1 Peter 5:7

"Cast all your anxiety on [God] because he cares for you."

"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

"It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel-"HE careth for me." Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearing a brow of care; come,..."

Inspirational illustration of 1 Peter 5:7 -- Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

"Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. "

"Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

Inspirational illustration of 1 Peter 5:6-7 --  Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Do you know God's middle name? Russ Lawson reminds us that sometimes it takes a child to help us approach God personally and lovingly.

When is anxiety helpful? Living life on edge—that is, under constant pressure, fear, or nervousness—is no way of living. I’m talking about anxiety,

He was nitroglycerin; if you bumped him the wrong way, he blew up. Max Lucado reminds of what is necessary when we have failed publicly and why it is necessary.

Look! A monster! It's hard for us to see things in the proper perspective, which is why we need to give all of our worries to God.

Would you rather have peace or worry? If I can learn to turn my worries over to God, he will give me his peace, that divine peace that defies all logic. I decide to give my cares to God, I pray about them, and I thank him for handling them. In return, he gives me peace.

What can you do when the rain falls and the floods come? Katha Winther reminds us that life can be full of periods of bad things and rainy days with floods, but God has not forsaken or abandoned us and will see us through.

When does most awful mess become the opportunity for grace to capture our heart and give us confidence for the future? Lisa Mikitarian tells us a wonderful story about the Father's grace revealed in a young girl's fall with the cupcakes made to honor her beloved grandmother.

So how do we obey these hard commands to not worry? Rubel Shelly reminds us that trust in God to act is not passive, but an active life that does what is required, trusting that our difficulties and challenges are problems for God to solve.

Where do you go when there is no place to go? God longs for us to come to him and receive his mercy and grace in our struggles and cast all our anxieties on him.

Called tech support lately? Let's go to God with our problems!

Will we trust him even if he doesn't live up to our expectations? Jesus doesn't live up to our expectations, because God has more planned for us than what we can imagine.

How in the world will you ever catch up? So often we get behind and don't know how to catch up; how about listening to God and what he tells us?

What happens if your best isn't good enough? Mike Barres reminds us that we all reach times in our lives when our best efforts are not enough, but God can do what needs to be done if we will persevere, fast, and pray.

How can we not be afraid in times like this? Russ Lawson reminds us that even during these troubling times that God is at work to take care of us.

Have you ever thought how much God cares for you? A little girls interruptions become the occasion for seeing how much God loves and listens to us.

Are you caught on the tracks and the train is coming? When we place things in God's hands, we don't have to agonize with worry about them.

How can we live above it? Mike Barres reminds us that discouragements can leave an emotional residue and keep us from living as we should, but we can do some things to live as God would have us live!

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