Saturday, August 13, 2011

Providence



[prophesied]8/13/11

Wow, last night I attended Healing Waters and received so many incredible confirmations and words from the Lord.  A lady came to me and stated that she kept hearing the word, "Providence" for me..  She didn't know what that meant and nor did I (I love it when the Lord uses words and I have no idea what they mean...)


Bible Dictionary

Providence definition


 literally means foresight, but is generally used to denote God'spreserving and governing all things by means of second causes(Ps. 18:35; 63:8; Acts 17:28; Col. 1:17; Heb. 1:3). God'sprovidence extends to the natural world (Ps. 104:14; 135:5-7;Acts 14:17), the brute creation (Ps. 104:21-29; Matt. 6:26;10:29), and the affairs of men (1 Chr. 16:31; Ps. 47:7; Prov.21:1; Job 12:23; Dan. 2:21; 4:25), and of individuals (1 Sam.2:6; Ps. 18:30; Luke 1:53; James 4:13-15). It extends also tothe free actions of men (Ex. 12:36; 1 Sam. 24:9-15; Ps. 33:14,15; Prov. 16:1; 19:21; 20:24; 21:1), and things sinful (2 Sam.16:10; 24:1; Rom. 11:32; Acts 4:27, 28), as well as to theirgood actions (Phil. 2:13; 4:13; 2 Cor. 12:9, 10; Eph. 2:10; Gal.5:22-25). As regards sinful actions of men, they are representedas occurring by God's permission (Gen. 45:5; 50:20. Comp. 1Sam. 6:6; Ex. 7:13; 14:17; Acts 2:3; 3:18; 4:27, 28), and ascontrolled (Ps. 76:10) and overruled for good (Gen. 50:20; Acts3:13). God does not cause or approve of sin, but only limits,restrains, overrules it for good. The mode of God's providentialgovernment is altogether unexplained. We only know that it is afact that God does govern all his creatures and all their actions;that this government is universal (Ps. 103:17-19), particular(Matt. 10:29-31), efficacious (Ps. 33:11; Job 23:13), embracesevents apparently contingent (Prov. 16:9, 33; 19:21; 21:1), isconsistent with his own perfection (2 Tim. 2:13), and to his ownglory (Rom. 9:17; 11:36).


Psalm 18:35
35 You make your saving help my shield,
   and your right hand sustains me; 
   your help has made me great.

Psalm 63:8

8 I cling to you;
   your right hand upholds me.

Acts 17:28

28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[b]

Colossians 1:27

27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Hebrews 1:3

3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
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