Thematic Bible: Is exercised in
Thematic Bible
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Providing for his creatures
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens that cry.
Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures forever.
These all wait upon you; that you may give them their food in due season.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Overruling wicked designs for good
But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
But I wish you to understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have served rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years has the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in the which there shall neither be plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ordering the ways of men
There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
A man's steps are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
A man's heart plans his way: but the LORD directs his steps.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ruling the elements
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: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die of thirst.
John bore witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. By the breath of God ice is given: and the broad waters are frozen. Also with moisture he loads the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud: read more.
And it is turned around by his guidance: that they may do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of the whole earth. He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
And it is turned around by his guidance: that they may do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of the whole earth. He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Directing all events
And the cows took the straight way to the road to Bethshemesh, and 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 after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD takes shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
Now therefore make a new cart, and take 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 the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return to him for a trespass offering, in a box by the side of it; and send it away, that it may go. And see, if it goes up by the way of its own land to Bethshemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us: it was by chance that it 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 the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
There failed not any of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » The special preservation of saints
For the LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.
For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving his creatures
You, even you, are LORD alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and you preserve them all; and the host of heaven worships you.
Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
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.
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever. You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hastened away. read more.
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them. You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them. You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
He has drawn a circle on the waters at the boundary where the day and night come together.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Determining the period of human life
And has made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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 lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? read more.
You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them. You in your mercy have led forth the people whom you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation. The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, whom you have purchased. You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. The LORD shall reign forever and ever. For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them. You in your mercy have led forth the people whom you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation. The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, whom you have purchased. You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. The LORD shall reign forever and ever. For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went 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 the LORD had purposed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom. Then said Hushai unto 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 you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty land, where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Prospering saints
And I bowed down my head, and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD has prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Delivering saints
Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending, he will also deliver it; and passing over, he will preserve it.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Protecting saints
He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler.
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ordering the minutest matters
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very 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 lifts up. He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from the rubbish, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.