Defining moments. The Bible is filled with examples, encounters in real people's lives of things that happened that we would call defining moments.

Defining moments happen when we're faced with options

and our choices of actions result in life-al altering consequences.

Defining moments are not often recognized until the decisions made and we're dealing with the results of our choices.

Sometimes in the middle of circumstances, we don't realize the significance of the choices we're making until we look back on those choices and realize something of a direction, a purpose, was established or pointed in our life through the decisions that we were making.

Defining moments are a mechanism for God's work to unfold and to be understood in our life. I suggest to us that all of us to some degree in little or big are experiencing defining moments.

Maybe it's a defining moment related to your career. Or maybe it's a defining moments. Maybe it's a defining moment related to your career.

Or maybe it's a defining moment related to your relationship, your

marriage, something with your children.

We're in the summertime about to go into the fall.

Maybe there's a defining moment happening in your life related to your children

and they're getting ready to head off to college in the fall.

There's defining moments that take place.

And I say again that the bottom line of defining moments is there a mechanism for God's

work to unfold and be understood in our life.

And we're going to look at an encounter, a situation that was a defining moment in a person's life,

and we're going to learn some things from it today.

So if you're there in 2 Kings, chapter 5 and verse 1.

Now Naman, commander of the army of the king of Syria,

was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master.

Because by him, the Lord had given victory to Syria.

He was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

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