Quotes About Purpose

Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.

But he replied, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.”

Then the servant told Isaac all that he had done.

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.

And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”

“I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”

It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.

So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”

And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ëWhat is your occupation?í

But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.

But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ëThe God of your fathers has sent me to you,í and they ask me, ëWhat is His name?í What should I tell them?”

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ëI AM has sent me to you.í”

And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.

And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”