Cast Your Burdens | Pastor Morgan Butcher | Venture Church

Well that was awesome, man. I love that.

Hey, welcome everybody here, everybody joining us online. Welcome to

Venture Church. If I haven't met you yet, my name

is Morgan Blessed Be one of the pastors here. Excited

to continue our series titled Stressed. Hopefully by the end

of this you feel peace. I don't know if that's

going to happen or not, but I pray it does.

I'm excited to hop into this and I just want

to say one quick thing. I know Christian just came

and presented about Light Bearers project. I just hope that

you hear the communication and the heart behind what we're doing.

We want to raise up the next generation here at

Venture Church, and we believe that this investment is not

just about making things pretty. It's about putting kids in

the environment where they can grow in the relation with

who Jesus is and step into the full calling that

God has for their life. Amen, and the opportunity to

be a part of that has been so fun for me.

I'm excited to continue it and see how it all

progresses this summer, and excited to do it together as

a church as we dive in. Let me just start

with this quick question here. How many of you have

ever said something along the lines or something similar to

I'm just a little stressed. Anybody show hands just you know,

I'm just a little stressed. I just think that's such

a funny phrase, I'm just a little stressed. Imagine if

you look to your left or right in the middle

of service and you saw somebody a little bit on fire.

I guarantee you would not just be like, huh.

No, we'd freak out right just a little stressed.

Or this one, this is the one that I recognized, like,

this is this is probably my go to statement when

somebody comes up to me. You've probably come up to

me and said, Morgan, how you doing?

How about this one?

Have you ever just said like, I'm good, just busy. Right,

I'm good, I'm just busy. Can I tell you what

this is? This is Christian code for my life is

utter chaos, and I'm trusting in God kind of.

Like I'm doing my best.

These are all pretty relatable phrases or things that we

might find ourselves saying just to the normal rhythms of life. Right,

I'm just a little stressed, I'm good, I'm just busy.

But as I thought, about it.

Here's what these kind of phrases actually reveal to us

when we look at them. Honestly, you know what they reveal.

It reveals the truth that we have learned how to

normalize stress in our life instead of just dealing with it,

instead of actually seeing it for what it is and

having something that we do to deal with the stress

that we experience. I don't know about you, but oftentimes

we'll all joke about the stress that I have. I'll

make funny jokes to just like get through it right.

Sometimes we'll mask the stress in our life. Other times,

maybe you're the kind of person in here where it's

just like, hey, when stress is there, I'm just going

to plow through it, or I'm just gonna push my

way through it. But here is the reality, and here's

the truth, friends, is that you could do any of

those things. You can joke about it, you can mask it,

you can push your way through it. But the reality

is is that through all of that, you still feel it.

You're still experiencing stress in your life, you still feel

the weight of stress in your life. And all I

just want to say this clearly before we go any

further this morning, you can love Jesus deeply. You can

be a Bible believing Christian. You can pray every day

of your life. You can come in here and lift

your hands in worship. You can live a life deeply

in love with Jesus, and you can still feel deeply

stressed in life. Those two things are not separate from

each other. And I think this is important to just

say out loud to get us going this morning, because

I think that there's this unspoken stigma that if life

ever stresses you out, then you are weak, that you

are not a good Christian, or your faith isn't strong enough.

And to that, hear me say, that's garbage. That is

just not true at all. You can love Jesus deeply

and still feel deeply stressed in life. Let's define stress

so that we all know kind of where I'm coming

from this morning, so we're all talking about the same thing.

Stress is the pressure created when what is demanded of

you and I feels greater than what you and I

can carry. It's the thing that is demanded of us

that feels more than what we can carry. So let

me just help you breathe for a second in this room.

Maybe you walked in this morning, and you walked in with.

Some stress in your life.

Maybe you walked in and you feel just this weight

and this pressure over your life. Can I just tell

you this morning? Hear me say this morning. Stress is

not sin, Stress is not weakness. Stress is not an

indicator of failure in your life.

