Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, October 30th.

Is there something going on in your life that feels heavy, like you just can't carry it anymore?

Today you'll get a very practical suggestion for how to lay your burdens down.

If you'll turn to Matthew chapter 11, and I want us to read verses 28, 29, and 30 in the title of this message,

how to lay your burden down.

How to lay your burden down, Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30, just three verses.

While the most comforting and tender things Jesus ever said,

He said, Come unto me, all ye that labor and the heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am weak and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

All of us have felt times when the burden and the heart aches for such that we didn't know exactly what to do,

and somebody said, Well, you just read the Bible and pray and just give it to God.

So you found the pastor's scripture that may have applied to what you were talking about, thinking about.

You got on your knees, and you prayed, and you said, Oh, I'm just going to give all this to you.

And I'm sure you described in detail probably what you were giving, then you got up, and either you went to bed the next morning,

a couple hours had passed by, and all of a sudden you felt the same old thing, oh, over you once again.

Well, you told the Lord you'd given it to Him, and you were giving it to Him again.

A few hours later, it was still there.

And so you finally came to the conclusion that you give it to Him, and He gives it back.

And so you throw it up to Him, and like I'll yo-yo, it just keeps coming back.

You give it to Him, He gives it back, you give it to Him, He gives it back.

God never intended to send back to us burdens, which we are to lay down before Him.

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