Quotes About Sovereignty

have written it as a Bible study about God and His sovereignty, wisdom, and love as they bear upon the adversities we all encounter.

First, I desire to glorify God by acknowledging His sovereignty and His goodness. Second, I desire to encourage God's people by demonstrating from Scripture that God is in control of their lives, that He does indeed love them, and that He works out all the circumstances of their lives for their ultimate good.

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible to pray with confidence.

They find it difficult to accept that both calamities and good things come from God.

If you and I are to appropriate God's grace in our times of need, we must see His sovereignty ultimately ruling in all the circumstances of our lives. And when those circumstances are difficult, disappointing, or humiliating, we must humble ourselves under His mighty hand.

we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.

Under God, however, all things are without exception fully controlled—despite all appearances to the contrary.

Nothing is too large or small to escape God's governing hand. The spider building its web in the corner and Napoleon marching his army across Europe are both under God's control.

The sovereignty of God is often questioned because man does not understand what God is doing. Because

God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly.

He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God.

God is in control; He is sovereign. He does whatever pleases Him and determines whether we can do what we have planned.

These stories are meant to teach us that God is sovereign over people and to encourage us by the knowledge that God exercises His sovereignty for our good.

God does not always restrain the wicked and harmful actions of others toward His people.

God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly. He is sovereign over the officials of government in lands where our brothers and sisters in Christ suffer for their faith in Him. And He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God.

He permits, for reasons known only to Himself, people to act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits them to act contrary to His sovereign will.

And if God permits it, it is because the ungodly action is part of God's plan for him. No one can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it (see Lamentations 3:37).

For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done" (Deuteronomy 2:30).

but rather that He works in His mysterious way through their wills to accomplish His purposes.

Though the absolute sovereignty of God over our lives is consistently taught throughout Scripture, it is not the uncaring sovereignty of a despot but of a God who is just as loving and caring as He is sovereign. But we have to by faith believe that truth when His ways are different from that which we desire. My

George MacDonald: "I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about—born in God's thoughts—and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking.

So while the Bible asserts both God's sovereignty and people's freedom and moral responsibility, it never attempts to explain their relationship.

How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.

The relationship of the sovereign will of God to the freedom and moral responsibility of people is one of those mysteries.