Cast Anxieties on God (1 Peter 5:6–7)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on 1 Peter 5:6–7, David Platt calls Christians to cast their worry and anxiety on God and trust that he cares for us.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:03.9 | 1 Peter 5 verses 6 and 7. |
| 0:07.0 | Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, |
| 0:10.5 | so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, |
| 0:16.3 | because he cares for you. What a word. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God. |
| 0:24.8 | This is a good place to be. It's a good place to live. |
| 0:28.2 | Humbly, under God's mighty hand, knowing that when we humble ourselves before God, |
| 0:35.7 | he will exalt us. What a phrase, so that at the proper time God may exalt you, |
| 0:43.7 | God may exalt me. Like what a picture, and it's what we see throughout |
| 0:48.1 | scripture, whoever exalts himself will be humbled. He will humbles himself, will be exalted, |
| 0:52.9 | exalted by who? By God. This is God our Father who desires to lift us up as we humble ourselves |
| 1:00.8 | before him. And what does that look like? Verse 7, it looks like casting all your anxieties on him. |
| 1:08.8 | On a picture of what humbling yourself before God is, to be humble before God is to say, |
| 1:15.1 | God, I trust you with this anxiety, and that anxiety with this that I'm worried about, |
| 1:20.6 | with that that I'm worried about, I trust you. Humble myself before you because |
| 1:25.8 | First Peter 5.7 says he cares for you. In other words, he is worthy of your trust with all your |
| 1:33.2 | anxieties. That's pretty according to this passage, God, in light of First Peter 5, verse 6 and 7, |
| 1:40.9 | we pray that you would help us to humble ourselves before you, under your mighty hand, to cast all |
| 1:48.0 | our anxieties on you. Can we just do that right now? All the things that come to your mind right now |
| 1:53.6 | that you are anxious or worried about or even prone to be anxious or worried about? Can you just |
| 1:59.4 | cast those before God right now specifically? God, we cast this, that, this on you. God, we cast |
| 2:06.3 | our anxieties. I think of a variety of things going to my mind right now, things that I'm worried |
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