Do you know what stress is? It is a human

response to the pressures.

That we face in life. Are you with me this morning? Now,

Over the next few weeks, we're gonna talk more. We're

gonna talk more about worry, We're gonna talk about anxiety.

But today we're just talking about stress. Because stress is

what is happening to you. It is the result of

external pressures building up in your life that you are

now faced with dealing with. And here is the big

tension when it comes to stress. Do you know what

the tension is? Stress is normal. Stress is impossible to escape.

It is going to show up in your life. If

not now later, If you haven't experienced stress yet, you

are a walking miracle and the most unrelatable person I've

ever met in my life. You are going to find

yourself in situations when the pressure of responsibility, the pressure

of deadlines, the pressure of tension, the pressure of family dynamics,

the pressure of finances is something.

That you are forced to navigate.

Stress is going to show up in your life, friends,

but hear me say, it is never meant to rule

your life. It's going to show up, but it was

never meant to rule your life. Now, you may be

here this morning and you're like, Morgan, I just I

don't get stressed. I just don't really usually deal with stress.

It's not something that I ever really feel like is

a problem for me. And to be really honest, up

until about a month ago, I probably would have put

myself in the same category as you. And it's just

a funny thing that whenever you get a sign to

preach a sermon, God just reminds you you're not immune

to anything. But I honestly probably would have said, like,

stress is just not something that really affects me that much.

I don't really feel like I get stressed out.

And here's the truth that I just want to say

to you.

If this is you, just because you don't get stressed

often doesn't mean that you are immune to stress. It

was just about a month ago, actually, I think a

month ago today. I had a moment where I was

reminded of this truth in a very real way. Our

family the last couple months has been really busy. You know,

we have kids, so say no more, but we also

have like a life outside of that, you know, and

we've had a lot of things going on.

You know, for us.

As East Easter approaches, life just gets a little more hectic.

It's like a little more busy. There's more things on

the calendar.

One of my roles here at the church is when

we get ready for Easter, I'm in charge of the

pass Over dinner. How many of you were at the

pass Over dinner with us? That was awesome, That was

so fun. I hope you join us next year for that.

So I'm in charge to that, and that's that's always fun.

But it's a lot. While that's kind of.

Going on, we also have this like big looming kids

remodel project, and and Christian mentioned it. I'm like, you know,

it'll be like the middle of the weekend and I'm

like looking on Facebook marketplace for supplies to go randomly

leave my family and grab, you know.

So that we can use it.

You know, there's just all these things that are kind

of building up, you know. I'm speaking one week and

you know, just.

Part of my reality, our reality.

As pastors is honestly like when there's stuff going on

in your life and I'm connected to you, when when

they're you're going through hard times. Oftentimes we're not supposed to.

We're trying to.

We're supposed to try to figure out ways to better

handle it. But sometimes those things just kind of pile up.

And there was a lot of people that I love

that were walking through some difficult things, friends of mine

that we're walking through difficult things. I think in addition

to that, there's probably some health things that were on

the back of my mind that weren't on the forefront

until about a month ago on Sunday when they came

to the four Front. I was here on a Sunday morning.

I was hosting service. If you were with us in

third service, I was here hosting and literally when I

walked up to host in the middle of hosting, I felt.

This tightness in my chest. I had felt small.

Feelings of tightness in my chest before in the past year,

but nothing as strong as what I was experiencing during

third Service that Sunday morning, and I could feel it

like jumbling my thoughts and I was getting distracted. I

made it through hosting, and as the lights went down

and the buckets were passed, I walked over here and

I started to feel dizzy. Thankfully I didn't fall off

the stairs, because that would have really been a shocker.

But I get off the stairs and I look to

Die sitting in the front row, and I said, hey, Die,

I think I need to step out. Something's not right.

