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What did God do? God granted the king fifteen more years of life because he prayed. Conclusion. Not every decision and event in our lives is planned by God. Yet He does make some of the decisions for us. He works directly on us through our circumstances. If God did not direct us or help us, our lives would be worse than they are.
Furthermore, the Bible says He did this long before we were born—not afterward, nor at birth. God told Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart” (Jeremiah 1:5). The psalmist declared, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13).
Jul 10, 2023 · The Psalmist wrote, “I delight to do Your will” (Psalm 40:8). Knowing God’s will is the highest of all wisdom. If we’re ignorant of God’s Word, we’ll be ignorant of God’s will. The greatest barrier is that we want to run our own lives. This battle is going on in our hearts between our wills and God’s will.
Jul 25, 2019 · So we should pray for wisdom and strive to develop godly character, so that we can cooperate with God in his plans for the created universe. As I say at the end of that post, I picture God out there saying, “Let’s see what happens next. I’m sure I can do something with it.” We should respond, “Please do, and let me know how I can help!”
Jan 4, 2022 · Every human life has a determined span, and within its duration there are meaningful events. Birth and death are perhaps the most significant, book-ending every person’s existence. There is an appointed time for every person to be born and a time to die. Job said to God, “You have decided the length of our lives.
Feb 15, 2018 · A future exists only in the realms where there is time, or its spiritual analog, which is change of state. We humans exist, and think, within that arrow of time, which moves from the past to the future. God, however, does not exist within the arrow of time. God is entirely outside of the arrow of time. The arrow of time simply doesn’t apply ...
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Jan 25, 2017 · You move out from under God’s wrath. As sinners, all people are under God’s just wrath. He is angry over our sin, and it offends him greatly. But through our faith in Christ, we move out from under God’s wrath to being under his eternal blessing. God becomes forever and always for us, not against us. (John 3:36)