Cast Your Burdens Upon The Lord

Q: What does the Bible say about casting burdens upon the Lord?

The Bible instructs us to cast our burdens upon the Lord, assuring us that He will sustain us and keep us steadfast. In Psalm 55:22, we see David encouraging us to 'cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.' This invitation shows that God desires to bear our burdens for us, allowing us to trust in His power and provision. It doesn't mean we won't face trials or hardships, but rather that amidst those challenges, God offers His presence and support, ensuring that we are held up during times of weakness or fear. David knew from experience that God is faithful in listening to our cries and in delivering us from our troubles, reminding us that we are never alone as we navigate life's struggles.

Q: How do we know that God hears our prayers?

We know God hears our prayers because of His promises in Scripture and the assurance of faith in Christ. David asserts in Psalm 55:16, 'As for me, I will call upon the Lord, and the Lord shall save me.' This reflects the certainty that arises from a relationship with God; through faith, we have the assurance that when we pray, He listens. God does not turn away from His people, and we also have the assurance from the New Testament that through Christ, we can approach the Father with confidence. The heart of a believer is one that knows that God is attentive to our voices in prayer, and this deeply rooted relationship is founded on the work of Christ who made a way for us to communicate directly with God.

Q: Why is it important to bring our complaints to God?

Bringing our complaints to God is important as it is an act of faith and reliance on His sovereignty and mercy. David's example in Psalm 55 shows that lamenting before God is not a sign of disbelief but rather an honest expression of our pain and struggles. He says in verses 1-2, 'Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.' This reflects a deep understanding of our need for divine assistance. When we bring our complaints to God, we acknowledge His sovereignty over our circumstances and trust that He is capable of providing relief and healing. This act of casting our concerns to Him shows a posture of humility and dependence, opening the door for God to work in our situation according to His wisdom and timing.

Q: What does it mean to have faith in God during hardships?

Having faith in God during hardships means trusting His promises and His character, regardless of circumstances. Faith in God amidst adversity, as expressed by David in Psalm 55, requires a deep-seated trust that God is both sovereign and good. When David declares in verse 22, 'He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved,' it illustrates a firm belief in God's protective power and His promise to sustain His people. Faith acknowledges the reality of our troubles but holds fast to the truth that God is working all things for our good. This kind of faith does not deny our struggles; instead, it points us towards prayer, reliance on God's Word, and encouragement from the community of believers, emphasizing that God is actively involved and in control, even when our situations seem dire.

Good evening everybody. It's good to be here with you. If you will turn with me to Psalm 55. This is one I've been looking at for quite a while here. I think by the end of it, I hope we see what David, who is the author of this one, was trying to say. And I want to give you a little bit of background before we read it in its entirety, because I think it helps you understand the feelings and the emotions of the man that wrote it. Because that's, when we read the word of God, we realize, yes, the Spirit moved men to speak as they were given utterance, but this is an experience, this particular one that David went through that very profoundly shaped everything that happened after this. So I think it's important we understand. So this is a point in history with King David, and at this time, This is written during the time when he had to flee the kingdom. He had a son named Absalom. Absalom was kind of the brightness of his sons in many ways.

And everybody looked to him, everybody loved Absalom, and Absalom often would sit outside the gate of the king's castle. And anyone who wanted to petition something for the king had to go through the gate. Absalom was well respected by all those around him. And he won the hearts of Israel. You don't need to go to my father, the king, let me do for you what you need. And he would do this for everybody. And so everybody loved Absalom. And it got to the point Absalom thought a lot about himself. And he said, I can do more than my father. Everybody loves me.

And he probably had people around him telling him this. because that was their opportunity to come into power and favor where they were maybe not with his father. So Absalom goes into rebellion, open rebellion against his father and tries to steal the kingdom. And David's servants come to him and say, you need to get out. Absalom's coming with some men and we'll kill you. This is his son. Remember this? And he finds out One of the people that ultimately betrayed him during this whole time was named Ahithophel. And I know I'm probably not saying it right. Ahithophel. It's a mouthful.

He was a trusted counselor and advisor to David. And it's said that basically everybody respected what he had to say. And even when Absalom kind of was falsely usurping the throne, Absalom even listened to him because everything the guy had to say was good advice and they followed his counsel. But this was David's friend. This is someone that David kind of came up with and grew into the kingdom.

