Quotes About Purpose

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

Concerning Zebulun he said: “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your journeys, and Issachar, in your tents.

Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people:

Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.

“Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”

“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

In the morning you must present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe that the LORD selects shall come forward clan by clan, and the clan that the LORD selects shall come forward family by family, and the family that the LORD selects shall come forward man by man.

Now Joshua was old and well along in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed.

So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.

That is why we said, ëLet us take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.

That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.

And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”

The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”

Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,

Then the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there. If I say to you, ëThis one shall go with you,í he shall go. But if I say, ëThis one shall not go with you,í he shall not go.”

Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”

That night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.

But the olive tree replied, ëShould I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?í

They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”

So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.

Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boyís rule of life and mission?”

So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.