Casting Your Cares on God
Enduring faith is the key to trusting in God's promises and being ready for whatever the present hour brings.
David Wilkerson emphasizes the importance of casting our cares on God, encouraging believers to commit every aspect of their lives into His hands. He highlights that enduring faith involves trusting God's promises and rejecting the lies of the enemy that instill fear and doubt during difficult times. Instead of worrying about the future, believers should focus on loving and serving the Lord and others, surrendering their personal agendas to God's will. With such faith, one can face any challenge with confidence, knowing that God is faithful and will provide. Wilkerson urges the congregation to keep their minds anchored in God's promises.
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"Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (Matthew 6:33-34).
Enduring faith is the committing of all things into God's hands. Enduring faith says to the Lord, "I cast every event, every care, into your hands. And I hold you to your promise to commit all that you are -- all your omniscience and omnipotent strength -- to preserve me."
Whenever you face afflictions and persecution, Satan loves to whisper fears and lies: "How are you going to make it through this crisis? What will you do now? If God is faithful, how could he allow this to happen to you? How could he put your loved ones at risk this way? What will become of you, your family, your job, your ministry?"
Enduring faith rises up and answers the enemy's lies: "Devil, you're asking the wrong questions. The question for me right now is not how I'm going to make it; it is not what will become of me and mine. I have already placed everything that concerns me into my loving Father's hands. I have trusted all future events to him because he has proved himself faithful time and again. He can be trusted!"
The question for believers is, "How can I love and serve my Lord better? How shall I serve others as myself?" You see, enduring faith declares, "I have no will of my own; rather, his will be done. No more personal agenda for me! No more playing God by trying to solve my own problems or those of others."
With such faith, you will be ready for whatever the present hour brings and your heart will be established in your heavenly Father. May the Holy Spirit keep your mind stayed on the Lord and his promises!
Sermon Outline
- Enduring Faith
- Committing all things into God's hands
- Casting every care into God's hands
- Holding God to his promise
Key Quotes
“Devil, you're asking the wrong questions. The question for me right now is not how I'm going to make it; it is not what will become of me and mine.” — David Wilkerson
“I have already placed everything that concerns me into my loving Father's hands.” — David Wilkerson
“I have no will of my own; rather, his will be done.” — David Wilkerson
Application Points
- Commit all things into God's hands and trust in his promise to preserve you.
- Rise up with enduring faith and answer Satan's lies with the truth of God's faithfulness.
- Let God's will be done in your life and have no personal agenda.