[RnMomof7]

Let me see if you believe in free will. Do you make the choice to get out of bed in the morning, or has God, somehow, predestined, before the beginning of time, that you would get out of bed this morning, and therefore, forced you out of bed this morning through His all-encompassing Sovereign power?

Every breath I take is predestined by God, the ability or need to get out of my bed at a certain time is predestined by God .

My pastor explains it this way ( please be patient with me on this)

He draws a large circle and then a small one inside of it. The large portion is labeled as Gods ordained will, the smaller circle is labeled Human volition ( free will).

He points to the small circle and says those are are every day choices, where do we live? go to school? who do we marry? how many children do we have? etc. Those are all choices we make, yet he points out that each of those decisions are your free will choices YET they are all within Gods ordained will.

So yes I do choose many things every day, but every one of those choices was predestined for me as the ordained will of God in my life, before the foundation of the world.

He dresses the lilies of the field, not a sparrow falls from the sky without His ordination, he counts every hair on my head .

I am so honored that I have a God that is so concerned with me and my life.

[LifeOrGoods?]

He points to the small circle and says those are are every day choices, where do we live? go to school? who do we marry? how many children do we have? etc. Those are all choices we make, yet he points out that each of those decisions are your free will choices YET they are all within Gods ordained will.

I agree with this. It's unexplainable, to a certain extent, but I believe that is what the Bible teaches.