Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
A carefree life is My plan for you because I care for you. I do not want you living a life of toilsome labor, worry, and pain. I want you free of all that, for My blessing makes you rich and adds no sorrow with it. Fruitful, yes, painful, no.
But how can you live in this world without being inundated with worry and fear? The answer is simple and is very close to you so that you can find it right where you are. It is in your heart and in your mouth.
I have put My Words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to plant Heaven and establish it upon the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’” Isaiah 52:16.
I formed you from My Word and the answer lies in My Word, but few have really listened and paid attention.
“I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” Isaiah 48:17-18.
Few have put My Word in their mouth to plant Heaven in their lives on earth. But it has pleased Me to give you the Kingdom.
Do not live in fear, little flock, it has pleased the Father to give you the Kingdom. Luke 12:32.
A fruitful and abundant life is what I want for you. I desire that in ALL areas of your life that you prosper and be in good health even as your soul prospers. And your soul prospers by walking in the truth.
The truth of what? Of My Word but particularly of My love and care for you and the availability of My help, provision, healing, blessing, and favor at every moment of your day and night. When you seek Me with your heart you will find Me right there with you. Just call on Me and I will answer you and give you the solutions you need right when you need them.
The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:4-7.
And once you have come to know and believe in My love for you, along with My divinity, power, and supremacy in all, you can enter into My rest and be comfortable letting Me take care of your life.
Commit [galal (גָּלַל): to roll, roll away] your works to the LORD and your plans [machashabah or machashebeth (מַחֲשָׁבָה): thoughts, devices, creative designs, inventions] will be established. Proverbs 16:3.
But this does not mean you sit back and watch Me work, I can only do My work upon the earth through, with, and in YOU. For it is to you, the children of men, that I gave dominion authority over the earth.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26.
What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas. O Lord (Adonai), our LORD (YHWH), how majestic is Your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:4-8.
The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, but the earth He has given to the sons of men. Psalm 115:16.
It is a leasehold interest, but the term has not expired as yet, but when it does, I will take back the fee simple and rid the earth of evil and the curse.
And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.” Mark 12:1.
I want you to have life and have it in abundance. But you can choke that off. How? By worry, anxiety, depression, and fear.
And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the Word, but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. Mark 4:18-19.
Only faith can overcome the anxiety, worry and deep darkness that surrounds you from the world, the flesh and the devil. I did not plan it that way, but the first man and woman set off what has resulted in the curse ruining so many lives and so much of the earth. But you can shut all that out of your life, and better yet, shut it down and walk right over it into the perfect peace and abundant life of My rest.
Faith is a rest that connects you with My power, My joy, My love, and My care for you. It is the life of glory shining in a dark world.
Why is the worldly mindset so dark? The worldly try to live without Me, but I am light. Without Me there is no true and eternal light. Why is there so much hate? The worldly try to live without Me, but I am love. Without Me, there is no true and lasting love.
The worldly try to live by their own inner power without Me but without Me there is no true power that can heal you, profit you, bless you, and hold you in that place. It is by My Word of power that everything is sustained and is held in place and the planets stay in their proper orbits.
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. Hebrews 1:1-3.
All worldly answers that purport to solve your problems without Me have no lasting power and will fail. They are not founded on rock but on the shifting sand.
And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:26-29.
My love for you is an eternal flame that never goes out and, if you let My love into your heart, My love will purify you and set your heart burning with enthusiasm and the power to run your race with Me to the finish line and beyond, right into your eternal reward and new assignments of excellence. My Spirit in you quickens your mortal body to live strong and live long, until you are fully satisfied.
“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name. He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With a long life I will satisfy him and let him see My salvation.” Psalm 91:14-16.
I called Abraham My friend. And there are many reasons for this, but it was primarily his faith in Me that made him quick to jump in with both feet when I told him My plans for his life. And though what I promised him was impossible, he was fully persuaded that I was able and would give him everything I spoke to him. Nothing is impossible for Me and everything is possible for those who believe that.
While He was still speaking, someone came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, “Your daughter has died; do not trouble the Teacher anymore.” But when Jesus heard this, He answered him, “Do not be afraid; only believe, and she will be made well.” Luke 8:49-50.
