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Thank you Pamela. 😊

Welcome Matty, nice to meet you.

Pamela

Thank you Wendy and Rene. Feels really good to be among you all once again.

Welcome back to the forum Matty and thank you for taking the time to introduce yourself.   

Rene

Daddysgirl


Hi welcome to the forum . Lots to learn here and good people to help you when you don’t understand something
  God Bless
   
    Wendy

Hello everyone

It's Matty or Daddysgirl if you will.

First met many of you(yes, the lurking in ones as well since I was one of them all along) back when I was 26yrs old. Now I'm 41, 3 babies in(grown & a headache), a husband, dog, the works..

So glad to be back. Faced many highs and lows, more lows and tribulation in truth, times so difficult that everything including faith took hard knocks more than a few times. I had continued to read printed material from the main site, scripture too; yet couldn't understand what I was reading. Yup, same material which had me jumping for joy 16yrs ago & some. It was hell. But I've finally come up for air, hopefully for good.
Either way I'm grateful for much desired fellowship with you saints.

Grace & favour to you,
Matty

And adding to the above I tell myself something almost every day considering how crazy the world is becoming and that is,

'If there was a better way for God to fulfill his plan for humanity he would do it that way.'

It is all going the exact way it is supposed to go and despite the turmoil God has everything under complete control.

One of the first things I learned here at BT was that there is no free will, even if I didn't fully grasp it at the time, it was the best news I had ever heard. Years later, I now know it was probably one of the most important things I will ever learn.

I wish I could find the exact quote, but Ray said something like if we study something that is true, it will consistently show itself to be true as we continue to study it. Just studying in general on any topic will reveal God's love through His sovereignty in our lives.

...I will be their God, and they will be My people. - Heb 8:10

I have to pinch myself very often because it just seems too good to be true sometimes. God's mindfulness of a sinner such as myself just blows me away. I can't even make excuses to Him anymore when I sin in my heart. So I have to constantly remind myself of His power and sovereignty in my life.

So I don't have much of an idea of where you are in your understanding of God's sovereignty aside from what you've said here. If you would allow me to give you a little advice, it would be based on this parable, as it has a lot to do with the belief in free will.

1Co 5:9  I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people--

1Co 5:10  by no means referring to this world's immoral people, or to the greedy and swindlers, or to idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

1Co 5:11  But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a reviler, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

1Co 5:12  For what is it to me to judge outsiders? Do you not judge those who are inside?

1Co 5:13  But God judges outsiders. Put away the evil person from among yourselves.

I agree that whatever happens is supposed to happen. Everyone gets an A+ in the school of life as far as God is concerned. We just need to learn to stand in that.

Thanks for letting us know Rene. 

May you Rest on Brother Joel