And she know, She's like, what's going on? It was

like something my chest. I don't know what's happening, but

something's going on with my chest. And thankfully Die went

in to straight up mom mode, you know, like the

most calm you know.

Like Okay, let's walk this way, you know.

And we walk out this door over here, and I

go into the production room and I sit down and

I'm just trying to like kind of like calm down.

I didn't know what was really going on. Within literally seconds,

it felt like seconds. We had and we have an

incredible team of people that respond to emergencies here at

our church.

They're here every single Sunday. They come into the room.

Mike McConnell runs into the room, Kevin Baker runs into

the room, Mike is checking my blood. He's you know,

checking my I don't know what he was doing. He

was doing all sorts of things. He was asking me questions,

and so many things were happening. Within just what seemed

like a couple seconds longer, the medical unit arrived and

they come in and you know, they're lifting my shirt up,

and all I'm thinking is, oh my gosh, Di's standing here.

They're like, oh my god, this is so awkward. It's like, die,

can you wave? It's like having your mom in the

dressing room. You know, it's like this, and uh, they're

putting these stickers all over me, and you know, they're

asking me more questions and see.

I can joke about my stress. Uh. And they're asking

me all these questions.

They're they're they're doing the e KG thing, they're they're,

you know, they're doing all these tests. And and they

arrive at the conclusion that I'm not in like life

threatening danger in that moment, pray Scott. But they say

you need to go to the hospital. We can take

you there by ambulance. And I was like, no, we're

not doing that. Uh uh. And so Nicole and I

leave in the middle of service and we drive to

over Lake and uh we're there for like six hours

and uh they're doing all these tests, more stickers, uh.

You know more. I literally we got home that night

and I'm like, I have a sticker on my leg.

You know, it's like, what is that there?

All these things all me ransom test, X ray. I

have to go in for a stress test in a

couple of weeks. All that to say, everything so far

has come back good.

Praise God. Very thankful for all of your prayers.

If you didn't know that, it's not like what I

was trying to hide anything from you, but many of

you knew, and I was getting.

Texts and messages and prayers and just thankful for all

of you.

But the doctor said something as we're in the room,

and they just said, Morgan, you know you need to

start taking better care of yourself. You know there's things

that you need to start doing to help you manage

your life and to be healthy.

And it was a shock to me.

You know, it was one of those moments where you're

just like, how did I get here?

How did this happen?

And people have since, you know, come up to me

in the conversations. Have you felt more stressed right now,

like have you been feeling more stressed? And honestly like no,

like not any more than I normally feel, or that

would be normal to me in my life. But I

have resonated on that for the last month now, and

I've had to face the reality that I may just

be doing the same thing that I started us off

talking about at the beginning of this message, normalizing the

realities of stress in my life instead of actually figuring

out ways to deal with the stress of my life.

And I'll be really honest, there was a moment where

we're driving in the car and I was like kind

of scared, you know, like reality hits you really quick,

and you're like, dude, this is not going to be

my life. This is not what my life is going

to be like. And you start asking yourself some really

weird questions in that moment. And in that moment, as

I was feeling what I was feeling, and the medics

were hooking me up to stickers and cords all over

my chest and I'm embarrassed because Die is in the

room and all those things, what hit me was that

I was not in control. I had lost control. And

here's what I learned in that moment about stress is

that stress never asks for permission.

It just shows up.

And here's what God has been reminding me in the

last month, through all the stuff that has been going

on in my life. It's that there are times that

I cannot control what is happening. But the thing that

God has been reminding me is that I.

Can choose where I put the weight.

I can't always control what's happening in my life, but

God has been subtly reminding me I can choose where

I put the weight. Stress is going to show up friends,

It's going to happen oftentimes uninvited, but it doesn't get

to take me over. And this is where scripture speaks

so clearly to us. It actually provides us instruction in

the Word of God. Psalm fifty five twenty two says,

cast your burdens to the Lord, and he.

Will will sustain you. He will never.