And faith, the true faith that moves mountains and makes the impossible easy, so that you are not worried by cast your cares on Me to take care of them, comes only one way: by hearing.
A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse— after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. For she was saying, “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.” Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. Mark 5:26-29.
What you hear and take into your heart is what will grow there and then from what is in your heart, you will speak, and speaking it forth with faith will release what is in your heart to do its work in your life and the lives of others. You plant what you are growing in yourself into others and into your surroundings.
And this works in both directions depending on whether you have put your faith in your worries and fears or in the truth of My Word that provides the solution to every fear and worry that you can have, for the devil uses fear and worry in the same way I use faith and peace. He always tries to pervert the truth into his purposes, offering an appearance of My plans but actually the complete opposite.
The worldly have permitted their minds to be blinded to My light and have been taken captive by Satan to do his will, which is to steal, kill, and destroy your life by destroying your faith in My Word, which would set you free and make you more than a conqueror.
I give you the amazing opportunity to cast all your cares on Me and to let Me take care of them with you. No toil, just going along for the ride, so to speak, as we take things down together soaring on eagles’ wings.
I am the LORD who looks ahead and provides and nothing is too hard for Me. I can take care of anything and everything. But you have to be willing to trust Me and cast your care on Me. You have to live in the confidence of My love and care. That I forgive you, heal you, deliver you, surround you with love and compassion, fill your days with good, and renew your youth so you live long and live strong.
Just think of the following: with Joseph, the son of Jacob, I took care of seven years of famine in the middle east and fed everyone through the plans I gave one man. When Samaria had been under siege and was in terrible famine and lack, at the Word of My prophet Elisha, I turned everything to peace and abundance in 24 hours from the Word of faith that I revealed to him. Dead people were raised to life by the Word of faith and returned to the joy and support of their loved ones, five loaves and two fish fed over five thousand people with twelve baskets full left over. At a wedding, where the wine ran out, by faith water became wine at the Word of Jesus, actually I made 180 gallons of the finest wine they had ever tasted. When Moses and the Israelites were at an impasse with the army of Egypt pursuing them, I told Moses to raise his staff so I could part the sea, and I did, and at My command the Israelites marched forward trusting the walls of water congealed on either side of them would not fall. When there seems no way out just cast your care on Me, look to Me, and I will make a way for you.
And I work miracles for you who speak My Word and look to Me. At the Word I gave My prophet Elisha and the obedience of the widow who needed the help, I paid off the creditors of her deceased husband by turning one jar not even full of oil into enough vessels of the finest oil for her to go into business, pay off the creditors and live well with her sons.
At the Word of Jesus and later of His followers, I cured the lame, made the blind to see, the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear, and the maimed whole.
At My Word followed in faith I knocked down the walls of Jericho at a shout, I rolled back the Jordan River, I knocked out three enemy armies as My people sang praise, I paid the temple tax for Peter by putting the coins in the mouth of a fish and told Peter to go fish, which he obeyed though it seemed a strange solution for having the money to pay taxes. I opened prison gates and caused chains to fall off at the singing of hymns of praise in the midst of what could have been a time of great anxiety and complaint. And these are only a few of the things that happened when people looked to Me and cast their cares on Me.
And what do you learn from all of miracles of things impossible to men becoming easy with Me when you cast your care on Me? No fear, only believe, and all will turn out for your good. But remember, if you really do cast your care, you cannot keep worrying about it. No complaining, only praising, No grumbling, only rejoicing at the good things that you are expecting now that you handed things over to Me.
I love you. We will look into these things more deeply in the Life Lessons to come so that you too can live carefree with Me. I take care of everything in creation and know all things, but I am never worried. Far from it. And you too should be far from your old life of fears and tears if you have come to know Me in Christ Jesus, My gift to you because I care for you.
By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10.
I even let you cast all your sins on My Son and took care of them.
Casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7. The Greek word used there translated as “cast” means to throw, cast, pitch over. The devil will pitch curve balls at you, but you just pitch them on over to Me and I will hit home runs for you every time you pitch them My way. We make a great team. The devil is no match for you, for I have put him under your feet, you who are in Christ Jesus and thus are seated with Me.