is it true that if you want to make God laught you just have to tell him your plans? can we decide our future or is there anything preset?.
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No that is not True\nHowever it is True that if you want to make God Happy, then you let him make the plans for you\n\nAnd with respect to your second question you have total control over the decisions you make regarding your future here on earth, however God has total control of where you will spend your eternity after your life here has ended.
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Yes, but it is an intruiging question. I think I make my own choices every day but God already knew what choices I was going to make. Even if I try to switch it up God already knew I was going to try and switch it up. You can't fool God, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.
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How about this?\n\nWhy doesn't god just give everyone the same dream / vision at the same time? Doesn't have to be long, just a simple little message. That would seem like a simple thing to do and imagine the consequences!!\n\nIt would change the world overnight, I would be a believer. \n\nSo I wait..... and I wait..... and I wait.....\n\nP.S. Christians love to use the F word, don't they ?
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When you're praying, you are talking to God. "Let Your will be done as on earth as in the heaven" mean that for everything you pray for, His plan be manifest in it. For example, if you pray to win the next football game, perhaps God give you strength to win the game, and then you boast about His power. His will be done. OR............... He don't let you win this game. Perhaps God want you need to spend precious time with children which you neglect during training. His will be done.\n\nAnother one. You pray for someone who are sick and near to the edge of the death. Let His will be done. More people may draw near to Him, feel His love and know Him better because of the healing OR the passing away of this person. Who know? Maybe, it's time for that person to go home.............heavenward. God know what is the best for you. That's why, "Let You will be done as on earth and in the heaven".\n\nP/S: It's not a magic word!!! It's a statement of faith.\n\n Many are the plans in a man's heart, \n but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.\n                                    Proverbs 19:21 \n\nFor I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\n                                    Jeremiah 29:11\n\n "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, \n       neither are your ways my ways," \n       declares the LORD. \n\n      "As the heavens are higher than the earth, \n       so are my ways higher than your ways \n       and my thoughts than your thoughts. \n\n                                  Isaiah 55:8-9\n\n\nGod bless!!
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Yes, God is in control of his design and plan. Something in my life has happened or will happen which is beyond my control. This is part of living. Therefore, it is up to me to find the good in everything and for me to look for the joys only God can give. God has a plan and I trust him for he is in control. I will go forward doing all that I can to make my world a better place and to give my family things that I want to bless them with. However, in all things I realize that God is God and I am not. \n\nIt is so cool knowing that my counciousness and your conciousness were created as an individual and distinct entities. We don't fully know or understand the plan but we do have hope for the here and now, and for the there and thereafter.
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There are so many ways for you to talk to God, He understands your way of thinking, He created you and even before the foundations of the earth were laid, He knew you, how awesome right? So just ease up and speak to Him as though you were speaking to your very Best Friend. I talk to him all the time, sometimes I even think He might say o.k. Bettylu, enough already, but no He doesn't He loves for us to spend time with Him either in silence or in prayer or just jiving along and telling Him what a great mountain He formed over there beyond that gorgeous Ocean, and How in the world did He come up with the idea to create so many gorgeous colors and designs in flowers, there are so many things to talk to Him about but most importantly, just be you, He knows you so well.
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Theologians have struggled with this question over the years.  Does omnipotence and foreknowledge conflict with free will?  In my opinion, yes it does.\n\nHowever, there are numerous philosophical theories which try to work their way around this problem.  Some of them involve rejecting or altering various views of what it means to be all knowing. One of the better ones basically states:  Future knowledge consists of knowing that A will happen or will not happen.  God does not know that A happens until the moment at which A actually occurs.  In this manner god knows every possible action but does not have foreknowledge.  This allows god to be all knowing and humans to have free will.  However, it does not allow god to know the future and seems to conflict greatly with the idea that the bible contains prophecy.\n\nThe most popular approach right now is to place god outside of time as illustrated in this diagram:  http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/venus1982/GodOutsideTime.jpg\nThe idea is that time is a human experience and that god does not experience time.  In this way, god sees all of existance past, present, and future at the same time. There are numerous issues with this idea as well, but they would take too long to describe in detail.
