If you are like me and most everyone else, there are times in our daily lives that we go through stresses of daily life that seem overbearing. It is as if we feel like we are under attack spiritually from the devil, and in these instances we may very well be. We may think "Satan is trying to discourage me, Satan is trying to hurt me, etc. In our own strength we are no match for our foe the Devil. However, greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world (John 4:4). There are two very important words we need to remember when we are under attack and don't feel as though we can win the battle... "But God". We need to think, "I can't do it, but God can".
In searching the scriptures, the two word phrase "but God" appears 43 times. Here is the list:
1. Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou has taken; for she is a man's wife.
2. Genesis 31:7
And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
3. Genesis 45:8
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
4. Genesis 48:21
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
5. Genesis 50:20
But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
6. Exodus 13:18
But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
7. Exodus 21:13
And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
8. Judges 15:19
But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
9. 1 Samuel 23:14
And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
10. 1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
11. Psalm 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
12. Psalm 64:7
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
13. Psalm 68:21
But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
14. Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
15. Psalm 75:7
But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.
16. Proverbs 21:12
The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked: but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.
17. Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
18. Jonah 4:7
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
19. Mark 2:7
Why does this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
20. Luke 5:21
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
21. Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
22. Luke 16:15
And he said unto them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
23. Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him
24. Acts 10:28
And he said unto them, You know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God has showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
25. Acts 13:30
But God raised him from the dead:
26. Romans 5:8
But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
27. Romans 6:17
But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
28. 1 Corinthians 1:27
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty
29. 1 Corinthians 2:10
But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
30. 1 Corinthians 3:6
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
31. 1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.
32. 1 Corinthians 6:13
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
33. 1 Corinthians 7:15
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.
34. 1 Corinthians 10:13
There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
35. 1 Corinthians 12:24
For our comely parts have no need: but God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked.
36. 1 Corinthians 15:38
But God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
37. Galatians 3:18
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
38. Galatians 3:20
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
39. Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
40. Ephesians 2:4
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us
41. Philippians 2:27
For indeed he was sick near unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
42. 1 Thessalonians 2:4
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which tries our hearts.
43. 1 Thessalonians 4:8
He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given unto us his holy Spirit.
Now keep in mind, to get the most out of what these verses are saying, we may need to read the preceding verses because the phrase "but God" is being used to contrast something that was just said. Sometimes it does this all in one verse but many times the previous verse is being referenced.
So the next time you are feeling spiritually down or under attack, just remember that you aren't able to win the fight on your own, "but God" can and will (if we humble ourselves and ask for His protection and guidance). If we go at it pridefully, God has no obligation to come to our defense.
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