ordained

  • Laying Down the Law

    You have [c]ordained Your precepts, [d]that we are to keep them diligently.  Psalm 119:4  NASB Precepts – Perhaps “ordained” isn’t quite the word we want.  We’re more familiar with this term in regard to priests and ministers, but it has a second, and perhaps original, meaning as well.  It means “to decree,” for example, when a king officially…

  • Divinely Ordained

    And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.  Romans 8:28  NASB Causes – Oswald Chambers wrote, “The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God.  In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance.”[1]  The…

  • Predestination

    Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. Psalm 139:16  NASB Ordained– Does God know everything you will do before you are born, before you make a single choice?  Does He know all men’s choices from eternity past?  And…