Quotes about Guidance
Do you need the good favor of a certain professor in order to get a good recommendation for a job? If that job is God's plan for you, God is able to and will move in the heart of that professor to give you a good recommendation.
— Jerry Bridges
Whatever our particular calamity or adversity may be, we may be sure that our Father has a loving purpose in it.
— Jerry Bridges
God does have a purpose and a plan for you, and God has the power to carry out that plan.
— Jerry Bridges
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.
— Jerry Bridges
He will direct it according to His sovereign purpose for His glory and our good.
— Jerry Bridges
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.
— Jerry Bridges
He so directs and controls all events and all actions of His creatures that they never act outside of His sovereign will.
— Jerry Bridges
Why did Rehoboam make such a foolish decision? The Scripture says, "So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken" (1 Kings 12:15). Two foolish decisions were made, in two instances good advice was rejected and harmful or foolish advice was followed. Both instances are attributed to the sovereign work of God guiding the minds of the kings to accomplish His will.
— Jerry Bridges
We should take more seriously our responsibility to pray for the leaders of our government that they will make wise decisions.
— Jerry Bridges
The Bible speaks not of God's laws, as if many of them, but of God's Law as a single whole.
— Jerry Bridges
We do know God has instructed us to pray for leaders. Our duty, then, is to pray for wise decisions, but to trust when foolish and harmful decisions are made.
— Jerry Bridges
Matthew Henry says that to walk with God is "to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences. It is to make God's word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions."
— Jerry Bridges