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Category Archives: Providence
Seeking God’s Guidance Concerning His Providences
Proverbs 3:5-8 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and … Continue reading
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A Tale of Taxes & Timing, Prophecy & Providence
Luke 2:1-7 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all … Continue reading
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God’s Special Providences
Exodus 1:22; Exodus 2:1-10 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. And there went a man of the house of Levi, and … Continue reading
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Why Am I Here? In This Place? And At This Time?
Esther 4:14; Acts 17:25,26 Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and hath made of one blood all nations of men for … Continue reading
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God Uses Little Things to Accomplish Great Things
2 Kings 5:1-4 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in … Continue reading
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How Providence Reconciles God’s Sovereignty & Man’s Free Will
Acts 2:22,23 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: … Continue reading
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Tagged free will, God's Sovereignty, Providence
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When God’s Providences Seem to Contradict God’s Promises
Genesis 13:14-16; Genesis 15:1-4 And the LORD said unto Abram…Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I … Continue reading
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Tagged faith, promises, Providence, temptations, trials
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The Primary Basic Lesson of God’s Providence
Ezekiel 10:9-13 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. And as … Continue reading
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God Fits His Servants for the Work He has Purposed Them to Do
Exodus 31:1-5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him with the spirit of God, … Continue reading
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God’s Perfect Providential Timing
Ecclesiastes 3:1; Ezekiel 10:13 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. And as for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel. MATTHEW HENRY (1662-1714): To … Continue reading
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