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This is Your Defining Moment Shaping your Destiny

This is Your Defining Moment Shaping your Destiny. Num 13-14/ Ps 78:4-8. This is Your Defining Moment Shaping your Destiny. Y our decisions begin to “Define” you Meaning: These decisions begin to outline/shape: Behavior – What I do Character – Who I am.

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This is Your Defining Moment Shaping your Destiny

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  1. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny Num 13-14/ Ps 78:4-8

  2. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny • Your decisions begin to “Define” you • Meaning: These decisions begin to outline/shape: • Behavior – What I do • Character – Who I am

  3. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny • Our lives are defined by a series of Decisions… • Our Destiny is shaped by a series of Defining Moments • Destiny – Where I’m Headed

  4. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny Define “Defining Moments” • An appointed time at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified, which often influences the direction of ones future

  5. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny • Your decision determines if you: • Move on to the next assignment ordained for your life • Stay in the thicket of a bad decision and hopefully “learn from it” • Forfeit the next assignment ordained for your life

  6. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny • Define CORE BELIEFS • Deeply rooted convictions which shape how we respond to life in general, to people and the world around us.

  7. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny • Define Doubt • An attitude of uncertainty, directed toward a proposition or person. • In Christianity, Doubt is being in two minds about God or his word, which usually seems to involve apparent contradictions between God’s Word and our (human)experiences

  8. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny • The Gk. Words root meaningfor DOUBT: • divided judgment • being in two minds about a matter • lack of resources,

  9. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny • Some Points about “Doubt” • Doubt is not the opposite of “FAITH” • Doubt is not synonymous to “UNBLIEF” • Everyone experiences moments of Doubt

  10. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny • Some Preliminary Elements contributing to Doubt, by Os Guinness • Ingratitude • Weak Foundation • A Lack of Commitment • A Faulty view of God • Lack of spiritual growth • Unruly emotions • Lack of Confidence • (Os Guinness…Author: God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt)

  11. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny

  12. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny Define UNBELIEF • Unbelief is: The lack of faith and trust in God that challenges his truthfulness and finds expression in disobedience and rebellion. • Also, noted as in-your-face-rejection

  13. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny Israel and the Promise Land. Num 13-14 • Has Just witnessed the hand of God deliver them through the vice of 10 plagues • Witnessed her enemy swallowed by God in the Red sea • Encounter the protection of God daily in the form a pillar of cloud by day and fire by nite • God provides water from a rock when they cried out concerning their thirst • Provides food from heaven to eradicate their hunger • Manifested His glory from a mountain in order to talk to them • Had them build a Tent in order that He could dwell among His people

  14. This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny • Answer to Unbelief (Ps 78:4–8). • We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, about his power and his mighty wonders. • 5 For he issued his laws to Jacob; he gave his instructions to Israel. • He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children, • 6 so the next generation might know them— even the children not yet born—and they in turn will teach their own children. • 7 So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands. • 8 Then they will not be like their ancestors— stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God. .)

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