Quotes About Purpose

Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”

“All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”

Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.

But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?

But the LORD said to my father David, ëSince it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.

Then a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD, and said, ëI will entice him.í ëBy what means?í asked the LORD.

So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiahís heart.

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty. God told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”

So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of the families of Israel replied, “You have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone must build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.”

They also asked, “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”

Leave this work on the house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.

He had begun the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his God was upon him.

You and your brothers may do whatever seems best with the rest of the silver and gold, according to the will of your God.

from the descendants of Pahath-Moab, Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah, and with him 200 men;

from the descendants of Azgad, Johanan son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men;

So we arrived at Jerusalem and rested there for three days.

“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven

and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”

Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.

After I had arrived in Jerusalem and had been there three days,

I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.