And the guy turned his back on him and stabbed him straight in the back. and got in league with his son. And so at this time, David has found out not only have I been betrayed by my son, my own blood, but my best friend, my best living friend that's here has stabbed me in the back to do it. And so I'm now running for my life with my family, with some soldiers, with some people that are loyal to me, running away. And that's where we pick up with this song, where David hasn't come back yet. He's on the run.

And so that's what I want us to pick up and read it. I think it gives some context to what's being said here. So song 55, give ear to my prayer, oh God, and hide not thyself from my supplication, my plea. Attend unto me and hear me. I mourn in my complaint, and I make a noise because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. My heart is sore pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and the horror hath overwhelmed me.

And I said, oh, that I had wings like a dove, for then would I fly away, and I'd be at rest. This is him on the run. Lo, then would I wander far off and remain in the wilderness. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. Destroy, oh Lord, and divide their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Day and night would they go about it on the walls thereof. Mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it. Wickedness is in the midst thereof. Deceit and guile depart not from her streets. For it was not an enemy that reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he that hated me, that did magnify himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him. But it was thou. a man, mine equal, my guide, mine acquaintance.

We took sweet counsel together and walked into the house of God in company. Let death seize upon them and let them go down quick into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them. As for me, I will call upon the Lord and the Lord shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud, and he shall hear my voice. He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, and that there were many with me. God shall hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old, because they have no changes.

Therefore they fear not God. He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him. He hath broken his covenant. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter. but war was in his heart. His words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. But thou, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

So here we see David lamenting his situation. You can feel his angst and the betrayal. You can feel his hurt. And he's like, if it was somebody that hated me, if it was an evil person, I could have dealt with that because I got away from them. But this stabs me in my heart, not only being chased out of my kingdom, but it's a betrayal to me from my friend. So we see David is writing in angst, his hurt, And we see he starts off the psalm in supplication, which just means a plea. He's pleading to God at this point. He says, give ear unto my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my supplication. Now you think about this. I thought this was interesting. I've read this over so many times in the past few months. Why does he say that?

Why does he say, don't hide yourself from my plea? You can feel David here saying, I'm really praying to you now. I've prayed before, I need you to hear me. Because often it might feel in our experience, there are times when we do pray and it doesn't seem in our experience the Lord answered my prayer for what I asked for. I feel like I'm asking for a good thing. I feel like I'm asking the Lord to defend what's right, to defend his name. but sometimes it feels that the Lord's silent. And so in those moments, that's what David's doing right here. When he's saying, don't hide yourself from what I'm saying. I need you to hear me. This is serious. I'm pleading with you to hear me and my cause.

Now, this is not what the Lord does. He hears our prayers for Christ's sake, but sometimes his answer is not always yes. Sometimes the answer's no. Sometimes the answer is you need to wait a little bit longer Sometimes the answer is you need to pray on this Sometimes the answer is you need to watch and Those are the ones where we have trouble in The moment when we're pleading to the Lord and we need something we need his deliverance. I'm not looking to anything else I'm pleading to you I need you to deliver me, and if I'm not delivered, then I'm lost if you don't do something for me. And so this is where David is saying, hear me in my mourn and my complaint. And he pours out his heart. So David here was in pain. He's in fear. He's trembling.

And then we find a Thithophel, his renowned counselor. the one who has wisdom, and as I mentioned, he's been respected by Absalom and David. So they both saw value in this man. Obviously, Absalom got to him and had him join in Lee with him to usurp the kingdom. Why did he do it? Why did Epiphabel do this? The only interpretation that we can take from this is some sort of game.

He thought that he could get more by going with Absalom than he was getting with David. He had lost his faith in David. He had lost what was valuable to him in David and thought, I'm gonna go wherever the wind seems to be blowing here and I'm gonna be in a better place with Absalom, who has clearly promised him something to make him defect from his king, David.

How many people, when you consider this, have ruined their lives in this own way? They see the wind's blowing somewhere, and they go right along with it. And I'm talking about just in our daily lives. People ruin a friendship. They ruin a marriage. They ruin a job. People even commit a crime and lose their freedom. So there are so many things that, and foolish things, that we as men and women are drawn into and go where the wind blows and destroy everything around us just because we're following some sort of game.

