Num 13-14/ Ps 78:4-8

This is Your Defining MomentShaping your Destiny

• Your decisions begin to “Define” you

- Meaning: These decisions begin to outline/shape:o Behavior – What I doo Character – Who I am

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

oDestiny – Where I’m Headed

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

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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 MomentShaping 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 MomentShaping your Destiny

A.Define Doubt1.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

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1.The Gk. Words root meaning for DOUBT:a. divided judgment b.being in two minds about a matterc. lack of resources,

 

This is Your Defining MomentShaping 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 MomentShaping your Destiny

A. Some Preliminary Elements contributing to Doubt, by Os Guinness

1. Ingratitude2. Weak Foundation3. A Lack of Commitment4. A Faulty view of God5. Lack of spiritual growth6. Unruly emotions7. Lack of Confidence

• (Os Guinness…Author: God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt)

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This is Your Defining MomentShaping 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.

2.Also, noted as in-your-face-rejection

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Israel and the Promise Land. Num 13-14a. Has Just witnessed the hand of God deliver them through the

vice of 10 plaguesb. Witnessed her enemy swallowed by God in the Red seac. Encounter the protection of God daily in the form a pillar of

cloud by day and fire by nited. God provides water from a rock when they cried out

concerning their thirste. Provides food from heaven to eradicate their hungerf. Manifested His glory from a mountain in order to talk to themg. Had them build a Tent in order that He could dwell among His

people

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•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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