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“Casting all of your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” – 1 Peter 5:7 (NKJV)

It was one of those days. Dilemma after dilemma joined forces against me, and I felt defenseless against them all. Various concerns of life washed over me like a tsunami, and it seemed as though I was drifting away in waves of worry.

“Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored].” – Joel 2:12 (AMP)

Have you ever taken a road trip and discovered in the midst of your travel that you were headed in the wrong direction?

“For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.” – Habakkuk 2:3 (NKJV)

Do you have a dream in your heart that hasn’t come to fruition?

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” – Matthew 11:28 (NKJV)

Have you ever felt overwhelmed with the busyness of life? I’m sure, like most, you have. The task-filled days of making a living, attending school,

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,