Thematic Bible: Is exercised in
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Providing for his creatures
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
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He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.
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he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.
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These all look to you, to give them their food in due season.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Overruling wicked designs for good
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
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I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,
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And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you 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 will be neither plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ordering the ways of men
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.
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A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?
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The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes 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; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.
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(John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'")
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From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds. By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast. He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning. read more.
They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.
They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Directing all events
And the cows went straight in the direction of Beth-shemesh along one highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.
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In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the LORD takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the LORD takes shall come near by households. And the household that the LORD takes shall come near man by man.
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Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them. And take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence." read more.
The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.
The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Bringing his words to pass
For the LORD had said of them, "They shall die in the wilderness." Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
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Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » The special preservation of saints
For the LORDloves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children 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 command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving his creatures
"You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
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Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
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Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from 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, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
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He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight. read more.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.
He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between 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 man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
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My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
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Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! 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 have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.' You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters. "Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? read more.
You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them. "You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia. Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased. You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O LORD, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. The LORD will reign forever and ever." For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them. "You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia. Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased. You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O LORD, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. The LORD will reign forever and ever." For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground 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 the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the LORD might bring harm upon Absalom. Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Leading saints
who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,
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And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Prospering saints
Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
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But he said to them, "Do not delay me, since the 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 you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
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Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it."
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Protecting saints
He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
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O LORD, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you 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 to the ground apart from 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
The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts. He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and on them he has set the world.