**"Cast All Your Cares"**
*A Prayer of Surrender*
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### **1. The Invitation**
*"Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you."* (1 Peter 5:7)
- Not *some* cares—**all**.
- Not *later*—**now**.
- Not with shame—**because He loves you**.
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### **2. The Release**
> *"Lord Jesus, I surrender:
> - The worries that wake me at night,
> - The fears that tighten my chest,
> - The ‘what ifs’ that loop in my mind.
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> I place them into Your scarred hands—
> the same hands that:
> - Calmed storms (Mark 4:39),
> - Fed multitudes (Matthew 14:20),
> - Carried the cross (John 19:17).
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> If You can hold the universe (Colossians 1:17),
> You can hold this.
> Amen."*
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### **3. The Exchange**
- **Your worry** → *His peace* (Philippians 4:6-7)
- **Your burden** → *His rest* (Matthew 11:28)
- **Your uncertainty** → *His faithfulness* (Lamentations 3:22-23)
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### **4. Scriptures to Stand On**
- *"Do not be anxious about anything..."* (Philippians 4:6)
- *"Which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?"* (Luke 12:25)
- *"The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still."* (Exodus 14:14)
> *"Worry is a chair pulled up to a table where God isn’t sitting."*
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**When anxiety returns:**
1. **Name it aloud** – "Jesus, I give You [specific worry]."
2. **Claim His care** – "You promise to sustain me (Psalm 55:22)."
3. **Thank Him** – "I praise You for what You’ll do."
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