This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef. We pray that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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There's a period of time in the lives of every child, I know that parents ask the question,

children, a heritage of the Lord, and then they get over it, and then you say, yes, they are.

But I can't tell you something that is a firsthand experience.

The children are going through the same thing. They're not very

happy about their heritage either. Little David came home from school one day and said to his father,

he said, Dad, there was a kid at school who told me, he said, you're just like your father.

And his father was curious, and he said, well, what did you say, son? He said,

nothing. He was a whole lot bigger than I am. Now many times, of course, Christians are prone

to taking a verse out of the scripture. And they take it out of context. And while it may be sounding great and you learn things from it but

you miss out on the great blessings in putting the text back in its context and psalm 127 verse 3 is

really a good example of this because before the psalmist could ever say that the children are the heritage of the

Lord, he had to lay first the foundation for that statement. He could never have made that statement

until he had said in verses one and two that unless God builds the house, unless God builds the family, it is in vain

that builders will work. Psalm 127 is one of very few Psalms that Solomon wrote, the son of King David.

In fact, there are only two Psalms that are attributed to King Solomon. This Psalm is one of them, one of two that only attributed to King Solomon.

But I want to tell you at the outset, listen carefully, this Psalm is an indictment and a rebuke to our segmented lifestyle.

This Psalm is a condemnation for our divided allegiances and a lack of

integration in our lives. What Solomon is saying in this Psalm is this, that if you leave God

out of your life and out of your family's life, it is useless that you

would work hard in order to provide for your family. If you leave God out of your life and out of

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