In a moment, leading the way audio, where Dr. Michael Yusuf guide you toward experiencing a deeper life of faith.

These are the six things that can draw you away from the trusting in the Lord and trusting in your resources.

The things that lead you away from living by faith and begin to live by sight.

These are the six things that are going to take you to a proverbial Egypt, away from Bethel.

In the early pages of the Bible, you meet Abraham, a man of deep faith, and yet a man who shows faith

can still flounder and flutter. Thank you for listening to Leading the Way with International

Bible Teacher Dr. Michael Yousap. Today, Dr. Yousaf continues this faith-building series,

counting stars in an empty sky.

Practical and biblical words for wherever life and faith have you today.

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Now, though, listen, as Dr. Michael Yousuff begins a very practical faith lesson from God's

Word.

From Watergate all the way to Monica Lewinsky scandal, from all the other public scandals

by public officials, you remember how is not the lying but is the cover-up of that lying that got them into deeper trouble.

While the Bible exhorts us again and again and again that the confession of sin brings about God's healing and God's forgiveness and God's restoration,

the covering up of sin,

the rationalizing of sin, or blaming others for our sin, always cause us deeper pain. But perhaps there is no more powerful example of this than the life of the great patriarch, Abraham. We saw the sevenfold blessing,

the sevenfold promise that God made to Abraham in the first part of chapter 12 of the book

of Genesis. We saw on the strength of these promises, on the strength of the seven-fold blessing,

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