Thank you Pilgrim for your helpful post.
Sorry I did not make matters clear and am not very good at explaining, except I know that God only has ONE Sovereign will
in His divine plan for mankind, for the reprobate and for the elect.
I was merely pointing out something which our last church was teaching, and many were confused by it, and more recently the two wills of God have been brought up in an article called Biblical Priorities for Today's church - The Sovereignty of our God - by John P. Thackway (Pastor in Wales) - and he says
"The usual approach is this - that there is such a thing as God's decretive will by which He decrees things, but then there is also His permissive will, and it is by this permissive will that He permits all these things to happen to us. It cannot be that God actually DOES them, but that He allows them to happen. I suggest to you that the Bible's answer unequivocally is that God APPOINTS all our trials and our sorrows. "
This was why I was prompted to bring it up.
I believe totally in God's Sovereignty and He does whatsoever He has chosen to do, for He is God Almighty.
If I have missed anything I should know as Truth, please let me know, as my illness has prevented me from attending anywhere regularly for biblical instruction.
In Christ, English Rose