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Faith does not determine what is to
happen, but God. Only an anthropocentric

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generation like ours can think that what
man desires, that in that which man

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trusts, could result or come to
create what the desires of his heart are.

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The word of God clearly states that
God is sovereign, that not two

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sparrows fall, in the consent of
our father, who from all eternity,

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God has actively or passively determined all
that is to occur. And while it

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is true that my faith plays a
role in what is my relationship with God,

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in what is the peace with which
I can live my Christian life,

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in what is the peace that I
can have at the time of prayer,

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it is no less true that nowhere
in the word we are taught that our

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faith has a power. In our
day it is said that when we proclaim

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the word of power based on what
my heart wants, that we activate a

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force, the strength of faith,
and that God is then committed to surrendering

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us to what I have activated through
that word. When I have created that

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movement of what is the strength of
faith. As many call it, the

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reality is that God moves so his
character determines nothing. No one other than

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God has ever determined or counseled him
for an event of the universe to take

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place. God is the only wise, the only wise and eternal, God

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who from all eternity conceived your whole
plan of redemption the history of man.

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I went into a story that I
didn' t think, that I didn

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' t write, that I didn' t start. And I' m

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gonna come out of a story that
I' m not gonna finish. Another

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started it, another will finish it, and another is the one who controls

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it. Trust him, he'
s the sovereign. Sir.