Does God Determine My Fate?

"If God knows everything then why should I pray, He knows whether I will live or die and whether my friends will be saved or lost, so why pray?"

 God allows freedom of choice. Never will God force Himself upon His creatures, what an amazing thought! God knows that love cannot be commanded or controlled, only by love is love awakened. Though sinful and although He knows that His way is the only way for life and happiness He says"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isaiah 1:18, KJV)

God invites us to reason, His Government is not founded on unreasonable control but intelligent faith. What does that mean for the person who believes that God has predestinated some people a certain way and others another apart from their choice. It is like saying  "I am a woman so I will never vote or I am black therefore I will always be a slave." In the 20th century both of these obsacles were overcome by people who chose otherwise than that of popular tradition.

Similarly, God has predestinated all men to be saved in Jesus Christ, but we have to choose to accept that salvation. God cannot do it apart from our choice. The Inspired apostle says "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" (Romans 5:12, KJV) "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." (Romans 5:18, KJV)

In other words, God has given His Son to humanity, and in so doing has given us life "in Him." Many persons refuse to pray or give up on life and the  future that God has already worked out in His Son simply through lack of knowledge.