This is a message from Dr. Michael Youssef, Bible teacher, on leading the way.

Our prayer is that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

And if you'd like to learn more about Dr. Youssef and the ministry of leading the way, the place to start is lTW.org.

Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxus.

It's a great book.

It's a wonderful book.

It's a story of William Wilberforce, who single-handedly ended the slave trading for England.

And when you read the book, you realize in the details in this book, the incredible

continuous endurance and the persistence endurance under the most difficult circumstances.

You'll see the numerous failures. We always like to talk about successes. And we forget

that before you get to a success,

there are 100 failures along the way.

You read about the threats of defeat and total defeat.

You read about the tenacious persistence in the face of what appears to be hopelessness in the cause of Christ, the variety of sufferings that

well before experienced personally as a result of his conviction of the Word of God and the

truth of the gospel, the alienation by some old friends or even family members that he had

gone through and the pain that came with all of that.

The financial, sacrificial giving that he gave away for the cause of Christ and the cause of

the gospel and the conviction that God laid on his heart, the threats on his life, the passion not only to end this horrible

stigma of slave trading, but also a passion to see lost men and women come to Christ and be

saved eternally. It's an incredible, incredible story. Why am I telling you all this?

Obviously, I have a reason.

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