1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)
Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.

That word casting is not even giving. It's throwing it upon Him but He can't take those things that you're battling with from you. You have to bring them to the altar and give them to Him. You can't come and say, "Well, oh I'm suffering with anxiety God and I just want you to take this anxiety from me. Oh God please take this spirit of lust from me. Oh God please take this spirit of loneliness from me, Oh, God please take this spirit from me. God take this sickness. God please take this perversion from me, oh God". He won't take a thing from you. He would be violating His nature. He is not a thief. "God, I give You the spirit of lust and I take upon me a Spirit of wholesomeness. God I give You this disease and I take on me Your health. God I give You this anxiety this is not mine."

We need to bring our negatives in the quietness of our life and give them to God. We have to see it being poured out on the altar and we then see ourselves reaching up and taking a positive part of His nature into our lives and we start to thank Him for it. When the devil tries to bring it back and make it look like it's still yours you say, "No it's not mine, I gave it away. It doesn't belong to me anymore. I got rid of that heap of junk".

Build your family up. Build your own little altar in your place and go and give one thing at a time to Him. Just one thing at a time and take one thing back and just watch yourself grow. Now the day will come when we will be mature enough to be able to not only take care of ourselves but take care of many others as you grow and mature. I know it's true, I've seen it in my own life and seen it in the life of churches. You go and you stand with the Lord and you win it with the Lord.

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