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daywalker:

--- Quote from: Ricky on November 01, 2008, 10:40:46 AM ---Hi, and now I am confused, Musicman you ask, How do you feel God is running His creation? My question is, How can God run His creation if He has already predetermined everything that will happen in life. Predetermined would mean, God cannot change anything, everything will happen the way He already made it happen before the very beginning. And that would mean that your next months prayers cannot be answered if they are not already answered. And I also hope that I am the only one confused on this. Predetermined would mean, it does not matter who wins the election, people are playing out the election and God has already made the winner. I have now learnt to do this, what ever happens in life good or bad, I accept it, or forgive it, then get over it, and forget about it.
       Bless you all        Ricky
         

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Hey Ricky,

Just because GOD has already predetermined what will happen, doesn't mean that we should just sit back and pretend like there's nothing we can do about any of it. Things don't happen in spite of what we do; they happen because of what we do.

The future has yet to happen. GOD isn't just sitting back and watching everything like it's a movie that He already created. GOD knows what will happen tomorrow because He makes tomorrow happen. For example: the reason Obama won the election last night, is because GOD caused the necessary events to happen that would cause the American people to vote for him.

The reason we pray is because that's how GOD communicates with us. First GOD gives us the desire to talk to Him, and then He responds. We are much more than Robots just playing out our lives as if we were pre-programmed.

Sure, GOD has preordained all the days of ours lives, but we still have to live them out. That's the only way that we will ever learn and grow and become the person that GOD desires us to be...

It took me a long time to really understand this, I hope that I've helped you, and not made it more confusing...

May GOD Be With You,

Christopher.

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