1. This is Your Defining Moment 2 Deep Rooted Convictions Acts8:9-25/ Eph 4:17-24

2. 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 2 Deep Rooted Convictions

3. 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 2 Deep Rooted Convictions

4. 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 2 Deep Rooted Convictions

5. 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 2 Deep Rooted Convictions

6. 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 2 Deep Rooted Convictions

7. Forfeited Destiny  Saul  Samson  Eli This is Your Defining Moment 2 Deep Rooted Convictions

8. The Story of Job

9. Job has deep rooted convictions! A.Job’s first statement “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong. Job 1:21-22 This is Your Defining Moment 2 Deep Rooted Convictions

10. Job has deep rooted convictions! A.Job’s second statement Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” _ 10 _ But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. Job 2:9-10 This is Your Defining Moment 2 Deep Rooted Convictions