Think about those moments when your mind races late at night—a bill that’s overdue, a looming work deadline, a strained relationship that feels fractured, or just that quiet dread about something big coming up soon. When we hold onto these everyday worries, trying desperately to control every outcome ourselves, it's as if we're silently telling God, "I've got this."
Yet, in today's passage (and echoed in 1 Peter 5:7), God invites us to do the opposite: to cast our burdens on Him. To "cast your burden" means to fully entrust it to God, releasing it from your own grip. It's a profound act of letting go, acknowledging that He is infinitely more powerful than any challenge we face.
God doesn't just ask us to cast our burdens on Him; He promises to sustain us when we do. As George Campbell Morgan wrote, "the experience of suffering was not taken away from the servant of God, but he was sustained, and so made strong enough to resist its pressure… This is how God ever sustains us in the bearing of burdens.” This incredible promise is also found in Philippians 4:6-7, where Paul reminds us that when we bring our requests to God, His peace, which surpasses all understanding, will guard our hearts and minds.
What a powerful encouragement that God will give us the strength and peace we need to walk through these situations when we choose to lean on Him.

#YouVerion #BibleStudy #DailyDevotional ~Nearness

“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.”
2 Timothy 2:3-5 KJV

Psalm 91:2 "I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”

💯Jeremiah 32:17 ~ ‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.

💯Jeremiah 32:27 ~ “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?

Good Morning ..

Today's prayer ..

Dear God ... please give me strength to get through each day ...
When I feel tired or weak .. remind me that you are with me ... Help me trust you and lean on your help ... Give me courage to deal with whatever happens ...
Thank you for being by my
side ...

W.H.G.

Acts 7 - Questions


Q: Who spoke up asking, "Are these things so"?

Q: How did Stephen address them as he spoke?

Q: Who does Stephen recount as appearing to Abraham?

Q: Speaking of the history of God's people, whose seed does Stephen remind them of, that God had promised to give a possession to?

Q: Where did God say that this seed would sojourn?

Q: How many years were they to sojourn there?

Q: Who does God say that He will punish?

Q; What covenant does Stephen mention God giving to Abraham which was passed down, from Isaac to Jacob and then his sons?

Q: Who was the father of the twelve patriarchs?

Q: Who does Stephen recount as being sold to Egypt, who God was with, giving him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharoah while making him Governor over Egypt and all of his house?

Q: Who was his father?

Q: Who does Stephen mention as being called to Egypt by his son, along with all of his kindred, later dying in Egypt and then being buried in the Sepulcher that Abraham bought?

Q: Who does Stephen recount as God placing in the house of Pharoah to be raised, then at forty years old, visiting his brethren, the children of Israel?

Q: Who did he murder in defense of his brethren?

Q: Did he think his brethren would understand that God was using him to rescue them? Yes or No.

Q: Was he right or wrong in his thinking?

Q: Approaching his brethren, were they receiving of him? Yes or No.

Q: What did his brethren say to him?

Q: What land did he flee to where he begat two sons?

Q: How long had he been there when an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush?

Q: When he wondered at the sight, drawing near, the voice of the Lord came unto him saying what?

Q: What was his reaction to this?

Q: As Stephen recounted these things to the men, what does he remind them of that God had said to Moses which Moses then shared with the children of Israel?

Q: As Stephen recounts history, who does he point out that their fathers, by refusing what Moses had told them, disobeyed and turned away from?

Q: Stephen calls them stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart, resisting the Holy Ghost as who?

Q: Stephen points out that as their father persecuted and slayed the prophets who showed the coming of the Just One, and now they are betrayers and murderers of who?

Q: Stephen tells them that they received the law by the disposition of who but have not kept it?

Q: How did they react when they heard these things?

Q: Being full of the Holy Ghost, what did Stephen look up and see?

Q: As this happened, what did Stephen say to them?

Q: What was their reaction to this?

Q: What did they do with Stephen?

Q: Who was the young man the witnesses laid Stephen's clothing down at the feet of?

Q: As they did this to Stephen, what did Stephen say?

Q: When Stephen kneeled down, what did he cry out with a loud voice?

Q: What happened to Stephen when he said this?