Casting a burden upon the Lord means you turn the burden over and release it to Him. Every burden has a weight, and some are heavier than others. The Lord knows we can only carry a burden for a short amount of time before we begin to slip and fall under the weight of it. God calls us to bear one another’s burdens only long enough to bring them to Him. Remember, the Lord will not put more on you than you can carry.
If you are weary, it is time to cast your burden upon the Lord. He says, “Come unto me all ye that are weak and heavy laden (weighted down) and I will give you rest, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. As you rest, learn of me, and find rest for your soul.”
You will know you have cast the burden down when you begin to experience His rest. So why not enter into His rest today?
“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; prayer, that goeth not out for feigned lips.”
(Psalms 16:11)
“Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.”
(Psalms 17:5)
As we travel down the path of life, the Lord will make the path very clear. The right path of life leads you to do what is right. You know you are on the right path by the peace that comes as you choose to do what is right. Sin draws you away from God’s presence and the right path. When you continue in sin, you travel down a path farther and farther away from God. You feel lost and alone, far away from home. The steps to get back home can be found in His Word.
The Psalmist declares “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” (Psalms 119:105)
Just like Adam, we still run and hide from God when we feel guilt or shame. When we have sinned, we need to run toward Him for forgiveness. We need to say, as David did, “I said, Lord, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned” (Psalm 41:4). We are all, at times, like a prodigal son that needs to run back home. As we repent, we begin walking on the right path to our Heavenly Father, who is always waiting at the door for us with His arms open wide to receive us.
Pray and ask God to help you to get back on the right path that will lead you home.
For You make him to be blessed and a blessing forever; You make him exceedingly glad with the joy of Your presence. Psalm 21:6 Amp.
It is God that makes us to be blessed! David said in Psalm 21:6, that God actually makes you to be blessed. He makes or rather He prepares you to receive His blessings. Think about it, right now He is preparing you for His blessings.
You are like a storehouse that He must prepare to pour his blessings into. If you are a little four room house, He may require you expand to receive a blessing. You can’t have the “us four and no more” mentality and expect God to bless you beyond where you presently are. It could be that where you are right now in your thinking is not large enough to hold all the blessings God has planned for you.
Think of all the men of old who were blessed by God such as: David, Joseph, and Abraham. They had to expand. Each of these great men was blessed by God, but each one was blessed in a different way. They had to obey God in order to be prepared for the blessings. Their storehouse had to be prepared so they would properly manage blessings when they were poured out.
We are always blessed by God so we can keep the blessings flowing and be a blessing to God’s people. If you are blessed by God, as Joseph was blessed, it means you must learn how to govern the blessing and release it to God’s people at the appointed time. Blessings from God indicate He has entrusted you with something, and all He asks of you is to be a good steward and properly maintain the blessing.
When God abundantly blesses someone, they are a storehouse on earth where God places His blessings. He doesn’t bless us just so we will pile up the blessings and say, “look at me.” He blesses us so He can use us to pour out blessings to others. In Psalm 21:6, as we bless others the flow of God’s blessing continue to flow to us and we are a blessing forever. “Give and it shall be given to you.”
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:38 (New International Version)
Be a blessing to others with the blessings God has entrusted you with.
“Now I say that an heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he is Lord of all.” Galatians 4:1
Like going to any new destination, you will need a vehicle to get you to the Father’s House; the only vehicle that will get you there is the vehicle of faith. It is by faith that we receive the promises of God.
And it’s only by faith that we enter into the Father’s House, the Big House where we receive our full inheritance. By faith you take your rightful place as a son or daughter and a joint-heir with Christ. As you read the Word and by faith receive the Word as Truth, you will find yourself dwelling in a new place, a higher place, high above the old life you once lived.
Galatians 4:1 says as long as we are children, we are as servants or as slaves, but when we put away the childish way of thinking—the old lies—we can by faith receive our identity and full inheritance.
Before faith, you are still a child—“thinking, feeling, and acting like a child”—living in the little house (I Corinthians 13:11). Now is the time to get into the vehicle of faith and travel to the Father’s House, where your full inheritance awaits you. You are no longer a servant or a slave; you have been redeemed and you are now an heir, a child of God, and a joint-heir with Jesus Christ.
“God sent forth His son… to redeem them that were under the law, that they might receive the adoption of sons. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Jesus Christ.” (Galatians 4:4, 5, 7)
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!” (Romans 8:14-15, Amplified).
“That we may do those good works which God predestined for us…” Eph 2: 10
God has preordained and planned before hand what your purpose is on the earth. And He has used the situations in your life up to this very moment to teach you and prepare you for His purposes.
We can’t see clearly what God sees. It is only after we pass through a situation that we see it clearly. We can then look down from a higher perspective and see what good came out of it, what we learned, and how God will use it. I know how it is to be in the middle of a bad situation. We wonder what good thing could possibly come out of this! At that point, we can not see what God sees. That is why all along the way and in every situation, we must learn to listen to His voice. His ways are so much higher than our ways. He has a plan that we can’t see so we must listen to His voice so we will choose the right way, the high way.