Permit the righteous to be moved. That word burden is

really interesting in Hebrew. It literally means what's been given

to you, your portion, your assignment. And when I read this,

it totally just spoke to me differently. It all of

a sudden hit me the reality is some of the things,

most of the things that stress us out in life,

they're not random, they're actually some of the best things

that you love about life. Like oftentimes the thing that

stress you out are the blessings that God has put

in your life intentionally, right Like, there are times that

the thing that stresses you out is your job. The

thing that stresses you out is your family. The thing

that stresses you out is your calling or your responsibilities.

They are what has been given to you. They are

your portion, they are your assignment in this season. And

here is the tension that I don't think we always

understand or grasp about stress, is that God has put

these stressful things in our life. But you know what,

He has never once asked for you to carry it alone.

He's put them all there.

In fact, in a different lens, we would call those

burdens blessings. And oftentimes the burdens we feel like we've

just got to carry it.

But God has never once asked us to carry it

on our own.

In fact, Jesus himself would come and address us carrying

weights and pressure like this in Matthew chapter eleven.

He he would say, come to me, all who are

labored all who are.

Heavy laden, feeling the pressure of life, and I will

give you rest.

You know what I love about Jesus is he doesn't.

Deny that you and I are carrying things that are

heavy in our life. He doesn't try to justify the

weight that you're carrying. Wouldn't it be a bummer if

you went to Jesus and we're like, God, there is

some heavy thing is going on in my life.

Man.

My family is struggling, My financers are in a bad spot.

Man, I am so stressed out. I don't even know

what to do. And Jesus looks at.

You, like, figure it out, buddy. Thankfully, that's not the

God we serve. He doesn't look at us and try

to justify the weight that we're caring. What he does

actually is he invites you and I to bring it

to him so that you and I don't have to

carry it alone.

And let's just be real. I think that if we

were honest.

The truth is is that we just aren't good at

doing what Scripture so clearly tells us to do. Most

of us, we don't cast our burdens, we collect them.

We like bring him with us. Some of you, your

burdens are like show and tell. We carry them in

our mind, we carry them in our body, We carry

them in bed at three am when we wake up

and we have to list all of our burdens on

the notes page of our iPhone.

You know what I'm talking about.

We carry them into every conversation, We carry them to work,

and then we leave work and we carry them into

our home. But the Bible doesn't say listen to me, friends.

The Bible doesn't say manage your burdens. The Bible doesn't say,

figure out how to manage the burdens that you have

in life. Do you know what it says. It says

cast your burdens. Do you know what that word cast means?

It means to throw it, to hurl it. Not like

throw up, that'd be disgusting, but like I imagine like

you're trying to lift this heavy object, and you know,

when you're like putting all of your effort into lifting

something and you're.

Just like stop, just ah.

You know, it's like it requires all of your body

to make it happen. It, Just hurl it, release the

things that are burdening you can. I tell you what

this is, friends, This is not gentle Christianity.

This is not weak prayers. This isn't God.

Could you just like maybe just like kind of help

me with some stuff that's going on in my life.

No, this is God.

I am not holding this anymore. Your word instructs me

to cast the burdens of my life to you, because

you are my sustainer.

I trust you, I believe in you. I believe that.

Your ways are better than my ways. I believe that

you can carry more than I can carry. Friends, that's

not weak prayer, that's powerful prayer. Scripturally literally says to

throw the burden, to hurl it. And what I love

about the scripture is that it is instruction for us

that God intends.

For us to follow.

Those who are weary and burdened. Come to me, cast

your burdens. And then there's a promise that follows. Did

you catch the promise? The promise is he will sustain you.

That word sustain it means to hold you up, It

means to support you. It means to keep you from

collapsing under the weight. I say this all the time,

but sometimes we need to also look at what scripture

doesn't say.

Do you know what it doesn't say? In scripture. It

doesn't say God removes every stressful situation.

