Defining the Moment: Decisions & Actions That Impact Your Life

By Emmanuel Atoe

Sometimes in life, change allows you to take a different path. The choices and decisions you make in those moments shape your life. You have the opportunity to become the person you could have been if you had made different choices.

Fear of change, on the other hand, often prevents you from seizing the chance to create the life you want. In Defining the Moment, the author provides tried-and-true strategies to help you analyze what’s important to you right now and explore taking a different path to a more fulfilled life.

After reading this book, you will see new possibilities, have new confidence, and be ready to take action that you previously lacked the courage to take in order to build the life you desire. Lack of clarity, limiting beliefs, and apprehension about change will no longer prevent you from living the life you were born to live.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664251816

Emmanuel Atoe

Dr. (Pastor) Emmanuel O. Atoe, Ph.D. has been in the ministry for more than 25 years. Pastor Manny has affected many people through the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. His ministry through the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the grace of God has enabled him to motivate, inspire and assist many people by prayer, teaching, and counseling. Pastor Manny hopes that his books will help many people to daily take a moment of prayer, study, and meditation in the Word of God because the prayer of a righteous man or woman is powerful and effective. You can reach and live at your full potential and abilities. Dr. Emmanuel O. Atoe, Ph.D. is IT Manager, Songwriter, Author and a qualified Mediator and Counsellor. His Bi-vocational career combined Ministry with Management and Consultancy.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 3/17/2022

CONTENTS

Chapter One

Visualize Your Future!

Chapter Two

Desire

Chapter Three

Direction

Chapter Four

Disengaged

Chapter Five

Discouragement

Chapter Six

Decision

Chapter Seven

Determination

Chapter Eight

Diligence

Chapter Nine

Discipline

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my family.

A special thanks goes to Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministry Assistant General Overseer Abiodun Ladejola

Thank you for believing in me and inspiring me to success. Your kindness, gentleness, love, and the presence of God makes my life full of joy. The LORD blesses you and keep you; The LORD makes His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; The LORD lifts up His countenance upon you and give you peace, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again - rejoice!

INTRODUCTION

Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea; hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught because of what my enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me and assail me in their anger. My heart is in anguish within.

Define the moment or the moment will define you. There is a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, event, etc., is revealed or identified. There are moments in everyone’s life that can be considered defining moments. There are times, powerful situations and of course significant moments which greatly change the course of their future. This could be an event that happened to a person. This defining moment ultimately impacts their identity. I am convinced that when we take the time to meditate and focus on these important moments, everyone would agree that such events can impact a person positively to live a better life.

As for me, I call to God, and the Lord saves me. Evening, morning, and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice. He rescues me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.

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ONE

VISUALIZE YOUR FUTURE!

THERE IS A strong drive-in every person embedded within their subconscious motivating them to go after successful achievement in life. Dreams and vision are intricately linked.

Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.

— PROVERBS 29:18

The dream you have will give you the motivation and the urge, which will prevent you from never giving up or discouraged on the pathway to success. That moment you stood your ground in the face of challenges and trial and deciding, Give up is not an option. Give it another try, don’t throw in the towel – could be a defining moment for you.

Any person who desires to be successful must be a good dreamer. God has given everyone from birth the ability to dream. A hopefully believing within their inner mind what they would eventually achieve before it happened. The ability of living within their subconscious, the good dreams until it eventually became a reality in the natural. Most successful men and women had inner image of what they eventually achieved prior to their greatness. They dreamt about achieving that success from childhood, winning medals, or doing a particular job. That calling has always been in their spirit or subconscious mind to achieve that success and bless mankind.

It is a gift we all have right from infants to dream and visualize our future. We all have the ability to visualize and practice behind the scenes what we would eventually do publicly. The fact is that not everyone succeeds in realizing their good dreams. Some live in disappoint and regrets due to failure to achieve their desired good dreams. Some visualize in their inner eye and are able to achieve and accomplish their goals in the natural while others have stopped completely to have dream. They feed on bad dreams with no hope and motivation for a good future.

Some people are highly motivated and know how to get what they wanted in life, while some people at a certain stage, fail to have dreams and refused to have goals, and stop applying it to their situation. They fail to meditate on God’s wisdom and precepts. They do not fix their eyes on God’s