Bow Low, Cast Your Care, And Be Watchful.

Bow Low, Cast Your Care, and Be Watchful.

1 Peter 5:6-8TPT

The 5 Mays—by Susie Larson:

May your love for Jesus grow by leaps and bounds. May your heart for Him upstage your fears about today, and your worries about tomorrow. May God's awesome presence so transform you that the opinions of others lose their hold on you. May God's very real and personal love for you spill out in the way you love others. May the power of the Holy Spirit change you from the inside out. May His guidance and direction take you where you never thought you'd go and help you accomplish what you never dreamed possible.

1 Peter 5:6-8TPT If you bow low in God’s awesome presence, he will eventually exalt you as you leave the timing in his hands.

7 Pour out all your worries and stress upon him and leave them there, for he always tenderly cares for you. 8 Be well balanced and always alert (watchful), because your enemy, the devil, roams around incessantly, like a roaring lion looking for its prey to devour.

The first thing Peter says is, humble yourself bow low.

The Greek verb for "humble" here is in the passive voice, which could be translated, "be humbled." In this case, it is the hand of God that is humbling us. We are being instructed to allow God to humble us.

“Prideful people don’t pray.” Prayer take a lot of humility. The more you pray the humbler you are before God. A person of humility before God does not have anxiety; You cannot be humble before God and have anxiety at the same time. Humility before God and anxiety is like light and darkness. Light and darkness cannot exist at the sometime.

Show me a person with a lot of anxiety and I will show you a person who has no prayer life. Listen to this statement made by Andrew Murray about humility and prayer.

“Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.”

The humility that will enable you to overcome anxiety is simply being humbly enough to ask God for help—simple as that.

The apostle Peter knows a lot about bowing low. Jesus stated on a couple of occasions, for Peter ( or satan) to get behind Him.

Peter was accused of speaking loud, and unbeknown. Peter, the apostle that spoke before he thought.

Here’s a few of his sayings: “Lord, do you want me to build 3 booths?” “Lord, I’ll never forsake you.” The Lord’s reply was, you will deny Me three times, and on the third time the rooster will crow. Lord, bid me to come to you. Lord, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Peter filled with the Holy Spirit speaks to the masses in Jerusalem in, Acts 2:14-24NLT Then Peter stepped forward with the eleven other apostles and shouted to the crowd, “Listen carefully, all of you, fellow Jews and residents of Jerusalem! Make no mistake about this. 15 These people are not drunk, as some of you are assuming. Nine o’clock in the morning is much too early for that. 16 No, what you see was predicted long ago by the prophet Joel: 17 ‘In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18 In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servants—men and women alike—and they will prophesy. 19 And I will cause wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below—blood and fire and clouds of smoke. 20 The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and glorious day of the Lord arrives. 21 But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ 22 “People of Israel, listen! God publicly endorsed Jesus the Nazarene by doing powerful miracles, wonders, and signs through him, as you well know. 23 But God knew what would happen, and his prearranged plan was carried out when Jesus was betrayed. With the help of lawless Gentiles, you nailed him to a cross and killed him. 24 But God released him from the horrors of death and raised him back to life, for death could not keep him in its grip.

Remember after, Jesus’ resurrection, He called for His disciples—Mark 16:7—and Peter.