
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  Let's break it down. He opens up with, cast your burden on the Lord.
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  What he says is, cast thy burden upon the Lord.
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  Jesus is inviting you to cast your cares upon him, to let them go, to release them.
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  Matthew 11, 28 through 30 says, come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
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  laden, and I will give you rest.
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  Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart,
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  and ye shall find rest for your souls.
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  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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  Psalm 5522, the first step in the recipe to navigating this life with the peace
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  and joy and love of Jesus Christ,
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  is to give your burdens to him, to choose to release your worries and your cares to the Lord.
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  You were never meant to carry them. The weight of this world is too big for
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  us, but nothing's too big for our God.
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  All things are under his feet.
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  You want to have peace in this world? You cast your cares upon the Lord.
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  Release them. Let him have it.
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  And the result of that is that God will sustain you. That's what we're clearly told in Psalm 55, 22.
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  God will nourish and feed and uphold you. That's what the literal translation is in this verse.
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  When we look at the second part of Psalm 55, 22, it says, and he shall sustain thee.
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  It's talking about nourishing you. It's talking about feeding you.
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  It's talking about upholding you.
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  If you feed on the word of God, you're going to be so strong that there's no
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  end of this world that's going to knock you down.
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  If you are feeding upon the word of God and you are feasting at the foot of
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  Jesus Christ and you are following him and you are close to him,
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  there is nothing that is going to separate you,
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  from the joy of the Lord.
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  Nothing will ever separate you from the love of the Lord.
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  But if you want to live in the joy of the Lord, you press up close to him.
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  They are feeding you. In fact, if you look at Psalm 23, around verse 5,
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  he says that he prepares the table before thy enemies.
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  Those that are ridiculing you, those that are tearing you down,
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  those that are lying about you, those that are putting rumors out about you, those who are
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  hurting you, those who have betrayed you, the enemy that is chasing you,
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  they are going to come to a point where they have gone too far,
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  and they will meet jesus face to face and between you and him will be a table
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  that is feasting of his blessings that's a favor of the lord is dripping from you
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  and they will see it and they will be angry by it
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  and they will be defeated by him because no good thing does he withhold from
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  them that walk uprightly and he is fighting your battle and he's never lost
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  to battle and he's not going to start with yours.
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  And these people who are snotty nosed and they're just simply trying to just
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  peck at you like a little woodpecker does on a tree, they're not going to get anywhere.
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  They remind me of this woodpecker that lives in my neighborhood and loves my home.
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  And for years now, when spring comes, I am welcomed outside my window of my
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  bedroom with the sound of a woodpecker banging on my metal gutters.
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  And after all these years, that little woodpecker has not made any headway getting
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  into my gutter, and he's never stopped.
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  That, my friend, is the picture I want to lay in front of you Regarding Psalm
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  5522, you're in the center of the gutter.
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  Let him peck all he wants. Let come what may.
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  Let the things of this world show up in front of you. They're not your problem.
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  They're not yours to fight.
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  And eventually, they'll either tire and run.
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  Or eventually, they'll die.
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  But like that woodpecker, they're never coming in to your space.
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  See if they're bothering you If they're causing you distress It's because you've
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  thrown up the white flag and let them in,
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  woodpecker's never getting in that gutter unless I somehow cut a hole for him to just get in.
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  Because he won't fly and come from the top. He's just not that smart.
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  That enemy is never going to get you. That rumor is never going to hurt you.
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  That pain you're feeling is misplaced love and trust.
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  But today, I want you to know that if you feed on God and pray and read his
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  word and just center down on him, Just let him be the center.
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  The things of this world will grow strangely dim.
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  Isaiah 26.3 says, Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind has stayed
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  on thee because he trusteth in thee.
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  Problems are going to come. But don't face your problems alone. Let God fight for you.
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  He's going to supply your every need. And he will give you the strength to do
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  what he's called you to do.
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  Truths, he tells us in Philippians 4, 19 and 13.
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  But perhaps what you need to really bolster in your life in order to fully embrace
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  and live the truths of Psalm 55, 22,
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  is you got to put your trust and faith in God.
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  In Proverbs 3, verses 5 through 7, he says, Trust in the Lord with all thine
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  heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge
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  him, and he shall direct thy paths.
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  Be not wise in thine own eyes.
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  Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
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  Problems will come, but it doesn't matter what they are. They're not too big
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  and they're not too small.
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  God will make you the victor because you are more than a conqueror through him that loves you.
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  In fact, the last part of Psalm 55, 22 reads like this.
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  Never suffer the righteous to
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  be moved. God's not going to allow or permit you to be moved off his rock.
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  You are steady and safe in the arms of Jesus. You will never be permanently
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  knocked down, overthrown, or defeated.
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  The God you serve is victorious, and you are victorious through him.
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  And he says you're more than a conqueror. You don't just win by a small margin.
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  You don't just barely get through by the hair of your chinny chin chin.
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  No, you are more than a conqueror, as he's more than enough.
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  So, my friend, let come what may. You're covered by the shadow of the wings
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  of the Almighty, according to Psalm 91.1.
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  Let the devil throw his best shots at you. He cannot take you down.
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  You will not be overtaken. You are fully protected by the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
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  This battle you're facing, I know it hurts, and it may come as a shock to you.
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  It may have come out of nowhere, but Scripture tells us in Jeremiah 29,
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  11 that he has a plan for you, and it's a good plan to prosper you and to give you a hope.
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  Things that shock us, the things that surprise us.
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  He knows all about them, and he's already equipped you. One way to look at the
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  situation that you're in is, my goodness, Jesus loves me because he's put me on the front lines.
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  You can take it because you're just going to grab it and hand it off to the Lord.
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  I bet all of you didn't know what tremendous running backs you were.
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  God's our quarterback.
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  He tells us how to go. And if we all live the life we're supposed to,
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  we're going to do the quarterback snake.
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  He's going to hand us the problems, the devil is, and then we're just going to hand them back to him.
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  See, today, it's a new day, and you can be victorious.
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  Today's a new day. You could love him more than you've ever loved him and trust
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  him more than you've ever trusted him.
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  And from this moment on, you can walk in the peace, joy, and the victory of
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  Jesus Christ, because you can cast your burden on the Lord, because you trust him.
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  You'll receive his protection, and he will sustain you, because that's who he is.
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  And you can stand tall, head held high, and shoulders back, because you are
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  a child of the Most High God,
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  and He fights your battles, and He's never lost one.
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  So today, trust in the Lord and show the world that your God sustains you always.
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  Remember, you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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