Sorry, that'd be awesome, though, wouldn't it be like God

remove stress bring It's like, oh, that's amazing. I feel

like God would be like, no, no, no, that's heaven and

you're not quite there yet. No no, he says, I

will sustain you. In other words, the pressure might still

be there, but you won't break under it. I was

thinking about it like a bridge. Anyone ever just drive

down I five and you're sitting on the ship Canal

bridge on I five in the middle of rush hour traffic,

and there is like thousands of cars just like not

moving on one side, thousands of cars not moving on

the other side, and then good news, there's thousands of

cars underneath you that you can't see. But they're also

just sitting there. And I don't know about you, but

sometimes I'll just sit there and.

Think this shouldn't work right, Like.

This concrete is suspended like two hundred feet above the water,

and there's way too many cars sitting on this bridge.

I get stressed out just thinking about it. I gotta

cast that to God. But but honestly, God's promise kind

of reminds me of this illustration. Thousands of cars are

driving over this bridge every single day, unrelenting pressure pressing

down on this thing. And honestly, if it was just

a slab of concrete two hundred feet above the air,

it wouldn't hold. But it's what is underneath it that

holds it. Friends, hear me say, this is not just

what God does in your life. This is who God

is for your life. He's not saying I'm removing all

the weight. He's not removing all the pressure. Jesus himself says,

in this world you will face trouble. Friends, there is

going to be times where there will be pressure. We

will be stressed. But Jesus himself says, he's not removing

the weight, but he's strengthening us underneath. It goes on,

and the scripture says that we will cast our burdens

to the Lord, and he will sustain us. He will

never permit the righteous to be moved.

Do you know what that means?

That means that when everything else around you feels like

it's shifting, you will not be moved. That when we

cast our burdens to him, you and I will not

be moved. We will not slip up. We will not collapse.

We will not fall apart. You see, when you and

I cast our burdens on the Lord, just because life

feels unstable doesn't mean that you have to live unstable.

It reminds me of Psalm forty six.

God is our refuge and our strength, a very present

help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the

earth gives way. Friends, There's gonna be times in life

where life doesn't feel stable, But because He is our sustainer,

it doesn't have to make you live unstable. He is

our sustainer. You will not be moved. And I just

want somebody to hear this this morning. I don't know

who you are, but I come across a lot of

people who feel that they have to manage all the

weights of their world, and I just want you to

hear me say. If your life is built on your capacity,

your ability to manage life, your ability to manage the

pressures of life, you may fool yourself just long enough

to think that you can do it all on your own.

But the person who is faithful to cast their burdens

on the Lord every single day is a person who

understands that this life was never designed.

To be built on your capacity.

Friends, hear me say, your life was designed to be

built on Jesus.

He is your sustainer.

Those who understand and are consistent and faithful and regular

on taking the pressures of the life and casting those

things to the Lord. That is a life that is unshakable.

That is a life that will not be moved. It

will not fall, it will not collapse because it isn't

just based on what you can hold. It is sustained

by the power of God, who is your faithful sustainer

in life. So the question then that we should probably

be asking is how do I actually practically cast my burdens?

How do I cast my stress on the Lord? What

does that even look like? Can I tell you what

it starts with? It has to start with prayer. This

is not a metaphorical teaching that Jesus is giving us.

This is a practical lesson for us to live out

in our life, and it starts with a life of prayer.

This is where people get stuck. And I want to

encourage you to add a couple really important elements to

your prayer life that honestly we should be implementing into

our prayer life daily, maybe.

Hourly in our life, and this is where it starts.

It starts with us.

The first thing that you've got to add to your

prayer life to help you cast your stress, to cast

your burdens, is that you have got to be able

to what it is.

You've got to put a name to your burden.

You've got to get specific. You've got to be able

to say in your prayer life to God. God, you

understand my financial situation is not where it needs to be. God,

you understand that I need this much money or else

we are going to lose this. Right, God, I need

your help in this relationship. God, I don't know how

to manage this dynamic.

