Psalm 55:22 "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken."
The Lord Jesus says that we can cast our cares on Him - our difficulties - our problems - our issues and He will sustain us. But doesn't it seem like sometimes, we go to throw the difficulties down at His feet and they stick to our hands like some kind of goo that stretches and comes straight back to our hands?
Why is that?
1 - We don't really want to let it go as we've become quite accustomed to it.
2 - We are afraid to deal with the pain it may cause.
3 - We don't think He will really take it away.
4 - We feel unworthiness and shame and just want to hide it.
5 - It doesn't want to let go of us, until we tell it to go.
You could probably list a few others.
So, let me explain why I chose to list those above.
Regarding 1 - It's like a captive not wanting to leave a captor because it's all they've ever known. The Lord wants to show us what that difficulty really looks like in His eyes and then show us how much more HE has to offer.
Regarding 2 - Some difficulties are quite painful - and they will stay that way until they are dealt with. They come up - we bury them. They come back up - we bury them again... they will just keep coming up until we come to the place where we're sick and tired of being sick and tired. The Lord knows how to deal with pain, and He is a Gentle-Healer. He's waiting to take the difficulty and deal with the 'roots' that may accompany it.
Regarding 3 - We don't believe that He does what He says He will do. We may lack faith, we may have seen Him not do what we've asked in the past. But by faith, we need to believe that He is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves... and maybe literally picture putting that difficulty into His hands.
Regarding 4 - If the difficulty is something that we've initiated or was initiated against us, we may be shame. If it's something that we've given to Him over and over and over again, we may feel unworthy to come before Him AGAIN. But He forgives each time we ask - when we truly want to repent for our unbelief and for agreeing with shame and unworthiness. He then clothes us with Honor and Righteousness.
Regarding 5 - God sets us free from our enemies, not our friends. If there is a demonic entity behind the difficulty, then we need to tell it to get the heck out and away from us, in the Name of Jesus. That we are no longer going to listen to it - agree with it - be friends with it. Whom the Son sets free, is free indeed! John 8:36
Lastly, and I didn't list it above, but at times the difficulty doesn't go away - because we're meant to go through it - leaning on the Lord's strength and mercy and grace.... leaning on our support system... not withdrawing. Sometimes we may feel like we're going around the same mountain... and we are. But it's more like a spiral - we start at the bottom and we go around, but we're also going higher and closer to the top. We are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus! Romans 8:37
So, when I pray this prayer, I pray "Lord, take away the difficulties that you know I can't handle or keep them from me - and give me the grace and strength to go through the difficulties that you know I can handle.
The end of this sentence in the prayer says, "So that victory over them may bear witness of Your Power, Your Love and Your Way of Life to those I would help. We overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony! Revelation 12:11 ---- So that we may bring glory to God and bless others with Who He is!!
How exciting is that!
So, let's begin to look at our difficulties in a new Light - and ourselves as the overcomers that we are!
Overcome - Desperation Band
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