Truth from Psalm 127 as Dr. Michael Youssef begins this episode of leading the way.

This Psalm is an indictment and a rebuke to our segmented lifestyle.

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 your family's life, all the trinkets in the world will mean nothing.

If you leave God out of the center of your family, your family's devotion and your family's

commitment, the inheritance that you leave them will turn out to be a curse and not a blessing.

Thank you for joining listeners across six continents for leading the way with longtime pastor

and international Bible teacher, Dr. Michael Youssef.

In recent years, national and international events have brought worldwide heartache and pain,

causing many to live in fear for their family's future and well-being. And today, Dr. Yousuff begins a series called

Building Godly Families, perhaps refocusing on enjoying and strengthening our most important

relationships, those that happen within the walls of our own homes,

and that will invite a little bit of peace into the chaos.

Listen with me now, as Dr. Michael Youssef begins today's leading the way.

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 tell you

something that is 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, he said,

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,

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