FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

"God Will Take Care of You"

PROVIDENCE OF GOD IN GENESIS

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I was not very old when I attended my great grandmother's funeral. It would be forever indelibly stamped on my mind. Years later, I would remember the songs that were sung. One of them is the dear song, "God Will Take Care of You." When we are commanded to think "true" thoughts (Philippians 4:8) we can be assured that the Scriptures about God's providing for us will meet the criteria.

Question: What is the Bible's teaching on God's providence?

"Providence"

Comforting assurances of the Lord. How God has provided for His people down through the Ages.
Selected list of Scriptures answering the question. This page: is from the Pentateuch's Genesis.

HIS PRESERVING CARE EXEMPLIFIED (BBE version)

We are living in troubled times. Philippians 4:8 tells us that a solution to anxiety in life is thinking upon what is true. God has provided us His True Word from His Holy Spirit. Many of the Scriptures are particularly furnished to give us hope and comfort. Here are some representative passages.

*To man at the beginning

Genesis 1:29,30;
"And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food: And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so."

Genesis 2:16;
"And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:"

*To faithful Noah and his family, at the time of the flood

Genesis 6:8
" But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.."

Genesis 7:1
"And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright."

Genesis 7:13,
"On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;"

*To faithful Noah and his family, after the flood

Genesis 8:1,
" And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down."

Genesis 8:22;
"While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end."

Genesis 9:1-3;
" And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full. And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands. Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things. "

*To Abraham and Sarah, in Egypt

Genesis 12:17
"And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife."

*To Abraham In Gerar

Genesis 20:3
"But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife."

Genesis 22:14,17;
14-"And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen." 17- "That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;"

Genesis 26:4,5;
"I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth; Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws."

*To Lot, when Sodom was destroyed

Genesis 19:1-11
"And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth. And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street. But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took. But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town; And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them. And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him. And he said, My brothers, do not this evil. See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof. And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in. But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again. But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door. "

Genesis 19:12-20
" Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place; For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town. And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously. And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town. But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town. And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction. And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord; See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there is it not a little one? so that my life may be safe."

Genesis 19:21-31
" And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town. Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar. The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar. Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land. But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt. And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord: And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven. So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living. Lot and His Daughters Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock. And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way: "

Genesis 19:32-38
"Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father, And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away. And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father. And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away. And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father. And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day. And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day. "

*To Hagar, when Abraham cast her out

Genesis 21:17
"And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God."

*To Jacob, when he fled from Esau

Genesis 28:20,21
"Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace, then I will take the Lord to be my God,"

*To Jacob, when he fled from Laban, his father-in-law

Genesis 31:24,29
verse 24 "Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.
verse 29 "It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob. "

*when Jacob met Esau

Genesis 33:3-10
"And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother. Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping. Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant. Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces. And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same. And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes. But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself. And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me."

*as he journeyed in the land of Canaan

Genesis 35:5
"So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob."

*To Joseph, in Egypt

Genesis 39:2,21
verse 2 "And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
verse 21 "But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend."

* Promises to children of Israel

Genesis 49:11,12,20,24,25
11,12-" Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes: His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk."
20-"Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings.
24, 25-"But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel: Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:"

End of my selection of GENESIS's verses on this subject.

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