Manna for Your Morning

Pile your troubles on God’s shoulders— he’ll carry your load, he’ll help you out. He’ll never let good people topple into ruin. — Psalm 55:22 (MSG) We have a God who wants to bear our burdens. He tells us to cast all our cares on Him, because He cares for us. (1 Peter 5:7) No need to wear yourself out, being overburdened. No need to whine and complain about them. Don't compare them with the burden of another. Just give them to the LORD. Let go and let God work. Trust Him. Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God who is our salvation. Selah. — Psalm 68:19 (NASB) 

“But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.” — Genesis 17:21 (NKJV) Even though Sarah was in her nineties, well past childbearing years, she did conceive and bear Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. (Genesis 21:2). It may seem like it is well past the time for you to have given birth to the dreams and aspirations God  placed inside of you. But things don't happen on our timetable. Just as there is a time for conception, growth and development, there is a set time for you to give birth. You don't want to push it out prematurely. Put your energy into what God has called you to do today. The manifestation of your desires and dreams will happen at the appointed time and it will be sweet. Is anything too hard for the LORD? (Genesis 18:14a)

Other people are like seeds that were planted on rocky ground. Whenever they hear the word, they accept it at once with joy. But they don’t develop any roots. They last for a short time. When suffering or persecution comes along because of the word, they immediately fall from faith.  — Mark 4:16-17 (GW) Some believers respond with great enthusiasm to the Word they hear preached on Sunday, then allow the devil to beat them up Monday through Saturday. Make sure you get deeply rooted and grounded in God, in His Word and in the love of Christ, so you can endure the trials and strengthen your faith. Let the Word of God be planted on the good ground of your heart and it will bear fruit, some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred times what was sown (Mark 4:20).