Gospel Corner
17/09/25
Joel Osteen Ministries
Today’s Word
Today’s Scripture
Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you.
Psalm 55:22, AMPC
Cast Your Burden
In Psalm 55, David describes a very serious anxiety attack that he went through. We don’t know how long it was, but in today’s Scripture he tells us what he learned. He was saying, “I was so overwhelmed with anxiety that I thought my life was over. Having lived through it, here’s what I’m going to do different next time. I’m going to cast my anxieties on the Lord and release the weight of those worries.”
Are you holding on to anxieties over your children, a work situation, or your health? We wonder when God is going to do something, but God is waiting on us to release it. Quit carrying all these things that you’re not supposed to carry. As long as you hold on to anxiety, it’s going to hold you down. Cast that burden on the Lord and release the weight of it. Releasing it is an act of faith. Trust Him in the trouble. Trust Him when you don’t see a way. Trust Him when you don’t understand, and He will sustain you. He will bring you safely through.
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You know all the weights and anxieties that I am carrying. Thank You that I can come to You and cast all the burdens of heaviness, worry, regrets, and feelings of frustration upon You. I will rest in Your love and mercy and forgiveness. In Jesus’ Name, Amen
The phrase “please give me success” is the word qarah. The servant asked God to give him qarah—right happening. Doesn’t that remind you of pega qarah or “prayed happenings”? If you follow the story, you will see how Abraham’s servant was successful in his task.
What I want you to focus on here is the posture of the servant. He prayed for God’s help, intervention, and leading. He had a posture of humility.
We all need the Lord in our daily lives. No matter how intelligent we are, we can’t put ourselves at the right place at the right time a hundred percent of the time. Only the Lord can do this for us.
If we stay “low” and lean on the Lord for wisdom, guidance, and understanding, He will guide us and protect us. To pray is to adopt a posture of humility. It is saying to God, “Father, I can’t, but You can.”
A lady who attends our church regularly shared that on one of her overseas trips, she got so engrossed in her quiet time with the Lord that she missed breakfast in the hotel at which she was staying. But while she was in her room, a horrific terror attack took place in the hotel’s restaurant. She was dwelling in the secret place of the Most High and was supernaturally led to linger in His presence that morning.
She humbly prioritized her time with the Lord over the scheduled time for her breakfast. If she had gone down to eat, she would have been at the wrong place at the wrong time.
That is why I like to call Psalm 91 the prayer of protection. When we pray this prayer, we are saying, “Lord Jesus, we can’t protect ourselves, but You can. We humble ourselves before You. Be our refuge, our fortress, and our God. Surely You shall protect us and deliver us from harm in these dangerous times. Lead us to be at the right place at the right time and to be with the right people.”
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