{"id":5867,"date":"2023-10-07T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2023-10-11T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:25:07","slug":"i-dont-have-a-care-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"I DON&#8217;T HAVE A CARE IN THE WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Try saying that, first thing in the morning, and perhaps during the day&#8212;<br>&#8212;before or after saying the verse, &#8220;casting all your cares upon Him, because He cares for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The proof, the test, of casting all your cares upon God&#8212;<br>&#8212;can you, will you, then say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a care in the world.&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had to add this a few days later:<br>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have a care in the world&#8212;I just have a job to do, in front of me right now, given by God.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You see, I&#8217;m working for Him&#8212;He&#8217;s my boss&#8212;I&#8217;m not in charge&#8212;It&#8217;s not up to me to figure things out&#8212;I just follow His orders&#8212;So, I must ask Him for orders, about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everything<\/span>&#8212;Then I don&#8217;t have a care in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whatever you <strong>do<\/strong>, <strong>work<\/strong> <strong>heartily<\/strong>, <strong>as<\/strong> for <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>Lord<\/strong> and not for men, knowing that from the <strong>Lord<\/strong> you will receive your reward. You are serving the <strong>Lord<\/strong> Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try saying that, first thing in the morning, and perhaps during the day&#8212;&#8212;before or after saying the verse, &#8220;casting all your cares upon Him, because He cares for you.&#8221; The proof, the test, of casting all your cares upon God&#8212;&#8212;can you, will you, then say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a care in the world.&#8221;? &#8211; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}