Quotes About Control

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.

Yet God said that no other nation would covet the land of the Israelites, even during their vulnerable and defenseless times. God can restrain not only people's actions, but even their most deeply rooted desires. No part of the human heart is impervious to God's sovereign but mysterious control.

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 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.

rejoice because we believe He is in control of those circumstances and is at work through them for our ultimate good.

But God has not walked away from the day-to-day control of His creation. Certainly He has established physical laws by which He governs the forces of nature, but those laws continuously operate according to His sovereign will.

Your promotion, or lack of it, is in the hand of God. Your superiors are simply His agents to carry out His will.

Adversity is difficult even when we know God is in control of our circumstances.

Because we know God is directing our lives to an ultimate end and because we know He is sovereignly able to orchestrate the events of our lives toward that end, we can trust Him. We can commit to Him not only the ultimate outcome of our lives, but also all the intermediate events and circumstances that will bring us to that outcome.

one of the most frequent references to it concerns His sovereignty over nations and governments.

Just as we saw in chapter 4 that God is sovereign in the hearts of individuals, whose decisions and actions affect us, so God is also sovereign in the decisions and actions of government as they affect

Proverbs 16:9—"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps"—

God sometimes causes government leaders or officials to make foolish decisions in order to bring judgment upon a nation.

Confidence in the sovereignty of God in all that affects us is crucial to our trusting Him. if there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.

God rules the world by Providence, not by miracle.

God not only determines who governs, He also rules in the decisions that they make. Proverbs 16:33 says, "The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD

He so directs and controls all events and all actions of His creatures that they never act outside of His sovereign will.

Does God cause people to make decisions that favor us, and does God restrain people from making decisions that would harm us?

Yet God controls the king's heart. The stubborn will of the most powerful monarch on earth is directed by God as easily as the farmer directs the flow of water in his irrigation canals.

The place to start controlling the cravings of our physical appetites is to reduce our exposure to temptation.

Details are important, and God is just as sovereign over the details as He is over the so-called "big picture.

the beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.

But God never allows people to make decisions about us that undermine His plan for us.