Dr. Michael Youssef begins this episode of leading the way with a challenge about doing things for God's glory.

What are you doing with God's blessings and successes that He's given you?

What are you doing with them?

Do you see them? Do you perceive them?

Do you use them as of the Lord, through the Lord and for the Lord's

glory? Or do you keep on hoarding them and accumulating them and say, one day I'm going to

serve the Lord? One day I'm going to do great things. One day, and that day may never come.

Welcome to leading the way with Dr. Michael Yousaf.

Today, encouragement from his series, David, Portrait of a Champion.

You'll be reminded to carefully choose whether you'll use your gifts for God or to please others or self.

Now, helping you better understand that choice, here is Dr. Michael Youseth with today's

leading the way audio. In the day when genuine friendships are rare, in a day when loyalty is

thin, in a day where commitment is often conditional, in a day when

relationships seem to be built on what am I going to get out of this instead of what can I

give into this?

In such a day as our day, the story of David and Jonathan, their friendship, their loyalty to one another is truly refreshing.

I'm reminded of how many years ago Sir Walter Scott was the leading literally figure in the British Empire.

It was said of Sir Walter Scott that no one could write like he could. But then it wasn't many years later, the work of Lord Byron began to appear and the greatness of Lord Byron's work was immediately evident.

All those who have read it began to give it all the accolides.

Right after that, there was an anonymous critic who began to write in a London newspaper about the work of Lord Byron.

The anonymous critic declared that in the presence of these brilliant works of poetic genius,

Scott could no longer be considered the leading poet of England.

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