Troubled or Sustained?
Foundation Statement: What you do with these weights that try to come on you has everything
to do with whether or not you are sustained and the reason why so many people
are not being helped the way God wants to help them is because they walk around
heavy and tormented and don’t cast it onto Him
I.
Burdens are talking about
things that come, things that happen that try to put pressure upon you and
weigh upon you
A. Psalm 55:22-Burdens-We
are talking about things that come, things that happen that try to put pressure
upon you and weigh upon you
1.
Burden-Load, that which is
grievous, wearisome, oppressive; Lot-That which comes, happens
2.
MSG-Troubles; ERV-Worries-WYC-Cast thy care; AMP-Releasing the weight of it
B. When something tries to
weigh on you, you cast it upon the Lord; You don’t let rest upon you and settle
down upon you and carry it around
1.
Cast-Hurl, throw, fling
– They idea here is to get them off of you and onto him
a. GW-Turn your burdens over to the Lord; GNT-Leave your troubles with the
Lord; ERV-Give your worries to the Lord; MSG-Pile your troubles on God’s shoulders; NET-Throw your burden upon the
Lord; NLV-Give all your cares
to the Lord; VOICE-Cast your
troubles upon the Eternal
b. Psalm 55:22-AMP-Cast your burden upon the Lord [releasing
the weight of it]; I’m not going to let it sit upon me, weigh me down and
trouble me
c. Rather than yielding
to it and letting it sit upon you and worrying you resist
it, throw it onto the Lord and trust
2.
We
have been entirely too slow in this area; When you feel the least little bit of
weight and heaviness and care, you respond RIGHT NOW; Don’t carry it around for
the 3 days, 3 hours or 3 minutes – Get it off you; The only way to become
more developed in this area and not to be so slow is to practice
a. Mark 5:36-Jesus said
something to Jairus immediately b/c he wanted him to deal with it immediately
3.
Cares
are real things that you can pick up, carry and let weigh upon you or you can
really throw them upon the Lord; And you can really take the burdens and cares
and things trying to trouble you and give them to the Lord, The Great Caretaker
a. Matthew 6:31-You pick up
cares with your words and your fear, you cast cares with your words and your
faith; You take care by saying, “What I am going to eat, drink, wear,” you
release the care by saying, “I cast the care of this into my Father’s hands and
He is taking care of it for me
II.
You can’t walk around
troubled and be sustained
A. The area that’s trying to
weigh upon you, if you’d cast the weight of it onto him, he’d sustain you, take
care of you in that area
1.
Sustain-Support, nourish, supply,
hold, bear, keep from falling, keep from sinking, Aid, assist, relieve
2.
MSG-Pile your troubles on
God’s shoulders – He’ll carry your load, He’ll help you out; GW-Turn your burdens over to the Lord and
He will take care of you; ERV-Give
your worries to the Lord, and He will care for you; GNT-Leave your troubles with the Lord, and he will defend you;
TLB-Give your burdens to the Lord. He
will carry them; WYC-Cast thy care, or thought,
or busyness on the Lord, and He shall fully nourish you; Psalm 55:22-He
will never suffer the righteous to fall
– AMP-Made to slip, fall or fail; ERV-Be defeated; MSG-Topple
into ruin; NET-Be upended
B. Does God want to sustain
you?
1.
Psalm 55:22-Cast your
burden on the Lord and He will sustain you, he will never allow the righteous
to be moved
2.
1 Peter 5:7-Cast your
care upon the Lord, for He cares for you
3.
Psalm 46:1-God is our
refuge, our strength, a very present help in trouble
4.
2 Corinthians 6:16-I will
dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God and they shall be my
people…And will be a Father unto you
5.
Hebrews 4:16-Come boldly
to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the
time of need
6.
John 10:14, Psalm 23:1-I
am a good shepherd
7.
1
Thessalonians 5:16-24-This is your spirit, soul and body free from fault and
defect all the way to the end b/c the God of peace kept you and sustained you
– Him being able to do that for us is connected to us trusting Him and
not being troubled – You being sustained is connected to your refusal to
allow yourself to be troubled (23-AND-This next part is connected to the
previous verses)
a. 16-Rejoice evermore
– Be glad all the time – That’s the opposite of being trouble; Rejoice
every more, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks and hold fast to
that which is good is very similar to Philippians 4:4-9
b. 23-AND-This next part is
connected to the previous verses
c. 23-Sanctify-Set you part, to be holy; Preserved-Attend to carefully, Take care of, To keep; Blameless-Free from fault and defect
d. Philippians 4:4-9-The
only way the God of peace will be with you is if you do these things
C. Who does He sustain,
support, help, keep from failing? NOT the heavy, NOT
the upset, NOT the troubled – Does it matter if you walk around heavy and
upset and troubled all the time day after day?
1.
Should
this mean anything to us? Does it matter if we cast our burdens on him? How
important is this? How important is the practice of this? – It’s the
difference in winning and losing, victory and defeat, being sustained or not
being sustained; This is the answer to why many aren’t getting the help and the
support and they know is available; This is why many aren’t being upheld and
supported; This is why many problems and troubles loom year after year and are
not being taken care of because as long as you are carrying them they will not
be taken care of by God
2.