Spiritual loss is even greater because the trade-off here is one that we can't come back from. You know, it's scripture says, what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Because that question is asked because how many people in the scripture have veered away from the truth. How many people that may have been sitting right here for many years aren't here anymore. It just they lost their love for the word. They lost their zeal for the truth. Something drew them away. They went with the wind wherever it went and they left. There's a cost to this. What shall a man give in exchange for his soul? How much money is it to take you to draw you away from the salvation of your soul. Is there power, health, friendship?

All these things are temporal. These things are going to go away. But yet, people are blinded and drawn in, just like this man that we're reading about here was blinded and drawn away. And so that's kind of what this saying here is. All these things are going to be lost. And we'll see later, Epiphael loses everything in the end here. As I was preparing this message and talking about this, the idea of not only our temporal loss in our life in this world, the greatness of the spiritual loss that we've all seen around us.

Not all doors that are open in front of us are meant to be walked through. Often people, and we all look for, you know, the Lord's will in our life and It appears that a door has been opened at several times to us and we think, oh, well, that must be the Lord's will for me to go there because they wouldn't have done this or this wouldn't have happened otherwise were I not supposed to do that. But often that door is a test. That door is a door we're meant to not always walk through. That doesn't mean because the door opens, you don't go through it.

But I think some serious prayer and consideration other than excitement when a door is opened are wise. Because often, these can be just as many times a temptation and a test as they are the Lord's will in it for us to go through it. A temptation, I was thinking, you know, in my own situation, like, you know, I've had opportunities to work different places around the country. And, you know, people try to hire me and say, hey, come work here.

And I don't really even consider the job because I know there's no church that preaches the truth there that I know of. There may be, I don't know, but for what I know, and I know for me, that's not something I can do. because I need to be where I know I can worship.

What if I got the greatest job and got all these things from it, but lost my love for Christ? Is that worth it? It's not. So when we look at it in light of these things, what this man sold his character, sold his person for, in the end, it wasn't worth it. So all these things, and you consider this, of the temptations that come, I've seen people that will attempt to change the meaning of the words of this book just to fit their family, or their children, or their friends, because if what it's saying is true, well, that would mean that person doesn't believe, and that they're lost. Dare I change God's Word in what He's revealed because my children, my friends, my family don't believe it? Is that worth maligning God in what He said in His Word?

There's a cost. And so that's what this man, Ithithephel, ended up paying is a great cost. And there's a parallel in the story. So we read of David and Ithithephel. So he paid the cost of betrayal. He sold his allegiance. He paid for what appeared to be his ability to get more rising influence and power in the new kingdom.

I'm gonna go with where the wind's blowing right now. I'm not gonna be stuck here. And he later found out the counsel that he gave to David that was followed, the counsel that he gave to Absalom, the next guy who tried to usurp the power, he found out somebody told him, hey, all that stuff that you told Absalom to do, he didn't do any of it. That was the moment he knew it was over. Now, not only have I betrayed the king, the new guy in power, he's not listening to me either. I've got a problem. He went home, considered the matter, and he hung himself. And that was the end of Othifopil. He sold everything he had just for some gain. The parallel here is there was also another man who sold his character and his influence for exactly 30 pieces of silver.

He had communion with the Lord. He was one of the disciples. He was even a trusted disciple. He carried the money bag. They looked at him as someone who was part of the group, not just somebody on the outside. They gave him some office amongst themselves. But yet, something got to him too, just like it did Epiphabel. He felt that he could get gain by appealing to the Jewish rulers. And so he knew that maybe I'll get something from them because clearly we're being persecuted everywhere we go.

And there was probably some part of him temporarily that felt like, I don't know if I want to keep doing this. And this is a way out. So I'm going to sell him. to you for 30 pieces of silver, Judas Iscariot. This is the same story. He betrayed the one that he said that he followed. He betrayed the one that had communion and love with. And in the end, he said, I betrayed innocent blood. He even knew what he did was wrong the same way. And that's why a fifth fell hung himself. He knew what he did was wrong. And he knew he had no way out. And so did Judas. And he hung himself.

So these two stories are given to parallel each other. And I've read this before, but I never considered that, that the story of David and Epithephal is the story of Judas Iscariot and the Lord Jesus Christ. There was love, there was communion, and ultimate betrayal. Betrayal has a cost. When we read this, we're seeing David grieve, but what I took away from this and what I want us to look at with the rest of our time here is how did David handle himself?

Because I want you to consider, David was still a king. He may have been a king on the run, but he wasn't a king that didn't still have friends. He was a king that still had soldiers with him. And so I can tell you right now what I would have done if I'd have had soldiers with me, son or not. I would have sent them after Absalom to stop the rebellion so that I could come back into my kingdom, to come back into my house.

