Bible Verses About Divine Strategy

The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

And David enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;

Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: