and God's been helping me, and so I'm gonna trust that he'll help you with this verse. I Peter chapter number five and verse number seven, the Lord said, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. I just want to give you a few truths. Father, help us for the next few minutes as we just try to digest, dissect this one verse, learn some truths about giving you our burdens and our cares, continue to minister to you people, and I thank you. In Jesus' name, amen. We find, first of all in our text, Nick, we find a a continual releasing does anybody besides me notice that he did not say to cast our care upon the Lord that's not what he said he said casting casting is a continual action you do it over and over and over I don't I don't bass fish like the preacher. I find that I like catching a whole lot more than I like fishing. Somebody help me. But I do know that when you go bass fishing, you cast that rod over and over and over and over. And I think the reason he told me that I should be casting my care rather than to cast my care is because God in his sovereignty knows that I'll throw it on him and then after a while when he ain't done like I thought he ought to do, I'll go over and pick that care back up and try to figure it out. But thank God he didn't say cast, he said testing. You know what that means? That means I can throw it on him again. Amen. Maybe you threw it on him and he didn't do like you thought, so you went back and picked it up again. Just throw it on him again. Amen. And when you get up in the morning, throw it on him again. Hey man, in the afternoon, throw it on him again. And when you lay down at night, throw it on him again. I ain't trying to embarrass nobody. One thing I've learned about Stillwater is God gets real personal around here. Miss Marilyn, can I ask you a question? How many times did you throw your baby on the Lord before you seen God do it? How many times, hey man, did you say, God, you ain't doing it in my time frame and I'm gonna go pick her up and try to figure it out, but here we are tonight because she, Hallelujah. Because she kept throwing it on him. Amen. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And here's what we do. We pick it back up and we feel ashamed to go back and throw it on him again. No. The psalmist said, He remembereth our frame. It were but dust. He knew I'd pick it back up again. So that's why he said, instead of cast, so that I could come back over and over and over and over and throw it on him again. It is a continual release. I say this, it's a conscious release. It's gonna be real deep, y'all ready? You cannot cast by doing nothing. That is a decision. Amen. When you decide to cast that rod, that is a decision. It is an action that you take. Every day we've got to decide again to throw it all on Jesus. Amen. Every day we've got to decide again to take it off our shoulders and put it on His. It's a conscious It is a conscious decision. It's deliberate. I do it on purpose. Some of you, you're going to have to constantly and consciously throw it on Jesus. Lay it all on Jesus. If all my sin was laid on Him, and He come out victorious, if I can lay all my sin on Him, I'm pretty sure I can lay all my situations on Him. Amen. If He can take care of my sin for eternity, He can take care of my situation that's temporary. Amen. I'm going to say that again. If He can take care of my sin, that's eternal. If He can take care of my situation, that's temporary. Amen. Hallelujah. By the way, I'm getting ahead of myself. But I did notice this, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. Does anybody notice the difference? Care and careth. Say what's the difference preacher? Because our care, that care you're carrying right now, you won't carry forever, but he careth. Glory to God, He carries. It goes on and on and on and on and on. My trouble and my burdens, temporary, but His care for me goes on and on and on and on. Glory to God, it's never ending, thank God. You say the burden ain't never gonna end, the trial's never gonna end, the storm's never gonna be over. Yes it is, but His care goes on and on and on. Bless the Lord, amen. Hallelujah. May I say, it is not only a continual releasing and a conscious releasing, but it is a complete releasing. He said, casting all your cares upon him. You know what most people do? They cast most of them. Here's why he did what he did, brother Seth, because he knew in his sovereignty that I'd put most of it on him, but there was gonna be some things that I'd just try to hold on to. and fix myself. But he said, no boy, I want all of it. Hey man, just, and you didn't have a problem with giving him all your sin, you just don't want to give him all your situation. If we trusted God in the temporal like we trusted him for the eternal, Hallelujah. It's a complete relief. Listen, this is what God told me today, y'all ready? God told me, he said, whatever you choose to carry instead of cast, you're pretty well telling me that you're convinced that you don't need my help. You ever felt like somebody you loved felt like they didn't need you? Hurts, don't it? The Lord's given everything He's got, preacher, to have us. He's given us the invitation to cast all our care. And we look back at Him sometimes and say, no, Lord, I'll carry this. I got this. You know what you gotta have in somebody to give something to them that you've been carrying? You gotta trust them. And when we carry our cares instead of cast our cares upon the Lord, We might not mean to, but we are telling him, I really don't trust you, Lord. I've got more trust in myself and my ability to do what needs to be done and to say what needs to be said than I do in just throwing it on you and letting you have it. He said, casting all your care, I got a question, church, what is it that you have not given to the Lord? You've casted some of you care, but that ain't what He's saying. Oh, we all care upon Him. It's a complete releasing. A continual releasing. But then, there's a comforting reality. For He careth for you. Not for your neighbor, for you. Glory to God, he cares about me. Thank God he's concerned about me. Hallelujah. Brother Shelby, he's concerned about you. Brother Caleb, whatever you're facing tonight, he's concerned about you. Glory to God. He careth for you. Can I say this? His care for you is bigger than your cares. His care for you is bigger than your cares. and it will last longer than your. Hallelujah. Yes, amen. Oh, glory to God. God proves that to us all throughout the word of God. Notice this verse. