Proverbs 16:1
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16 We can make our own plans,
but the Lord gives the right answer.
Proverbs 19:21
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21 You can make many plans,
but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.
Proverbs 16:9
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9 We can make our plans,
but the Lord determines our steps.
Luke 21:14-15
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14 So don’t worry in advance about how to answer the charges against you, 15 for I will give you the right words and such wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to reply or refute you!
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Philippians 2:13
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13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.
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Proverbs 20:24
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24 The Lord directs our steps,
so why try to understand everything along the way?
Matthew 10:19-20
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19 When you are arrested, don’t worry about how to respond or what to say. God will give you the right words at the right time. 20 For it is not you who will be speaking—it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
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Luke 12:11-12
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11 “And when you are brought to trial in the synagogues and before rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how to defend yourself or what to say, 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what needs to be said.”
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Jeremiah 10:23
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Jeremiah’s Prayer
23 I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own.
We are not able to plan our own course.
Ezekiel 36:26-27
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26 And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.[a] 27 And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.
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- 36:26 Hebrew a heart of flesh.
Proverbs 21:1
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21 The king’s heart is like a stream of water directed by the Lord;
he guides it wherever he pleases.
Jeremiah 32:39-40
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39 And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants. 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me.
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Jeremiah 1:7-9
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7 The Lord replied, “Don’t say, ‘I’m too young,’ for you must go wherever I send you and say whatever I tell you. 8 And don’t be afraid of the people, for I will be with you and will protect you. I, the Lord, have spoken!” 9 Then the Lord reached out and touched my mouth and said,
“Look, I have put my words in your mouth!
Psalm 119:36
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36 Give me an eagerness for your laws
rather than a love for money!
Exodus 4:15
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15 Talk to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with both of you as you speak, and I will instruct you both in what to do.
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Exodus 4:11-12
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11 Then the Lord asked Moses, “Who makes a person’s mouth? Who decides whether people speak or do not speak, hear or do not hear, see or do not see? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now go! I will be with you as you speak, and I will instruct you in what to say.”
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James 1:16-18
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16 So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.[a] He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.[b] 18 He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.[c]
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Psalm 10:17
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17 Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless.
Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them.
Ezra 7:27
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Ezra Praises the Lord
27 Praise the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who made the king want to beautify the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem!
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Nehemiah 1:11
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11 O Lord, please hear my prayer! Listen to the prayers of those of us who delight in honoring you. Please grant me success today by making the king favorable to me.[a] Put it into his heart to be kind to me.”
In those days I was the king’s cup-bearer.
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- 1:11 Hebrew today in the sight of this man.
2 Chronicles 18:31
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31 So when the Aramean chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat in his royal robes, they went after him. “There is the king of Israel!” they shouted. But Jehoshaphat called out, and the Lord saved him. God helped him by turning the attackers away from him.
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2 Corinthians 8:16
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Titus and His Companions
16 But thank God! He has given Titus the same enthusiasm for you that I have.
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