Today’s Devotional Scripture:
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. - 1 Peter 5:7 KJV
22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. - Psalm 55:22 KJV
The Message For Today (October 12, 2025):
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We have become a generation of women who carry too much. We carry the weight of our family’s spiritual growth, we carry the needs of supporting the church, and we carry the needs of family and friends who know that they can trust us to be there for them. As a result, we have become overworked, tired, and often frustrated about the lack of support and care that we receive from others.
We’ve unwittingly created a culture of constant doing because we love others. Because we care. We’ve given ourselves to performance for love. We’ve given ourselves to doing as much as possible to be productive for our families, all in the name of loving, supporting, and encouraging others. These weights that we have started to carry emotionally, psychologically, financially, and spiritually are not weights that God ever intended for us to carry.
In the cornerstone scriptures, we see that God is instructing us to cast our cares upon Him. Every worry, every bit of lack, every distraction, every burden, and every care that we have for others. All of these things can become weights that we carry in our hearts and that we carry in our minds that keep us from experiencing total rest before the Lord. We are often thinking of these things even when we are completely still.
The text of the scripture in Psalm 46:10, which tells us to be still, is very clear. Simply because we’re not being still in body, but we’re being still in heart and mind. Psalm 46:10 reads:
Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth. - Psalm 46:10 KJV
To know that He is God denotes inherently that this is more than just being still in body. This is not just a pause in a string of busy days. To be still and know that He is God is to commit to putting everything else down. Every care and every worry. Every doubt and every insecurity. All manner of lack and feeling as if you have to be the one to do it.
All of these things are now put at the feet of the cross.
We are now giving it to God so that we can fully begin to know Him through prayer, through fasting, through meditation, through putting every other thing down. Through sacrificing the need to be present, to be there, sacrificing the characteristics of people-pleasing that many of us have adopted unconsciously, unknowingly, and being intentional about our time with God.
This is the desire of God for you: that you will be intentional about the time that is made for your peace, for your restoration, and for your joy. This is not come and doing and doing and doing. We are not saved merely by works but also by faith. We are saved by faith in the one who created the universe and everything in it. To cast our cares is to give God all of the worries and all of the weight.
It is complete surrender knowing that God is ordering our steps. That kind of faith is unusual. That kind of faith moves mountains. It brings sudden and deep peace. That kind of faith causes your entire environment to shift and line up with God’s Word, not because you did it all, but because you trusted the God that does it all for us.
Every weight and every trial and every care has to bow before the weight of glory, before the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. This is our job to give it to God. If you are carrying it, God will not stop you from carrying it. He is a good, good Father. He is a gentleman. He is a God that knows what is right and what is wrong. He is a gentleman. He is a God that knocks on the door of our heart and waits for us to open it.
He doesn’t force His way in. Revelations 3:20 gives us clarity on this thing, that God is waiting on us to cast those cares. In Revelations 3:20, it reads,
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him and he with me. - Revelations 3:20 KJV
So first we hear God. Then two, we let Him in. And three, we come into divine fellowship with Him. That is how we give Him all of the worries and all of the cares. This is no longer an act of will. This becomes an act of submission and surrender that is unusual in a culture and a society that demands performance. God invites us to presence and love and peace that surpasses all understanding.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you: Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you. I thank you for removing every wall, God. I thank you, God, that every shackle is coming down. I thank you, Lord, God, that the mighty woman of God is stepping fully into her yes. Yes to your will, O God. Yes to your way, God.
I thank you that the promises of God are yes and amen. We can trust in you, O God. We can rest before you. Thank you, Lord, God, for being God in the midst of us. We are not alone. Thank you, O God, for shifting the mighty woman of God this morning and having her to remember the art of letting go. It is in how we trust in you. It is our surrender. It is our peace. It is our hearts and minds being restored in you, O God.
Thank you, O God, for another level, God, of peace, of holiness, of redemption in Jesus Christ, just because we say yes, because we are still, and because we trust you. I thank you, Lord, God, that you are the sovereign God, the Holy One, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Please, God, break down every wall today as the mighty woman of God goes through her mourning.
Cast down every care, God, every burden with her, O God. Show her, God, the measure of faith that you’ve given her. Show her, God, how to rest in your presence. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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