THE PRAYER OF COMMITMENT !

THE PRAYER OF COMMITMENT !: Cast all your cares, all your anxiety, all your worries upon Him, for He cares for you." This is the prayer of commitment -- Because when you have God's Word in any area of your life, then you can rest on that Word. I know that if your mind has not been renewed in any area of your life, then you will have anxiety in or worries even stress, because the enemy comes for the Word sake. Remember the parable of the sower, the sower sows the seed, and the Word of God is incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23). The prayer of casting or rolling our cares and burdens upon Him. A scripture in the Psalms may help you see more clearly what Peter is talking about: "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass" (Psalms 37:5). A reference in the King James version says, "Roll thy way upon the Lord." Commit, cast, roll your burdens on the Lord. Many people make an altar or go to an altar in prayer, and when they are told to leave their burdens or their concerns at the altar, they do the opposite. He is not going to take it away from you. Some request, "pray that the Lord will lighten this load." He's not going to do that. He doesn't want to just lighten your load; he wants to carry it all. But there is a vital part that you and I must play in this. It is the prayer of commitment. God does not want his children to worry, to be full of anxiety, or to be burdened down with the cares of life. But there is something you must do. In imperative sentences, such as those in (1 Peter 5:7), and (Psalms 37:5), the subject of the sentence is understood to be "You." The Lord said, "You cast all your cares upon him." "You commit your way unto the Lord." We must do our part -- religion teaches that you don't have to do anything as if God is going to do everything. In fact he has already done everything before the foundations of the world. -- We must obey the Lord before He can come to our aid. We must turn loose of our problems before He can take over. This is a once-and-for all proposition; it isn't something you do every day. When we really cast our cares upon Him, we don't have them anymore. We are rid of them. They are no longer in our hands, but in His. There is so much that the Lord would have done for you and even me, but we wouldn't let Him. The Scripture says if God be for us who can be against us ? The answer is you can be against Him ! Because, the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So the they that are in the flesh cannot please God." (Romans 8:5-8). We may have been honest and sincere in our praying, but we saw no answer to our prayers because we did not come according to His rule, His laws of faith, that govern the operation of prayer. We did not do what He told us to do, and we wonded why He didn't work certain things out for us. Sometimes we have brought our burdens to the altar of prayer. We have prayed and prayed and prayed about it. Then when we get up to leave, we pick up our burdens off the altar and took it home with us ! Then there are those who do not really want to get rid of their problems. Because they want people sympathizing with them. Oh, they claim -- something rather loudly -- that they do. But they don't -- not really -- because if they did, they wouldn't have anything to get people sympathy with. They wouldn't have anything to complain about. They would almost have to close down conversation !