Does God determine all human actions?
No. Influenced and empowered by the Holy Spirit, humans are responsible in freedom to exercise their wills for good.
Catechism for the Global Methodist Church, question 53
16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From every tree of the garden you may surely eat." 17But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat from it you shall surely die.
15See, I have set before you today the life and the good, and the death and the evil. 16Which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering there to possess. 17But if your heart turns away and you do not hear, and you are banished and bow down to other gods and serve them, 18I have told you today that you will surely perish; you will not prolong days upon the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter there to possess. 19I have called to witness against you today the heaven and the earth; the life and the death I have set before you, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that you and your seed may live. 20To love the LORD your God, to hear his voice, and to cleave to him, for he is your life and the length of your days, to dwell upon the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.
14Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him with integrity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15If it seems wrong in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve: whether the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
14then my people upon whom my name is called will humble themselves, and they will pray and seek my face and turn from their harmful ways, and I will hear from the heavens and forgive their sin and heal their land.
6Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near. 7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of wickedness his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly forgive.
24Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
17And Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men."
12But to all who did receive him, to those who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. 13They were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
17If one will desire to do its will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is out from God, or I speak away from myself.
8But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith that we proclaim. 9That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and trust in your heart that God raised him out from the dead, you will be saved.
13No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also provide the way of escape so that you may be able to endure.
9The Lord does not delay the promise, as some count slowness, but has patience toward you, not planning that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.
Question 53 addresses the objection that the doctrine of preventing grace raises: if every good response is enabled by grace, God might seem to determine what people do. The catechism answers no, and it answers in the exact words of Article VII of the Confession of Faith: "man influenced and empowered by the Holy Spirit is responsible in freedom to exercise his will for good." That article first states human helplessness and then, with the word "however," affirms real freedom under grace.
The references are chosen to show that Scripture addresses people as agents who can choose. In Eden, "the LORD God commanded the man" and set a real prohibition before him (Genesis 2:16-17). Moses tells Israel, "the life and the death I have set before you, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life" (Deuteronomy 30:19). Joshua puts the same choice to the tribes: "choose this day whom you will serve" (Joshua 24:15). Jesus says, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me" (Matthew 16:24), and to the church at Laodicea, "If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him" (Revelation 3:20). Commands and invitations of this kind assume that the hearer can respond or refuse. Peter adds that God is "not planning that any should perish but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9), which rules out any secret decree that some are made to refuse.
The answer's first clause keeps this freedom from becoming self-reliance. The freedom is exercised by people "influenced and empowered by the Holy Spirit." John says believers "were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (John 1:13); the new birth is God's act. The Wesleyan position is that grace restores the will's freedom and then holds the will responsible for how it is used.
For a Methodist this teaching gives both dignity and accountability. No one can excuse sin by appealing to fate or to God's hidden will, and no one can boast of obedience as if it were self-made. The proper response to God's call is the one Paul describes: "if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and trust in your heart that God raised him out from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9).