God.

I need you in my workplace because this job is

getting overwhelming to me. I'm stressed out with my job.

I'm stressed out with my boss. I think it is

so important that we name it. And here is why.

Because you can't release what you won't acknowledge in your life.

It's impossible for you to release something that you are

not aware of what is causing you a burden. You

can't just say, God, I'm stressed, Well, what is it

exactly that you're releasing you can't release what you won't acknowledge.

We've got to put a name to our burden. And

the second thing is this, and this is probably the

harder part, is that you and I have to practice

and learn how to release control of our burdens. You know,

casting is not informing God. You know what it actually is.

It's transferring responsibility. It's saying God, I cannot handle this

on my own. I don't know what it is that

I'm even supposed to do with this, God, but I

trust that you can sustain me through this. It is

a transferring of responsibility in our life. And this is

where it gets real, because if you are still trying

to control the things that are burdening you, stressing you out,

then you haven't actually cast it unto God. And the

truth is is that I don't think anyone really has

a problem with the promise that precedes cast your burdens

to the Lord. Everybody, for the most part, likes the

idea of God sustaining us.

Amen. I think the problem.

Is is practically we sometimes trust ourselves more than we

trust God with our burdens.

In our minds.

Releasing control of the things that we are stressed out

about is actually more stressful than actually releasing it to

God because we're not in control anymore. And I just

want you to hear me say, you will never feel

more peace in your life than when you learn how

to release control of the burdens.

Of your life.

You will never feel more in control when the control

is not in your hands but in God's hands. I

think there's some indicators that we can look for in

our life to say, if we practically, realistically, if we

really have cast our burdens onto God, and if you're

taking notes, I think these are just good practical things

to maybe jot down. Maybe you will catch yourself doing

this after you pray prayers and cast these burdens onto God,

and these are just indicators that maybe you haven't actually

fully released control of these things that you've prayed that

God would take in your life. And the first indicator

is this. Maybe you are a person who you cast

burdens unto God. Maybe you say the prayer and you say, God,

I give you this thing in my life. But the

problem is you keep replaying it in your mind. You

say you've given it to God, but it's still running

on repeat in your mind. You're in the shower and

you're thinking about it, you're driving down the road and

you're thinking about it, you're laying in bed and you're

thinking about it. And friends, hear me just say, that's control.

It is still controlling you because mentally, you're still trying

to solve it, you're still trying to fix it, you're

still trying.

To predict it. And here's the truth.

If I'm still obsessing over it, I'm still holding it.

So maybe the indicator that you have to look for

is if you keep playing it on repeat in your mind.

Maybe the second indicator that you need to look for

is maybe you're the kind of person who feels like

everything depends on you.

This one hits deep.

Right because I know that there are probably so many

of us in the room that you feel like you

have these conversations in your mind, like, man, if I

don't figure this out, if I don't make this happen,

if I don't hold this all together, Friends, that's control,

because what you've done is you've placed yourself in a

position that only God is supposed to.

Hold in your life.

The truth is is that when I carry the weight

of it all depends on me, I've actually taken back what.

I said I already gave to God. That's control.

Another indicator that maybe you haven't actually cast your.

Burdens to God.

Is maybe you can't rest without feeling guilty. This's a

big one for all my high capacity high achievers.

In the room.

Maybe that stressed you out just hearing it. You try

to rest, but here's the truth.

Your mind just won't shut off. Even when you stop working,

You're still striving. And even that is you holding control still.

Because what your soul is actually saying is I don't

trust that anything will be okay unless my hands are

still on the plow, unless I'm still moving it forward.

And here's the truth. If you can't rest, it's often

because you haven't released still controlling you. Maybe an indicator

that you can relate with is maybe you keep on checking,

fixing and managing it. This is so subtle, The way

this plays out is so.

Subtle in our life.

