Thematic Bible: Is exercised in
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Providing for his creatures
Look to the birds of the sky, because they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not more valuable then they?
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He gives to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which cry.
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who gives food to all flesh, for his loving kindness [is] forever.
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These all wait for thee, that thou may give them their food in due season.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Overruling wicked designs for good
And as for you, ye meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
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But I want you to know, brothers, that the things in respect to me have come more for the advancement of the good-news,
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And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ordering the ways of men
There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of LORD, that shall stand.
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A man's goings are of LORD, how then can man understand his way?
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A man's heart devises his way, but LORD directs his steps.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ruling the elements
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
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Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness.
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John testified about him, and cried out, saying, This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me came to be before me, because he was before me.
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Out of the chamber [of the south] comes the storm, and cold out of the north. By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is narrowed. Yea, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning, read more.
and it is turned round about by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them upon the face of the habitable world. He causes it to come, whether it be for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness.
and it is turned round about by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them upon the face of the habitable world. He causes it to come, whether it be for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Directing all events
And the cows took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. And the lords of the Philistines went behind them to the border
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In the morning therefore ye shall be brought near by your tribes, and it shall be, that the tribe which LORD takes shall come near by families, and the family which LORD shall take shall come near by households, and the household w
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Now therefore take and prepare for you a new cart, and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke. And tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them. And take the ark of LORD, and lay it upon the cart. And put the jewels of gold, which ye return to him for a trespass-offering, in a coffer by the side of it, and send it away, that it may go. And watch. If it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he has done to us this great evil, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us. read more.
And the men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
And the men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Bringing his words to pass
For LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not a man of them left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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There failed not anything of any good thing which LORD had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
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Truly I say to you, that this generation will, no, not pass away until all things happen. The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » The special preservation of saints
For LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his sanctified. They are preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
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But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
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for he will give his [heavenly] agents charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving his creatures
Thou are LORD, even thou alone, thou have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preserve them all. And the host of heaven worshi
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Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God. Thy judgments are a great deep. O LORD, thou preserve man and beast.
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Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall on the ground independent of your Father.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving the course of nature
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be moved forever. Thou covered it with the deep as with a vesture. The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled. At the voice of thy thunder they hastened away. read more.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou had founded for them. Thou have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou had founded for them. Thou have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
He has described a boundary upon the face of the waters, to the confines of light and darkness.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Determining the period of human life
And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy,
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My times are in thy hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
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Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Defeating wicked designs
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Thou did blow with thy wind, the sea covered them. They sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? read more.
Thou stretched out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. Thou in thy loving kindness have led the people that thou have redeemed. Thou have guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation. The peoples have heard, they tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed, the mighty men of Moab. Trembling takes hold upon them. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. Terror and dread falls upon them. By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone, till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over whom thou have purchased. Thou will bring them in, and plant them on the mountain of thine inheritance, the place, O LORD, which thou have made for thee to dwell in, the sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established. LORD shall reign forever and ever. For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Thou stretched out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. Thou in thy loving kindness have led the people that thou have redeemed. Thou have guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation. The peoples have heard, they tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed, the mighty men of Moab. Trembling takes hold upon them. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. Terror and dread falls upon them. By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone, till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over whom thou have purchased. Thou will bring them in, and plant them on the mountain of thine inheritance, the place, O LORD, which thou have made for thee to dwell in, the sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established. LORD shall reign forever and ever. For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that LORD might bring evil upon A Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and thus have I counseled.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Leading saints
who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness--fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water--who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint,
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And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Prospering saints
And I bowed my head, and worshipped LORD, and blessed LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
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And he said to them, Do not hinder me, since LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Delivering saints
For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
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As birds hovering, so LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver. He will pass over and preserve.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Protecting saints
He will cover thee with his pinions, and under his wings shall thou take refuge. His truth is a shield and a buckler.
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O lord LORD, the strength of my salvation, thou have covered my head in the day of battle.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ordering the minutest matters
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall on the ground independent of your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ordaining the conditions and circumstances of men
LORD makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.