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God won't do that.\n\nHe said as much.\n\nIf you were familiar enough with the old covenant (Old Testament) and the new (New Testament), you'd know that God will no longer ask such things of people.
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It is possible for God to speak to people with a voice that you can hear.\n\nHowever, in my case I've never heard the voice of God in that way, either, although I've received many answers from Him.  Often I recognize answers from God through the peaceful, comforted, or happy feelings that I feel.  If I do get a "He told me" kind of answer, it's often through very still, quiet thoughts in my mind.  It took me a while and quite a bit of prayer to learn to "listen" and recognize those answers.  But it is possible.\n\nIf you'd like some help, why don't you talk to someone from my church?  Check out the website below.
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I think it's a matter of choice.  We Christians choose to turn any question and give an answer that will somehow reflect our belief in Christ.  Your choice is to read the answers and decide whether or not you like the answer.  What you choose will not offend us; but we believe that every action that every single person in this world makes, is written in a big book in Heaven.  And we want to make every opportunity count by telling people about God in one way/shape/form or another.  If you want to be preached at, go to church.  We are simply giving our God and Bible based opinions.
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In my experience, if you set goals and work towards them, you will accheive them. If God does not want you to attain a specific goal for some unknown reason, I'm sure He will stop you.
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i was reading some of the put downs, doesnt any one have any faith or even common sense. god talks to each and every one of us. its the voice in your head telling you to do something or not to do something its the guilt you feel when you have done something wrong. who are we to say god did not speak to him. the bible says judge ye not! and it also tells us to have faith.who are we to decide who god can and can not talk to. would you believe him if he said satan talked too him?
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yes i believe. God has an already sorted out plan for each and every of our lives. He knows whats best for us.\nHe hears EVERY SINGLE prayer that we all pray.\nbut He answers in FOUR different ways, its "NO","YES","WAIT" or "I HAVE A BETTER IDEA".\n\nHe DOES answer them, you just have to LISTEN to Him, if you dont listen to Him, how would you know if He answers, and you have to recognise His voice too. usually what you "hear" first is HIS voice, and what comes after is your imagination, we must have the discernment. so if we act according to His prompting, miracles WILL happen. \nits just what Satan tells us against God, and the sin of omission that makes what He tell us to be zil.
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How sweet to apologize. Yes it is true that none of us know when the end time will come. It could come tomorrow or ten years from now. What-ever date it may be, one needs to be ready, but that doesn't mean that one needs to stop living life and not prepare for the future. You said it best.....it is up to God.  God Bless and take care!!
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God has a plan for you, but what it is only He knows
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Yes, praying for someone can change them with the Graces of God.\n\n"Prayer-The lifting of mind and heart to God in praise, PETITION, thanksgiving, and INTERCESSION; communication with God in a relationship of love"\n\nHowever, God is not a genie ... he will NOT grant all we ask 4.  He has a plan, and our prayers <esp. petition, and intercession> can be weighed by him.  If we ask God to make someone fall in love with us ... well we're dealing with two separate "Free Wills" ... and God doesn't change free will.  Now if we're praying for a person to stop lying, steeling, or commiting adultry ... again, there's the "Free Will", but God can also grant this person more spiritual gifts to help this person overcome these bad things that are keeping that person away from God ... remember, prayers work best when we're asking God to fullfil God's plan, and foresaking our plans and desires.\n\nHave I seen it work?  Yes, my friends mother prayed for 10 years for her daughter to find and marry a Catholic man ... my friend did marry a Catholic man ... \n\nI'm currently praying 4 God to get rid of a deamon in my "Ex" ... I can't really confirm he's possessed, but I prefer to say he is so I don't have to acknoledge how sick and twisted this SOB really is ...
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ABSOLUTELY NOT! GOD DOES NOT FORCE HIMSELF UPON US! Whom ever is doing this needs to go back and read the bible again. We  have the right to choose how we live. Good or bad. In the end we alone are left with our own end results.