Thank you for joining pastor and author Dr. Michael Youssef for leading the way.

Suppose you take this vast inheritance that your rich uncle left you,

and you put it under the mattress, or let's even suppose you put it in the bank,

and you leave it there, and you continue to live in poverty.

It's in your name. You own it, but you're not enjoying a dime of it.

This is the condition of most believers today.

Question, are you drowning in spiritual poverty or victoriously rising above life's challenges with a conquering faith.

Welcome to Leading the Way with Pastor and the author of the new Culture-Challenging book

and Unholy Alliance, Dr. Michael Yousaf.

Today, encouragement to live in the fullness of God's amazing grace through faith. Let's get right to

the good stuff. Listen with me as Dr. Yousaf challenges you to experience life at its best.

You know, if you listen to people, whether it's in the media or public in general, and whenever they, or even educators for that matter, when they talk about faith, generally speaking, they're really talking about you having faith in yourself, or having faith in somebody else, or having faith that things will be okay.

It would just, the word faith is sort of banded about without really proper definition

and understanding.

And even some churches teach that even faith in God is a blind faith.

Not many years ago, a minister was talking to me one-on-one,

and he basically said to me, he said, I don't know if the Bible is true or not. I don't know if Jesus is real or not. I don't know if the resurrection happened or not, but I just accepted

all by faith.

Do you know what my response was?

I would rather be an atheist than have this kind of blind faith.

Because my faith is anchored in the fact that God is what the Bible said he is. My faith is anchored in the fact that every word

in his book is God breathed. My faith is anchored in the fact that Jesus was God of very God

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