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To: caww
I believe it’s ‘by his spirit’ He prepared my heart and mind to heed His calling

I have found within every testimony, if one were to parse them, there is always a phrase such as this. If God prepared your heart, then your positive response to God was because God prepared your heart. God initiated it. You responded.

As for the rest of mankind, He calls but there is no evidence that He prepared their hearts.

810 posted on 06/01/2015 7:20:33 AM PDT by HarleyD ("... letters are weighty, but his .. presence is weak, and his speech of no account.")
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To: HarleyD

Faithful is He that calleth you for He will also do it. ... Many are called but few are chosen. ... Of the many called, why so few chosen? ... Because so few will let Him do it. [Thanks to Maj. Ian Thomas for that syllogism which I heard for the first time decades ago at Shades Mountain Independent Church in Birmingham, AL]


811 posted on 06/01/2015 7:50:20 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: HarleyD

....”As for the rest of mankind, He calls but there is no evidence that He prepared their hearts”.....

Perhaps they simply said no....so you wouldn’t find evidence.


813 posted on 06/01/2015 9:35:05 AM PDT by caww
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