Whatever that means necessary was, I will stop this. That's not what David did. When we read this, his first thing that he did was he cried to the Lord. Lord, hear me. I'm on the run. I need your help. I need you to hear me. And in verse 16, he says, as for me, after all this things that happened, I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me. Evening, morning, noon, I will pray and cry and he shall hear my voice. So what was his plan? What was David's defense? What was his attack? It was to appeal to the Lord.

And often we find many people in our lives and even ourselves. We've tried all these other things and then they don't work. And then we start crying to God to help us because and he allows us in many cases for those things to fail so that we will come to him and cry to him. And that's what David is seeing is I'm going to call upon the name of my God and he shall save me.

The Lord Jehovah God. And when you consider this in light of who David was and David's relationship with God, David was not a stranger on the outside. David was not just anyone who was calling on the name of the Lord. This was King David, the man after the Lord's own heart. This is King David who knew the living God. This is King David who called upon the living God who caused the dry land to come forth from the water.

This is not just anyone he's calling on. This is calling upon the God that opened up the earth to Korah and his sons. They were rebelling against Moses and Aaron. The Lord opened up the earth and swallowed them up alive. This was not just anyone that he was calling on. This is God who thundered in the mountain when the Hebrews were leaving Israel and they came to Mount Sinai, thunderings and lightnings and the Mount smoked and was on fire at the presence of God when he came down and is burnt to this day. This is the one who he is calling on, the one also And this is really where it came home for me after all these, considering who the one he was calling on, this is the one who enabled a boy to kill a giant.

This is the one who giant defied David's God in front of all of Israel and mocked him. This is not just a boy. This was David who fought Goliath. David, and I'll read this to you. Then said David to the Philistine, thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield, but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel whom thou hast defied, and this day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand, and I will smite thee and take thy head from thee, and I will give to the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day, and into the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and all the assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands." This is that David. This is not anyone who just got chased out of the kingdom.

This is the one who killed the mightiest soldier of the enemies that they had in front of all of them, and they all ran. This is David who went and fought all these peoples around him and the Lord was with him and he destroyed them. So David was a bloody man. He was a warlord in his day before he sat as king. This is not just anyone. This is who Absalom chased out. This is who Ithiphel betrayed. So now we find this same David calling upon the same name of the God that enabled him to destroy these armies, that caused him to kill the giant. He called again, he said, I will pray and I will cry aloud.

And this is the beauty of this. And he says, and you will hear my voice. Don't take this for granted. Do not take this for granted that God hears his children for Christ's sake. When you call, If you, as a child of God, are calling upon God to help you, you are able to speak to the Father directly. The Lord told the disciples that. He said, you don't have to ask me for anything. He said, when I go away, you ask the Father yourself. I am making a way so that you can ask him yourself.

You're no more outside the veil. Veil's torn in two. When he died on the cross, He justified His people. He made a way to make us accepted and justified before God to where we could actually come to the Father. If it wasn't written, we wouldn't believe it.

Because I know me. I know how I feel about me. I know the things I think and do, but yet Christ put all that away. I'm stuck with this body as long as I'm here, but I know in my heart what I believe. And I know that when I'm given the ability to pray and commune with God, the Father, Christ enabled me to do that.

That is not something for us to take for granted, and David knew that. He said, I'm gonna cry aloud, I'm gonna pray to you, and you're gonna hear my voice. And he knew it, and he had experienced it. So you see here, Epiphael's disregard for David was just not about David. It was about a rejection of David's Lord. This was a rejection of who David was because David followed the Lord. Absalom clearly did not. And so he said, this doesn't mean anything to me. I'm just going to go over here because I want to get something from it. It was a rejection of David's God. And don't you think that all of Israel knew God was with David? They had seen it. They had experienced it.

And there is a degree of fear and trepidation in those who didn't really know what to do when David ran out. So David here in the, I guess, verse 19 through 21, he's describing the plight of a believer in this world. And even before that, lies, deceit, people with an evil heart, filled with war, We live among them.

They want to hurt you. They're stronger. They're more cunning. And if given the opportunity, they would destroy you. You don't see the side of people that they don't show you. But every now and then, you're given an opportunity. When someone has the opportunity to hurt you, they show you who they are.