I believe God sets up situations just for learning purposes. He wants us to learn from our past mistakes, so we will make different choices and take the right path the next time. Paul said that if we take the path which He planned ahead of time, we will live the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live. This does not mean that once we learn to walk on the highway, we will not encounter difficult situations. It does mean that we will always have a clear path to walk on during those difficult times. That’s why we go through hard times so we can learn how to identify God ways and God’s path that leads us though the valleys and hardships of life.
You and I are God’s greatest handy work, the greatest work He has ever created. He is shaping and molding you with His hands. This is why Paul said, we are His workmanship.
You and I were created so we could be shaped and molded for a certain purpose as a vessel of honor. It is good to understand the process that God uses to carry out the task of preparing us as a vessel of honor.
First we are on the potter’s wheel, going around and around. We wonder “who are we?”, as we are being transformed from a simple piece of clay into a vessel. As we accept Christ and embrace our identity through Him as a child of God, the spinning stops.
Then the painful maturing process begins. He shapes us with His hands putting pressure on all the lumpy fleshly places. Then on the places that will not submit to the smoothing out with His hands, He will use an instrument. It is one that will rub us the wrong way until the ruff edges are smooth. Just as things smooth out in our life and we feel good, all of a sudden we find ourselves in the fire, the refiner’s fire. As we are wondering why this is happening, we must remember we are still in His hands.
We also must remember that this process is always going on. God is using all people and all situations for our ultimate good, so that we will become a vessel of honor to be filled with His glory.
In Him we also were made [God’s] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will, Ephesians 1:11
The secrets of God can be discovered but they are hidden in the secret place. We can go to the secret place and discover His secrets, His will, His plan and purpose for our life. I believe we must spend time, maybe even hours daily in this secret place, to discover His will for our life. Psalms 91 says that we can actually dwell in the secret place and abide there forever. It is in this secret place where all the distractions of the world are blocked out and all you hear is His voice.
You were chosen ahead of time for a certain purpose. You were actually appointed by God to do it. You can’t wait on man to say it or depend on man; it is God that appoints you. God may use a man or women as a mouth piece to confirm what He has already appointed for you to do. Eph 1:11, says that God works everything out after the counsel of His will. God will work all things together to accomplish whatever His will is.
Go to the secret place daily and listen for the secret for that day to be revealed to you.
“God sent forth His son… to redeem them that were under the law, that they might receive the adoption of sons. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Jesus Christ.” (Galatians 4:4, 5, 7)
So how do you get out of the little house? How do you lay aside the lies you have believed that keep you in the past? You start with the words that bound you up or tore you down instead of building you up. You will feel like a child as long as you stay bound by the words that were spoken when you were a child. (Read I Corinthians 13:11)
I am a parent of three children, and I know I have said hurtful things to my children; I have asked for their forgiveness many times. Like clearing a garden of weeds, forgiveness removes the words from their minds. I believe parents should check their children’s gardens daily just to see if any lies have been planted. Many times parents do not even realize how the things they say affect their children. A parent can say one thing and a child hear something entirely different. I am not blaming parents in this exercise; my goal is to uproot the lies and heal the hurts.
Allow your Father God to uproot every lie that you have believed and plant His Word of Truth. Find scriptures that tell you of your Heavenly Father’s love for you. His love is the river that John saw in Revelations 21: “There is a river that flows from the throne of God.”
“You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Psalm 16:11 (New King James Version)
We can have joy and live life to the fullest when we live by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Every Word from God is God breathed and is life. God is the only one who has the plan for your life and knows how it will unfold before you. He has the plan and the path that you need to take to get there.
So, every morning, spend time with God. Listen for the still small voice of His Spirit. Then, during the rest of the day, watch and wait patiently for the confirmation of what you heard Him say. He will confirm His Word to you. His Word to you each morning is your daily bread. Meditate on it all day and you will begin to live life to the fullest.
“This is my resting place forever” (Psalms 132:14).
Would you like to find a restful place that is quiet and peaceful, but more than that, a place where you can experience the presence of God? According to Psalm 132:14, God has established resting places, literal places that are His resting places. God is calling each of us to find a quiet place, a resting place where we can get alone to spend time with Him. In the story of Noah, when the world was destroyed by the flood, the first thing Noah did was send a dove out to find a place to rest.
“Then he (Noah) sent forth a dove to see if the waters had decreased from the surface of the ground. But the dove found no resting place on which to roost, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were yet on the face of the whole land. So he put forth his hand and drew her to him into the ark” (Genesis 8:8-9).
Noah represents God, and the Ark represents the safety of the presence of God. Only when you enter into His presence will you find that place of peace and rest. I am sure in this account that the dove was weary of searching, so God stretched forth His hand and drew the dove back unto Himself. We are all like that dove, needing a safe place to land. A resting place here on earth, where His presence can be felt. When you find a resting place, you will know you have found it because your spirit will be at peace. A dove will not land where there is no peace. You may be like the dove, searching for the right place; a resting place, a peaceful place.
God has resting places here on earth where He has established a dwelling place of His presence, “This is my resting place forever” (Psalm 132:14). Trust Him to lead you to His resting place.
Casting a burden upon the Lord means you turn the burden over and release it to Him. Every burden has a weight, and some are heavier than others. The Lord knows we can only carry a burden for a short amount of time before we begin to slip and fall under the weight of it. God calls us to bear one another’s burdens only long enough to bring them to Him. Remember, the Lord will not put more on you than you can carry.
