David: Portrait of a Champion, Part 1
Leading The Way Radio Podcast
Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef
4.9 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In David: Portrait of a Champion, Dr. Michael Youssef takes us through the amazing victories, tragic losses, and difficult trials of Israel's greatest king. Learn why God called David a man after His own heart, and discover the change He wants to make in your heart, too.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef. We pray that it will encourage you in your |
| 0:06.8 | walk of faith. If you would like to learn more about Dr. Yousef or leading the way, please visit |
| 0:12.8 | LTW.org. |
| 0:18.7 | When Wendell Wilkie one time was visiting Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House, |
| 0:25.6 | he asked him a following question after he observed what's going on for a while. |
| 0:30.6 | And the question went like this. I said, Mr. President, why do you keep that frail, sickly man, Harry Hopkins, constantly at your elbow? |
| 0:40.2 | Now, regardless of what you think Harry Hopkins did or did not do, I just wanted to listen to the story. |
| 0:46.1 | Without a moment's hesitation, Roosevelt replied. |
| 0:50.0 | He said, Mr. Wilkie, through that door flows an insistent stream of men and women who almost invariably want something from me. |
| 1:05.7 | Harry Hopkins desires only to serve me. |
| 1:11.4 | And for him to do that well, he has to stay close to me. |
| 1:16.8 | As I read this, I thought of David. |
| 1:19.9 | This frail, young, obscure, not very well respected among his brothers, |
| 1:33.2 | and yet chosen by God to be king, be anointed a king. There are two things about that similarity between David and that story. Number one, |
| 1:38.5 | he stayed close to the Lord, and that is the secret of his service. Secondly, he desired to serve the Lord only. |
| 1:47.4 | There are so many people in the churches for mixed motives. |
| 1:51.0 | There are so many people in the church for varieties of reasons. |
| 1:55.5 | And only God knows the true motives. |
| 1:58.5 | There are so many people who are into God only for what they can get out of God. There are so many people are into God only for what they can get out of God. |
| 2:02.8 | There are so many people into Christianity of what they can get out of Christianity. |
| 2:07.7 | But David the king was there to serve the living God and serve him alone. |
| 2:15.4 | That was the motive of his heart. And that's what God saw and |
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