And apart from God restraining their hand, they would do more. But the one thing that we, when we're in these situations and these opportunities where we feel like we're out in the open, all they have to do is pull the trigger and I'm gone. But yet the Lord doesn't allow it to always happen that way. Satan could not touch Job without permission.

So even though the fire feels hot, you feel like you're close, that doesn't mean that you're consumed by the fire. Those men that were thrown in the fiery furnace, they felt the heat. They were tied up. They got drug to the mouth of the furnace. They were thrown in. But yet the Lord preserved them.

And that's what David is saying here. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee. It doesn't mean that we won't have a burden. It doesn't mean that we won't be exposed to these things. Cast your burden upon the Lord and he will sustain you.

That's what David was doing at this time. I need to be reminded of that every single day because I forget and I get down and I get beside myself and like, how am I going to get out of this? I don't feel like this is ending. I want this to be over. I'm bearing that burden. Right? I'm not letting go of my burden. I'm not bringing it before the Lord. This verse, I know it had to have been on, I guess, the Hemrider's harp. I think Adolphus Huxley was the guy that wrote Leave It There.

He was the, I guess he was a janitor in a church and he eventually worked his way up to be the pastor of the church. And it was one of the largest black churches in Alabama or something like that. And he worked his way up, and then this man came into his office just downtrodden, all this stuff going on.

And he said to him, he said, listen, you need to take all those worries, put them in a sack, and leave them right there. And then walk away from them and don't come back to them. And then he wrote the hymn, Leave It There. And that's what it's about, is about casting your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you. So whatever your burden may be, and it's gonna be different for each one of us. It might be different tomorrow, and I don't even know what my burden is for tomorrow. But what we can say is that we're to cast our burden upon the Lord.

Lord, I don't know what to do about this. Please help me. How do I get out of this? How do I get relief? Cast your burden upon the Lord. What is this is speaking of? It's not just bringing your burden and walking away. This is about faith. It's something of faith because we can't see it. We can't see the result. We can't see the Lord's will in what we bring to him. But we have faith in him. and were to cast our burden on him.

David was a king, and I will keep saying that over and over. He had the power of a king. His first move was to come to God, not to send an army in there to go kill these people, not to do something by his own strength and hand and influence. His first move was to go to God. David was a king.

Just because the Lord and he writes in other Psalms the Lord delivered him out of all his troubles He had a lot of troubles in his life If you read about the life of David and he said the Lord delivered me out of all of them What that means is it doesn't mean you're not gonna have trouble But what it does mean is that the Lord will deliver you out of those.

Deliverance may not come the way I think it should. And often at times I find it doesn't. And so this is the Lord teaching me, the Lord exercising patience and waiting and praying and seeking His face. It doesn't mean that we won't experience trouble.

Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. It's written in the book of Job. What this means, childless God, is that he will hear you. David says that. I'll call upon his name and he will hear me. He will deliver you. We're to have faith in casting our burden upon him that he will do those things for us. Now, your faith will be tested. Your faith will feel hurt. Your faith will go through all kinds of waves because we live and experience life in this world and we are sinners. And so there's the fight between the new and the old man.

But it says, he will sustain thee. It doesn't mean that you won't experience hardship. And it goes on to say in verse 22, cast that burden upon the Lord, he shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Now, what does that mean? That means he will forever keep you. If you are one of his, he will keep you with him. There is no, even the Lord Jesus Christ said it. He said, who's going to pluck them out of my father's hand? He's like, he's greater than all. Who's going to take him out of his hand? Nobody.

He will sustain me. He will not suffer the righteous to be moved from his love. Because if he loves you, he's always loved you. There's never been a time when he didn't love you. Now in your experience, you may not have known that, but he did. And the good news is, it's about what he knows, not about what I know and what I experience. You will not suffer to be moved from his protection.

The Lord watches after his children. As I've said, there are so many things we get into in this life and we feel alone, we feel left to ourselves, but yet the Lord watches. How are you with your own children, you that have them? You look at them, you watch them when they go down the street, you watch them as they get older, you're watching. And will step in in a moment if there's a danger or something that you can prevent.

And the Lord is no different with his children. You don't think that he doesn't love us with a greater love and understanding than we would with our own? But yet we fear, we find, how many times we're told in the scripture, fear not. How many times does it say that? Because he knows we will. But yet he's a loving father that looks after us.

