This answer is taken from an August Core Christianity podcast with Dr. Michael Horton. No infringing intended for education only.
How does God’s sovereignty work with my free will?
We got to stop thinking of God and ourselves as basically two runners in the same lane. God’s in a different arena. We don't bump into God, it's not like a seesaw, where the freer God is, the less free we are. It's not like that at all. The only way we have our freedom in the first place is because in him we live and move and have our freedom. It's only because God has freedom in himself, absolute sovereignty in himself, that we can have, by his good gift, the kind of creaturely freedom that he deemed appropriate for us to have. We have all of the creaturely freedom that God deemed appropriate, and he has all of the creator freedom that is unique to him alone. — Michael Horton
