This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
Num 13-14/ Ps 78:4-8
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
• Your decisions begin to “Define” you
- Meaning: These decisions begin to
outline/shape:
o Behavior – What I do
o Character – Who I am
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
• Our lives are defined by a series of
Decisions…
• Our Destiny is shaped by a series of
Defining Moments
o Destiny –
Where I’m Headed
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping 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
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
A.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
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
A. Define CORE BELIEFS
• Deeply rooted convictions which shape
how we respond to life in general, to
people and the world around us.
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
A.Define Doubt
1.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
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
1.The Gk. Words root meaning for DOUBT:
a. divided judgment
b.being in two minds about a matter
c. lack of resources,
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
A.Some Points about “Doubt”
1.Doubt is not the opposite of “FAITH”
2.Doubt is not synonymous to “UNBLIEF”
3.Everyone experiences moments of Doubt
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
A. Some Preliminary Elements contributing to Doubt,
by Os Guinness
1. Ingratitude
2. Weak Foundation
3. A Lack of Commitment
4. A Faulty view of God
5. Lack of spiritual growth
6. Unruly emotions
7. Lack of Confidence
• (Os Guinness…Author: God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a
Shadow of Doubt)
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
Define UNBELIEF
1.Unbelief is: The lack of faith and trust in God
that challenges his truthfulness and finds
expression in disobedience and rebellion.
1.Also, noted as in-your-face-rejection
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping your Destiny
Israel and the Promise Land. Num 13-14
a. Has Just witnessed the hand of God deliver them
through the vice of 10 plagues
b. Witnessed her enemy swallowed by God in the Red sea
c. Encounter the protection of God daily in the form a
pillar of cloud by day and fire by nite
d. God provides water from a rock when they cried out
concerning their thirst
e. Provides food from heaven to eradicate their hunger
f. Manifested His glory from a mountain in order to talk
to them
g. Had them build a Tent in order that He could dwell
among His people
This is Your Defining Moment
Shaping 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. .)