Does Jesus Care?
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casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
This week we prayed for the rain to stop. Some may even have wondered, Does Jesus Care? So, this evening I share with you a text for a troubled world.
1. Casting all your
1. Casting all your
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Do you ever feel insignificant in this sea of humanity?
Do you ever feel insignificant in this sea of humanity?
Who are you?
Who are you?
A social security tax number?
A bank of credit card number?
A cell phone or street address number?
A birth date number?
Do anyone still know my name? ()
Do anyone still know my name? ()
2. So much in this world is impersonal
a. The age of bigness and numbers
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
b. Social Security, insurance policies, credit cards
3. But God still knows you as an individual
c. The national product code, scanners, computers
Illustrations: Jesus knew his sheep!
Illustrations: Jesus knew his sheep!
3. But God still knows you as an individual
a. God doesn’t keep track of His own by cosmic computers
b. He knows His own by name ()
Remember Zacchaeus ()?
Remember Zacchaeus ()?
a. Zacchaeus and his hiding in the tree ()
Remember the woman at the well ()?
Remember the woman at the well ()?
Remember the children ()?
Remember the children ()?
13 Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, 14 but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” 15 And he laid his hands on them and went away.
Who knows I am even alive? Jesus does!
Who knows I am even alive? Jesus does!
5. God has time for you
2. Anxieties
2. Anxieties
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you
This is personal. Harvey was personal. Pain is personal. Birth & Death are personal.
This is personal. Harvey was personal. Pain is personal. Birth & Death are personal.
How many cares?
How many cares?
Webmd: These common external factors can cause anxiety:
Webmd: These common external factors can cause anxiety:
These common external factors can cause anxiety:
Stress at work
Stress from school
Stress in a personal relationship such as marriage
Financial stress
Stress from an emotional trauma such as the death of a loved one
Stress from a serious medical illness
Side effect of medication
Use of an illicit drug, such as cocaine
Symptom of a medical illness (such as heart attack, heat stroke, hypoglycemia)
Lack of oxygen in circumstances as diverse as high altitude sickness, emphysema, or pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in the vessels of the lung)
The joy of the Lord is your strength (). Removing cares allows access to blessings.
The joy of the Lord is your strength (). Removing cares allows access to blessings.
2. Kinds of cares
a. Cares about your family, children, wife, husband
b. Finances, future, job, security, public opinion
c. Business, a coming depression, debts
d. Health, health of others, mental health
10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
e. World conditions, war, nuclear destruction
3. Every care that you are carrying is in this verse
4. Cares are roadblocks to blessings
5. With cares removed we can experience the joy of the Lord
6. The joy of the Lord is your strength ()
On Jesus
On Jesus
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you
As we sing, Does Jesus Care — 507, I want you to take your cares to Him.
1. Casting all your care upon HIM … HE CARETH FOR YOU
2. No one understands like Jesus
3. “Does Jesus care when my heart is pained?” He cares!
4. “Who cares when my heart is weary?” He cares!
5. He waits to take all your cares
Does Jesus care when my heart is pained
Too deeply for mirth or song,
As the burdens press, and the cares distress
And the way grows weary and long?
Refrain
Oh yes, He cares, I know He cares,
His heart is touched with my grief;
When the days are weary, the long nights dreary,
I know my Savior cares.
Does Jesus care when my way is dark
With a nameless dread and fear?
As the daylight fades into deep night shades,
Does He care enough to be near?
Refrain
Oh yes, He cares, I know He cares,
His heart is touched with my grief;
When the days are weary, the long nights dreary,
I know my Savior cares.
Does Jesus care when I’ve tried and failed
To resist some temptation strong;
When for my deep grief there is no relief,
Though my tears flow all the night long?
Refrain
Oh yes, He cares, I know He cares,
His heart is touched with my grief;
When the days are weary, the long nights dreary,
I know my Savior cares.
Does Jesus care when I’ve said “goodbye”
To the dearest on earth to me,
And my sad heart aches till it nearly breaks,
Is it aught to Him? Does He see?
Refrain
Oh yes, He cares, I know He cares,
His heart is touched with my grief;
When the days are weary, the long nights dreary,
I know my Savior cares.
Because he cares for you
Because he cares for you
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you
We may start our wondering if Jesus cares.
But then our cares thrust us down before His powerful feet
And our cares become His cares.