You pray about it, but then you keep checking in

on the situation, you keep trying to fix people, you

keep managing outcomes.

That's control.

It's like imagine this, It's like handing something to God

and then hovering over God's shoulder.

Like you got it.

You sure do you want me to step in? You

keep checking it, you keep fixing it, you keep managing it.

But here is I think probably the clearest sign of

us not actually casting our stress, our burdens to God.

It's that your peace is still dictated by the outcome.

Friends, hear me say, if your.

Peace rises or falls based on what happens next, based

on what someone's says, based on whether things go the

way that you wanted them to or not, you're still

holding it because true casting, says God, even if this

doesn't go the way that I want, I trust you,

I trust you. You see all of these indicators, they

reveal the same truth to us. And the truth is

that casting your burdens is not just giving it to God.

It's actually letting go of your grip on it. It's

letting go of your grip on how it turns out.

And here is the thing. When you and I find ourselves,

because it'll happen, casting our burdens to go, and then

suddenly reaching.

Down and picking them back up, picking.

Up that worry, picking that stress back up, It'll happen.

Can I just encourage you today when you find that

happening in your life. Don't shame yourself, don't think that

you're a failure. Just say, God, here I am again

holding this thing that I know I already said is yours,

and God, I release it again to you. I cast

my burdens on to you, and I trust that you

will sustain my life.

This is your verse for this week. This is your

staying power.

Cast your burdens on the Lord and he will sustain

you when stress hits, and we pray God, I cast

this on you. I trust that you are my sustainer.

Hear me say this.

Staying power doesn't come from us caring more, doesn't come

from us picking up more. Staying power actually comes from

caring less because we learn to give it to.

Him and not pick it back up.

And here's what I want to do to close today.

I actually want to say this prayer together. So I

want to invite you to bow your heads and close

your eyes all over this room. Maybe you came in

here this morning with some heavy stuff on your life.

You heard that we're doing a stress series and you're like, man,

I got to figure out what to do with my stress.

There's a weight on your heart.

There is a weight on your mind that's been sitting

there for a long time. There's that pressure that you feel,

and I want to lead you in a prayer that

literally you can walk out of this room and say

to yourself when you go home, because the pressure and stress,

it doesn't leave us, but we learn.

How to cast it.

And so I want you to just repeat this prayer

after me this morning. Would you say, Holy Spirit, help

me to release what I've been holding. I bring you

the heavy burdens of my life, and I release my

need to control it. I release the outcome to you.

I trust you with what I can't carry.

You are my sustainer. I will not be moved.

In Jesus' name, Father God, I pray over our church

right now, and God, I pray over all those who

are feeling the weight of stress and burdens on their life. God,

your scripture teaches us so clearly you never intended us.

To walk with that alone.

And so Father, I say this morning, God almost as

a prayer of declaration and instruction to me and my friends.

God, God, I'm speaking to myself this morning. You know that.

God, we cast our burdens to you. We don't just

give them to you. We release the outcome to you.

We release the weight of it to you. And Father,

we say together we trust you. You are our sustainer,

and we trust you with our life. We trust you

with the outcomes that are to come.

We pray that you would walk with us and encourage

us as we daily walk through the.

Stresses of life and are faithful to release those things

to you. God, we love you, and we thank you

in Jesus name. And everyone said, amen.

Men, can we thank Morgan for this vulnerable message? Hey,

I wanna thank you for being at Venture today. I

want to remind you we have a What's Next page

that is prepared each week for you to take this

message and unpack it in your life more really understand

what it was about and how you can utilize it.

On your way out, I want to invite you to

stop by the for Her conference table out there if

you want to still get.

Registered for that.

I encourage you look for an email for me tomorrow

morning that has all the information you could ever want

about the light Bearers project. But that was you do

me a favorite, stand on your feet. Thanks for being

at Venture today. We send you out the name and

the peace and the strength of Jesus. The past is

all understanding.

Amen.