Casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully.] 1 Peter 5:7 (AMP)
Ever wondered how to cast your cares on God?
As believers, we want to, but often we simply don’t know how. While the context of today’s verse has often been limited to prayer, it actually refers to an entire teaching about how to have the mind of Christ!
Now, Satan loves to try to get into our heads to play mind games with us. So how do we battle his deception and lies that cause us to have those cares, anxiety and worry? We focus on the Word of God.
Our minds are precious, so we must continually reprogram them with the phenomenal teachings from the Word. We need to get the Word deep into our hearts so that we, as believers, are not only mature, but also aware of and mentally strong against the enemy’s attacks. Then, when the enemy tries to get us focused on things that worry or scare us, his lies are ineffective.
When we pray, we might think that God is going to look after things, but the Bible says we are to study to show ourselves approved unto God (2 Timothy 2:15). Why? Because the Bible contains the most incredible teaching and wisdom, and Satan’s tactics can’t work on believers who have learned how to develop the skill of casting their cares by focusing not on their worries, but on Jesus.
In fact, Philippians 4:8-9 teaches us exactly how to have the mind of Christ. By switching our focus to the things Jesus focused on, we too will have the incredible peace found only in God!