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Leading The Way Radio Podcast

Empowered by Praise, Part 5

Leading The Way Radio Podcast

Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

Michael Youssef, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Sermons, Bible Study, Theology, Health & Fitness, Jesus, Mental Health, Preaching, Bible, Spirituality, Religion, Holy Spirit, Ltw, Leading The Way

4.9620 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Have you been feeling like your witness isn't very effective? Have you been inconsistent with your time of Bible study or prayer? Serving God always and everywhere is not easy, but Dr. Michael Youssef says that praise can help. Dr. Youssef describes praise as "the fuel that makes us effective." Praise creates a stronger desire for God and enables us to serve Him and to trust Him more completely. Praise improves your prayer life, and it helps you to overcome Satan and the challenges you're facing. Learn how praise can make all the difference in your life through this five-part teaching series Empowered by Praise.

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0:00.0

Let me confess to you, I don't care how saintly you want to appear, and I don't care how sanctimonious you might want others to think of you.

0:09.4

I don't care how holy and spiritual you want to look.

0:14.5

None of us enjoy coming under conviction of a sin in our lives that we don't want to give up. That's a fact.

0:25.4

Now, if you are anything like me, you internally fight that conviction. If you're anything like me,

0:35.4

internally, you try to rationalize your sin.

0:41.4

Internally, you want to explain it away.

0:45.6

Internally, you want to try to justify it.

0:50.8

And you're going to keep doing this until either you surrender or pay the consequences and then surrender.

1:01.1

One way or the other, you're going to surrender if you're a child of God.

1:04.6

You know why?

1:05.6

Because God always wins.

1:07.6

Don't even try it any other way.

1:09.6

Take it from me.

1:10.6

I give you firsthand experience, chapter and

1:12.8

verse. As a matter of fact, I'm going to right now. In the mid-70s, I graduated from seminary,

1:22.8

and I was ordained to the ministry, right there at San Andrews Cathedral in downtown Sydney,

1:28.9

Australia. But I had a secret sin in my life. And the Holy Spirit would bring me under conviction

1:36.1

again and again and again. Every time I pray, the Holy Spirit would bring me under conviction.

1:42.6

You know what I did? I tried to explain it away.

1:47.5

I bet you're dying to know what that was, won't you?

1:51.6

Well, I'm dying to tell you, but not yet.

1:57.3

I graduated from seminary.

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