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh. E-T-H again, it cometh. It just comes and keeps on coming. Morning comes and keeps on coming. Amen. Your consolation will outlast your cares. Thank God. Amen. My consolation will outlast my cares. What a comforting reality. You know, He cares about me. Have you ever, have you ever, grab that, will you? Have you ever tried to cast your care upon a friend and maybe you called them or you went and seen them and when you left their presence, you weren't really sure if they cared at all? I'm sure there's been times that we have been this friend, but I have gone to some of my friends and felt like they were way more concerned with what was going on with them than what was going on with me. We're selfish by human nature. That's what we are. Our sin nature makes us selfish. But did you know that there never has been, never will be anything selfish about our Savior? It's always been about somebody else. Amen. It's never about him. You know what a shepherd's life's about? It's about his sheep. It's not about himself. He spends his whole life worrying about somebody else. Amen. He's called our shepherd. What a comforting reality that I don't ever have to leave his presence and wonder if he really cares. I tell you what, I can't get over it. I can't. I lay down at night and I see it. I get up in the morning and I see it. But ever since we left 328 Preacher, I see that woman when I get up. I see her when I lay down to go to sleep and all throughout the day. laying in the bed, can't do nothing, don't know God, but he cares. That's why he sent us, because he cares. He cares for that woman. If he cares that much for somebody I don't even know him, how much do you reckon he cares about you? If I asked you, is there anything more precious than the blood of Jesus, what would you say? I would say no too. But I was in a meeting where a preacher asked that question. Is there anything more precious than the blood of Jesus? And we all said no when the preacher said there's only one thing more precious than the blood of Jesus. And he said, go look in the mirror, because that's what God gave to get you. You are so precious to him that he gave the blood of his own son to have you. If he did all that to save us from our sin, surely he cares about our situation. You know where stress comes from? Carrying it ourselves. When you're casting something upon somebody else, you're getting the weight off of you. I'm getting the weight off me. If I cast my burden on you, it's on you and not on me. And we'll say that it's on the Lord who has to do it, but we don't mean it because we still turn it around. Stress comes from carrying it on you. Bitterness comes from leaving it on you. There's people that will carry bitterness their entire life because they'll never give it to the Lord. The psalmist said this and I'm done. He said he poured out his complaint before the Lord. When you pour something out, it's going to be real hard to put it in the cup again. There's some things the Lord would just rather you pour out tonight before Him. I might as well go complain to Him. He already knows. I might as well pour out my complaint before the Lord. He already knows. Glory. I'll tell you how much He cares about us tonight, and I'm done. Most of you already know, I went to Florida last week to try to preach a revival meeting, and the man that went with me, supposed to help me in and out of the chair and in and out of the bathroom, my load was too much for him to carry. And I seen real quick like that if I let him try to do it, I was gonna end up in the floor. I almost did, so I decided that I'd try to do it myself. I stood up, my knee blew out, holding on to that rail. And I landed, my knee folded underneath me and I landed. Almost passed out, seeing stars, the whole room spinning. And they tried to set me up to sit me in my chair. They set me up, they was gonna set the chair behind me for me to lean on. And they gunned it too hard and ran me over with my own chair. They sent me up again, Brother Caleb was going to try it again. And the pastor gunned it too hard and ran me over again with my own chair. Ended up getting cut by the edges of the foot plates. So they said they were going to call the paramedics. And there I lay. I didn't think about this until later, but I sure have some people that I tried to lean on that ended up running me over. Amen. But, I have been in immense pain for days and days. Fluid building up on my legs and it won't go away because I have to sit like this constantly. So I have been in immense pain with that left leg. The right leg is the leg that I hurt in the wreck. has nerve damage in it. So for days and days, both of my legs have hurt. Now they might hurt like the dickens later on tonight or in the morning, but he cares about me so much that while they were singing, I can count on you Lord to carry my load. I noticed for the first time in days, my legs weren't dropping. He didn't have to do that, but he cares about me. And even if our relief is just temporary, God gives us a place on the side of the road in London, Kentucky. Come in for a minute and cast our cares upon the Lord. We talk about practicing what we preach. He's gonna play, and some of you need to practice what I just preached. You got some things you need to throw on Jesus. You threw most of it on Him, but He wants all of it tonight. He wants all of it. So he's gonna play, if you want somebody to sing for you, whatever you wanna do. I'm done tonight. You can cast all your care upon him. Maybe you cast it on him, but you picked it back up. Come throw it on him again. Come throw it on him again. Come give it all to him tonight. All of it. He wants all of it. Bless his name. Amen. Come on, Madison. Bless his name. Hallelujah. Amen. Hallelujah. Count the stars one and all. He knows how much sand is on the shores. He sees every sparrow that falls. He made the mountains and the seas. He's in control of everything. Of all creatures great and small. He knows my name. Every step that I take. Every move that I make. Every tear that I cry. He knows my name. When I'm overwhelmed by the pain. I know I'll be just fine, cause he knows my name. I don't know what tomorrow will bring. I can't tell you what's in store. I don't know a lot of things. I don't have all the answers to the questions of love. But I know in whom I have believed. He knows my name Every step that I take Every move that I make Every tear that I cry He knows my name When I'm overwhelmed by the pain Can't see the light of day I know I'll be just fine, cause he knows my name. He counts the stars, one and all. He knows how much sand is on the shore. He sees every sparrow that falls. He made the mountains and the seas He's in control of everything Of all creatures great and small He knows my name Every step that I take Every move that I make Every tear that I cry He knows my name when I'm overwhelmed by the pain. Can't see the light of day. I know I'll be just fine. He knows my name. I don't know what tomorrow will bring. I can't tell you what's in store. I don't know a lot of things. Don't have all the answers to the questions of my life, but I know in whom I have believed. He knows my name. Every step that I take Every move that I make Every tear that I cry He knows my name When I'm overwhelmed by the pain Can't see the light of day I know I'll be just fine He knows my name I don't know what tomorrow will bring I can't tell you what's in store I don't know Don't have all the answers to the questions of love. But I know in whom I have belief. He knows my name. Every step that I take. Every move that I make. Every tear that I cry He knows my name When I'm overwhelmed by the pain Can't see the light of day I know I'll be just fine He knows my name