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July 5
Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest
Psalm 37:5
"Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass"
Laying It All Down
Wow. I started planning something today and I forgot to ask God what His will was. I stopped, backed up, and had a conversation with the Lord. I do not want to make mistakes with my new life. I want God involved in all planning. I’m still learning how to do that. I’ve lived 68 years without considering God in my planning, and now I have to build new habits and always involve Him.
God will upset your plans anyway—He delights in it.
We tend to think it’s not appropriate to consider God in the planning of “unspiritual” things. But God is a God of the practical and the spiritual. We must consider Him in all planning. And we don’t need to put on our Sunday best before we come near Him. If you think about it, He is already with us every second of every day. He sees us at our worst and our best. So just come as you are. He will meet you in the ordinary.
We also don’t need to consider all the evil things that might happen when making plans. 1 Corinthians 13:4–5 says, “Love… thinks no evil.” We are not to consider evil as a factor in our planning. We cannot plan our way out of the possibilities of life anyway. And God is with us—we do not need to fear.
We also don’t need to hoard things as if we don’t trust the provisional hand of God. Yes, we need to be wise with our funds and keep an emergency fund. But don’t hoard items “just in case” and fill your home with things for an unseeable future. God is with us. He will take care of us. John 14:1 says, “Let not your heart be troubled…” God will not keep our heart from being troubled—we must do that. It is a habit we must learn. When you find yourself worrying, that means your heart is troubled. Put God first in the planning. Always plan with Him in mind.
Now… place your worries and concerns at His feet.
Gather them up. Bundle them up. Cry it out if that’s what it takes. Work them off of you. Think about them one last time so you can gather them all. Don’t leave anything out to worry about later—gather every last one of them. I mean it: get them all. Big worries down to the tiniest worry. Bundle them together in a big pile.
Then lay them down. Remove your hands. Let go of it all. Let go of every single thing that is worrying you, bothering you, weighing on your mind. Everything. Give it to Him. Totally let go of it. Ask Him to help you let it go. Ask Him to help you leave it there.
Now back up. Thank Him. Get up. Don’t look back. Walk away. Leave them there. Praise the Lord—you did it.
Later, even if you really did it, you may—by habit—try to start worrying about some of those things again. But they won’t be there anymore for you to grab hold of. They will be gone. I know because I just lived through this myself. He has taken all of my concerns, all of my worries that I laid at His feet, and they are gone from my mind. They just aren’t there.
Update: If a worry does show up, tell it, "No, be gone!" and it will flee... that is what I did, it left and did not return. Nothing else has returned. And do not start a new worry!
It is very strange but they are all gone.
So what do you do with yourself when you’ve spent your whole life worrying and now there’s nothing left to worry about?
Smile. Be happy. Rejoice. Dance a jig. Yes—dance a jig! Praise the Lord. Thank Him again. It is the most wonderful thing. Miraculous and unbelievable until you experience it yourself.
And I knew it could happen, because in December of 2025 He removed a colossal fifty‑year burden of mine. It dissipated like fog on a sunny morning. So I knew it could happen. But what I had trouble with today was admitting that I was worrying about things. That I had a roomful of worries shoved to the back of my mind. Things I tried my best not to worry about. But it happened anyway.
I had to admit that to myself and to Him. I had to gather them all up and let them go. It was hard. I had to cry it out. And now I’m still crying because I’m so happy they’re gone. And I’m ashamed that I let them pile up so high before I turned them over to Him. I hated to admit it. I thought I could shove them in that corner and they would stay there. But instead, they escaped one by one and crept into my mind when I wasn’t aware of it, and before I knew it, they were weighing on me.
But they are gone. I just tried to pull them up in my mind and they are really, really gone.
So what do you do with yourself when you don’t have anything to worry about?
You discover that worrying had been taking up a lot of your inner space and your time. And now that it’s gone—wow—you are free to think about something else.
So… think about Him. Read your Bible. Pray. Talk to Him. Fill your mind with thoughts of Him. Continuously thank Him for the blessings in your life.
And later, if a new worry tries to rise up… just stop. You know what to do. Give it to Him.
Trust in Him with all your heart. He is on your side. When God is with you, there is no need to fret, worry, or fear anything. He is your strength. He will uphold you with His mighty right hand. He is strong. He is our refuge. Rest in the knowledge that He is with you—He never leaves you. Rest in Him. His peace will comfort you. It will give you a calm and peaceful place to rest. We do not understand the peace of God, but it is real. It is supernatural. It is a fact. It is wonderful.
Breath Prayer
Thank you, Lord—my worries are gone.
Scripture References
1 Corinthians 13:4–5 — Love thinks no evil.
John 14:1 — Let not your heart be troubled.
Isaiah 41:10 — He will uphold you with His righteous right hand.
Philippians 4:6–7 — The peace of God guards your heart and mind.
Psalm 46:1 — God is our refuge and strength.
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