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4/14/2006 6:01 am |
God always gives us a choice but we do better if we let Him to do the choosing. Father really does know best! Elizabeth
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4/14/2006 6:31 am |
God knows best ... so for me it's better to allow God and work in me. I have done it before ... I was the one who choose my partner ... eventually the relationship failed. It didn't worked out as much as I wanted it to be. My life became miserable ... so this time I am giving everything to the Lord! 'Cause He knows what is best for me. God bless Jean  faith
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You know, I am really surprised to see twice as many votes for "God has one special person for me" as "God lets us choose anyone we want, as long as they are Christians." Does this mean that the one special person God has for you may not be a Christian? Does this two-option choice mean that God only lets us choose a special someone IF they are Christians? Does God allow us to make choices, both good and bad? Does God the good, the pure, the clean, and the beautiful in mind for us? How do we know how to receive what God wants to give us? What is God's will for us? All of the above questions are answered in God's manual, The Bible.
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See [post 22915] and Why I Call Him David for my comment on this. And by the way, I voted for number one. Doesn't mean I don't have a choice, just means I have chosen to let Him choose for me.
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4/14/2006 4:03 pm |
Jean, I voted for 1 without a shadow of a doubt. I chose before and he was suppose to be a Christian and that got me divorce after 9 years of marriage. God will make the choice for me because I have learned that I make bad choices and he makes great choices.... God knew and loved me before I was born and had a vision/plan for my life and he knows just whom to give me as a mate to fulfill that vision... I will wait. Blessing Thanks for the great question Gwen
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I believe that God provides a range of people that we can and may like to choose from but we can go against that and choose our own and miss out, temporarily, on the one that He has in mind. Eventually He will bring us to the one special one that He intended all the time, even if we screwed up beforehand.
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4/15/2006 1:44 am |
I voted for the first comment, but what if its a second or third marriage? Does this mean God has many special persons for us, just incase the first one is not so good. (hahahaha) Sometimes we step out of Gods will and choose on our own, which is why we have so many divorce
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There is not person one and only to be. In the whole world there are miljons of people existing and there are so many to fit for each one of us, but when it comes to meet the one that may fit for you, lets say in caragters(talkative, extravert- quiet, intravert macth) and you find your souls conecting, then you better to pray, ask God weather He would approve it. (Our genetical influens is about 50% and where we have grown up and how we are raised up has the other 50% to add how we turn out to be as individuals, so not all fit to all after all) If there was so called only one, how come after divorces,death and so on, we could marry again. Human mind is such that we can fall in love over and over again, after our loses. But for christians I ques its hart to find spouses, becaurse there is no free people, who will have same faith and will be matching in caragters and then, there will be upon all to have God's blessing in that finding. After finding one and making the disission is still to stick to the one you have found, no more to be tempted to see others. I have seen Christians, how they pray for spouse, the God makes them to find some one who may be potential person, then they get to know the person, but they go on doubts and back to same prayer again. Marriage is not easy with anyone, so too perfect seek will lead to where we are today. So many single people looking for some one they will never faind. I think that it would be good for every person, weather Christian or not to read Tim LaHaye's book Your Temperament Discovor It' Potential, where he tells about 4 different types of people groups we are, and how to find fiting person for yoursef. After reading it I started to study myself and found basicly to be sagnivic-melangolic and how well I do together with people who are flegmatic types. Its teory, but its not faulse. It helped me to understand people better, why they are like they are and why I am like I am(basicly) God has change me a lot since and thought how to over come those areas I have weakneses in. Recoment that book to you too. I work with people and must tell it has helped me to avoid many offences I would have felt if not understanding people's caragter types.
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4/16/2006 4:54 pm |
I chose my first wife even though my Pastor and many of my friends warned me not to marry her. I went through much pain for my disobedience but at least he blessed me with a beautiful daughter out of the deal. I learned alot and I also have learned why he tells us to stay sexually pure before marriage. If you sleep with the person before marriage you get blinded and can't think about what God wants. This time it is in God's hands and I will stay pure till the night of marriage. Good poll Jean and Happy Easter my sister in Christ and friend. John
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I would hope we are all born good, pure, and of God. I'm not sure, but I would like to believe that my son was not a mistake. So I have to ask if there might be more than 1 person God chooses for us or does He allow us to choose someone even knowing they may not be the one to spend the end of our lives with, so we can produce children who are innocent from sin? I haven't many regrets. Even though I had difficult times, I believe those are experiences to help us learn, grow, and use as a tool to teach our children and others. Maybe, our mistakes were His plan! Ultimately, I want to be the true one for my future husband, and he mine! But I cannot say, I wished I had never met my son's father. These past nearly 16 years with my son in my life have been marvelous, and he still remains loving, good, pure, and of God. I cannot and would not imagine a life without him. Just like not imagining a life without God! Good souls are not easily found, but I was blessed with one within my own home. God has to know what I need and what He wants for certain periods of my life, but He doesn't intend for us to ignore His purpose for us! Jean, I'm sorry but I can't vote on this poll. I'm just not sure if God's plan was one special person or maybe more depending on His plan for us. And in some cases, like oldworldlady stated, His plan for some is to walk with Him alone. Truly Blessed, Maria
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4/17/2006 12:36 pm |
Does God allow us to make mistakes?.....show of hands please.....ah thats good....the problem is (I think), We make shallow decisions, based on "what can you do for me". Whereas God wants it the other way around!This goes for choosing a mate also. There are many people who would mke good couples if they only put christ first in their marriage.The only thing that brings lasting happiness is relationships.......also (this is probably going to get me in trouble), another show of hands please......how many of you gracious ladies think that babies are born "pure and good"?.....hmmmmm. (just give me a five minute head start).
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I would hope we are all born good, pure, and of God. I'm not sure, but I would like to believe that my son was not a mistake. So I have to ask if there might be more than 1 person God chooses for us or does He allow us to choose someone even knowing they may not be the one to spend the end of our lives with, so we can produce children who are innocent from sin? I haven't many regrets. Even though I had difficult times, I believe those are experiences to help us learn, grow, and use as a tool to teach our children and others. Maybe, our mistakes were His plan! Ultimately, I want to be the true one for my future husband, and he mine! But I cannot say, I wished I had never met my son's father. These past nearly 16 years with my son in my life have been marvelous, and he still remains loving, good, pure, and of God. I cannot and would not imagine a life without him. Just like not imagining a life without God! Good souls are not easily found, but I was blessed with one within my own home. God has to know what I need and what He wants for certain periods of my life, but He doesn't intend for us to ignore His purpose for us! Jean, I'm sorry but I can't vote on this poll. I'm just not sure if God's plan was one special person or maybe more depending on His plan for us. And in some cases, like oldworldlady stated, His plan for some is to walk with Him alone. Truly Blessed, Maria When child grows up he does not need to be taught to do bad, he knows how to be bad naturally. He needs to be thought to be good. Even when we come to Christ and our trespasses are washed away by the blood of Jesus, we still do evil things. We struggle the life through out to keep in Lords will and his commandments and its the teaching that up brings conscience in us to know the bad and good and differentiate them. God has a plan for us, but sometimes we walk away of it and make our own decisions. God is love and his mercy last forever. When we return to Him, He can turn those our mistakes into a blessing. Children come from God. According to His Word, they are His blessing for us. None of them was a mistake. 'All the things work for the best of those ones who love Him.'
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