Shift Your Load to Him

by Dick Mills | The Spirit Filled Believer

“Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved” (Ps. 55:22 NKJ).

This verse has a lot to say to us about personal challenge and encouragement. Its three main power words are:

1) cast

2) burden

3) sustain

Cast means “to throw, hurl, abandon, or toss away as no longer needed or wanted.” It also means “to dispense with something in such a way as to have nothing more to do with it.” Our cares and our burdens are to be thrown away, abandoned into God’s care, dispensed with so that we have nothing more to do with them.

Burden is a word used to describe a load of anxiety that weighs a person down. It has to do with one’s lot in life, his particular sphere of influence, his daily duties and responsibilities.

Various Bible scholars have defined this expression your burden in the following ways: “God’s gift to you,” “your hope,” “your allotment,” “your portion,” and “your cares, travails, and troubles that go with your business or your occupation.”

Sustain is a good word. It has to do with upholding, feeding, nourishing, supporting, and taking care of. God gives us a life to live and then invites us to turn over to Him the weight of it all so He can carry us and the load.

Incidentally, Peter, quoting from the Septuagint Old Testament, gave us the same words in the New Testament setting: casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you (1 Pet. 5:7 NKJ). God cares for you. Shift the load from you to Him. He knows what to do with it!

Source: The Spirit-Filled Believer’s Daily Devotional by Dick Mills

Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

Dick Mills was ordained at The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in 1949. He and his wife Betty traveled as evangelists all over the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, and Australia. Dick and Betty are now home in heaven.

In 1966 Dick and Betty became a part of the then-emerging Charismatic Renewal. Passing through all denominational barriers, Dick has had the opportunity to speak in thousands of churches of varied backgrounds all over the world.

He ministered within several Christian organizations, including the Full Gospel Business Men, Women's Aglow, Inter-church Renewal Catholic Pentecostals, mainline Charismatic groups, CBN and TBN television networks, and many other independent Christian TV stations.

Dick appeared on numerous radio talk shows, written several magazine articles, and spoke at many Bible conferences and universities. He served as an adjunct professor at six Schools of the Bible and Seminaries.

In addition, Dick authored and co-authored several books and tapes. Dick's ministry was characterized by the unique gifts God has blessed him with. His services informed, enlightened, and motivated people to a higher level of commitment to God.

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