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First Peter, chapter 5, verse 7,

casting all your anxieties on him because he cares for you.

Be encouraged by this short verse in 1st Peter 5 today and I want to encourage you

specifically, encourage us specifically in prayer in just a moment to do exactly this.

To think about anything that makes you or me anxious. Anything. We've looked at this and other passages like 2nd

Timothy 1, 7 God not giving us a spirit of fear or worry anxiety, but a spirit of fear or worry anxiety but a spirit of power love and self-control here how do

you get rid of anxiety then how do you get rid of worry and the beauty here in 1st

Peter chapter 5 is this exhortation to cast all of those anxieties on God

like to lift them before God not to pretend that they're not present, not to pretend that they're not real,

not to pretend that everything is just fine, like no we are prone to be anxious and so to cast all those anxieties on him and know that he

cares for us. This is the remedy that the Bible is giving us for anxiety.

What do we do with anxiety?

We cast that anxiety on God

and he is able to bear the weight of those anxieties and he has promised to care for us.

So how do we deal with anxiety?

We look to the God who cares for us and we cast our anxieties at his feet.

Oh God, we do this right now. Lord, in my own heart, in the hearts of everybody praying with me right now, God, we cast our anxieties

upon you.

Lord, bring to the forefront of our minds all the ways in which we are anxious right now in our lives,

and our families, and our work, when we look at the world around us, like what are all the ways we are anxious

right now, We were worried and we just bring all those from our minds and

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