Letting Go of Worry and Learning To Cast Our Cares
Jackie Smith-Bell
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)
“But Peter said, ‘I don’t have silver or gold, but what I do have, I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!’” Acts 3:6 (CSB)
“neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:39 (NIV)
“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” Psalm 42:11 (NIV)
“See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place …” Matthew 24:6b (ESV)
“Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.” Isaiah 64:8 (NIV)
“Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children …” Genesis 33:14 (ESV)
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)
“… let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:16 (CSB)
“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.” Titus 2:3-5 (ESV)
“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.” Genesis 50:20 (ESV)
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)
“Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard? The LORD is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary; and his understanding cannot be fathomed.” Isaiah 40:28 (ISV)
“The LORD is near all who cry out to him, all who cry out to him sincerely.” Psalm 145:18 (NET)
“Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all the people.” Luke 2:52 (NLT)