Quotes About Purpose

Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you are to do. You are to anoint for Me the one I indicate.”

When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and said, “Surely here before the LORD is His anointed.”

Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel, who said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”

Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”

Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel told him, “The LORD has not chosen any of these.”

And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”

Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”

But if I say to the young man, ëLook, the arrows are beyond you,í then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.

“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission or charge. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.

And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.

David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.

And Nathan replied to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”

“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?

Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sight.”

For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

“Not at all,” Hushai answered. “For the one chosen by the LORD, by the people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and with him I will remain.

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.

But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

In this way he made the ten stands, each with the same casting, dimensions, and shape.