Cast All Your Care Upon The Lord For He Cares For You

4.CURE

God wants us to cast all our cares about health upon Him because He heals us. Hezekiah was seriously sick and he got a message from God through Isaiah that he should get ready to die from his sickness. But Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and cried to God to remember his life of truth and goodness in the sight of God. God heard his cry and sent Isaiah back with the message of healing for him. Epaproditus ,a companion of Apostle Paul was sick unto death because he had laboured so hard for God without taking good care of himself. But God had mercy on him and healed him and restored Him back. We can cast all our care about health and cure upon the Lord because He heals us.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

II Kings 20:1-6

1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.’ ”

2 Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,

3 “Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

5 “Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

6 And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David

Phillipians 2:25-30

25 Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and the one who ministered to my need;

26 since he was longing for you all, and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

27 For indeed he was sick almost unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

28 Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful.

29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such men in esteem;

30 because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to supply what was lacking in your service toward me.

5.CURSE

God wants us to cast all our care about curses upon Him because He blesses us. Jabez began his life in sorrow. He lived a life of curses. But he was determined to change his destiny. He wanted to live a life of blessing. He called on God to bless Him and enlarge his territory. He wanted the hand of God to be with him. He wanted God to keep him from evil that it may not grieve him. And God granted that which he requested. God lifts the poor out of the dunghill and sets them among the princes. We need not settle for a life of failure and defeat and curses because we have a God who blesses us.