GOD'S WILL CONCERNING WORRY !

GOD'S WILL CONCERNING WORRY !: (1 Peter 5:7). "Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully." The amplified Bible. A woman with a look of desperation on her face once came to me requesting prayer. She began crying as she said, "Brother Lewis, the cares of life, the anxietres and worries, are just so great." She began to cry harder as she said, "I just can't carry all my burdens. I want you to pray that God will do one of two things: that He will either give me grace to carry them all else take about half of them away. I can carry half of them, but I just can't carry all of them." Well, I can't pray that prayer," I told her. "It would be unscriptural." A bewildered look came across her face. I went on to explain, "I cannot pray for you out of the will of God. If I am going to have any confidence that God will hear my prayer, I must pray in line with the Word of God. "The Bible tells us, "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." (1 John 5:14-15). "I know what God's will for you because I know what God's Word says. It isn't His will to give you grace to bear your load of care. Nor is it His will to take half of it away and let you carry the other half. How do I know this ? Because of what His Word says. "(1 Peter 5:7) says, "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." That verse doesn't say to cast half of your cares; it says all. That verse doesn't say God will give you grace to carry your worries; it says to cast all your care upon Him. Why ? Because "He careth for you." Then I said, "Sister, isn't it wonderful that we already have the answer for your prayer right here ?" Then I read her the same verse from the amplified Bible, which is more explicit: "Casting the whole of your care -- all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all -- on Him; for He cares for you affectionately, and cares about you watchfully." Don't just be a hearer of the Word and not a doer, because if you just merely hearing and not doing you are deceiving your self ! (James 1:22)