Facing the Future with Confidence
Leading The Way Radio Podcast
Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef
4.9 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Michael Youssef teaches from the Gospel of John 17, encouraging us that no matter what the future brings, we have confidence because Jesus is interceding for us with God the Father.
He then shares three things about Jesus’ intercession in John 17:
- He intercedes for His own glorification
- He intercedes for His disciples’ sanctification
- He intercedes for the unity of believers and the church.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a message from Dr. Michael Yousef, Bible teacher, on leading the way. |
| 0:05.5 | Our prayer is that it will encourage you in your walk of faith. |
| 0:08.7 | And if you'd like to learn more about Dr. Yousef and the ministry of leading the way, |
| 0:13.6 | the place to start is LTW.org. |
| 0:18.2 | You know, every new year, these fortune tellers, that's really what I call them, future predictors, |
| 0:25.7 | they come out of the woodworks every year. And through the years, I've really tracked some of them. |
| 0:32.5 | And I got to tell you that at least, and I want to be very charitable, so I'm going to say at least 90% of their |
| 0:40.6 | predictions never come to pass. One predicted that this coming year we're going to see a nuclear |
| 0:47.7 | holocaust. Another one predicted that this is going to be the beginning of the third world war, |
| 0:53.8 | but it's never going to end. |
| 0:56.2 | Another predicted a famine of biblical proportion. Another predicted a cyber attack on all the stock |
| 1:04.4 | markets around the world and going to be an economic collapse. Another predicted that Israel |
| 1:09.6 | is going to be wiped from the face of the earth. You know |
| 1:11.8 | where that comes from. And yet another is predicting a total collapse of law and order, and on and on, |
| 1:21.3 | if I were not a disciple of Jesus Christ, if I was not eternally saved, if I did not believe whether in this life or for |
| 1:33.5 | eternity, it's both winners for me. If I did not know Jesus as my Savior and Lord, if I did not know |
| 1:43.5 | that Jesus is interceding on my behalf and on behalf of every |
| 1:48.8 | believer in the Lord Jesus Christ right now, I probably would not have got out of bed. And if I believe |
| 1:55.7 | a smidget of what these people say, I'll be depressed, but I'm not. I am absolutely as optimistic as I've |
| 2:05.5 | ever been. I'm as encouraged as ever been. I am hopeful as I've ever been because I know that my |
| 2:13.1 | redeemer liveth and he is interceding for me at the right hand of the father. |
| 2:21.3 | Thank you. Demer leveth, and he is interceding for me at the right hand of the Father. And so I face whatever comes. |
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