We will never be moved from his justifying work on the cross. I can never, if he paid for my sin, I can never be held responsible for it. It has been paid for, accepted, and I can stand before God the Father himself, not guilty. I can stand before him and not hang my head because I'm united to his son. How he sees his son is how he sees you if you are in his son. We will be never separated from life in Christ.

We're told that in Ephesians chapter one, that the spirit is the earnest of our inheritance, the giving of spiritual life. Earnest money is just a down payment. You get just a little bit here in the beginning. That's the earnest payment. The rest of it comes later. That's our inheritance that we inherit when we come into glory. But you'll never be separated from it. is that because God's not going to go back and take his payment back. He's not going to say, well, Christ died for this one, but now not.

It's done. It is finished. There is no changing names in the book. The books are sealed. The book has been sealed. It is written on every page, and there's no adding or crossing names out. The names are in the book. Christ did the work. We will be never separated from knowing that everything is working together for good to them that love God, who are the called according to his wise and eternal purpose. We will never be separated for the fact that God is for my good. He is doing everything in my life. There's a purpose behind it. If I'm one of his people, I can see that, but we will never be separated from it.

Casting your burden upon the Lord reveals your trust. Is it in God or your own ability, wisdom, your ability to influence the situation and solve the problem? David is the king. His first move was, Lord, give ear. Oh my God, hear my prayer before you. You need to hear me. Whatever is or will be tomorrow, next week, next year, you're to call upon God, just like David did. Call upon His name to cast your burden upon the Lord.

Are you troubled over your sin? I have some awareness of my own. In many cases, I find troubled over the fact that all I can do is sin and that it's been that way all along and I'm not even aware of it. I find myself, that is what I'm troubled over. It's not what I've done, it's what I am before God.

And we're told, cast your burden upon the Lord. He will sustain me. How does he do that? Christ on the cross. He's given me a holy nature. He's taken away my sin. That's my burden, I'm giving that to him. I don't want that. I don't want to hold on to that. And by faith, there are times where we're actually unable to do that. And then we lose it. And that's the life of faith in this world. But yet, we're told, cast your burden upon the Lord. Call upon God and cast your burden upon the Lord.

And you know, I believe that the Apostle Paul, when he made the statement, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, that's what David was saying in verse 16. As for me, I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me. I believe that was on his heart when he made that statement. May the Lord grant us faith to trust him, to trust him enough to call on his name, call upon the name of the one who thundered in the mountain, who divided the sea, who swallowed up his enemies, who enabled a boy to kill a giant. When we do, when the Lord enables us to do that, and he has to be the one to enable us, give us the confidence that when we pray, and that we cry aloud that you'll hear us. Just as David has told us, I pray, I'm crying aloud, and he shall hear my voice. Just as you did with your servant David, cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.

That's all I have for you tonight. Let's bow our heads in prayer. We'll close our service. Heavenly Father, we pray to you the high and holy name of Christ Jesus, our Lord. And Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the sacrifice of your son.

May we truly be enabled to call upon his name. May we truly be enabled to cast our burden upon the Lord. And Lord, give us the faith and ability to trust you and to see that you will sustain us. You will keep us forever and we will never be moved. We pray that you will keep us as we go out in the week and in the world until we meet again, Lord, and we ask that you hasten your coming.

I was encouraged in hearing our brother pray that, what if the Lord came back tonight? And I thought, what a thing to do. What an experience to have that I would desire. Lord, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your mercy upon our homes and our families, and we pray that you save our loved ones and our children, if it be your will. We ask these things in Christ's name, amen.

Cast Your Burdens Upon The Lord

Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about casting burdens upon the Lord?

How do we know that God hears our prayers?

Why is it important to bring our complaints to God?

What does it mean to have faith in God during hardships?

Sermon Transcript

Comments

Articles

Featured Authors

Podcast

Sermons

Featured Preachers

Books

Browse by Format

Music

Recent Comments

About

Legal

Subscribe

Account

Articles

Featured Authors

Podcast

Recent Comments

Sermons

Featured Preachers

Books

Browse by Format

Collections

Music

About

Legal

Subscribe

Cast Your Burdens Upon The Lord

Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about casting burdens upon the Lord?

How do we know that God hears our prayers?

Why is it important to bring our complaints to God?

What does it mean to have faith in God during hardships?

Sermon Transcript

Comments

Related Sermons

Same Scripture

Suggested for You

Where this book stands in the tradition

Plato

Augustine

The Western Christian Tradition

This Book