Ps. 55:22   Cast your burden on the Lord...He shall sustain thee.
Ps 37:4     ...and He shall give you the desires of thine heart.
Phil. 4:6   In everything...let your requests be made known unto God.
I Pet.5:7   Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.
Job 1:5     Job rose up early in the morning and offered burnt
                       offerings [for] them all [his 10 children].

SONGS:
Burdens are lifted at Calvary. / Jesus knows just what I need.
No one understands like Jesus. / What a Friend we have in Jesus.
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.

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We cannot properly intercede for others until we have cleared away the
baggage of personal concerns, needs, and cares.   We must find a
resting place where we can lay down our burdens, in order to bear
others burdens in prayer.   Hearts that are "overloaded" with care
will be distracted in prayer and made ineffective in their
intercession.  In Luke 21:34, Jesus warned his disciples to beware of
the danger of three distracting pitfalls:

1. super-abundance (surfeiting)
2. over-indulgence (drunkenness)
3. over-load (cares of this life).

The most deceptive and innocent looking is the "overload...with cares
of this life."   We cannot escape the cares of normal living, but we
can UNLOAD the OVERLOAD.   Jesus concludes the issue in verse 36 by
saying, "Therefore watch and pray always..."

The solution to overloaded cares is to pray.  That means to bring
those excess burdens, cares, concerns, problems, worries, fears,
anxieties, and troubles TO THE LORD and leave them there!

Too often we take these concerns to the Lord, and walk away just as
burdened as before we prayed.  There is no "leaving it there"

David used an interesting word for "leaving it there."   "Cast thy
burden on the Lord." Psalm 55:22   The word "CAST" is the key.  It
literally means....ROLL...DUMP...UNLOAD...as one who is carrying a
backpack of heavy equipment allows it to slide from his shoulders to
another who is stronger, more able to carry the load.



      YOU CANNOT CARRY THE BURDENS OF OTHERS, AND YOUR OWN!

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Pray for yourself:

       Your struggles          Your needs
       Your worries            Your wants & wishes
       Your troubles           Your heartaches
       Your finances           Your faith & faithfulness
       Your aches & pains      Your courage to witness
       Your temptations        Your heart secrets

Pray for your family concerns:

       Salvation of children
       Faith of your spouse
       Spiritual growth & love of all in family
       Health and safety
       Protection from evil & temptation