CAST IT.
Stand on it.
"Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you." 1 Peter 5:7
There is a difference between casting your care and rehearsing your care. Most believers do not have a prayer problem — they have a not letting go problem.
Peter said cast it. One throw. Send it across the room. He cares for you. The Greek does not say keep handing it back to Him every fifteen minutes. It says cast.
If you keep praying the same care over and over, you are not casting — you are catching.
Paul said it from a Roman prison: be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And then watch the next verse — and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. The casting is what releases the peace. Picking it back up cancels the peace.
And then there is the prayer of faith. That one is built differently. It does not start with how you feel. It starts with what God already said. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
Three things to pray in faith: know what you are praying for. You cannot hit a target you do not have. Pray it from the Word. Find what God has already said about your situation and stand on it. Take action on it. The Bible says faith without works is dead. Faith always responds with a corresponding action.
Cast the care. Stand on the Word. And then thank Him from the point of victory before the answer ever shows up — because His Word is above any experience you are having, and His promise is more solid than the ground you are standing on.
Father, today I cast every care onto You — and I leave it there. I will not pick it back up. I stand on Your Word over my situation, I thank You from the point of victory, and I take the next step of obedience by faith, in Jesus' name, amen.