What other scriptures affirm God's sovereignty over nature like Job 9:7? God commands the heavens • Genesis 1:16-17 – “God made two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth.” • Job 38:12 – “Have you ever commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place…?” • Psalm 147:4 – “He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.” • Isaiah 40:26 – “Lift up your eyes on high and see. Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.” • Jeremiah 31:35 – “Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name.” • Joshua 10:13 – “So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on its enemies.” God steers the weather • Job 37:11-13 – “He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them… He brings the clouds to punish men or to water His earth and show His love.” • Psalm 135:6-7 – “The LORD does whatever pleases Him in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all their depths. He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain and brings the wind from His storehouses.” • Psalm 148:8 – “lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word.” • Jeremiah 10:13 – “When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings the wind from His storehouses.” • Nahum 1:3 – “…His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.” • Mark 4:39 – “Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea: ‘Silence! Be still!’ And the wind died down, and it became perfectly calm.” God shapes land and sea • Genesis 1:9-10 – “Then God said, ‘Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry ground may appear.’ … God called the dry ground ‘land,’ and the gathered waters He called ‘seas.’” • Exodus 14:21 – “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.” • Job 38:8-11 – “Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb… when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors, and I declared, ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?” • Psalm 95:4-5 – “In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him. The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.” • Jeremiah 5:22 – “Do you not fear Me? … I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.” • Matthew 14:25, 32 – “During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea… And when they had climbed back into the boat, the wind died down.” God sustains every moment • Nehemiah 9:6 – “You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens… the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all that is, and the host of heaven worships You.” • Psalm 104:27-30 – “These all look to You to give them their food in season… when You take away their breath, they die… when You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.” • Colossians 1:16-17 – “For in Him all things were created… all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” • Hebrews 1:3 – “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory… sustaining all things by His powerful word.” Why these verses matter today The same God who told the sun not to shine in Job 9:7 still rules every cloud, wave, and gust of wind. Creation listens—and so can we, resting in the Lord who never relinquishes control. |
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