100 Bible Verses About Divine Guidance
Bible verses about Divine Guidance
The path of life can often feel uncertain, shrouded in doubt and difficult choices. Yet, scripture reveals a profound truth: we are not meant to navigate this journey alone. Understanding Divine Guidance through the lens of the Bible offers solace and direction, illuminating the way forward with God's wisdom. These verses offer more than just comfort; they provide practical principles for seeking and discerning God's voice in our lives. By immersing ourselves in these passages, we learn to recognize His whispers amidst the noise, aligning our hearts with His perfect will and finding peace in His unwavering presence.
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Ecclesiastes 8:3 (KJV)
Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Find Your Path: Bible Verses on Divine Guidance
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he answered them.
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher–shalal–hash–baz.
They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the Lord liveth.
And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the Lord commanded Moses.
Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.
And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them;
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.
Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
And enquired not of the Lord: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they.
Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us.
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded;
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.
And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth–aven, on the east side of Beth–el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
The Bible offers a wealth of wisdom for those seeking divine guidance, providing comfort and direction in navigating life's complexities. Verses explored highlight God's promise to lead, protect, and provide clarity when we seek Him with a sincere heart. They emphasize the importance of prayer, diligent study of Scripture, and attentiveness to the Holy Spirit's promptings. Trusting in God's plan, even when the path ahead seems uncertain, is a recurring theme. May these verses encourage you to actively seek God's guidance in every aspect of your life. Reflect on these promises, meditate on their meaning, and apply them practically by cultivating a closer relationship with God through consistent prayer and unwavering faith. Embrace the assurance that He will faithfully guide you towards His purpose.