Intercessory Prayer Training - lesson 5
Topic: Cast Your Burdens
Step 5 – Cast Your Burdens
Ps. 55:22 Cast your burden on the Lord...He shall sustain you.
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 cares for you.
Job 1:5 Job rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings for all of them.
Unpacked Baggage
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 other’s 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. Over-abundance (surfeiting, over-spending, over-charging, too many possessions)
2. Over-indulgence (drunkenness, lover of pleasures, over-eating, over-playing)
3. Over-load (cares, burdens, worries, fears of this life)
Take Your Burden To The Lord
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..."
Leave It There!
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."
Cast, Roll, Dump It!
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 your own burdens and the burdens of others!
Burdens are lifted as we roll them onto the Lord
Practical Disciplines
Pray for yourself:
•Your troubles
•Your aches & pains
•Your faith & faithfulness
•Your courage to witness
•Your heart’s secret goals
•Your needs, provisions
•Your finances, funds
•Your enemies
Pray for your Future
•Your plans
•Your goals
•Your ministries
•Your vision
Pray for your family
•Each member by name and need
•Salvation of children
•Spouse needs
•Spiritual growth & love of all in family
•Health and safety
•Protection from evil & temptation
Pray for your faults
•Your struggles
•Your worries
•Your temptations
•Your wants & wishes
•Your heartaches
•Your failures
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 / I Cast All My Cares Upon You.
Cast your burden on the Lord...He shall sustain you. – Ps. 55:22
Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. – I Pet.5:7
