2. Take a Breath

Question 1

Ge 30:2

Answer 1

Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Question 2

Ge 50:19

Answer 2

But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?

Question 3

Ge 50:20

Answer 3

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Question 4

Ex 16:8

Answer 4

The Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.”

Question 5

2 Ki 5:7

Answer 5

And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”

Question 6

Ps 24:1

Answer 6

The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Question 7

Ro 8:28

Answer 7

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Question 8

Jas 1:2–4

Answer 8

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Question 9

2 Co 3:5

Answer 9

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,

Question 10

2 Co 3:6

Answer 10

who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Question 11

Php 4:11

Answer 11

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Question 12

Php 4:12

Answer 12

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

Question 13

Php 4:13

Answer 13

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Question 14

Php 4:19

Answer 14

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Question 15

Mt 6:25

Answer 15

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Question 16

Mt 6:26

Answer 16

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Question 17

Mt 6:27

Answer 17

And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

Question 18

Mt 6:28

Answer 18

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,

Question 19

Mt 6:29

Answer 19

yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Question 20

Mt 6:30

Answer 20

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?