Day 15 of 30 — Cast Your Cares Upon Him
Good morning, guys—and welcome to day fifteen of the thirty-day prayer challenge.
What a tremendous God we have the opportunity to serve and pray to. I truly believe this challenge is life-changing. And if you’ve been staying with it—still seeking the Lord and taking your ten minutes every day—you’re finding something out along the way: God loves you. You’re finding out you can hear His voice. And you’re realizing He actually wants to speak to you.
Today’s scripture is simple, but it’s loaded.
1 Peter 5:7 says, “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
Let me say it again: “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
Friend, you were never designed to carry those worries and problems and burdens and all the stuff.
Now I know how we are as men—sometimes what we excel at is trying to carry it all, do it all, figure it all out, and make it all work. And to some degree, that’s built into our nature. But when it comes to actually carrying the heavy load… God’s desire is that you would cast it on Him and not try to shoulder it all by yourself.
He longs to give you wisdom and clarity and understanding that you don’t possess on your own. He wants to pour it into you.
One of my prayers is, “Lord, give me a wise and discerning heart.” And the reason I pray that is because I know I don’t have all the wisdom I need—and I know I’m not big enough to carry the whole load.
And guess what?
Neither are you.
So we’ve got to begin to cast our cares on the Lord.
Today’s Challenge
Here’s the challenge for today:
Hand it over to Him—and say it out loud in prayer.
When you take your ten minutes… if you’ve already taken your ten minutes today, then maybe pause for just another moment after this and actually begin to cast those cares onto Jesus.
Because I know we can pray in our heart—and God hears the prayer of our heart. But there’s something powerful and important about our words.
In fact, our faith follows our words.
Our faith follows what we hear. God’s Word builds faith—scripture builds faith. But our faith also follows what we hear our own mouth say.
So when you begin to pray things like:
“Lord, I hand this financial situation over to You. God, I give it to You to fix,” your faith begins to follow that. Your heart starts lining up with the reality that God can handle it.
Or when you pray:
“God, I’ve got this physical issue. And Jesus, I know You took the stripes for my healing. I hand this over to You. I believe You’re the God who heals me from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet,” your faith begins to rise and follow what you’re declaring.
Or when you pray:
“God, I hand this family situation over to You—my children, my grandchildren, my spouse. Lord, I don’t know how to fix this on my own. But I believe You are able. I believe You desire to do it. And I believe You have power to do it,” men, your faith will follow your words.
So pray out loud—even if that means you need to get in a place where no one can hear you. Pray out loud.
Reflection Question
Here’s the reflection question for today:
What worry are you still holding that God really wants to carry?
What is it for you?
Is it your marriage?
Is it your finances?
Is it your health?
Is it something with your children?
Your job?
A situation you don’t know how you’re going to work out?
Or maybe you’ve got big decisions approaching, and you know you need God’s wisdom.
Well guess what, friend?
God wants to help you with that.
So cast that care on Him, in Jesus’ name.