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About The Will of God.

The Bible tells us that everything that takes place takes place within the will of God.

• 1). Creation - ‘worthy are you, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honour and the power, for you ____________ all things and because of your _______ they were created’ (Revelation 4.11).
• 2). Nature - ‘whatever the Lord ___________ that has He done, in Heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps’ (Psalm 135.6).
• 3). Government - ‘The ruler’s ______ is in the _______ of the Lord like the watercourses, He turns it wherever He _______’ (Proverbs 21.1). ‘All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and He does according to His ______ in the army of Heaven, and among the _________ of the earth, and none can stay His hand or say, “What are you doing?” ’ (Daniel 4.35). ‘There is no authority but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God’ (Romans 13.1).
• 4). The course of nations - ‘Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, Oh house of Israel. (Jeremiah 18.6).
• 5). Man’s destiny - ‘For I will ____________ on whom I will have mercy, and I will have _____________ on whom I will have compassion, so then it is not of him who ________ nor of him who ______, but of God Who shows _________ ‘ (Romans 9.15-16). So that Christians are made God’s heritage ‘having been foreordained according to the ________ of Him Who works all things after the counsel of His own _____’ (Ephesians 1.11).
• 6). Men’s lives - ‘There are many ________ in a man’s heart, but the _________ of the Lord will stand’ (Proverbs 20.22).
• 7). Christian rebirth - ‘of His own will He ___________________ by the word of _______ so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures’ (James 1.18).
• 8). Our separation to purity - ‘for this is the ______ of God, even your _______________’ (1 Thessalonians 4.3).
• 9). The sufferings of believers - ‘for it is better, if the ______ of God should be, that you suffer for ____________ rather than evildoing’ (1 Peter 3.17).
• 10). The sufferings of Christ - ‘Father, if it be possible remove ___________ from me, nevertheless, not my _____, but yours be done’ (Luke 22.42). For ‘He being delivered up by the determinate ________ and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of lawless men did _______ and slay’ (Acts 2.23).
• 11). The course of our lives - ‘for you ought to say, if the Lord ______ we shall do this or that’ (James 4.15). ‘Taking his leave of them and saying, “I will ________ again to you if God will’ (Acts 18.21).
• 12). The summing up of all things - ‘Having made known to us the mystery of ____________, according to His good __________ which He purposed in Him, as a plan for the fulness of time, to sum up (unite, gather together) all things in Him’ (Ephesians 1.9-10).