100 Bible Verses About Divine Encounter
Bible verses about Divine Encounter
Encountering the Divine is not merely a chance occurrence, but a sacred invitation woven throughout the tapestry of scripture. From the burning bush to the road to Emmaus, the Bible overflows with transformative moments where individuals encountered God's presence, altering the course of their lives and destinies. Understanding these divine encounters through scripture allows us to recognize God's active involvement in our own lives. By studying these verses, we open ourselves to the possibility of experiencing God's profound love, guidance, and purpose, allowing us to live with greater faith, hope, and a deeper connection to the Almighty.
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Exodus 25:22 (KJV)
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Encountering God: Powerful Bible Verses & Divine Moments
And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
And he erected there an altar, and called it El–elohe–Israel.
And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto them.
Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord.
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear–jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;
And the Lord said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
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.
And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.
And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth.
Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.
And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And now, O Lord God, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites.
And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
And they of Beth–shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.
We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.
The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth–el.
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
And Moses alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
The verses explored reveal divine encounters as transformative moments, pivotal for understanding God's character, experiencing His power, and receiving direction for life's journey. From Jacob wrestling with God to Paul's blinding vision on the road to Damascus, these accounts highlight God's initiative in reaching out to humanity, often in unexpected ways and circumstances. These divine encounters are not limited to biblical figures; they serve as a testament to God's continued desire for intimate connection with all who seek Him. Reflecting on these passages encourages us to cultivate an open heart and expectant spirit, ready to recognize God's presence and purpose in our own lives. May we be attentive to the whispers and the thunder, the still small voice and the grand revelation, trusting that God is ever present, ready to meet us where we are and guide us into His divine will.