A. Sometimes God leads you by giving you a strong desire: Or you just feel led in a certain direction:PSA 37:4. Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PRO 16:1. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. PRO 21:1. The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. JDG 14:1. And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. JDG 14:2. And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. JDG 14:3. Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. JDG 14:4. But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. B. Beware about insisting on something you want:PSA 106:14. But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. PSA 106:15. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. NUM 22:12. And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed. NUM 22:13. And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you. NUM 22:14. And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us. NUM 22:15. And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. NUM 22:16. And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: NUM 22:17. For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. NUM 22:18. And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more. NUM 22:19. Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more. NUM 22:20. And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do. NUM 22:21. And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. NUM 22:22. And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. NUM 22:32. And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me: 2KI 5:15. And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant. 2KI 5:16. But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused. 2KI 5:20. But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. 2KI 5:21. So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? 2KI 5:22. And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments. 2KI 5:23. And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him. 2KI 5:24. And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed. 2KI 5:25. But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither. 2KI 5:26. And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? 2KI 5:27. The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. ACT 21:4. And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. ACT 21:10. And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. ACT 21:11. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. ACT 21:12. And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. ACT 21:13. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. ACT 21:14. And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done. ACT 21:27. And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, ACT 21:33. Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. JAM 4:3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. |
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