If
you carry the care and are troubled and upset and heavy and don’t cast it upon
the Lord, God WON’T BE ABLE to help you and support you; it’s not that He
doesn’t want to it’s that HE CAN’T because when you’re troubled you’re not
trusting and if you’re not in faith you can’t receive what He wants to give to
you by grace – THIS IS NOT REAL ENOUGH TO MANY PEOPLE
3.
We
haven’t appreciated the importance of the role our faith plays in whether or
not God can get involved; Religion has told us that our faith doesn’t matter
that much and God do whatever He wants, but God knows that’s not true and
that’s why he’s so strong on you not being troubled (Matthew 6:25, Philippians
4:6, 1 Peter 5:7, John 14:1, Ephesians 3:20, Mark 6)
4.
We
have God’s word on it – If we will cast our burden on Him, HE WILL
SUSTAIN US
D. To be sustained you’re
going to have to stop being troubled-1 Samuel 1
1.
Ezra
9:5, 10:5-He had to stop being heavy to get God involved and have the situation
to change
a. Ezra 9:5-He spread out
his hands to the Lord – He’s looking to God to take care of this and
getting this off of Him
b. AMP-I arose from my depression; GW-I got up from my misery; ISV-I
arose from my discouragement; MSG- At the evening sacrifice I picked myself
up from my utter devastation, and in my ripped clothes and cape fell to my
knees and stretched out my hands to God,
my God. And I prayed; NLV-I rose up
from my trouble
2.
Isaiah
30:15-Their victory was their rest
but because they wouldn’t rest (not couldn’t, but wouldn’t) they put the Lord
in a position where he had to wait
a. Rest-Quietness, quiet attitude; Quientess-Be at peace,
undisturbed; Confidence-Trust; Saved-Victory, deliverance
b. Hebrews 4:11-Let us labor
therefore to enter into that rest
3.
1
Chronicles 22:13-You will prosper if you won’t be troubled
III.
No matter the
circumstance you NEVER have to be troubled and you can always be sustained
A. Luke 8:49-50, Mark
5:23-24-Jairus
1.
Jairus
got the worst report that you could possibly get – His daughter is 12
years old she’s home sick at the point of death; He told Jesus if you come and
lay your hands on her she will live and while Jesus was ministering to the
woman with the issue of blood the report came that his daughter died
2.
When
he heard those words can you imagine the fear and torment and anxiety and panic
and distress that must have been trying to latch on to him? Does he have to panic, be troubled, get
upset, and freak out? NO-The Master told him Fear not, believe only and she
will be made whole
a. What’s it time for Jairus
to do? Say, “I can’t help it, did you hear that report, if you had a daughter
that died you’d be troubled to.” NO, NO, NO!
3.
Jesus
is expecting him to do this – Is this unreasonable to tell Jairus to fear
not? Is Jesus unreasonable?
a. Jesus did not say try to
not be afraid, try your best to believe, but it’s okay if you don’t, everybody
in your position would be troubled
4.
Your
faith has everything to do with whether or not God can get involved and if
you’re going to yield to the distress you shut God out-Psalm 55:22
a. Jesus didn’t say, “She’s
going to live no matter what you do because I’m God and I can do whatever I
want.”
B. Jeremiah 17:7-Does a tree
have to be troubled in the middle of a drought?
1.
7-If
you’re trusting you’re not troubled-John 14:1
2.
See-Consider, look at, give
attention to, gaze at – Careful-Anxious,
concerned, afraid, dread, take thought, sorrow
3.
Now
if you’re a tree and there’s a draught that would be a reason to be troubled;
The tree is like a man trusting in the Lord and like a draught displays
inevitable defeat for the tree, defeat might look inevitable in your life, but
you don’t have to be troubled
4.
The tree not being
troubled has everything to do with it being sustained-Psalm 55:22
C. 2 Samuel 12:15-24-David
1.
18-They
are expecting when David hears the news that he is going to lose it and freak
out (Vex-Distress, misery, sad,
unhappy, to shatter, be broken)
2.
18-Vex
himself is a good phrase b/c when you’re troubled you allowed it yourself and
you didn’t have to
3.
20-He
could have stayed down and not risen and been troubled
4.
20-Rather
than be troubled he’s believing God, having faith in
God – Why would you go into the house of the Lord? Because you believe
your answer is there and you believe God’s going to help you
5.
24-You
can’t comfort someone else when you’re troubled yourself
D. Psalm 3:5-6-Do you have
to be troubled when your surrounded and defeat look inevitable?
1.
Daniel
3-Do you have to be troubled when you’re about to go into a fiery furnace?
2.
Psalm
23-David wrote this psalm during of the most dangerous times in his life. He was fleeing from King Saul and his
army. David hid himself in a
barren, desolate, forest called Hareth, which means a parched and dry like baked earthenware. God did not cease
to be David’s source. He soaked
this dry forest with moisture, which had the appearance of the Heaven On Earth,
making even the grass and the leaves of the forest tender and edible. This revealed David that God provides at
all times even when the chances of survival seem to be non-existence.
E. Psalm 116:3-Just because
trouble is surrounding you doesn’t mean you have to be troubled (let it get in
you and trouble you)
1.
Pains-Straits, distress; Trouble-Distress, vexer,
adversity, tribulation; Sorrow-Grief,
anguish
2.
7-Return
unto rest-Be quiet, settle down ---
He’s not allowing himself to be troubled
F. Psalm 112:7-You don’t have
be troubled by the bad report, by the bad news – You can hear it and
still have peace and not be troubled
G. You don’t have any
trouble – All you need is faith in God